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...with the system for about a year. What alarms her most about the new patients she has seen lately, Eaton says, is how long people wait - diabetics whose feet are numb, cancer patients already in the advanced stages of the disease - before they seek treatment. "When people fall on hard times, they're kind of embarrassed," Eaton says. "Their health care ends up becoming much more expensive." (Facebook users, comment on the story below...
...year-old U.S. trade embargo against Havana. And so the more than 150,000 Venezuelans now living in South Florida - a third of whom have arrived since Chávez took office in 1999 - have come at a good time for the state's GOP and the hard-line Cuban-American exile community...
...survey, two-thirds of Miami Cuban-Americans said the U.S. should re-establish formal diplomatic ties with Cuba. "The demographics of the Cuban-American community are changing," says Guarione Diaz, president of the Cuban American National Council, referring to what appears to be a shift away from the hard line on Cuba favored by the previous Administration. "I think what we are seeing in the Cuban community [in Florida] is a complex, evolving situation...
...Still, Obama captured an impressive 35% of Miami's Cuban vote in large part because he pledged to undo George W. Bush's tight restrictions on Cuban-American travel and remittances to Cuba. It would all suggest that one of the key principles of the Miami Representatives' agendas - a hard-line approach to Cuba - is no longer the policy of choice in the community. And it's that kind of complexity that just might make the outreach to Venezuelans and other Latinos fleeing the left a smart form of politicking in the years to come...
When it comes to Congressional earmarks, it's hard to decide who's the biggest hypocrite. The current media favorite is President Obama, who sought earmarks as a senator, criticized earmarks as a candidate, and now plans to sign a spending bill stuffed with nearly 9,000 earmarks. But what about earmark-addicted Republicans, who oversaw an unprecedented explosion of earmarks when they controlled Congress, resisted efforts by Obama and other Democrats to inject accountability into the earmark process, and even grabbed over 40% of the earmarks in the current bill, yet have the gall to blast Obama's cave...