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Oral History Program Jeane Barker Morton Interviewed by Marci Farr 13 September 2010 Oral History Program Weber State University Stewart Library Ogden, Utah Jeane Barker Morton Interviewed by Marci Farr 13 September 2010 Copyright © 2010 by Weber State University, Stewart Library Mission Statement The Oral History Program of the Stewart Library was created to preserve the institutional history of Weber State University and the Davis, Ogden and Weber County communities. By conducting carefully researched, recorded, and transcribed interviews, the Oral History Program creates archival oral histories intended for the widest possible use. Interviews are conducted with the goal of eliciting from each participant a full and accurate account of events. The interviews are transcribed, edited for accuracy and clarity, and reviewed by the interviewees (as available), who are encouraged to augment or correct their spoken words. The reviewed and corrected transcripts are indexed, printed, and bound with photographs and illustrative materials as available. Archival copies are placed in Special Collections. The Stewart Library also houses the original recording so researchers can gain a sense of the interviewee's voice and intonations. Project Description The St. Benedict's School of Nursing was founded in 1947 by the Sisters of Mount Benedict. The school operated from April 1947 to 1968. Over the forty-one year period, the school had 605 students and 357 graduates. In 1966, the program became the basis for Weber State College's Practical Nursing Program. This oral history project was created to capture the memories of the graduates and to add to the history of nursing education in Ogden. The interviews focus on their training, religion, and experiences working with doctors, nurses, nuns, and patients at St. Benedict's Hospital. This project received funding from the Utah Humanities Council and the Utah Division of State History. ____________________________________ Oral history is a method of collecting historical information through recorded interviews between a narrator with firsthand knowledge of historically significant events and a well-informed interviewer, with the goal of preserving substantive additions to the historical record. Because it is primary material, oral history is not intended to present the final, verified, or complete narrative of events. It is a spoken account. It reflects personal opinion offered by the interviewee in response to questioning, and as such it is partisan, deeply involved, and irreplaceable. ____________________________________ Rights Management Special Collections All literary rights in the manuscript, including the right to publish, are reserved to the Stewart Library of Weber State University. No part of the manuscript may be published without the written permission of the University Librarian. Requests for permission to publish should be addressed to the Administration Office, Stewart Library, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah, 84408. The request should include identification of the specific item and identification of the user. It is recommended that this oral history be cited as follows: Jeane Barker Morton, an oral history by Marci Farr, 13 September 2010, WSU Stewart Library Oral History Program, Special Collections, Stewart Library, Weber State University, Ogden, UT. iii Jeane Barker Morton Instructor 1948-1957 Photograph taken in 1951 Jeane Barker Morton September 13, 2010 1 Abstract: This is an oral history interview with Jeane Barker Morton, conducted by Marci Farr and Sarah Langsdon, on September 13, 2010. In this interview, Jeane discusses her recollections and experiences with the St. Benedict's School of Nursing. MF: This is Marci Farr. We're interviewing Jeane Morton; she was an instructor of nursing at St. Benedict's School of Nursing. She taught there from 1948 to 1957. Tell us just a little bit about your early life; where you grew up, about your family, and where you attended school. JM: I am a native of Ogden. I was born in Logan, but I grew up here and went to school, graduated from Ogden High. I worked for a physician for about a year and a half and decided I needed to become a nurse. I had always wanted to go to Boston, so I thought, well, I can combine the two. So I went to Massachusetts General Hospital school of nursing in Boston, and as I finished there, they gave me an opportunity to be an assistant instructor. So my last three months of my training were as a nursing instructor, and then they asked me to stay on for a year, and it's a very prestigious school, so of course I was very happy to do that. It turned out to be a good move, because that kind of was an entrée to when I came to Ogden and Sister Mary Margaret said, "You've got to come help us with the school." That's how I became affiliated with St. Benedict's. MF: I was wondering how that all worked out. JM: That's it. 2 MF: Tell us a little bit about some challenges you faced when you first started teaching at St. Benedict's. JM: Well, the thing was, it was a new school, and there was no curriculum. The only thing we had was a really nice nursing arts lab, which was in the downstairs of the nursing residence. We were able to buy equipment to make it simulate the patients' unit, only there were six of them, so we could have nursing labs and the students could use each other as patients and practice their skills there before we took them over to the hospital with their real patients. The main thing was developing the curriculum and all of the lectures and the quizzes and evaluations and everything that you have to use. MF: That would be a challenge, to have to make sure it would work, and to figure out if that's going to be effective or not. JM: Of course, that was before the National League for Nursing accredited schools, but as soon as they started to do that, it was very important that you meet the requirements for accreditation. So that was our goal, and we did achieve that. So for a small place starting up, it was really quite successful. MF: That is a good thing. How was your relationship with the sisters? Did you teach with them? JM: Well, Sister Estelle Nordick was the person who did the sciences. So she was responsible for anatomy and physiology, then I did the nursing application. So my area was the nursing, and hers was the science. MF: So that's how that worked. That's good. What did you enjoy the most about teaching? 