SUPPORT INSURANCE COMPANIES OR ALL CITIZENS?
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CLICK link BELOW to see the video—and if you like it, pass it along to your friends:
http://pol.moveon.org/insurance_execs/?id=17290-10606714-1jET2dx&t=2
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Age: Late Adulthood — 65 years to deathConflict: Integrity vs. DespairImportant Event: Reflection on
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The most important event at this stage is coming to accept one’s whole lifeand reflecting on that life in a positive manner. According to Erikson,achieving a sense of integrity means fully accepting oneself and coming to termswith the death. Accepting responsibility for your life and being able to undothe past and achieve satisfaction with self is essential. The inability to dothis results in a feeling of despair.
The adult feels a sense of fulfillment about life and accepts death as anunavoidable reality.
Individuals who are unable to obtain a feeling of fulfillment andcompleteness will despair and fear death.
An aged person may find it necessary to reflect and analyze what they haveaccumulated throughout life and decide what offspring will receive from themupon death.
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In “The Perils of the Public Plan,” Paul Starr warns that a public-insurance option could turn into exactly the opposite of what progressives want. Here he discusses the problems with the Prospect’s two other co-founders, Robert Kuttner and Robert Reich.
Paul Starr:
According to last week’s Washington Post, the public option is the “crux” of the health-reform debate and the “greatest challenge” for Senate negotiators to overcome. That’s an accurate description of the current political scene, but it’s true only because so many people, including members of Congress, are responding ideologically to the ideaof government involvement.
The public option is not the biggest question in reform. Under the proposals being considered, it would be offered only within insurance exchanges at the state and regional level. The far bigger question is how those exchanges work:
For the rest of the debate click on:
http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=debating_the_public_option
It was not easy selling the house we all grew up in, especially with a new generation of family having recently arrived who will want to see the house we grew up in. But we had no choice.
Which is why I’m in favor of this new health care reform proposal being debated in Congress, with a public option where people such as my parents who couldn’t afford standard health insurance can buy coverage from the government at a much lower cost.
I don’t know how anyone can be against a public option. Those against it say it’s socialized medicine, when in truth you don’t have to purchase the public option if you already have and are currently satisfied with your present coverage. With the public option in the market, and judging by the laws of economics, the rates to your coverage will most likely go down because of the public option creating competition in the market.
If we had this public option when my parents were alive, our family would probably still have our home to share with our grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Since we don’t, maybe this opportunity would save some other family’s home from the same fate.
George I. Anderson
Millville
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