Anybody know how to change picture captions on this new-fangled pleo?

I love that my pleo page has the word "AVATAR" on it...

TWENTY inches of snow, 417 Scrabble score, 6 days of rock band, one missing twin *ahem*, 3 hours of new Hindi movie, one table top dropped on my toe, 12 wild hot wings, 2 many games of Monopoly, and 13 hours of driving to get there....

If I could make just ONE change to our Congress, House, Presidency and Court system, it would be this: that they would have to live under the laws they make. You might say, "wait! They're under American law, too!" Au contraire, mon ami. They can exempt themselves from any law they like. Take, for example, oh....let's say.....the new healthcare mandate? Yup. Congress gets to keep their platinum insurance plan. Do Americans get to keep their current coverage if they want to? Not if it isn't "government approved"...

Are you serious?

Obama was asked on ABC Nightline if he would promise to limit his own family to what the "public option" provides. He would not. Why do you not trust your own public option, Mr. President? Because, as he himself said, if "it's my family member, if it's my wife, if it's my children, if it's my grandmother, I always want them to get the very best care." And that's not the public option? Because you keep saying it is.

Obama keeps referring to the public option as competition for the private health insurance agencies. Who can compete with an organization that is drawing money from premiums AND from taxpayers? By the way, when Obama says the public option can keep "administrative costs" down, this is how a public plan will do it: 1) by receiving funding in the form of tax dollars from citizens (who may not even be in the public option) and 2) by grossly underpaying doctors, hospitals, and PHARMACISTS.

And I suppose we now get to the part that really upsets me. I've seen the numbers for how Medicare (a government run "public option") reimburses practitioners. Let's just say if you didn't also have cash-paying or privately-insured patients, you wouldn't be able to stay in business--ESPECIALLY under the new health care plan, because reimbursement gets worse there.


I encourage pharmacists to reject government plans that do not adequately reimburse them for their services. Yes, it is still legal to do that--but maybe not for long. If individuals are mandated to have health insurance, pharmacists may soon be mandated to accept "government approved" health insurance as well.

Did you think we still live in a free market economy? Ha.