3 JM: It was always gratifying to see some of these kids – in fact, one who later became an instructor of nursing didn't even know how to hold a cloth to damp dust the unit, you know, and her mother came up every night to put her hair up for her, and then to see her become an accomplished nurse was very gratifying. The kids were always really eager to learn, and that makes it fun. MF: Did you have any interactions with the students other than when you were teaching them? Did you live at home? JM: They lived in the nursing home, and I had a separate place. Well, I was there a lot, but not at night. I'd come – we'd usually start out about seven in the morning, and then a lot of the physicians helped us with some of the classes. For instance, in med surg we'd invite some of the doctors who specialized in certain areas to come and teach, and of course they could only teach in the evening, so sometimes days were from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. MF: Long hours. You taught the nursing arts – tell us a little about that, what were some of the things you taught? JM: The nursing arts includes all the nursing procedures. Now, nursing has changed a lot over the years. Now we have a lot of drugs to take care of some of the infections that we used to deal with for a long time. So in the early days, we did things like hot packs and flaxseed poultices and things that you would never hear about now. Now the focus is on the medications and record-keeping because of our litigious society and all. In the early days, it was mostly procedures of comfort and treating infections and pain with nursing measures rather than medications. 4 MF: You taught them how to take care of the patient: go in there and make sure they're okay, assess their situation. JM: We gave bed baths, we changed beds with patients in them; you know, we started out with those fundamental things and then went on to learn how to give injections and all that. MF: That would be a challenge, but it would be good as far as seeing those students be able to excel. Do you have any memories of a patient with a student nurse, or any patients that you cared for? JM: Oh, I just remember one little girl who was so frightened to give an injection, the first time I went in, and I was helping her. We had the arm prepped, and this water kept falling. I thought, what is going on? I looked up, and she was so scared she was just crying. The tears were dripping down, but she gave it and was successful. Then I remember some Native Americans who had been in an accident and came in – I don't think they'd ever washed their hair. One of the students and I started in the morning about eight o'clock, and about four o'clock in the afternoon we got their hair washed and combed. All that time working on it with the patient in bed. MF: That would be a challenge. But as far as your students being able to learn about those different skills, absolutely important. Did you enjoy working at St. Benedict's? JM: Oh, yes. MF: What was your relationship with the sisters? Did you get along well with them? 5 JM: I got along very well with them. You know, each one had her idiosyncrasies, and we kind of chuckled about them among ourselves, but they really aren't any different from us, except that their life is very restricted as far as getting out and all. I think they try not to show the more disagreeable side of human nature, but I think they all have it. MF: Sometimes it comes out. JM: Yes. MF: What do you think was your greatest challenge while you were teaching? The students not understanding, or the long hours, what do you think was the students' greatest challenge while you were teaching them? JM: I think while we tried to be quite selective, I think a lot of the kids were in over their heads. They didn't have the background to learn what they needed to do, so trying to help them make up for some of their deficiencies was always a problem. I was always amazed that some of them – being high school graduates – couldn't even write a sentence. But I guess that's true today too, from what I hear. MF: Nothing's changed, has it? SL: How involved were you in the selection process for the students? MF: They had to be a graduate of an accredited high school, and then we gave them an IQ test, which was a short one, and it was one that we could administer, we didn't have the funds to have a psychologist do it all. We did pretty well, but recruiting nurses was not always easy, so sometimes we took students that were borderline to start with, and it was really hard for them. Then, as the school got better established, we used the Minnesota Multi-Phasic Personality Test, but that 6 was with the help of a psychologist. That helped us weed out people that were really misfits from the word go. So it got better. But again, some were really motivated, and some were just doing it until something better came along. So it kind of depended on the student. I'm sure they're not much different from the ones you get today. MF: Probably not. Do you want to tell us just a little bit about your nursing career? Tell us a little about where you started out. JM: As I said, I graduated from Massachusetts General, and then went there for a year to teach, then came back to St. Benedict's. Then I married and moved away, and I had my family and took time out to raise them. Then, when the kids were in college, I went back over to the hospital and they needed somebody in continuing education. So I worked again for another ten years with the education department, and at this point I was mostly orienting new help and also if we had new procedures, new equipment, things like that, showing them how to use it. So my strength, I guess, has been in the education. MF: Did you ever think you would end up teaching nursing, or did it just kind of happen? JM: Well, I really wanted to be a Latin teacher, but I didn't have enough money to go to college. So I knew that if I went to nursing school, it's kind of like a working scholarship. You get your room and board. So I think I've always been interested in teaching, but didn't know it until I had a chance to do it. MF: That's good; so you wouldn't have probably traded that for anything else? JM: Well, I enjoyed it. 7 MF: There was a lady from the Dee School that went to Massachusetts General; that's where she got her… JM: Oh yeah, that's – in fact, she was an instructor for my sister, who is a graduate of the Dee School. MF: Who's your sister? JM: Well, she was Ruth Barker Blakely. She's been gone now about ten years or so. MF: So, Rhoda Miner? JM: That's the one. In fact, that's