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This might make some “moderate” heads explode around here:
To cut down on health costs, house the homeless. Look up Maslow’s Needs Hierarchy sometime. The basic principle is that needs higher up on the pyramid can’t be addressed until the base needs are met. Security and safety are low on the pyramid; so higher needs such as self-actualization (gainful employment, acquiring skills, citizenship) can’t be met until the basic needs are met first.
United Health, one of the largest health insurers, is saving lives and money by providing shelter to its neediest patients in Phoenix, Arizona. Closer to home, addicts and people in recovery stay sober and rehabilitate themselves by being sheltered in one of the many peer-run Oxford House sober living homes. This was essential to my own daughter’s recovery, after years of a downward spiral.
Some things really do take a village.
^^^^THIS^^^^
yes…and yes.
A useful read on the subject:
Utah Reduced Chronic Homelessless by 91%; Here’s How
I'm a moderate on this site and this does not blow my mind. What does blow my mind is the insanity of promoting candidates who support the $34 trillion Medicare for All which will hand Trump the election. What blows my mind are those who wanted to throw out VA Governor Ralph Northam and also his Dem Lt. Governor which would have prevented us from taking over the VA legislature and Governorship paving the way for real progressive action.
Tuesday's election once again proves that we need to promote candidates and ideas that won't turn off urban/suburban/exurban voters. These voters are poised to throw out Trump if given someone who is just plain reasonable. That means practically anyone other than Warren or Sanders.
Well said, itiduso.
As for "moderate heads exploding," why would anyone think that? I learned Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs either in late high school or college.
Oh, come on! A du mb ass skit by a college student 40 years ago is far more important than the chance to lead the former capital of the Confederacy into the 21st Century!
as to the po or, they will always be with us, so I am told.
itlduso
Not sure about numbers, but "permanent supportive housing" projects have been built in Colorado, through CHFA and local housing authorities, and I think the concept has legs plus maybe an OK level of financing opportunity. It totally makes sense that stable housing would not only be humane but would also have positive impacts on health, safety, need for emergency public services, and perhaps rates of incarceration. I'm a moderate Whig and permanent supportive housing has my support.
Wow, one of those big, nasty insurance companies has managed to pry itself away from its profiteering to do something about homelessness?
How is that possible? More importantly, how can we allow this when there is no doubt lots of government bureaucrats perfectly capable of doing the same?
It doesn't matter if the cat is black or white as long as it catches mice.
That’s a crock, kwtree.
Even the Ttump-reddest pfruity conservatives don’t have the slightest problem with, “it takes a village” . . .
. . . as long as it’s their village/church/gun range/gated community/yachting marina/country club/cooperative/compound/klavern/multi-national corporation . . .
. . . And, as long as it doesn’t cost them a single penny, personally.
It’s just the principal . . .
No reason for explosions. Denver Foundation and other organizations created an approach for private investment in housing, with the investors getting paid if those in the housing use fewer government resources. Pilot programs like that ought to appeal across the ideological spectrum.
Salt Lake City, hardly one of the most liberal locations in the country, has a "100 More Housed" initiative, integrating state and local government funds with private enterprise and nonprofits.
Gabbard has qualified for the November debate; Amy has qualified for the December debate.
Gabbard is now out there talking about a 9/11 conspiracy theory. She is becoming completely unmoored. I'm guessing the next move is to become a full-fledged anti-vaxxer followed by the presidential nomination of the Green Party and a photo op with Vladimir Putin and Michael Flynn.
OTOH, the more media coverage Gabbard gets, the more Pfruit gets aroused. Roger will need to bum the KY and some Kleenexes (preferably unused) from Moderatus.
I'm not sure Gabbard has ever been moored…
Tulsi Gabbard to Breitbart News: ‘We Do Not Have a Nation If We Do Not Have Borders’
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2019/11/07/tulsi-gabbard-to-breitbart-news-we-do-not-have-a-nation-if-we-do-not-have-borders/
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That will get a rise out of Roger Edwards
WOTD from Vox: "Colorado's Cleanest Energy Options are also its Cheapest"
Comparing three scenarios: Business as Usual, Retire Coal and Deep Decarbonization. Due to Colorado's geographic position, the huge decline in costs for renewables and storage, and the Democratic political trifecta we are extraordinarily lucky.
The strategy is to electrify everything you can, in particular transportation and home heating (head-pumps). The biggest cost improvement is in transportation because electric cars use far less fuel than gas-cars, and have far fewer parts. We’re only waiting on economies of scale to bring the price down.
Dave Roberts at Vox has been doing a great job covering the alternative energy industry in depth.
WOTD2 from Tim Higginbotham at Jacobin: "Elizabeth Warren Is Jeopardizing Our Fight for Medicare for All"
The main point to be made about the MFA debate is that WE ARE ALREADY PAYING FOR IT. In terms of cost, it doesn't really matter whether we pay in taxes or premiums, we just need to get through the fear and the transition period.
Personally, I'm in the Public Option camp because (1) The collapse of employer insurance is inevitable, once people and companies have a reasonable alternative, and (2) Public Option offers the most graceful, least friction alternative.
Standing in the way are two things:
(1) Everybody is afraid of losing the little crumbs we already have.
(2) There are BIG money interests invested in monopolizing the system, starting (obviously) with the Drug, and Insurance companies. But there are grift and skimming at every level of the system.
I'd like to see a transparent accounting of where all the money is going at every step of the process, but even that would radically undercut the moneyed interests.
I'm a Warren supporter, but I guess I agree with Higgenbotham's points:
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I keep coming back to the old-line political advice, "if you are explaining, you are losing."
Pushing for affordable health care for all is the Democratic vision. How it will be accomplished (and when) will depend a great deal more on members of the House and Senate than any President.
Democrats can consistently point to the unanimous Republican opposition to the ACA; to relatively consistent Republican efforts to obstruct the expansion of Medicaid; to the on-going effort to legislatively repeal the ACA as a whole or in part; to the legal efforts brought by Republican Attorneys General to invalidate the ACA; and to the on-going efforts of the Trump Sad!-ministration to undermine the ACA with every possible administrative choice they've made. They can point to the on-going promise there will be a great Republican plan for health care, still not seen after a decade of announcements.
The primary debate ought to be over who can make the attack on the Republicans most forcefully and persuasively. Who can commit to running the administration of whatever program we have most fairly and efficiently.
The details of how to improve the present situation can be hammered out in think tanks, platform committees and Congressional debate.
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Details on the meet-up on the Wednesday Open Thread.
I really, really wanted to go, but my wife's flight from the East Coast gets in tomorrow shortly before the meetup. After being on the road for over a week, she deserves a date night (or at least some great take-out, a bottle of wine and a foot rub ;-). She hates politics, so unfortunately, The Abbey isn't an option.
Since that is Madco's usual haunt, he must not live that far from me, so I suspect our paths will cross eventually. I'm not hard to find.
I hate politics too.
Who says government is not responsive.
Canadian man told his curb, damaged 26 years ago, to be repaired in 2037
President Mike Bloomberg…..
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/07/us/politics/michael-bloomberg-president-2020.html
He's not my first choice but we could do a lot worse.
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Bloomberg can’t have that slogan. It’s Hickenlooper’s:
“John Hickenlooper for Senate. We could do a lot worse.”
Inspiring, isn’t it? As refreshing as a cool glass of Clean-Stim.
Dang. Some other time, then.