Additional Links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-gYIL0w5O8
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WeeklyAddress/Audio/2009/05/20090516-WGFXZP/20090516_Weekly_Address.mp3
"I have always believed that it is better to talk than not to talk; that it is far more productive to reach over a divide than to shake your fist across it. This has been an alien notion in Washington for far too long, but we are seeing that the ways of Washington are beginning to change. For the calling of this moment is too loud and too urgent to ignore. Our success as a nation – the future of our children and grandchildren – depends upon our willingness to cast aside old arguments, overcome stubborn divisions, and march forward as one people and one nation."
ML/NJ
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I understand from physicians’ offices that certain health care companies already stiff docs and make it in effect impossible to collect on verifiable office visits. I know my dear sainted mother had to have relatives and an office somewhere or other fight about bills and what was covered.
I simply cannot imagine how a GS 7-9 is going to have the expertise to process national health care claims. I know some of these folks. We all know the % of people who really do the work in offices. Can you imagine what this would be like if it all happens?