where – I thought her cap was cute. If you want to know the truth, that's why I became interested in Mass General. MF: Because of her cap. That's what everybody talked about in the Dee Nurses that knew her, said that's the thing they loved. JM: Plus, I think she was a very good instructor, from what I hear. MF: Yes, very much. That is so interesting. Do you remember, while you were an instructor, do you remember any traditions the school had? JM: The students all had to live in the nurses' dorm, so there were a lot of restrictions. But for holidays and different things they always had parties and out back of the nursing home in the summer, nice picnics and barbecues and things of that sort. Then at Christmas, they always had a Santa Claus come and do the usual gift-giving and stuff like that. MF: Were you ever involved in graduation? You were involved in the capping ceremony, so maybe tell us a little about that. JM: Well, the capping ceremonies were usually done there in the nursing residence. Then, with graduation, the girls – in their uniform and all – would march down to 8 the church, and they always had them at St. Joseph's church there on 24th and – I guess it's Adam's, isn't it? MF: Yes, I think so. JM: Then parade down the street and have the ceremony there. MF: That was probably a great ceremony. JM: You know, everybody was thrilled to have finished and accomplished their goal, and the parents were all so proud. It was a nice festivity. SL: Do you have any stories that sort of stick out in your mind from when you were teaching the girls? What sort of trouble they got into? JM: I know one of the things that caught me short was, they had the nursing lab and they knew what their assignment for the next day would be. So I encouraged them to practice, so that when they did their return demonstration they did a nice job. I had to go to do something one evening, and walked into the nursing lab, and as I walked in, this one girl had her back to the door; she was going on, and I thought, what is she doing? They were all laughing at her. Of course, she was mimicking me. The girls who looked at me, saw me come in, tried to cut it, but she didn't catch on. Then when she turned around and saw me standing there, she was just mortified, but we all had a good laugh, so it was all right. MF: That's great. So when did you retire? JM: Let's see. When did I retire? It was in '79, but then my husband's a physician, so I then went to work at his office with him, to help him retire. So I had to help close out the office there and all that stuff. Then off and on I still get involved in a lot of things. Probably the most involved volunteer thing I've done is – do you 9 remember when they had the swine flu epidemic and we had to give swine flu injections to the whole community? Well, I had to get all the nurses lined up who volunteered to give all those injections. So that's probably the biggest volunteer job that I've done. But you know, nurses are really good – if you ask them to do something, they'll say, "Yeah, we'll do it." MF: Absolutely. So do you volunteer any more other than that? Do you do any other volunteer work? JM: Well, I've served on the board for Birth Right and a few organizations like that, but I don't do any actual nursing. I still am on the board for Institutional Review at Ogden Regional; that's for any research they do at the hospital. I guess I've pretty much closed down on things as to that. MF: Thank you, Jeane, for letting us come visit with you today.
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In this book we have an account of Eli, and the wickedness of his sons; also of Samuel, his character and actions. Then of the advancement of Saul to be the king of Israel, and his ill behaviour, until his death made way for David's succession to the throne, who was an eminent type of Christ. David's patience, modesty, constancy, persecution by open enemies and feigned friends, are a pattern and example to the church, and to every member of it. Many things in this book encourage the faith, hope, and patience of the suffering believer. It contains also many useful cautions and awful warnings.
Elkanah and his family. (1-8) Hannah's prayer. (9-18) Samuel, Hannah presents him to the Lord. (19-28)
Verses 1-8 Elkanah kept up his attendance at God's altar, notwithstanding the unhappy differences in his family. If the devotions of a family prevail not to put an end to its divisions, yet let not the divisions put a stop to the devotions. To abate our just love to any relation for the sake of any infirmity which they cannot help, and which is their affliction, is to make God's providence quarrel with his precept, and very unkindly to add affliction to the afflicted. It is evidence of a base disposition, to delight in grieving those who are of a sorrowful spirit, and in putting those out of humour who are apt to fret and be uneasy. We ought to bear one another's burdens, not add to them. Hannah could not bear the provocation. Those who are of a fretful spirit, and are apt to lay provocations too much to heart, are enemies to themselves, and strip themselves of many comforts both of life and godliness. We ought to notice comforts, to keep us from grieving for crosses. We should look at that which is for us, as well as what is against us.
Verses 9-18 Hannah mingled tears with her prayers; she considered the mercy of our God, who knows the troubled soul. God gives us leave, in prayer, not only to ask good things in general, but to mention that special good thing we most need and desire. She spoke softly, none could hear her. Hereby she testified her belief of God's knowledge of the heart and its desires. Eli was high priest, and judge in Israel. It ill becomes us to be rash and hasty in censures of others, and to think people guilty of bad things while the matter is doubtful and unproved. Hannah did not retort the charge, and upbraid Eli with the wicked conduct of his own sons. When we are at any time unjustly censured, we have need to set a double watch before the door of our lips, that we do not return censure for censure. Hannah thought it enough to clear herself, and so must we. Eli was willing to acknowledge his mistake. Hannah went away with satisfaction of mind. She had herself by prayer committed her case to God, and Eli had prayed for her. Prayer is heart's ease to a gracious soul. Prayer will smooth the countenance; it should do so. None will long remain miserable, who use aright the privilege of going to the mercy-seat of a reconciled God in Christ Jesus.
