During an interview on “This Week in S. Florida w/Michael Putney,” Marco discusses health care (Sunday, 3/21/10, Part 2).
Crist Unapologetic
January 11, 2010 by Leave a Comment
I attended the recent RPOF meeting held January 9 in Orlando mostly out of curiosity since Greer recently stepped down and since I haven’t been to one in about a year.
I have to admit, I was expecting a little excitement and drama concerning the new Chairman. Alas, I have to wait until next month for the special session.
Instead of a slugfest the session turned into a campaign rally for the Governor, who happens to be running for President. Oops, I mean Senate.
During Crist’s remarks, which turned into a stump speech of how he is going to be the next Senator from Florida he made some rather curious remarks, which went like this…
“I advocated for the stimulus, I thought it was important and I don’t apologize for taking it.”
A pretty bold statement for someone who is losing ground in the polls daily.
He also didn’t apologize for meeting Obama on the campaign trail in South Florida. Instead, he argued about why it was the right thing to do.
On both points, his argument was that he and he alone knows what is best for Florida, despite all the public uproar, and despite the wishes of our elected representatives in the Florida House and Senate.
In so many ways, he sounded like Obama, or a teacher scolding a child.
His speech inspired me. Not because it was particularly inspiring, because it wasn’t. No, it inspired me to go knock on a few doors for his contender and next Senator from Florida, my man, Marco Rubio!
Health Care Town Hall
July 19, 2009 by Leave a Comment
We are hosting a town hall on the upcoming health care legislation on Tuesday, July 28, 2009 at Eastmonte Civic Center, 830 Magnolia Dr, Altamonte Springs, FL. The meeting will begin promptly at 6:30pm.
Panelists include: Rick Scott, Founder and Chairman of Conservative for Patients’ Rights (CPR); State Representative D. Alan Hays, District 25; Kenneth J. Miller, MD, Anesthesiology; and Jason Brodeur, Procter & Gamble Account Executive, Healthcare for the Eastern United States.
Rick Scott founded Conservative for Patients’ Rights in February 2009 as a response to Obama’s health care plan. CPR believes that true health care reform centers on 4 pillars of Patients’ Rights: Choice, Competition, Accountability, and Personal Responsibility.
Rick, an attorney by trade has been in the health care industry since 1987 when he founded Colombia Hospital Corporation. In 1997, he left Colombia Hospital Corporation to start Richard Scott Investments, which has stakes in health care, manufacturing and technology companies. In 2001, he founded Solantic Corporation, which operates walk in urgent care centers.
State Representative Alan Hays is a Dentist by trade. He earned his DMD from the University of Florida in 1976. In 2004, he was elected to the State House of Representatives, and was re-elected in 2008. During that time he served as the Vice-Chair of the Insurance, Business, and Financial Affairs Policy Committee, and was a member of the Health and Family Policy Council. In addition, he served on the Full Appropriations Council on General Government & Health Care.
He is currently the Vice Chair of the Committee on Health Quality, a member of the Health Care Council and the Committee on Insurance.
His awards include the Florida Dental Association Representative of the Year 2006, Dr. Lewis Earle Legislative Service Award 2009, Florida Association of Health Plans Appreciation Award 2005, and Crown Council, Humanitarian Award for Dental Service in Third World Countries 1999.
He is a member of the Florida Medical Association Council on Legislation and the Dental Association.
Kenneth J. Miller, MD, is a Board Certified, private practice Anesthesiologist. From 1985-1987 he served as Chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology at Winter Park Memorial Hospital. He received his MD in 1980 from Wake Forest University’s Bowman Gray School of Medicine. Three years later in 1983, he completed his Internship and Anesthesiology Residency at the University of Florida.
He is a member of the Florida Society of Anesthesiology, the American Medical Association, and the Florida Medical Association.
Miller believes: Doctors must set the standard of care, not the government; and patients must remain an equal partner in decisions that affect them.
