Six women U.S. Senators speak up for reform in this short [3:17] clip. A couple of issues I didn't know about:
insurers can and do treat pregnancy or plans to adopt as "pre-existing conditions" for which they refuse coverage;
being a victim of domestic violence also leads to denial of insurance.
I found it interesting to get a look at these women. I don't watch TV (except football) so I had no visual image of most of them. They came across as rather ordinary looking, if successful adult women (no cute young things here.) Having long had a couple of women Senators myself, (one adequate, the other loathsome), I'm used to thinking of women in office. But there are still only 17 women among the 100 Senators.
Very poor approach to deny coverge to women (OR men!) who report and seek treatment for domestic violence --or even pregnancy or diabetes! When a person notes a problem and seeks to improve that, it helps the quality of their own family life, but also the EXPENSES (medical AND social) for us ALL! How SHORT-SIGHTED!!!
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I started this under the Bush regime when any grain of sand thrown into the gears of the over-reaching imperial state seemed worthwhile.
I have worked to elect more and better Democrats -- and to hammer the shit out of them once we get them in office so they do the things their constituents want and need. It's a big job.
It's mighty uncomfortable, getting by in a declining empire where elites maintain their power by massaging our mean streaks and mobilizing our resentments. This country and this "civilization" may be on their way out, but there's nothing else to do except try to make them as humane as possible along the way. That and to celebrate the extraordinary love that sometimes accompanies our species' bumbling way.
And the end hasn't come til it comes, ever.
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I'm a progressive political activist who runs trails and climbs mountains whenever any are available. I've had the privilege to work for justice in Central America (Nicaragua and El Salvador), in South Africa, in the fields of California with the United Farmworkers Union, and in the cities and schools of my own country. I'm a Christian of the Episcopalian flavor; we think and argue a lot. For work, I've done a bit of it all: run an old fashioned switch-board; remodeled buildings and poured concrete; edited and published periodicals, reports and books; and organized for electoral campaigns. I am currently an independent consultant to organizations seeking "help when you have to make a fight."
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Very poor approach to deny coverge to women (OR men!) who report and seek treatment for domestic violence --or even pregnancy or diabetes! When a person notes a problem and seeks to improve that, it helps the quality of their own family life, but also the EXPENSES (medical AND social) for us ALL! How SHORT-SIGHTED!!!
This is just another reason that the public option must be included in the final bill.
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