Verses 19-28 Elkanah and his family had a journey before them, and a family of children to take with them, yet they would not move till they had worshipped God together. Prayer and provender do not hinder a journey. When men are in such haste to set out upon journeys, or to engage in business, that they have not time to worship God, they are likely to proceed without his presence and blessing. Hannah, though she felt a warm regard for the courts of God's house, begged to stay at home. God will have mercy, and not sacrifice. Those who are detained from public ordinances, by the nursing and tending of little children, may take comfort from this instance, and believe, that if they do that duty in a right spirit, God will graciously accept them therein. Hannah presented her child to the Lord with a grateful acknowledgment of his goodness in answer to prayer. Whatever we give to God, it is what we have first asked and received from him. All our gifts to him were first his gifts to us. The child Samuel early showed true piety. Little children should be taught to worship God when very young. Their parents should teach them in it, bring them to it, and put them on doing it as well as they can; God will graciously accept them, and will teach them to do better.
1 Samuel 1:1-8 . OF ELKANAH AND HIS TWO WIVES.
1, 2. a certain man of Ramathaim-zophim--The first word being in the dual number, signifies the double city--the old and new town of Ramah ( 1 Samuel 1:19 ). There were five cities of this name, all on high ground. This city had the addition of Zophim attached to it, because it was founded by Zuph, "an Ephrathite," that is a native of Ephratha. Beth-lehem, and the expression "of Ramathaim-zophim" must, therefore, be understood as Ramah in the land of Zuph in the hill country of Ephratha. Others, considering "mount Ephraim" as pointing to the locality in Joseph's territory, regard "Zophim" not as a proper but a common noun, signifying watchtowers, or watchmen, with reference either to the height of its situation, or its being the residence of prophets who were watchmen ( Ezekiel 3:17 ). Though a native of Ephratha or Beth-lehem-judah, Elkanah was a Levite ( 1 Chronicles 6:33 1 Chronicles 6:34 ). Though of this order, and a good man, he practised polygamy. This was contrary to the original law, but it seems to have been prevalent among the Hebrews in those days, when there was no king in Israel, and every man did what seemed right in his own eyes [ Judges 21:25 ].
3. this man went up out of his city yearly to worship in Shiloh--In that place was the "earth's one sanctuary," and thither he repaired at the three solemn feasts, accompanied by his family at one of them--probably the passover. Although a Levite, he could not personally offer a sacrifice--that was exclusively the office of the priests; and his piety in maintaining a regular attendance on the divine ordinances is the more worthy of notice because the character of the two priests who administered them was notoriously bad. But doubtless he believed, and acted on the belief, that the ordinances were "effectual means of salvation, not from any virtue in them, or in those who administered them, but from the grace of God being communicated through them."
4. when . . . Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah . . . portions--The offerer received back the greater part of the peace offerings, which he and his family or friends were accustomed to eat at a social feast Elkanah gave portions to all the members of his family; but "unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion"; that is, a larger choice, according to the Eastern fashion of showing regard to beloved or distinguished
6. her adversary also provoked her sore--The conduct of Peninnah was most unbecoming. But domestic broils in the houses of polygamists are of frequent occurrence, and the most fruitful cause of them has always been jealousy of the husband's superior affection, as in this case of Hannah.
1 Samuel 1:9-18 . HANNAH'S PRAYER.
11. she prayed . . . she vowed a vow--Here is a specimen of the intense desire that reigned in the bosoms of the Hebrew women for children. This was the burden of Hannah's prayer; and the strong preference she expressed for a male child originated in her purpose of dedicating him to the tabernacle service. The circumstance of his birth bound him to this; but his residence within the precincts of the sanctuary would have to commence at an earlier age than usual, in consequence of the Nazarite vow.
12-18. Eli marked her mouth--The suspicion of the aged priest seems to indicate that the vice of intemperance was neither uncommon nor confined to one sex in those times of disorder. This mistaken impression was immediately removed, and, in the words, "God grant," or rather, "will grant," was followed by an invocation which, as Hannah regarded it in the light of a prophecy pointing to the accomplishment of her earnest desire, dispelled her sadness, and filled her with confident hope ( 1 Samuel 1:18 ). The character and services of the expected child were sufficiently important to make his birth a fit subject for prophecy.
1 Samuel 1:20 . SAMUEL BORN.
20. called his name Samuel--doubtless with her husband's consent. The names of children were given sometimes by the fathers, and sometimes by the mothers (see Genesis 4:1 Genesis 4:26 , 5:29 , 19:37 , 21:3 ); and among the early Hebrews, they were commonly compound names, one part including the name of God.
21. the man Elkanah . . . went up to offer . . . his vow--The solemn expression of his concurrence in Hannah's vow was necessary to make it
22. But Hannah went not up--Men only were obliged to attend the solemn feasts ( Exodus 23:17 ). But Hannah, like other pious women, was in the habit of going, only she deemed it more prudent and becoming to defer her next journey till her son's age would enable her to fulfill her vow.
