Phoebe violates it’s own charter [ March 13, 2010 – 7:56 am] by Tom Posted in » Albany Dougherty County

The Albany Herald reports this morning of Margurete Burns, an 81 year old Albany woman, who suffered a head injury back in February. After being initially treated in Douglasville, Burns returned home. The next day, she got a phone call telling her to get medical treatment immediately. So, she went to Palmyra. The ER doctor apparently felt she needed a neurosurgeon, so he contacted Phoebe. They allegedly refused to take her, so she was airlifted to Macon.

Now, let’s ignore the fact that there are laws stating that hospitals can’t refuse to treat people, and go right to Phoebe’s own charter. Read More …

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Obama To Get More Involved In Health Care[ June 7, 2009 – 3:52 pm]by Tom Posted in » National

President Obama has long said he had no intention of dictating specifics of any new plans to combat what he calls the problems of the American health care system. Of course, now he’s decided he’s going to get more involved in the specifics. Why? Well, apparently it’s because some of what President Obama wants in the new health care reforms are meeting some level of friction, specifically the idea of a comprehensive health care coverage for the 45 million Americans who are without health insurance.

Of course, the fact that somewhere in the neighborhood of 40% of those could have health insurance if they wanted it seems to get no play in the mainstream media. Read More …

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My Plan to Solve Georgia’s Voter Verification Problem[ June 7, 2009 – 7:19 am]by Jeff Posted in » 2010 Campaigns, State

Thursday, I wrote about Karen Handel’s problems with the US Department of Justice, specifically the face that DOJ ruled some of the procedures her office as Secretary of State put in place for voter verification purposes. In fact, the DOJ had found that sixty percent of those people the Secretary of State’s office had listed as ‘non-citizens’ were, in fact, citizens.

I’ve been asked by some, including Peach Pundit’s Icarus and others connected to Ms. Handel’s Governor campaign, about what specifically I would do differently.
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June 7th, 2009 | 4 Comments

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