In the meantime in the real world.

I go to work at the doctors this morning. Nothing unusual at first. I stream Thom Hartmann in between doing my job, who is on fire about the public option and how the Senate is trying to sell us down the river. A man comes in who doesn't have an appointment. He's in chronic pain and needs help. My doctor's practice is pain management, but he can't take patients who don't have a diagnosis from a primary physician. The man says he doesn't have the money to pay two doctors. I send him to Community Health Services who could take him on a sliding scale for payments or even get him on Medicaid, but he tells me he isn't able to get Medicaid as he makes too much money but not enough to pay any expensive medical bills. I hope CHS will help him but I'm sure they won't be able to do anything for him because he will need Xrays or MRI's and such and they don't cover that. I believe that many of those services for the poor have come under Arnold's chopping block. So I don't think he will get much help.

Two patients cancel so there is a three hour gap to the next patient, so I take a long lunch and decide to go to the market. After I do my shopping, I drive by a family in the parking lot, a women with two teenagers and a child. She is holding up a sign that says, WE NEED A MIRACLE. No one stops to talk to her. I don't because I'm running short on time. So while our Democrats are talking about protecting their corporate health insurance donors and hinting that there will be no public option and babbling about coops, here are two cases of desperation happening within hours in the small village I live in, in one day. I haven't even tried to drive around and find any more desperate citizens trying to hang on. In the meantime, Arnold keeps chopping money from services and our Congress talks about coops. Our elected leaders have to start doing something. Americans cannot be treated like this. There is no need. They could turn this around if there was the will and made it happen.

There seems to have been no change that I can see.

And it's just going to get worse from here unless someone does something about it.

he'll be going to the pain clinic tomorrow for a torn disc in his back.

Too bad your guy doesn't live in Oregon, well, if we had full funding anyway.

because these idiots HAVE it... they have healthcare...