Today, the part of the law which requires for-profit insurance companies to pay 80% of their premium toward their customer’s care, or rebate their customers, takes effect. The Author seems to believe this is the beginning of the end of for-profits, and the beginning of the beginning of universalized, public health care as for-profits are wiped out by their inability to make unlimited profit.
When Nicole Murray’s 10-year-old daughter, Diamond, first started going to West Farms elementary school three years ago, she asked her mother why one woman they passed was barely dressed.Creepy Sleepy 2010 Month-by-Month
Right around this time of year, people begin posting retrospectives of the year which is rapidly passing away. Creepy Sleepy, is of course, no different though clearly we are better. What follows is 2010, a fairly eventful year for a few, and a generally eventless mundane year for most of us.
For example: Few of us, relatively speaking, will be involved in some life changing event. Most of us will have kept our jobs. Few of us will either be married or divorced this year. Most of us will not complete a degree program. Even fewer of us will be involved in a natural disaster or catch a life threatening disease, or win a gold medal in the Olympics, or obtain windfall profits in the stock market, or be elected to a high public office. Most of us have incredibly boring stories to tell, most of them dealing with doing exactly the same thing every single day, meeting with the same exact people, drinking the same coffee and alcohol, and so on and so forth. Unfortunately for all of us, we are not the special ones: we are not the stuff that stories are written and told about.
What follows therefore is not the history of us. It is instead the history of those lucky (or unlucky) few who did experience very important events first hand. To some people, history happened for them. To others, history happened to them. So relax, pour yourself a cup of your same old coffee, sit back, and read about people who are not you. And on balance, you should thank God or whoever it is you thank for good fortune that this is NOT the tale of you. I suspect that nearly everyone listed in these events, even if they were fortunate in history, would prefer to have your mundane boring life, and not their own, in some way or another.
(Source: kopoint)
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