Month: February 2008 Page 3 of 4
hi, rich (Dr. Richard Kerbavaz). i don’t think i know the right questions to ask. so…
it seems it will be important that everybody have the same coverage, the same access. this way the rich/powerful will make sure that the coverage will be top-notch…because they will be in the same system as the rest of us.
seems like the reasons why most doctors don’t take medi-cal are low pay and insane pre-authorization red tape….which are also the complaints against the insurance/hmo. how about no pre-authorization, but a possibility of a [random?] review afterward? again if everyone is in the system, doctors could get paid for how many patients under their care, rather than for visits or operations…providing the patients are well-served.
all hospitals should be not-for-profit. are we facing shortage of doctors, nurses, and hospitals now? would our equal access health care require more or less of these? the whole health care system….including drugs, medical equipment, etc…should be not-for-profit.
our health care should stress preventative medicine, public health, nutrition, and will include “alternative” medicine, herbs, and….well…human caring/care-givers. there will a place for high tech medicine. but it probably won’t be the main thing…once we have removed huge profits from the system.
seems like at the heart of the system should be the relationship between the patient and her doctor whom she chooses.
all of this e-mail is raw jamming….the first stage of changing the system!
btw, why is it illegal for doctors to form unions?
looking forward to exploring these things with you on the show!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
Richard Kerbavaz wrote:
Frank,
I’m clearly not smart enough to come up with all the answers to this one.
I’ll make a copy of an article by Robyn Young, a Neurologist in Alameda, that was in a recent ACCMA Bulletin. She talks about the problems of a profit-driven Health Insurance system. The basic issue is that so much of our costs for health insurance are really paying the insurance companies, that to use the present insurance structure like the Schwartzenneger proposal for California ammounts to a huge tax subsidy for the companies that have helped create the mess we now are in.
Yes, we will need more doctors, nurses and probably hospitals if universal access were in place. There are not enough providers in many inner city and rural areas to take care of currently disenfrachised people living there. Does this mean a new government program to administer a single payer system? Do you just give everyone a medicare card and let the “market forces” take over? Do you set up competition with vouchers for people to buy the kind of insurance they think meets their needs and keep the insurance companies as part of the system? I think the biggest challenge in a single payer system is keeping it from turning into the DMV, with long lines and impersonal service just because it’s government and there is no other option out there.
How to handle a transition from a for-profit to not-for-profit system is another issue. Do you essentially nationalize the existing hospitals, or tax profits in such a way that changing to not-for-profit is the best option? And what to do with big systems like Kaiser that combine hospitals, physician groups and insurance companies?
The problem with doctors unionizing is that as it stands, we are all independent small businesses in competition with each other. If we get together to negotiate prices, it’s like all the oil companies agreeing on what price to sell gas. The same anti-trust laws keep us from acting together to change things.
When is the show where we talk about this stuff? I can try to talk to some of the local docs who have worked on Single Payer for a long time so we have more facts to discuss.
Rich
Frank Moore wrote:
i think we need to take insurance companies out of the picture to have a real and workable universal health care. the swedes get a medical card every year and after they pay $150, everything else is covered! i think it is important that the patient choose her doctor and the treatment comes from that relationship.
we have long lines and impersonal service now. we can do better!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
From: Frank Moore [mailto:fmoore@eroplay.com]
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 8:13 AM
To: JamesFallows@theatlantic.com
Subject: hey, jim!
i’m running for president! http://www.frankmooreforpresident08.com/
i will want you to be in my cabinet if i win…probably as the secretary of defense.
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
From: James Fallows
To: ‘Frank Moore’
Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2008 6:19 PM
Subject: RE: hey, jim!
Congrats!
If Hillary ends up as the Democratic nominee, I may be back in your camp.
Jim F
James Fallows
The Atlantic Monthly
http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com
Frank Moore wrote:
mmmm….is it a case of he is that good or of she is that bad?
you’ll always be welcome in my tent! german public radio asked me who would be in my cabinet…hence your name.
did you know that our ray haight ran for governor against reagan? i found that out when i ran into him in s.f.. in the early 80s.
how is china?
