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It's important to remember why Republicans, Democrats, and Independents pretty much agreed that the system that health insurance corporations had developed was not working. That system:
1. Was the number one reason that individuals in America went bankrupt …64% of all bankruptcies were related to individuals not being able to pay for their own care even though they had insurance, poor insurance, or because the insurance companies would raise their premiums beyond their ability to pay.
2. Did not cover millions of children who were born with pre-existing conditions. Those children were left to live a life of poverty as there was no way they could ever cover the costs of their medical care alone.
3. Did not allow for working Americans to freely transfer from one job to another for fear that their insurance company would drop them due to having developed a pre-existing condition. Pregnant women, in particular, were afraid to switch employers as their pregnancy would be seen, legally, by their insurance company, as a pre-existing condition. 
4. Required millions of American individuals and their families, to conduct fund raisers and conduct benefit auctions, and benefit concerts, and benefit meals, in order to cover the expenses for necessary medical care. This at a time when that was absolutely the last thing those individuals and families should have been thinking about. Often the families had to continue their efforts to raise money after their loved one had passed away.
5. Allowed insurance companies to offer such poor products that those insurance plans were, pretty much, in name only. The insurance companies were offering coverage that had so many loopholes, and exclusions, that individuals had to hire lawyers in order to actually get the insurance coverage they thought they had purchased.
6. Required that the only way for some Americans to get medical care was to do so through the most expensive method on Earth, the American Emergency Room. Every person could get care but emergency room doctors were covering things that could have been taken care of in a much less expensive clinic.
7. Was designed around "after the fact" care when it has been proven that "preventative care" is the most cost effective method of delivering medical care.

There will be problems with the Affordable Health Care Act, Obmacare , but, we shouldn't forget why Republicans, Democrats, and Independents, had been working on this issue, for decades, without being able to get anything solved.

OK, REPUBLICANS, YOUR TEA PARTY HAS SPOKEN!

You have your marching orders, and you have the financing of the Koch Brother's $100,000 +++ club, along with Citizen's United in place to allow the funneling of billions and billions of added money into our negative advertising machine. Your Tea Party, the Koch Brothers, have already test marketed your message in Ohio. Now stay on message:
1. The Affordable Health Care Act should always be referred to as Obamacare. Do not mention Mitt Romney's, nor the Heritage Center's, nor leading Republican's, involvement in this socialistic effort. Republican involvement in this requirement for every American to purchase health care from private insurance companies never happened.
2. Your president is a lazy, communist who wants to destroy the American Economy.
3. Your president will negotiate with blood thirsty terrorists in Iran, Syria, and he will even negotiate with the Russians, but he won't negotiate with all of the fine upstanding, extreme right, Republicans in the United States House of Representatives.
4. No, the extreme right of the Republican Party is not insane even though the definition for insanity is to "do the same thing over, and over, expecting different results." Even though the extreme right of the Republican Party has done this over and over 42 times, even though the Tea Party's current position to do whatever it takes to repeal what was passed by both houses of congress, signed into law by President Obama, and upheld by a very conservative Supreme Court, even though it is the law of the land, let's do the same thing for a 43rd time. It was the DEMOCRATS who forced this government shutdown! We are not insane. Stick to message.
5. Go to Fox, Hannity, & Rush Limbaugh for further marching orders. Don't listen to anything else. The extreme Right of the Republican Party is not insane. We had nothing to do with Obama Care ( Good, now keep calling it ObamaCare, we even have some of them using our terminology, can you believe that!). Stay on message!

Here is something you can do. You can become informed and enjoy a free stew at the same time! 

Eat local! Become informed ....local!.....become active...local! This is tonight, Saturday, September 28th.

It’s a BARN night for a PIPELINE fight!

Saturday, September 28th at 6 p.m. Join the Carlton County Land Stewards for an information session about Embridge Energy’s proposed Sandpiper pipeline route and what you can do to keep our region’s farmland, food supply, and natural environment safe for future generations.