Jason Brodeur is an Healthcare Account Executive for Procter & Gamble. His territory includes the Eastern United States. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Food and Resource Economics and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Florida. He recently earned a Executive Education Certificate, Negotiation and Decision Making from Harvard University.
Brodeur was appointed to the State of Florida Medicaid Pharmaceutical and Therapeutics Committee by Governor Crist to adjudicate preferred drug list for the 2.2 million Medicaid recipients in Florida, representing over $1 billion in annual spending.
He is also on the Board of Directors of Community Based Care of Seminole County and is a member of the Florida Society of Health System Pharmacists and an active American Cancer Society Volunteer.
The New Slavery
July 1, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Lincoln, our first Republican President freed the slaves from the oppression of the south. Obama, our first Black President, in the course of a few months has made us all slaves to the government.
It started with the bailouts, then grew to a hostile takeover of the banking system and the auto industry. And the administration isn’t done there. They are planning a hostile takeover of the healthcare industry- which is equal to 1/7 of our economy.
This is not a war on the recession but a war on prosperity. With the spending out of control, Congress is coming up with new ways to tax us to pay for it. They have already raised taxes on tobacco and are considering taxing soda and junk food. But it doesn’t stop there. They are about to pass cap and trade which will be the biggest tax increase ever on the American public. In addition, they are talking about adding a Value Added Tax (VAT)- which is an additional Federal Sales Tax on goods and services.
Currently we have to work 120 days to pay what we owe in taxes. This year – if you started paying taxes on Jan 1- and you worked a standard 5 day work week you would have to work until June 17 to get to your 120 days. While literally 120 is about 1/3 of your year. It would take you about half the year to pay it.
If Congress adds anymore taxes to our already burdened public it would literally add months of more service to the government making us all slaves to the New Republic of Obama.
Leaving Motor City
May 20, 2009 by Leave a Comment
There has been a lot in the news recently about GM and Chrysler. Obama’s hostile takeover of GM and, Chrysler failed forced merger with Fiat, what else are they to do?
Maybe they should take a play from their beloved former leader Lee Iacocca in this clip:
The Gameplan from Coach
The other day I turned on Glenn Beck to find him talking to Coach. Well, the man who played Coach, Craig T Nelson. They had been discussing the state of the economy, the tea parties and the gameplan for the GOP.
The government has put us dug a very deep hole with the bailouts, the high taxes- set to go even higher, takeover of private companies, and the excessive government waste.
It was then that Coach laid out the gameplan. He announced on Glenn Beck, that he would rather go to jail than pay his taxes to an irresponsible and wasteful government.
I wished we all had that courage. Yet, despite our kicking and screaming we don’t refuse to pay for it. We still write our check out every April 15 without fail.
While it is true that the tea parties attracted some attention, it is not enough to speak our mind to a government that listen. It is time for action. It is time for civil disobedience.
The Tea Parties were named after the Boston Tea Party, (perhaps a misnomer), because the Boston Tea Party was not a peaceful protest, it was an act of civil disobedience. The settlers were refusing to pay their taxes to someone who did not represent their interests. Instead, they choose to destroy their tea rather than concede the authority of a legislature in which they were not directly represented.
We could certainly say the same. The Government of Corporate Bailouts, and Hostile Takeovers is not my government. The Government of Greed and Excess is not my Government. They do not represent our interests or the interests of our children and grandchildren, who will undoubtedly be slaves to a government that has dumped this pile of debt at their door.
In November, Our Country voted for change, but it is up to us to bring about real revolution. Change does begin with the government. It begins with the courage of a single individual who is willing to say NO MORE!
NO MORE GOVERNMENT WASTE!
NO MORE BAILOUTS OF FAILED COMPANIES!
NO MORE HOSTILE TAKEOVERS!
NO MORE GOVERNMENT GREED AND EXCESS!
IF everyone would join in this act of civil disobedience, the government would not be able to stop us. It would be a political disaster if they tried. And that would be the beginning of a new revolution.