LETTERS IN THE EDITOR'S MAILBAG.Byline: The Register-Guard Health system faces bankruptcy Regarding "Surgeons cut deal in Medicare fraud Medicare fraud Medifraud Medical practice Any unlawful act which results in the inappropriate billing of Medicare for services by a health care provider–eg, physicians, hospitals and affiliated providers. See Medicare. " (Register-Guard, Dec. 29): Only in the United States of America UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. The name of this country. The United States, now thirty-one in number, are Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, can a person agree to pay a fine doubling the cost of the theft they have committed and then continue to claim to be innocent. These are the same people we hold up to our children as pillars of society. It is no wonder that our national health systems - Medicare and Medicaid Medicare and Medicaid U.S. government programs in effect since 1966. Medicare covers most people 65 or older and those with long-term disabilities. Part A, a hospital insurance plan, also pays for home health visits and hospice care. - are headed for bankruptcy. Medical care and medical insurance are fast attaining a level that will price them out of the reach of the majority of families in America. Insurance companies take clients' monthly payments and then pay less and less of the medical bill. Many people, and the companies who try to insure their employees, no longer can afford to pay the premiums. More and more companies are hiring part-time workers in an effort to get out of insuring their employees. Hospitals and doctors almost have priced themselves out of the market or are refusing to treat people without medical insurance. It is very sad that people can be ruined financially or left to die because of medical expenses while those often responsible for their predicaments can buy their way out and then claim innocence. Boyd A. Lockwood Myrtle Creek Imagine suffering prejudice I knew it was too good to be true. Imagine having to acquiesce to others' demands that you don't deserve to be treated as an equal under the laws of our land. Imagine that those who discriminate against you do so in the name of Jesus Christ Jesus Christ: see Jesus. Jesus Christ 40 days after Resurrection, ascended into heaven. [N.T.: Acts 1:1–11] See : Ascension Jesus Christ kind to the poor, forgiving to the sinful. [N.T. . Talk about an abomination of humanity. Jesus must be blushing with embarrassment at the way his flock has strayed from his true message. Want to keep gays and lesbians from acquiring domestic partnerships? That's fine. At this point, all of those who claim to be doing God's work really have only proven that they are dupes of Satan, if you believe in that sort of thing. Real estate's getting pretty hard to come by in hell, what with the recent population boom of all of those doing "God's work." I think I'll just continue to try living my life in truth as best as I can and let my love for my partner sustain me, because the people of America prove consistently that they don't really stand for the Constitution of our country. Imagine what it will be like when all us gays and lesbians arrive at Satan's door only to be turned away because of the overcrowding overcrowding overcrowding of animal accommodation. Many countries now publish codes of practice which define what the appropriate volumetric allowances should be for each species of animal when they are housed indoors. Breaches of these codes is overcrowding. by all of "God's chosen." Good work, people. Hey, while you're at it, why don't you just legalize le·gal·ize tr.v. le·gal·ized, le·gal·iz·ing, le·gal·iz·es To make legal or lawful; authorize or sanction by law. le hate crimes, too? Linda Cathey Eugene Hypocrisy - it begins at home During the hotly debated Measure 36 campaign, many well-intentioned, moderate supporters of that measure assured me that they were not bigots. Nor were they interested in denying my partner and me fair legal protections enjoyed by married heterosexuals. Essentially, they had no issue with civil unions; it was only marriage to which they objected. These well-intentioned moderates were reassured by the language used in Yes on 36 literature targeting uncommitted voters. The pro-36 pamphlets and letters promised that this was not a matter of bigotry, nor did Measure 36 seek to deny equal protections. Why am I not surprised by the hypocrisy of the outcry that arose from the conservative backers of Measure 36 when our Legislature took action to provide fair and equal legal protections to all Oregon citizens? And why is not surprising that a group from outside our state sought to challenge the legality of Oregon's initiative process? Aren't these largely social and political conservatives? Don't they constantly shout for states' rights states' rights, in U.S. history, doctrine based on the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution, which states, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. ? Why would they appeal to a federal court to overturn the action of a state legislature A state legislature may refer to a legislative branch or body of a political subdivision in a federal system. The following legislatures exist in the following political subdivisions: Maybe they want to champion states' rights and individual freedoms only when such rights and freedoms align with their narrow-minded ethics. Hypocrisy - it begins at home. Craig Willis Craig Willis (born 1954-) is an Australian announcer who has appeared as the voice of many of the Seven Network's AFL Grand Final broadcasts. He is known to many as the 'voice of the AFL' He also performs voiceovers at many major events, including the Melbourne Cup. Eugene Science will be more spiritual I can't help but applaud Todd Hoffman's Dec. 16 Commentary article, "Ignorance of science allows it to be distorted for a cause." He challenges all of us to question long-held beliefs about the nature of reality and the systems that protect those beliefs, be they religious or academic. I think he is right on the mark in his prediction that science will upstage both war and politics in the future. But I would like to suggest that science in the future will lean less on materialism and recognize the foundation of all things as spiritual. I agree that mystical experiences are not science. Yet neither religion nor academia will profit by excluding the science that Jesus lived and taught as an understandable and reliable body of knowledge. His demonstrations may not fit into the paradigms of physical science, but perhaps science is missing some very key pieces to the nature of reality by excluding them. If anyone understood reality, it was Jesus. Jesus was conscious of something more. He saw spiritual reality where we perceive matter. Mary Baker