•  http://carltoncountylandstewards.org/

  
  

  It was a fun event.  I hadn't seen the movie, Wall-E, for years and I got to meet a lot of very concerned, and caring people.  People who are not willing to let stuff just happen to them, to us.  We don't need to be part of a process to send oil products to any refinery that is only go to oil company profits as they refine and ship that oil from their pipeline overseas. Buy local, eat local, be active local.  As Alice Hoffman has said:  "Once we know something, it is impossible to unknow it.  It is a tremendous burden that we all share."  Doing nothing about something that we know about is just as much of an activist for no change as those who are actively protesting for change.

  
  

It's important to understand that many of the claims about our affordable Healthcare Act are not true.  They are just "Urban Myths".  Statements made that are inaccurate include some that are from both sides of the political aisle.  They include:

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2013/sep/24/top-16-myths-about-health-care-law/

This is Robin and Laird, on the right, saying what no one has said better! Laird and Robin would also want to point out that: "MONEY IS NOT SPEECH"!

We, our Duluth Area Move To Amend, have lost two great leaders for change in the recent deaths of Laird Monahan and Steve O'Neil. We need everyone to ramp it up a notch to try to fill the tremendous vacuum that is left in their absence.

Here is the March of the Monahans!

https://movetoamend.org/march-monahans-0

I am saddened by the passing of a good friend, Laird Monahan. Laid and his brother, Robin, have always been so supportive of our Duluth Move To Amend. Laid attended our August meeting and was inspirational to all who attended, just as he remains an inspiration to everyone who understands what is at stake in our country. This is from: Nancy Antenucci - St. Paul Move To Amend 2:04pm Sep 21:

It is a sad day for we in Move to Amend. One of our movement's most inspirational voices, Laird Monahan, has been silenced. Laird passed away on September 19. What an honor to have met Laird on several recent visits to Minnesota. In 2010, Laird and his self-described "politically inert" brother, Robin, walked across the U.S. educating people about SCOTUS's horrific Citizens United decision. We carry on our work to build a democratic movement in the U.S. with a government responsible to We the People--ALL the people. We do it for ourselves and future generations; we do it in memory of Laird. Here is a link to their inspiring cross-country walk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsfnKfufeNI

• This is one of Laird Monahan's best speeches. It was delivered, on Armistice Day after the 2010 Citizens United Supreme Court Decision, November 11, 2012. Laird was a Viet Nam Veteran: Laird said:

  
  
  
  "I won’t be talking about honoring our war dead. There are many others who will do that with much greater eloquence than I can muster. The sons and daughters, brothers, sisters, husbands, wives mothers and fathers of those who didn’t come home, can speak to their sacrifice.
  
  I am here to talk about waging peace. Waging peace is not sitting around paying tribute to those who no longer can speak for themselves. Waging peace is acting out. Waging peace is talking truth to power. Waging peace is militant activism and being willing to risk getting pepper sprayed or spending time in jail for principles you believe in. We are waging a war against the engine of war; corporate profits. Corporations hear no voice that doesn’t affect their profits. Whether those profits are made from the manufacture of munitions and weapons or the resources of the invaded country, that is the driving force, in my opinion, of every engagement the U. S. has been in since WWII and Korea. Given that none of them have been initiated by an act of Congress, all have been illegal.
  
  Are you mad enough yet?
  
  The Supreme Court decision in the Citizens United v FEC case of January 2010, effectively handed our constitution over to those corporations. I was devastated. I waited a few days expecting the country to revolt and descend on Washington with pitchforks, torches, tar and feathers. It didn’t happen.
  
  Are you made enough yet?
  
  I told my wife that when Robin and I, and most of you, entered the military, we took an oath to defend the constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. My country was calling me back into service to stand by and uphold that oath. I joined Move To Amend and Veterans for Peace to do just that.
  
  Who will stand with me to honor that oath?
  
  Are you made enough yet?
  
  Who is willing to walk the extra mile to restore the Constitution to “We the People”?
  
  Are you mad enough yet?
  
  Who will join with me, Move to Amend, and Veterans for Peace against the Goliath of our corporate owned government and wage peace?
  
  Thank you all for being here and thanks to Veterans for Peace for this great Armistice Day event.

  

  
  

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