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Today I had an interesting conversation about government health care in America. I appreciate people who have good points and interesting arguments, but unfortunately I haven't found that so far.
Then lets find you some.
I know very little about this, what is actually being proposed? What are the intelligent arguments for it? What are the intelligent arguments against it?
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The law is set up in such a way that health insurance companies can pretty much run over whatever and whoever they like. The government already interferes in health care; it just interferes on the side of the rich, for whom it's a very socialist system. ^_^;
A lot of the problem with the American healthcare service is you've got this sort of half and half child. On the one hand you have insurance companies and hospitals relatively free to stick the prices into the stratosphere. On the other hand the parts of your healthcare system that are more socialised have to fit into the economic, social, and legal, model which pertains to those systems - which is why it's so expensive to do socialised medicine at the moment.
Per capita the US actually spends
much more
than others
and yet achieves far lower levels of social healthcare. A lot of the reason for this stems from lobying by insurance companies and that's not a problem that's just going to up and vanish.
Private healthcare depends upon treating you.
Which is why it produces among the poorest qualities of care in the developed world. (Repeat of BMJ article)
If they just help you then that's the end of the customer. If on the other hand they help you just enough, string out the diagnosis for a really long time, give you drugs that are just good enough to keep you ticking over - then they can make a lot more money off you. Which is of course what having a privatised system is all about.
It's actually better for a private company to employ mediocre doctors, who'll mess things up and give you a long course of drugs to treat the symptoms, than it is for them to employ excellent doctors who'll solve the thing.
The US healthcare system requires a massive overhaul regardless of whether you ultimately go public or continue to be pseudo-private.
I think even if you did fix it though someone would break it again. If you do it in the US you have to fix the government. Not make it perfect, all governments are going to be somewhat corrupt by their very nature, but get some of the big business out.
Socialised or privatised unless you fix the rot it's not going to work.
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Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 11:05 am
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Something to consider, too, is that a huge amount of people who can't afford health insurance do one of two things.
1) They ignore early symptoms of diseases because they can't go to a primary health care provider. These symptoms become worse and worse until they are in the later stages of a sometimes fatal disease. Early prevention could have saved them, and they usually end up having to spend copious amounts of money on a late treatment.
2) They use the ER as their primary heath care provider. Basically this means that when you go to your physician for something to take care of a cold or the flu, they'll go to the ER because they can't afford anything else. This takes up valuable space from people who ACTUALLY need the ER (people with cardiac arrest, strokes, horribly maimed, etc.) and wastes taxpayer dollars treating these non-emergency symptoms or diseases.
Government health care wouldn't really infringe on private health care insurance, to my knowledge. What they're proposing is insurance that would basically treat life-threatening diseases--no more. If your quality of life or your actual life is threatened, they'll take care of it. It wouldn't treat something like the cold or flu, but it could help pay for the cost of the trip to the physician. Women who felt a lump in their breast wouldn't be afraid of going to the doctor because it would cost tons of money--they'd be afraid of the possible cancer and get treatment immediately. Private health care insurance would still treat people for everything they're treating now; they probably wouldn't lose customers because they have a much more extensive coverage than anything the government proposes or could pay for.
And there are more reasons for governmental health care--I can't think of them now, but I've talked a good, long time with my friends in health care.
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Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 11:59 am
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There was a recent scandal in Colorado in which a couple's four-month-old infant was refused health insurance, on the grounds that he was too fat.
If you look at the picture in that article, he's a big kid, but he doesn't look overweight or anything. And anyway, he's
four months old
. Good grief.
After it got widely publicized, the insurance company announced that they had found "flaw in [their] underwriting system" and would henceforth cover even chunky infants. Why yes, there is a flaw in that underwriting system -- which is that it's run by a bunch of soulless cretins who use human suffering to make money.
Profit-based health care is a nightmare. As Maeniel pointed out, it leads to people ignoring their illnesses until they become acute, untreatable crises.
It also has the effect of spreading disease. When you're sick -- say, with flu, or a nasty cold -- the responsible thing to do is stay home, both to care for yourself and to avoid spreading the sickness to your co-workers. But in some jobs, especially those on the lower end of the wage scale, missing work is a good way to get fired. And if you get fired, you lose your health insurance. And once you've lost your health insurance, it's really hard to get it back, because any new insurer is going to go through your record with a fine-tooth comb to find "pre-existing conditions" so that they don't have to insure you. Therefore, many workers have to go to work regardless of how sick they might be, which spreads the disease further.
Essentially, we have to remove the profit motive from health insurance. High profits and good care are mutually exclusive, and the health insurance industry has amply demonstrated that it will choose profits over people
every time
I am crossing my fingers (and signing petitions, and calling my senators) in hope of getting a health bill through with a strong public option. Meaning, to be precise, a government-run health plan with the following attributes:
1) Run on a non-profit basis. In the event that it actually turns a profit after expenses are met, any profits to be plowed into improvements to health infrastructure like new equipment etc, or maybe funding medical research.
