Wednesday September 30, 2009, 7:34 am
I know my state, Vermont, is very strict on drugs for Medicaid patients, Thank Cal, hard to belief.

Thursday October 1, 2009, 12:06 pm
Folks, WE have to demand that this kind of horrible abuse STOPS NOW. Let's get a REAL healthcare plan in place that will help and PROTECT THE AMERICAN PUBLIC, not drug companies and the health insurance industries. PLEASE get on board and get involved. This corruption and theft has to be brought to a halt and they need to know that this is not just unacceptable, it is criminal. Get on the phones people call your representatives and point blank tell them if they don't provide Americans with choice and absolutely NO TRIGGER (it's a farce) you WILL vote them out of office. REMIND THEM of just who they are working for and where their loyalties are expected to be. This is still a majority rule Country and the Majority has shown very strongly that they want the right to have a choice. We have to take the corporate monopolies down to size and then we have to change the campaign rules for donations and get the FRIGGIN corporate lobbyist OUT OF OUR GOVERNMENT but CALL, CALL TODAY. This is a joke and a direct slap in the face to American's.You can get phone numbers of your Reps. and Senators by going to www.congress.org and typing in your zip code in the space provided. This is not going to change until we start demanding it from them and quite talking and arguing with each other. Be polite but STRONG AND DEFINITE. We still can have a voice.Let them know we're not going to stand for this selfish greed and corruption. They either get it right and get it done or they are GONE. No more easy money, No more greedy contributions and power plays, no more ignorant arrogance and no more walking on the backs and at the life and death cost to the middle class and American taxpayer. Get on the PHONE and EMAILS.We need to move forward, I personally don't care if it's a bi-partisan bill or not.The party of NO is ruining this Country and it's disgusting and obstructionist.

Thursday October 1, 2009, 3:26 pm

"The GAO audit focused on 10 types of frequently abused prescription drugs — painkillers and mood-altering medications. Abuse of such medications is "second only to marijuana," Joseph Rannazzisi of the Drug Enforcement Administration says in prepared testimony for the hearing."

So maybe,
if More People Were Allowed to Grow/use Legal Medical Pot;
We Wouldn't have this extreme "Drug Abuse" Problem;
However the Problem of Patients being Denied Pain relief;
is as Real and Probaly MORE Costly than these abuses..
Sad, But bean Counters just Don't have any Accurate way;
to Quantify untreated PAIN in $'s;
and if all the Poor People That were Denied Proper Treatment; Were to Sue for Pain and Suffering...
.. This Country Would Be Three times as Banckrupt Than it Is Now...