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
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From: Sue Supriano
To: Frank Moore
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 10:27 PM
Subject: Re: hi, sue!
Hi Frank-
Your platform sounds fabulous to me! I happily endorse you. Good luck and thanks for all you do!
Love,
Sue
Sue Supriano – Steppin’ Out of Babylon: Audio Interviews
http://www.suesupriano.com
Frank Moore wrote:
great, sue! we will put you on the endorsers list.
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
From: “Paul Griffin”
To: “Frank Moore”
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 8:14 AM
Subject: Re: ampb report #82
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:37:24 -0800
“Frank Moore”
hey, captain, how about me?!
Hey Frank!
yeah! how about you? how are you doing? I’m fine except some hit-and-run asshole totalled my car. I wasn’t in it at the time, but did stand there and watch it happen. have relayed your platform on BLR and I also played segments from your holiday spectacular on the Crack “o Dawn show. Loved the singing! So you still got my vote, Frank.
No need to worry about that! -c’fred
Frank Moore wrote:
thanks, captian! i value your vote! [we’ll add you to my endorsing list.] please keep telling people they can vote for me!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
Here is the text of Tom’s introduction at thye recent campaign stop at Cafe Leila in Berkeley, CA on January 22, 2008.
Why I Support Frank Moore for President
by
Tom Sanders
I’m here to speak for the largest political group in the U.S.–those who don’t register to vote–who prefer a vote on the board of directors of the big corporations instead of candidates for government offices.
All the candidates for U.S. President seem to be trying to become the leader of the campaign against the 10 commandnents–except for Frank Moore–who thinks that they should be cut down to only 9-and above all–to leave out the one against adultery.
I also agree with Frank that all the candidates should be medically treated for assification of the heart and fatty degeneration of the mind.
Frank says that it’s been claimed that “mankind” (note the word) took “its first giant step” on the moon & he asks why they couldn’t have taken that “giant step” here on earth?
Frank Moore is fully aware that elections in this country serve as fever thermometers that tell our owners and rulers how near death we are–or how close to revolution we are.
Mr. Moore is under no illusions about the U.S. Presidency. In fact, he pities the poor presidents who have to attack Grenada, Panama, Libya, Nicaragua, Afghanistan, Iraq–etc. So he won’t be forced to ride slowly in an open car, with the motorcycle cops pulled back away from it, in some Dallas Dealy plaza somewhere.
Frank & I agree that voting for a liberal democrat for any office is like voting for the liberal wing of the german Nazi party. We are both amazed that some so-called leftist democrats claim to support the Cuban revolution since the Democratic Party is the largest U.S., devoted since 1960, to destroying the Cuban revolution.
And, then there’s the war on drugs to make the world safe for alcoholism–led by the current religious nut alcoholic President.
Every day has been white collar crime day since this country was stolen from the Native Americans, but it seems to have gotten worse with a never ending march–resulting in a new # 1 growth industry: prisons.
Thus, we now know we suffer from the modern plague of spiritual emptiness. A capitalist faith that has deformed the human spirit.
All of this seems to be from some other hour, stolen from the clock of some other place. An echo calls out to Frank from across time-demanding justice now! He’s fully aware that when it’s 12 noon in Washington, D.C. It’s still the year 1860 in the African American communities, that they are owed reparations for both slavery and segregation, that the biggest temples are the office work skyscrapers, that there are no cathedrals there because the true religion of today is money, that terrorism is the weapon of the poor & a surface symptom of disorder in civilization, that we still worship the golden calf–the system of capitalism is our golden calf.
Our poor have been trampled into the dust of the earth that is polluted by poisons. Our rulers have broken the everlasting covenants & made a new one with death.
Above all, beware of false prophets, the ones who have great power & speak for the wealthy who cheat the righteous for gold & starve the poor for pennies. No one needs to defend these words themselves. They are unassailable & they will never wear out. Thousands of years will not change them; time will not touch them. Life & death have been set before us–choose life! Vote for Frank Moore!
