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Since the Dilly, Dally, Delay & Stall Law Firms are adding their billable hours, the Toyota U.S.A. and Route 44 Toyota posts have been separated here:

Route 44 Toyota Sold Me A Lemon



Thursday, March 13, 2014

....failure to treat 45,000 who die each year because they lack health insurance.

Is this something the GOP and Americans should be proud of?

....failure to treat 45,000 who die each year because they lack health insurance.
Today's news from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.):

Health Care: Experts from around the world told a Senate panel this week that health care systems in other countries outperform the United States’ complicated and expensive private system. Dr. Danielle Martin, a physician and health policy professor from Toronto, countered what the Los Angeles Times called Sen. Richard Burr’s “I-don't-need-no-stinkin'-facts approach to health policy.” The physician called out the American system’s failure to treat 45,000 who die each year because they lack health insurance. CIA Torture Cover-Up: Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Dianne Feinstein this week publicly accused the Central Intelligence Agency of interfering with a Senate investigation into Bush-era interrogation and detention practices. Sen. Sanders previously raised concerns about the National Security Agency's domestic spying activities in a January letter asking if the agency had ever spied on members of Congress, The Washington Post online, Fox Business News and the Italian newspaper il Fatto Mondo reported.

VA Budget: Lawmakers from both parties raised worries at a veterans’ committee hearing on Wednesday that the VA budget request may not be enough, particularly when the wind-down of the Afghanistan war is sending a growing influx of servicemen and women into the VA system, National Journal reported. “The VA anticipates seeing an increase of approximately 100,000 new patients in the coming year," said Sen. Sanders, the veterans’ panel chairman, said at a hearing on the budget request. “Is that enough money? It sounds to me like it's not.”

Banking on the Postal Service: Mark Dimondstein, president of the American Postal Workers Union, said Wednesday that Congress should allow the Postal Service to provide banking services to millions of Americans. “Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are pushing for that,” host Ed Schultz noted on MSNBC.

Continue reading today's news: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/newswatch/031314
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