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| 15th November 2009 povertyjetset | Safety in Ecuador - From: Closest to the Sun... or so I Thought I did not think Ecuador was any more or less dangerous than any other place I've visited. Just take the usual precautions with your valuables and personal safety (like not walking around dodgy places late at night or whipping out a guidebook map in the middle of a crowded sidewalk) and you'll be fine. |
| 10th October 2009 Lisa | wow, amazing! - From: Closest to the Sun... or so I Thought I love traveling vicariously through you!!! |
| 9th October 2009 Herman en Christl | Great views - From: Closest to the Sun... or so I Thought He Jon, Great views, Have to be fit to do this kind of climbing. In 2006 we were in Lhasa on high altitude for the first time. We all experiance the feeling of getting high and had to acclimatize for 2 days. You find your way very easy without much planning, so it seem. We like to see "Peking Express" with you in it some time. Fending off dogs in the middle of nowhere, i can imagin what that looks like, haha. Do you have pictures of that action? We straddle the equator a few days before you did and probably on the same spot. Did you see the museum and view inside Mitad del Mundo? Later. |
| 7th October 2009 Mike Zimmerman | Cool - From: Closest to the Sun... or so I Thought Hey Jon - this looks really cool. When I get back and hve some down-time I'm going to read most of it. great pics! Mike |
| 5th October 2009 aka | Survived another one! - From: Closest to the Sun... or so I Thought Congrats Jon. Your pix are fantastic. Looks awesome! Here in Seattle getting acclimated to the changing winds and weathers of early fall. And preparing for two endurance art works. Safe travels home. |
| 5th October 2009 Kolby | Safety? - From: Closest to the Sun... or so I Thought Can you talk about your safety in Ecuador? Any problems you encountered or heard about? Thanks! |
| 30th September 2009 Herman/Christl | Amazing blog - From: Galápagos He Worldcruiser, This is Herman/Christl from the Netherlands. Wow, what a staggering pictures you have taken this vacation. You surely have a feel for it! Nice report, a bit short do. I understand you have more info in the future. Where is the rest of the comments of your other trips. Are they hidden or somewhere else. I have put some pictures and video of the Galapagos/Costa Rica 2009 on Facebook. Greetings |
| 15th June 2009 povertyjetset | Response to single payer from WA Senator Patty Murray is a joke - From: Campaign for Single Payer Health Insurance There is no question that reforming health care is one of the most critical challenges facing our country. We know the status quo is not working and as a result, doing nothing is not an option. Too many people have no health insurance, or find that their health care coverage does not cover them when they need it. Health care reform should strive to ensure that affordable, high-quality, and meaningful health coverage options are available to all Americans. We need to actively focus on keeping people healthy, not just help people when they are sick. Recently, I joined with my colleagues on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, of which I am a senior member, to introduce the "Affordable Healthy Choices Act." This legislation reduces health care costs, allows Americans to keep the coverage they have if they want it, and makes health insurance affordable to those who do not have it today. I am particularly proud that as we work to offer quality, affordable coverage to all Americans, that we have included provisions to support programs that would increase the number of Americans going into health care professions to ensure our system has enough workers to provide much needed care. We still have work to do, but this bill is a good step forward on protecting patient choice, lowering costs and providing coverage for the millions of Americans who currently have none. The legislation will soon be considered by the HELP Committee. As we move forward on this legislation, I will certainly keep your thoughts in mind. Again, thank you for contacting me about this important issue. If you would like to know more about my work in the Senate, please feel free to sign up for my weekly updates at http://murray.senate.gov/updates. Please keep in touch. |
| 9th June 2009 povertyjetset | Let the scare tactics begin! - From: Campaign for Single Payer Health Insurance Single payer health insurance is not socialized medicine but in the USA socialism has such negative resonance as an evil label that everyone cringes when it is used to attack socially or economically progressive policies that run counter to our obviously failed version of neo-classical laissez faire capitalism. Run for the hills if we ever get single payer health care. After that you'll be forced to live in a tiny apartment, drive a mini cooper, and eat snails while your kids are sent to pastry chef boot camp at age 15. |
| 9th June 2009 Cindy PS | The Founding Fathers, all lunatic fringers? - From: Campaign for Single Payer Health Insurance Socialized medicine proponents always talk about France. I have spent 4 months in France, lived with 5 different families, rented my own townhouse for a few weeks too. A companion had a good hospital experience there. There's lots of nice things about France, and I love visiting, but I wouldn't want to live there. Along with those vacation days, they get super high taxes and regulation of everything, they are educated for specific careers from the age of 15, and they live in cold little apartments without many of the ammenities that we Americans have come to enjoy. Anyone who wants that life is welcome to move to France. |
| 9th June 2009 povertyjetset | Check out all the advertisements on this page! - From: Campaign for Single Payer Health Insurance This really kills me: Travelblog served commercial interests that hone in on keywords then plaster the blog with health insurance ads. No advertisements under single payer = huge cost savings. Also no stock options for overpaid CEOs, no lobbying, no marketing, no pencil pushers dictating terms of your doctor visits or medical procedures... huge cost savings. |
| 9th June 2009 povertyjetset | The only Freedom of Choice in the USA is a DEVO album - From: Campaign for Single Payer Health Insurance By the way, what freedom of choice are you talking about? Most people, including this author, belong to an HMO. I'm fairly certain they severely restrict which providers I may see. And then restrict the number of visits. Doesn't sound like much choice to me. Citizens in the place we ridicule called France can see any provider they want and pay substantially less per capita than Americans. But who wants to model anything after the French who have better pay, less work, more vacation days, much cheaper health care and education, a currency that will be worth more than toilet paper... |
| 9th June 2009 povertyjetset | Taken right out of Ron Paul's true believer free market in myth only manifesto - From: Campaign for Single Payer Health Insurance Hi Cindy, Thanks for the comment. Maybe this will spur some debate although it will probably be just you and I ranting and raving our lunatic fringe positions. National health insurance is not "socializing health care," it's only socializing the payment method like every other advanced country does. Health care is expensive, no doubt, and the only way to control costs has been demonstrated in many countries to be single payer. Taiwan, a bastion of free market capitalism, started their heath plan from scratch and adopted single payer several years ago. Just one example. Keep the comments coming. |
| 9th June 2009 Cindy PS | Sorry, I can't agree to socializing health care - From: Campaign for Single Payer Health Insurance Call me a believer in the free market, individual rights, and freedom of choice. Seems to me Americans have forgotten that government-provided health care was one of the rallying cries of the Russian Communist revolution, and that was a disaster. As far as I'm concerned, it would eventually be just as big a diaster here, and destroy the freedom of choice we currently enjoy. Yes, our health care is crazy expensive -- and yes, the insurance companies have screwed the whole system up. But it was the government getting involved with the insurance companies that caused that. Remember when we had a health care system that was the envy of the world? That was BEFORE the federal government started passing mandates, laws, regulations that screwed it all up and encouraged the bloat of the insurance companies. I disagree that socialism/communism is better than the fascist/corporatist system we have now. I vote for individuals making their own choices under a free market system. |
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