20 jan. 2008
corey, one of the 6 of us, works at the natural foods store around the corner. one of his co-workers, Tsering, goes to Vista community college, and has a speech class there, where the subject of who are you voting for for president came up the other day. He said that he told the class he was voting for Frank! Nobody knew who he was talking about … everyone seemed to be voting for Obama. He scoffed at them to Corey … they were ignorant … he told them that Frank is local … later, Corey gave him a small stack of platforms to give people …
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
last night we discovered that on the blog/forum of the k.c. chiefs, somebody has put up my whole platform and my campaign videos…and there is a heated discussion! it is surreal! of course most of the football jocks think i’m an idiot…they like big corporations, etc. but they actually read the platform and think! this is very effective…a virus reaching all sorts of people!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
From: Kevin Akin
To: Frank Moore
Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 7:34 AM
Subject: RE: a run-in with someone from the peace & freedom party
Frank,
I received an e-mail from Maureen Smith forwarding your message with the report from Corey and Alexi about running into someone in Berkeley. I am afraid that Norma Harrison may not have been remembering the SEC discussion clearly, so I thought I would pass along to you what the State Executive Committee actually discussed when your name came up late in the summer.
We are required to submit to the Secretary of State a list of people who are generally recognized as candidates for the Peace and Freedom Party nomination for president. We reviewed about 20 names, but found that about half were people who did not appear to have any significant support as candidates for our nomination. I think we spent about 3 minutes (more than average) on your candidacy. We thought your campaign sounded interesting, but we thought that you had no significant actual support within the party for our nomination, and that is the basis on which we decided not to list your name. We may have been wrong, but that is what we decided, and why.
I suspect that Norma is confusing you with another possible candidate we discussed, also from the Bay Area, who appears to be a right-wing gentleman of rather intense eccentricity and military background. He is the only one of whom several people said they really didn’t want him on a Peace and Freedom Party ballot.
There are 7 names on our ballot for president, as things ended up, and all but one have clearly significant support from members and at least some activists. (The other one, Stanley Hetz, is a former Senate candidate from Pennsylvania, who appeared at the time to have support, but no longer appears to have much.) It will be interesting to see the results, though the vote is only advisory. The actual nominees will be determined at the State Convention on the first weekend in August, by vote of all those who are elected in the June primary as members of the Central Committee.
I just wanted to assure you that the members of the Peace and Freedom Party State Executive Committee have absolutely nothing against you, in fact wish you well, but left your name off the list purely due to our assessment of actual support from P&F activists. That is what we are supposed to do, to pick those who have some support within the party, not to pick those we favor. (And those selected have sharply varying opinions on all sorts of issues.)
I wish I could say that I remember you from 1968, when I was active in Riverside in forming the party, and busy going to meetings when I wasn’t bird-dogging for registrars, but I am afraid that most of the faces from that period have grown dim in memory. I was a young guy with a rather wispy beard, but that will not distinguish me in your memory from all the other young guys with wispy beards. I do remember lots of meetings with folks from San Bernardino next door, but I don’t remember as much about them as I would like.
With best wishes for you and your campaign, Kevin Akin, South State Chair, Peace and Freedom Party
Frank Moore wrote:
thanks for writing, kevin. it was probably for the best. i have more freedom this way. i have been busy the last couple of weeks….giving a campaign speech in a cafe, writing an article for a british magazine about my campaign, having a swedish tv crew shooting a story about me…and now german radio wants do a story! it is quite overwhelming the response we are getting. but it would have been fun to run for my party.
i want to invite whomever your candidate turns out to be to be on my internet/cable tv show to discuss the issues.
i was the guy in the wheelchair with a head pointer. i went to san bernardino valley j.c., then state. funny, today my philosophy professor from valley emailed me, discovering me on the web!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
Dorothy Jesse Beagle wrote:
How forgettable are you? And could you really be mixed up with an old RIGHT WING” gentleman of rather intense eccentricity and military background”
and was it really just a mish-mash of ‘platforms’ with none standing out???? Well, it’s his/their loss – with them you would be nithing but a PEACE AND FREEDOM candidate and without them you are sought so far by four countries of the world and NUMEROUS outstanding sites and publications of this country, as an OUTSTANDING candidate.
bUT OH WELL, how graciously you answered!!!!!!
Jesse