2) Possessing authority to bargain with drug manufacturers and other medical suppliers for bulk discounts.
3) No nonsense about pre-existing conditions.
4) Available universally, in all markets, so that private insurers have to actually compete. (In most regions of the U.S. there is only 1 dominant health insurer, so the sacred market-based competition that Republicans jaw on about doesn't actually function.)
5) Enrollment in the program should be
, so that we don't automatically put the entire health insurance out of a job.
I'd really prefer a single-payer system like Britain's or Canada's, but there's no way it would actually make it through Congress at this point in time. Too many conservative-leaning Democrats, and of course the Republicans are uniformly against health care reform of any kind, with the exception of Olympia Snowe.
I've heard talk that in order to actually get a bill with a strong public option through the Senate, they're thinking of
making it possible for state legislatures to opt out of the system
, meaning that the state could vote to prevent the public option from operating in that state.
I would favor such a compromise, because the chances are slim that more than 2 or 3 states would actually turn it down. State legislators have much smaller districts than national legislators, and tend to stay in closer touch with them. I, for one, would NOT want to be in the position of explaining to my constituents why I voted in favor of the health insurance companies, who are more or less universally reviled.
Lastly, there are comparatively few members of the general public who think that health care reform is a bad idea. Even the public option, the most controversial aspect of the bill,
enjoys widespread support
So - here's hoping that we can finally get a sane health care system started!
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Tinalles wrote:
There was a recent scandal in Colorado in which a couple's four-month-old infant was refused health insurance, on the grounds that he was too fat.
If you look at the picture in that article, he's a big kid, but he doesn't look overweight or anything. And anyway, he's
four months old
. Good grief.
These have some language... they are comedy central.
Jon stewart talks about this such case and health care reform
Stephen colbert also talks about it, but not as much as jon... then goes on to talk about obesity in america.
I can't remember....oh *le sigh*
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Noah Foods on the 4900 block of West Augusta Boulevard in Chicago, Ill., on Friday, December 28, 2012. A 40-year-old man was shot dead Thursday outside of the store. | Andrew A. Nelles~Sun-Times Media
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Nathaniel T. Jackson had been shot before — and lived to tell the tale.
But as a shooting survivor only a few months out of prison, the career criminal and reputed gang member had long been at increased risk of becoming a statistic.
Outside a West Side convenience store Thursday night, he became a particularly grisly one — Chicago's 500th homicide victim of the year.
The milestone marked the first time since 2008 that the city has seen at least 500 homicides — and only the second time since 2003. With less than a week left until the new year, it left Chicago's per capita homicide rate at more than double that of Los Angeles and more than three times New York's.
Police Supt. Garry McCarthy and Mayor Rahm Emanuel all year have both fought back against criticism about the increased murder and shooting numbers.
But Jackson's family didn't need a bar chart to tell them that the 40-year-old grandfather they knew as "Tiger" was at risk.
"Stay off these street corners — don't be standing out here unless you want to go back to jail," Jackson's sister, Veronica Crowder, says she recently warned her younger sibling.
Crowder said she hadn't realized Jackson was out of prison until she ran into him at a bus stop a month ago. But her brother reassured her, saying he'd been doing temp work as a packer and that he was looking for more permanent work.
"He said, 'Hey Sis, how you been?'" Crowder tearfully recalled Friday morning, hours after police found Jackson shot multiple times on an Austin sidewalk at the corner of Augusta and Lamon. "He had a daughter and a grandson — he was a nice guy."
A lengthy rap sheet tells a different story, showing that Jackson was repeatedly convicted for domestic battery and had been in and out of prison for gun and robbery offenses for most of his adult life. Last sentenced to 12 years for a robbery conviction in 2007, he got out this summer and most recently had been living in the 4700 block of West Armitage, a couple of miles from the spot he was gunned down.
Despite several stretches behind bars, Jackson "tried to be a good father when he was around," said close friend Canzetta Jackson.
Raised in the Henry Horner Homes housing projects, Nathaniel Jackson grew up around alcoholics and was soon "conditioned into a bad way of life," despite efforts by friends and relatives to "drag him into church," she said, adding that she hoped Jackson's slaying would "convince at least one person out there to open their eyes make a change."
"At 40, you should know what your path in life is, but too many people are lost," Canzetta Jackson said.
As detectives Friday investigated the murder without making any arrests, McCarthy described the 500 homicides as "a tragic number."
But in a statement released by his office, the superintendent noted the overall drop in crime this year and claimed that his new gang crime strategy has turned the corner on shootings and murders, too.
The department "has put the right people in the right places to accomplish our long-term goal," he said, claiming "drastic reductions in shootings and homicides that spiked early in the year," during an unusually mild winter.
"Shootings, which were at 40 percent increase in the first quarter, are at 11 percent year to date," McCarthy said. "Murders, which were at 66 percent increase in the first quarter, have been reduced to 15 percent in the fourth quarter — and although it results in an overall increase, it represents great progress."
