CNN'S Paul Begala Brings To The Forefront The Issue Of Rescission In Health Care!

There is a very serious issue with health care that has not received much attention in the media at all.But,thanks to Paul Begala,the practice of rescission is being brought to the forefront!

Rescission is used by insurance companies to deny ill patients the coverage they so desperately need!And that is unacceptable!

Here's an excerpt from Paul Begala's article on CNN.com:

"You probably have never heard of Robin Beaton, and that's what's wrong with the debate over health care reform.

Beaton, a retired nurse from Waxahachie, Texas, had health insurance -- or so she thought. She paid her premiums faithfully every month, but when she was diagnosed with aggressive breast cancer, her health insurance company, Blue Cross, dumped her.

The insurance company said the fact that she had seen a dermatologist for acne, who mistakenly entered a notation on her chart that suggested her simple acne was a precancerous condition, allowed Blue Cross to leave her in the lurch.

Beaton testified before a House subcommittee this week. So did other Americans who thought they had insurance but got the shaft. As Karen Tumulty of Time magazine (who has been the journalistic conscience of health care coverage) wrote, other witnesses included:

"Peggy Raddatz, whose brother Otto Raddatz lost his insurance coverage right before he was scheduled to receive an expensive stem-cell transplant to treat his lymphoma. Why? Because Fortis Insurance Company discovered his doctor had found gall stones and an aneurysm on a CT scan -- conditions that had nothing to do with his cancer, that never bothered him and that he wasn't even aware of. And Jennifer Wittney Horton of Los Angeles, California, whose coverage was canceled because she had been taking a drug for irregular menstruation. Now, she can't get coverage anywhere else. 'Since my rescission, I have had to take jobs that I do not want, and put my career goals on hold to ensure that I can find health insurance,' she told the subcommittee."(END OF EXCERPT)Read the rest here.

June 19 Is African-American Emancipation Day!!!!

June 19 is the day that people observe the end of slavery.Isn't it quite fitting that Congress would apologize for slavery the day before African-American Emancipation Day?

Here's more info from Juneteenth.com:

"Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States.

From its Galveston, Texas origin in 1865, the observance of June 19th as the African American Emancipation Day has spread across the United States and beyond.

Today Juneteenth commemorates African American freedom and emphasizes education and achievement."(END OF EXCERPT)Learn more about this day here.

John Barnes Is 100% Not The Missing Boy From 1955!

The man who is really the father of John Barnes said that his son was spreading "foolishness" when he claimed to be a missing boy from 1955!And it turns how that the amazing story that John Barnes told the world really was nothing but a work of his imagination.

You know,his story really did not sound credible to me.That is why I waited to see what the end result would be before I did a post on this guy.

Maybe all of this speculation was just an unemployed man's way of getting his hands on some dough.Too bad for him that it did not turn out to be true.Because he has pissed his real family off!

And it was all for naught.

Here's more from cbs4Denver:

"DNA testing confirmed that a 54-year-old Michigan man is not a toddler kidnapped in Long Island, N.Y., in 1955, the FBI said Thursday.

The FBI said testing showed John Barnes of Kalkaska, Mich., is not Stephen Damman, who disappeared at age 2 from outside an East Meadow bakery while his mother shopped.

"DNA samples analyzed by the FBI laboratory in Quantico, Virginia, show John Barnes and Pamela Damman Horne do not share the same mother," the FBI said in a statement, referring to the sister of Stephen Damman.

Barnes has said he has long suspected the couple who raised him are not his biological parents, and the FBI took his DNA sample. He said he began investigating his origins years ago and found photos on the Internet that led him to believe he could be Stephen, reports CBS station WCBS-TV in New York.

Barnes said pictures of the missing boy's mother when she was a young adult resembled what he looked like at the same age.

In Iowa, Stephen's father, Jerry Damman, said the news was disappointing.

"It's too bad we had to go through all of this for actually nothing in the end," he told The Associated Press.

Barnes said he was born the same year the boy disappeared, but that he only saw his birth certificate once.

Barnes' father, Richard Barnes, has called the speculation "a bunch of foolishness." He said John Barnes was born in a Navy hospital in Pensacola, Fla., on Aug. 18, 1955.

Police in Nassau County, N.Y., said a Michigan man contacted their office in the past few months saying he believed he was the missing toddler."(END OF EXCERPT)Read the rest here.

What a bunch of hokey!