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Letters From The Left - Progressive Blog by Leslie Boyd
A World of Progress

Fight the Big Blue power grab

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Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, which has more than 80 percent of the health insurance market in the state, is trying to gain control of the insurance exchange that goes into effect in 2014 as part of the Affordable Care Act.

Each state must create an exchange of its own, collaborate with other states to create a larger exchange or allow the federal government to run an exchange. In North Carolina, more than a million people will buy their health insurance through the exchange once the law takes effect. It is meant to offer consumers a place where they can shop and compare among plans. The number of plans is supposed to be limited so people can compare.

Letters From The Left - Progressive Blog by Leslie Boyd
Progressive Living

Let me introduce myself

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I’m Leslie Boyd. As a newspaper reporter for more than a quarter century, I saw and told the stories of real people in real situations who were being held down by systems that worked against them.

In 1983, it was Jeannie Alkema, a woman in Passaic County, NJ, with debilitating multiple sclerosis who was being cared for in her home. Her 12-year-old son suffered nightmares of his mother being put in a nursing home and him being placed in foster care. It was less expensive to care for Jeannie in her home than in a nursing home, but one day she called me in a panic and said the Department of Social Services was going to cut off her home care. Her son’s nightmare was about to become reality.

Letters From The Left - Progressive Blog by Leslie Boyd
A World of Progress

The GOP baits its hook again

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Ok. I have to give it to the greedy, the devoid of conscience, the Soul-less… you have played a masterful game and now that you have what’s left of humanity who still gives a damn about their fellow humans against the ropes, make it quick won’t you? I know, how bleeding heart liberal of me to ask such a thing. Suffering is such a deliciously righteous punishment for the sinner who dares point out the emperor has no clothes.

Is there anyone out there that has yet to make up your mind about which side of the divide you are on? I’m talking about the new chasm on the left, exposed by the news that Obama has come to an agreement with the Republicans that will extend the deficit and the tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans. This one certainly was a nice gash. I feel what’s left of our shared liberal/progressive lifeblood bleeding out as we speak.

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