The department had earlier Friday released a statement disputing that Jackson was the 500th homicide victim, citing the pending autopsy results in an unrelated suspected murder — a position it quickly backtracked from as the 500 figure was reported on national TV news.
Though the number represents a big jump over last year's 435 homicides, and the homicide rate of 18 homicides per 100,000 residents dwarfs the equivalent figures of five in New York and eight in Los Angeles, 500 homicides remains well below the historical average over the last half-century.
Chicago's homicide total — which got close to 1,000 in the early 1990s — fell below 500 just seven times since 1967, all of them within the last decade.
But hard numbers are cold comfort to friends and family of Nathaniel Jackson and the other 499 victims of 2012.
Noting that President Barack Obama has spoken out about gun violence since the Sandy Hook massacre, Canzetta Jackson said, "There are so many moments to cry about it, but he should be on TV every day, saying we should stop gun violence. Chicago is it, right now — and who wants to live like that?"


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The political coalition loyal to anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr
objected to any American presence.
"From the first meeting as a Sadrist Trend we showed our absolute
rejection to keeping of the forces whether it is as trainers or others,
whether it is with immunity or without immunity, and this rejection is
fixed forever," said Sadrist Bahaa al-Araji.
A U.S. Embassy official speaking on condition of anonymity due to the
sensitivity of the situation said the embassy was "reviewing the
The official said the embassy would "talk with leaders on what this means
Iraqi political leaders have been wrestling for months with whether to ask
some American forces to stay past their Dec. 31 departure date. There are
currently about 43,500 American troops in the country. Under a 2008
security agreement, all are required to leave by the end of this year.
Privately, Iraqi and American leaders acknowledge that Iraqis still need
help with certain tasks such as defending their borders and airspace. But
publicly, most Iraqi leaders except for the Kurds have tried to distance
themselves from any request for American help since it is an unpopular
stand in a country that has gone through nearly nine years of warfare.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who attended the meeting, has been
adamant that he would only support having an American military presence in
the country into next year if he had the support of a wide swath of the
Iraqi political community, indicating the risk to his standing should he
try to pursue the issue alone.
Iraqi leaders announced back in August that they were opening talks with
the United States on having some sort of training presence in the country
past this year. But there has been little traction since then as the U.S.
military continues to draw down its forces.
Shawez did not mention in his statement how many trainers might be needed,
for how long they would stay or what they would do. Government spokesman
Ali al-Dabbagh said the number of trainers would be decided according to
Iraqi needs.
The Obama administration is considering 3,000 to 5,000 troops for an Iraqi
training mission, according to officials in Washington familiar with the
discussions. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not
authorized to release the information.
On 10/4/11 11:05 PM, Basima Sadeq wrote:
Rejection pf US forces extension - MP
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Al-Hal (Solution) political bloc announced its
rejection to the extension of U.S.
forces in Iraq.
MP Ziad al-Dharib, affiliate to Iraqiya bloc, said in press conference,
attended by Aswat al-Iraq, that "we reject the stay of U.S.
forces at any form".
He called upon the political entities, meeting today, to shoulder their
historical and national responsibilities in respecting Iraqi Will.
He disclosed that a new formation shall be made under the name
(Parliamentarians against Occupation).
According to the agreement with the United States, the U.S.
forces should withdraw from the country by the end of this year, but
there are American circles wish to stay after 2011, while many Iraqi
political blocs did not expose their opinions despite the talks that
greater of these blocs support the stay of US forces till the completion
of Iraqi forces preparedness, which means additional few years.
Clint Richards
Global Monitor
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Barns at Sunset
30 comments:
- Ryan said...
"YOU can work MAGIC, too!" I seriously doubt it Jill, maybe my son can show me how to use Photoshop.
Your barn shots are fantastic, just be careful while you're racing around in your car screeching to halts. I know Tricia will love your montage. - July 23, 2011 at 10:54 AM
- Tricia ♥Charming Barn Hunter♥ said...
Ryan is absolutely positively correct! I love these! They're GORGEOUS!!! =)
I open Barn Charm on Monday evening around 6pm & I usually close it on Wed morning, but some have asked me to keep it open a bit longer, so I'll probably start leaving it open through to Friday mornings... so either you can link it up then, or I can do it... it's up to you, I'm just glad you want to participate. Thank you so very much! =) - July 23, 2011 at 12:29 PM
- missing moments said...
Those are great shots! And yep, they should be in Tricia's Barn Charm!
- July 24, 2011 at 12:38 PM
- Pieces of Sunshine said...
You have some stunning images here! If ever I end up with PSE this is something I would definitely like to try.
- July 25, 2011 at 2:15 PM
- Tricia ♥Charming Barn Hunter♥ said...
I was just getting ready to link you up, but you beat me to it! LoL!
I sure wish I had Elements, BUT, I'm going to check out my editing program & maybe there's something similar where I can create some beauties, too!
Thank you so much for joining Barn Charm... absolutely beautiful shots! =) - July 25, 2011 at 4:36 PM
- TexWisGirl said...
those are gorgeous shots! came over from Tricia's spot to say hello! well worth visiting here! :)
- July 25, 2011 at 4:41 PM
- Lesley said...
these are amazing shots. I have resisted getting Photoshop, but you almost have me ready to bite the bullet and give it a try.
