Good morning.
It was a pretty quiet evening last night around the South Florida blogosphere. No doubt everyone was getting ready for Miserable Monday. Try to enjoy your morning Sift...
Congratulations has to go to the Republicans for scaring the American public into thinking there were "death panels" written into President Obama's healthcare bill and successfully pressuring the Administration into removing said Republican-sponsored "death panel" provision.
There is an endless variety of things we can do, but there is not an endless supply of fish. What does it mean when it says on your menu that Area 31 supports the Monterey Bay Seafood Watch Program?
Kimpton Hotels and Restaurants partnered up with the Monterey Bay Aquarium. They kind of guide us. It’s really a challenge to figure out where everything is coming from and what is potentially endangered. So, Monterey Bay put a great program together to give us the information that we can go by and explain to us the reasons for certain things.
The Monterey Bay Aquarium has little pocket guides. They’ll do the research. They’ll do the legwork and then they’ll help guide us to make informed decisions, as opposed to just saying, “This is bad. Don’t use it.”
For example, grouper reproduce very slowly and are overfished, so [Kimpton Group] is working on possibly taking a break from using them. We don’t serve them in our restaurant.
We just kind of feel our way through and try to figure out what’s really best for the environment.
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Edited to reflect my total misread of a post that 26th Parallel posted last night. Oops.
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5 comments:
A: Here's another shorter 26 Parallel (or shorter Babalu, since he's just parroting de la Cruz similarly misguided commentary) "let's believe the Republican loony brigades took out the public option, when in reality it was concession to their puppetmasters, the insurance companies".
26P is passing bad information. While I'm not convinced that the public option has been "dropped" (especially since there is no one plan...but four bills plus fifth being completed by the Senate Finance Committee which will need to be merged), it is important to note that Robert is wrong...the CBO scoring showed that the public option alternatives included in the different bills will save money.
http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_treatment/archive/2009/07/10/exclusive-early-cbo-score-on-public-plan-it-s-good.aspx
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We have the public option in florida for hurricane insurance (citizens) and it IS driving the other insurers out of the state. The only problem is that they are charging actuarially unsound rates and WE ALL PAY IF THERE IS A HURRANCE.
That's just BS. Citizens is not driving anybody out of FL, in fact, the state would love if other insurance companies wrote new policies. Citizens was a safety net because insurance companies were abandoning the most at risk consumers in the state. In 2001 when I first bought a house, NO private insurer would offer me a policy at any price because it was east of I-95. I had to go with FWUA. The private market failed.
You want an example of how corrosive private insurance can be? Citizens was setup with so many caveats to protect private insurance than predatory insurers started buying policies from Citizens at an astronomical price to the homeowner, and Citizen's was forced to drop those policies from their rolls because by law they couldn't compete. That's what happens when private insurance is protected by legislation. That loophole was closed, but for a couple or years it was hell on homeowners.
Citizens illustrates exactly why a public option is needed in healthcare, because the broken system we have in place now cherry picks the best customers and leaves millions with no insurance (BTW, we end up paying for those too, through emergency room care and constant expansions of Medicare/Medicaid).
Anon 1:05,
The CBO also says that the public option won't affect the private market (which you'd realize if you paid any attention to the legislation passed so far).
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_07/019262.php
It is going to be very hard to argue with you all if don't actually read the documents you argue against.
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