Why would I want single-payer health care? I don’t want to be single!

No you will not necessarily be single. Single payer is a term used to describe the payment of doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers from a single fund. According to the National Library of Medicine's Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) thesaurus, a single-payer system is:

An approach to health care financing with only one source of money for paying health care providers. The scope may be national, like the Canadian system, state-wide, or community-based. The payer may be a governmental unit or other entity such as an insurance company. The proposed advantages include administrative simplicity for patients and providers, and resulting significant savings in overhead costs.

Single-payer health care does not necessarily mean that the government or some government agency delivers or controls health care services; it could be similar to a public utility that provides electricity for example, to everyone.

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Why is it a good thing that the 2010 Census will count Gay couples?

Well, for one thing, it reverses something George W. Bush did and that’s almost always a good thing!

Rea Carey, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, called the policy change a significant step. Carey’s group has been among those lobbying the White House:



An anonymous spokesperson from NOM had this to say:


What’s the deal with this woman who has to pay 1.9 Million for music downloads?

Insanity is the short answer.

Last Thursday, a federal judge jury fined a 32-year-old Minnesota woman $1.9 million for downloading 24 songs worth 99 cents a piece from the internet, illegally. She downloaded songs via Kazaa and made them available over the network. She claims she did not know she was making them available. In either case, it is certainly a bit of overkill to fine this working Mother to pay an insane amount of money to the RIAA, just so they can put out more really bad ads on the radio from old 80’s big haired frontmen.

Meanwhile, you can still get those illegal DVD's of the newest Transformer and Terminator movies right off the street.

Who is Jon and Kate and why are they getting a divorce?

I don’t really know who they are, but I wish they would D.I.V.O.R.C.E. ASAP and get off my TV and the front of magazines that I am forced to look at while in the long shopping lines to buy my Ben and Jerry’s pint. Sheesh!

Happy Fathers Day to all the Dads out there!