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Tag: healthcare (page 3)

Obama and Healthcare: Another Hit to the Michigan Economy!

By kenmatesevac, Section News
Posted on Sat Aug 22, 2009 at 12:28:35 PM EST
Tags: Obama, healthcare, jobs, Michigan (all tags)

My wife knows a few people who work at the Jasper Clinic in Kalamazoo, "an independent phase 1-2a clincal pharmacology service provider." [Essentially, they do drug tests on human subjects before those drugs reach the market. Fascinating stuff, really.] Conversing with one of them this week, she learned that about eleven people recently lost their jobs. Why? My wife said the explanation went something like this:

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Healthcare - A Conservative's Perspective

By troykeith, Section News
Posted on Tue Aug 18, 2009 at 09:40:43 AM EST
Tags: healthcare (all tags)

Most average citizens have neither the time nor the inclination to engage in political issues as complex as the healthcare debate, but recent events have prompted a resurgence of grassroots activism throughout the country.

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A Message To Our Legislators - Beware False Choices

John Dingell Exposes Himself to Elderly Women.

By conservmatt, Section Multimedia
Posted on Sat Aug 08, 2009 at 06:40:01 PM EST
Tags: town hall, dingell, healthcare, arrest (all tags)

John Dingell, Democrat., exposed himself to a crowd largely comprised of conservative and elderly people.

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Michiganders beware of those who want to destroy healthcare

By JGillman, Section News
Posted on Tue Jun 02, 2009 at 02:19:26 PM EST
Tags: Healthcare, Unions, Acorn (all tags)

Cross posted at Michigan Taxes Too Much

There are folks who have put the current administration in office. Many are the same folks who put our current governor in office. They are quite responsible for the electoral successes of both executives. They want for the United States, what has happened in Michigan. The bi-polar left elects those who destroy the needed life enhancing product of our great nation by an assumption that Healthcare and manufacturing can be micromanaged and mandated.

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Cherry's "strong record" strikes again

By Nick, Section News
Posted on Mon Jan 19, 2009 at 06:40:20 AM EST
Tags: Cherry, 2010, Granholm-Cherry, layoffs, job loss, unemployment, healthcare, homeless (all tags)

It wasn't even a week ago that John Cherry told the Detroit Free Press that he would be proud to run on the track record he and Governor Jennifer Granholm have cemented over the past six-plus years while offering further the mind boggling quote, "I think she's got a strong record."

Think the man would like to take those words back? I don't often, but I'm tempted to give him the benefit of the doubt on this one. Not sure how anyone at that level of state government "leadership" could pick up the newspaper these days and find anything to be proud of. But what do I know? Maybe he and I just have really different measures of success.

I mean, what is it exactly that John Cherry claims he's proud of and pleased to have tied around his neck as he begins his campaign to become Michigan's next governor?

How about the headline news in the Ivory Tower this weekend that Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan is going to be killing 1,000 Michigan jobs while simultaneously making it significantly more difficult for our state's senior citizens to afford health care.

Facing what it says could be losses of more than $1 billion through 2011, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan said Friday it will cut as many as 1,000 jobs and seek state approval to raise rates on its individual health insurance products.
The average rate hikes to be sought by Blue Cross are 55% for nongroup plans; 32% for Medicare Supplemental, or Medigap, products, and 42% for those with group conversion plans that carry over prior workplace coverage.
About 418,000 Michiganders -- half of them senior citizens -- are covered by those policies.

I'll admit up front that this is little more than my personal opinion... but I wouldn't be particularly proud of that kind of headline. Wouldn't be happy at all that that was happening on my watch. Witnessing a Michigan company (and not a manufacturing dinosaur) take a BILLION dollar loss, raise healthcare rates on senior citizens and kill 1,000 jobs is rough news. Of course, according to John Cherry, well, that's a part of his "strong record."

And Michiganders across the state can only wish and hope and dream that his "strong record" ended there this weekend. Alas.

The Livingston Press and Argus reports that a local third generation company is closing its doors too. A small business started in the 1930s survived seven decades of Democrats and Republicans and wars and recessions and great societies but it won't survive the Granholm-Cherry administration.

Read on...

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