Mary Baker (????-????) was a British painter. She was born in London and produced works for the Society of Arts, as well as exhibiting miniatures and portraits at the Royal Academy over a fourteen year Eddy, the founder of Christian Science Christian Science, religion founded upon principles of divine healing and laws expressed in the acts and sayings of Jesus, as discovered and set forth by Mary Baker Eddy and practiced by the Church of Christ, Scientist. , wrote more than 100 years ago, "The time for thinkers has come. Truth, independent of doctrines and time-honored systems, knocks at the portal of humanity." This century, science will upstage all other topics. I suppose, as materialism crumbles, true science will permeate permeate /per·me·ate/ (-at?) 1. to penetrate or pass through, as through a filter. 2. the constituents of a solution or suspension that pass through a filter. per·me·ate v. both war and politics with love. As Albert Einstein says, "No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it." Shelly Richardson Eugene Update environmental planning Environmental planning is a relatively new field of study that aims to merge the practice of urban planning with the concerns of environmentalism. Essentially speaking, while urban planners have traditionally factored in economic development, transportation, sanitation, and other The National Environmental Policy Act was passed in 1969. It required that all federal agencies give equal consideration to environmental as well as technical and economic considerations as part of a transparent decision process when considering projects, plans or programs. Since 1969, a total of 27 states have passed legislation requiring a similar and parallel process to be used for state projects and plans. Unfortunately, Oregon is not one of them, even though the Oregon Progress Board published the "Oregon State of the Environment Report" in September 2000. One of the key findings of the report was that the state's existing environmental management system was in dire need of improvement. The report states: "Measuring ecological conditions, trends and risks is fundamentally different from the problems Oregon's environmental programs were initially established to address. Resolving them will require new approaches." It has been seven years since the Oregon Progress Board's report was released. Unless I missed something, there has been no mention at all of any attempt to even look into upgrading our state's environmental management system to come up with new approaches adequate in today's world. California has the California Environmental Quality Act The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) is a California law (California Public Resources Code section 21000 et seq.) passed in 1970, shortly after the Federal Government passed the National Environmental Policy Act. . Washington has the State Environmental Protection Act. We have nothing comparable, but we do have three proposals for siting liquefied natural gas liquefied natural gas: see under natural gas. Liquefied natural gas (LNG) A product of natural gas which consists primarily of methane. Its properties are those of liquid methane, slightly modified by minor constituents. terminals on our shores. Is this because the three Oregon sites are the best from an environmental, technical and economic standpoint. Or might the LNG LNG (liquefied natural gas): see under natural gas. industry be merely following the line of least resistance? Ron Sadler North Bend North Bend is the name of several places in the United States of America:
We need single-payer coverage Why private health insurance? To suck resources out of health care like parasitic middlemen - building skyscrapers, running commercials, buying politicians and making investors rich - is the honest answer, but they'll tell you it's "to spread risk." Compare these personal experiences: Mom-in-law had nausea symptoms 10 years ago. Her insurance company only authorized medication that masked her symptoms (increased profits) but not tests to find the cause. Recently, while in severe pain and nausea, it refused to authorize her admission to the hospital. After her kids fought for several more weeks while she suffered, she finally was admitted to the hospital for tests. Her symptoms were from what was a treatable, slow-growing cancer; however, now she's terminal. She weeps with barely enough strength to push the morphine morphine, principal derivative of opium, which is the juice in the unripe seed pods of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum. It was first isolated from opium in 1803 by the German pharmacist F. W. A. drip button. By contrast, my father, a World War II veteran, had a life-threatening aneurysm aneurysm (ăn`y  rĭzəm), localized dilatation of a blood vessel, particularly an artery, or the heart. . He's gotten the best possible care
through Veterans Affairs Veterans Affairs is a term of the business that deals with the relation between a government and its veteran communities, usually administered by the designated government agency. - hospital treatment, after-care and home care,
all with a minimum of paperwork.
The best solution is socialized medicine socialized medicine, publicly administered system of national health care. The term is used to describe programs that range from government operation of medical facilities to national health-insurance plans. . There, I said it. It's the bogeyman the insurance industry will evoke. It relies on small-government Republicans who, while in total control of the government, spent our tax money like drunken sailors. Just consider the mangled for-profit prescription drug prescription drug Prescription medication Pharmacology An FDA-approved drug which must, by federal law or regulation, be dispensed only pursuant to a prescription–eg, finished dose form and active ingredients subject to the provisos of the Federal Food, Drug, bill. Rather than pay $500 a month for catastrophic health insurance and fight a company which has its profits as much more of a priority than my health, I'm supporting single-payer universal health care. It's the health insurance our politicians have. Ann Schwartz Eugene |
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