Maybe it is just me, but I find the whole Georgia Thompson story troubling. We have a jury of twelve peers convicting her on the charges brought that she manipulated the outcome of the Adelman Travel contract debate. We have the appellate court in Chicago hearing and tossing the result in a matter of a few days with her release from prison ordered almost immediately. We have righteous indignation from the Doyle camp, that earlier disavowed anything to do with the lady or even acknowledging it knew who she was, including the invocation of the name “Karl Rove” by a democratic assemblyman.
Something simply doesn’t smell right about all this, but I can’t put my finger on what it is other than maybe “politics as usual”?
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The Supreme Court has just ruled that the breath we exhale is dangerous and must be regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency. The United Nations has just issued another alarming finding on global warming calling to mind deserts, flooding and all manner of bad things, while a body of similarly situated and well-meaning scientists postulates that we are nowhere near a calamity as is being depicted. One group calls for the “greening” of America while another points to the “fact” that China and India are doing more damage than can ever be righted by all the rest of the world’s countries combined. One thing seems certain to me: we don’t really know whether this is bunk or the foretelling of our future.
How do we, the common folk not given the ability to discern things so far beyond our mental capabilities, learn the truth? I don’t know. I’m not sure there is a “truth” given the lack of long-term record-keeping, the relatively short time man has been on this earth, and especially given the huge amounts of money at stake on all sides of this “issue”. I doubt that I’ll find the “truth” in a slide show or the UN or the halls of congress. I do know that huge economic consequences ride on the coattails of the issue. I feel that the efforts to date have largely focused on how terrible is the United States, much of that having been generated by political forces within our country. I feel that few of the good-hearted people in this movement realize just how they’re being manipulated and used for other ends. Again, is this just “politics as usual”?
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The associations of health insurance professionals of which I am a member (Wisconsin Association of Health Underwriters and the National Association of Health Underwriters) have recently made available a great interactive tool. By clicking
here you will reach the website of the Foundation for Health Coverage Education. Follow the simple instructions by selecting your state, and answering the questions and you will see which programs in Wisconsin or elsewhere will provide answers to your needs for health care coverage. All the information you provide is held in confidence and is used solely to provide you with the information about how to obtain health care coverage.
The Foundation for Health Coverage Education was formed by a health insurance agent who lives and works in California. He saw the need for this kind of information and used his money (earned through his career as an insurance professional) to create the foundation and steer it toward providing services such as this. He has been joined in this effort by the associations and their members mentioned earlier, and together we are all helping to make a difference.
Please pass this along to those you know who can use some help with their health care needs.