- July 25, 2011 at 5:02 PM
- Jill Wellington said...
Tricia, Elements is fairly inexpensive...I got it for about $70. Worth every penny.
Hi, Tex WisGirl, Pieces of sunshine, and Missing Moments...thanks for stopping by! I am meeting so many new friends through Tricia's site. I really love seeing others' lovely photography! - July 25, 2011 at 5:02 PM
- R. Roushey said...
Beautiful skies i your photos!
- July 25, 2011 at 5:43 PM
- Beth said...
These are amazing and the info is so helpful. I'm sitting here ooohhhing and ahhhing. Wonderful!
- July 25, 2011 at 7:18 PM
- Rose said...
Wow...great photos here. I really need to come back here and enjoy them at a leisurely rate. I don't know which I like best...
- July 25, 2011 at 8:40 PM
- Tanya said...
wow, beautiful shots! love what you did with them and that yellow sunlight through the window, amazing!!
- July 26, 2011 at 6:00 AM
- MarieElizabeth said...
These are awesome, I am so trying this soon!! Great patience paid off in beautiful sunsets.
- July 26, 2011 at 6:48 AM
- Ms. Becky said...
hello there, I'm stopping by on a barn charm tour, and I'm enthralled with your magic! love the first shot with the freshly plowed field - this time of year? that's curious. your photos are magical in themselves. that glow in the long white barn is fab. thanks for the tip about elements. I'm going to see if Elements 9 does the same trick! have a fun day.
- July 26, 2011 at 8:41 AM
- Karin M. said...
...wundervolle Aufnahmen...super...
LG: Karin - July 26, 2011 at 1:52 PM
- Ann Porteous said...
Love the barn at sunset! Gorgeous!
- July 26, 2011 at 2:08 PM
- Mari said...
These are just gorgeous! You've worked magic - don't know that I could!
- July 26, 2011 at 5:09 PM
- Tricia ♥Charming Barn Hunter♥ said...
It just dawned on me that that's the HDR process. I looked for a 'Merge all' command in my editing program, but haven't found it, however, I do have Photomatix & I can merge them in that program. I'm going to have to shoot some sunset pics & get to work experimenting w/ this!
Thanks so much for this info =) - July 26, 2011 at 7:20 PM
- Evelyn S. said...
Your photos are really 'magic'! Thanks for the tip about Merge, too. Beautiful sunrise barn photos; I should get myself out of bed early and try it!
- July 26, 2011 at 7:59 PM
- Jill Wellington said...
Thanks, everyone! I can't wait to see what everyone does with exposure merge. The trick is to shoot on tripod and NOT move the camera.The photos must match up perfectly. Best to use a 2-sec. time delay so you don't move the camera. I am loving all the blogs I am finding through Tricia's blog!
- July 27, 2011 at 5:23 AM
- Judy said...
Oh my goodness, I think I like them all.
- July 27, 2011 at 5:55 AM
- Jacob said...
Great work, Jill...I'm impressed! You can also get both sky and land exposed properly with a filter...but whatever works.
I've got Elements 8, so maybe I'll give Photomerge a try. Some of the final pictures look very much like a HDR effect.
I like them all! - July 27, 2011 at 7:09 AM
- Tricia ♥Charming Barn Hunter♥ said...
Hi Jill,
I'm so glad you like Barn Charm... There's been more participants this week than ever before & I've had Barn Charm open for almost a year, now, so that's quite exciting! =)
I had to do this myself just now to make sure it would work, but go to the 'Layout' page & click on 'Add a Gadget', then paste the code in the window that opens & from there you can place it where you want it on your blog, just drag & drop it in the Layout window. Does that help? Is that what you was asking? If not, just holler back & let me know... I'll help in any way I can! =) - July 27, 2011 at 7:38 AM
- Lee said...
Absolutely great. WOW
- July 27, 2011 at 8:07 AM
- don said...
A fine "barn" series. I like your technique which gives you an exceptionally wide range of tones. Very well done.
- July 27, 2011 at 8:47 AM
- JayLeigh said...
Oh, these pictures are wonderful! That's amazing how you merged the pics to come up with one where you can clearly see both the barn and the beautiful colors of the sunset!
- July 27, 2011 at 9:05 AM
- Debbie said...
wow....wow, WOW, gorgeous shots. thanks so much for visiting me and the super kind comment!!!
- July 27, 2011 at 8:56 PM
Wow great pictures, that really is amazing and welcome to Barn Charm! Looks like we will learn lots of things from you. Thanks for helping us to learn :)
gigi - July 28, 2011 at 6:15 PM
- Carole said...
Lovely barn shots. :-)
NoteworthyMusings - July 31, 2011 at 12:03 PM
- janeofwisconsin said...
Wow! Magic software indeed. There are lots of cool barns in Wisconsin, an overwhelming amount. But I like the idea of barns at sunset. Something to consider.
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