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“Our government, to be quite candid, has not done a very superb job of operating Medicare, Social Security, and other similar type programs. So what reason do we have to believe that theyll do a better job operating a government operated health care plan.

Obama Cabinet Officials Townhall Meeting In Reserve, LA

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LSU HOSPITALS AND CLINICS
http://www.lsuhospitals.org

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Seniors have sacrificed, but Congress wants to cut a half trillion from Medicare to pay for “health care reform, which will hurt older Americans. Worse, Congress doesn’t even want to apply this new plan to themselves.

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David offers his final video blog entry for the Louisiana Campaign for Responsible Health Reform’s tour of Louisiana.

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Congressman Bill Cassidy (R-Baton Rouge) lays out the case for patient centered health care reform during an appearance on the Fox Business Channel’s “Countdown to the Closing Bell” with Liz Claman.

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In late September and early October of 2008, Kim and I deployed to Louisiana with the Red Cross to assist in the disaster relief efforts of Hurricanes Gustav and Ike. During our deployment we got one day off and we did a little sightseeing in New Orleans and the Baton Rouge area. Here is a little of what we saw.

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A tribute to George Lewis. George Gilmour in Bill Salmond’s Louisiana Ragtime Band, from Edinburgh, Scotland, plays “Burgundy Street Blues” at Glossop Jazz Festival 1996. George Gilmour, clarinet, Graham Scott, piano, Bill Salmond, banjo, Bill Bryden, bass, and Eric Jamieson, drums. You can look and listen to more of George Gilmour at http://redwing.lassecollin.se/georgegilmour.html

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The Sign-Up Saturday event in Bossier City, Louisiana.

A service provided by Sportscare USA in partnership with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana, Bossier Healthcare Foundation, Specialist Health System, City of Bossier City, Louisiana Municipal Association, ANECA Federal Credit Union.

For more information visit http://www.signupsaturday.com

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Consumers have the right to choose their personal healthcare provider! Take your time, just like you’ve done in the past when you bought your last vehicle, decided where to bank, which new piece of furniture you purchased or where you decide to send your children to school. The same applies to where you need to go should your physician determine that you need a screening or diagnostic test. Consumers have the right to choose! In the New Orleans area, we hope that choice is Diagnostic Imaging Services. For over 35 years, DIS has provided high qualtiy patient care within a comfortable, friendly and relaxed atmosphere. Patients do not worry about where they are going to park, what floor our facilities are located or how long their wait is going to be for their test. They know their physician will get their test results usually in one business day. Patients come with piece of mind, understanding that nearly every area insurance plan is accepted. Every mammogram and breast MRI is performed at DIS by a FEMALE registered technician. Patients are our priority — unlike a hospital-located imaging center where inpatient, urgent and emergency care come first. But, best of all, patients know they can SAVE MONEY by visiting Diagnostic Imaging Services. We save patients money by providing lower fees that New Orleans area hospital-owning imaging facilities. See for yourself. Call, ask, compare and save! Diagnostici Imaging Centers: working to be your choice. Offering digital mammography with CAD, CT, MRI, PET/CT, Nuclear Medicine, DEXA, Fluoroscopy, Ultrasound and digital x-ray services.

Shop and compare — high quality patient care at more affordable pricing is what Diagnostic Imaging Services offers to consumers in the New Orleans area.

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The capping of the broken oil well comes as welcome news for those along the Gulf Coast, but people there are far from celebrating. At the posh MiLa restaurant in downtown New Orleans, oil has already changed the menu.

“Lately, we’ve been buying black bass from North Carolina, Alaskan Halibut, and oysters from Connecticut,” said Slade Rushing, chef and owner of MiLa.

Creeping crude has marred the perception of Louisiana seafood, but even with BP saying it has now covered the broken oil well, the comfort that follows is not without worry.

“We’re all just kind of walking on egg shells and keeping our fingers crossed,” said Rushing. “We’ll see.”

Along parts of coastal Louisiana, the reality is the fear and frustration has not stopped even though the gushing oil has. The problems are still flowing.

“We might be out of business five, maybe 10 years,” said Belle Bundy, owner of a seafood loading dock in Lafitte.

At a meeting aimed at comforting residents about a new independent claims process, many filtered out of the Lafitte Convention Center with more concerns than when they arrived, Raymond Griffin among them.

“The oil is still out there, it hasn’t magically disappeared just because they put a cap on it,” said Griffin. “We wish it would, it hasn’t.”

We first met Griffin in early June. Oil turned his charter fishing business into a bust and his lodge a ghost town.

“We don’t know if we’re ever going to open back up,” said an emotional Griffin on June 3. “I mean how tough is that?”

Now he’s waging yet another battle: BP’s claims process. For two months of lost work, he says he showed BP piles of paperwork proving a shortfall of about $120,000. The oil company, he says, offered him $24,000.

“My health insurance is $3,000 a month, my wife’s chemo medicine is $900 month,” said Griffin. “My apartment complex…that we own, where our people stay is $3,000 month, our utilities is $2,000 for our fishing lodge, plus our taxes and flood insurance and other things, so it doesn’t add up.”

As residents head home from the claims meeting in Lafitte, cleanup crews down the road prepare for the night shift. Pristine white boom lay ready to be deployed, ready to soak up the crude. The scene is somber, but now routine.

“The oil is still going to move with winds, the tides, and the currents,” said Dr. LuAnn White, a toxicologist at Tulane University. “So it’s likely we’ll still see oil coming on shore for a period of time.”

Despite the cap in the Gulf, few things have changed along the Louisiana coast and likely won’t for awhile. From the docks of Lafitte to the kitchens of New Orleans, there is now a new normal, one that’s still hard to swallow.

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