THE WOMAN CARD

Hello Human Trump,
You said Hillary plays the woman card. It sounds more like you want to play the man card. Hillary discusses serious issues. You should also discuss issues instead of superficial nonsense. Hillary is experienced and well informed in domestic and foreign affairs while you are just a real estate huckster. You claim that Hillary is not honest. Look at yourself in the mirror. You claim that Hillary is not strong enough. She will mop the floor with you in the general election. Hillary is real. You are just a bad television image.
Chloe

CAKE, FROSTING, AND CAKE BOX

Hi Humans,
Making an analogy concerning the candidates in the current primary elections, Hillary Clinton is cake and Bernie Sanders is frosting on the cake. Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are cake boxes with nothing in them. So now if you American Humans want cake with frosting, you should elect Hillary Clinton with some Bernie influence on the Democratic platform. If all you want is an empty box, Donald's box is more colorful, but either one will do.
Chloe

DEMOCRATS ARE ON THE WAY

Hi Democratic Humans,
So it looks like Hillary is on the way to winning the nomination of the Democratic party. Now is the time for the party to pull together. Bernie Sanders Humans, your effort was not for nothing. You have already pulled Hillary and the party to the left. If the Bernie movement hadn't happened no one would have known you were there. Basically, the Hillary Humans and the Bernie Humans have the same goals, gun control, minimum wage, affordable health care for all, affordable college tuition without crushing student loans, the freedom to be whoever you are (straight, gay, transgender, whatever), the freedom for a woman to make decisions concerning her own body, etc. The differences between Bernie and Hillary and have been the path to reach those goals. The Bernie has greased the wheels to get there faster, and Hillary has the ability to make it happen. As for wealthy contributors, why not as long as they don't take advantage? There's room for all on the bus who have their eyes on the goal, even moderate Republicans who want some sanity. As for the Republican party, it looks liked they have settled on Trump. Hillary will mop the floor with him if the Democrats stick together. Under his bluster, Trump is a loser.
Chloe

HAND IN HAND

Hi Humans,

       As a dog in a Jewish family, I have a special interest in what goes on in Israel because it is home to more than a third of all the Jews in the world and the only country in which Jews are the majority. So, when I ran across Hand in Hand on the internet, I found it very interesting. Hand in Hand is an organization that creates integrated schools for Israeli Jews and Israeli Arabs. School is where humans’ attitudes are formed.

The problem between Israel and Palestine is that years of conflict have created populations on both sides with hardened attitudes toward each other. Examples of this on the one hand was seen in Gaza, when Israel withdrew from Gaza as a first step toward a two state solution, and the Arabs of Gaza elected Hamas, a rabidly anti-Jewish government, that began attacking Israel with rockets and terrorist tunnels, and persecuting any Arabs that disagreed with them. On the other hand in Israel we have seen the growth of a radical settler movement that puts their ideological nonsense ahead of the security of their fellow Israelis as well as the dignity of the Palestinian Arabs. We see an elected Israeli government that panders to them despite the cautions of Israel’s military and intelligence leaders.

Some Israeli Jews are even suspicious of their fellow Israelis who are Arabs. Integrating Israeli Arabs and Jews is necessary to make Israel a unified country. After all, Israeli Arabs make up 20% of the population of Israel, Jews 75%, and various others 5%. Integration would make Israel stronger and could be a model in helping to create a lasting peace between Israel and the two Palestines in Gaza and the West Bank.

The link online to Hand in Hand is https://www.handinhandk12.org/

 

Chloe

 

HI WALL STREET HUMANS

Hi Wall Street Humans,
There was an article in the Wall Street Journal yesterday in which the author said something like Obama would be better than Trump or Cruz. Now the Wall Street Journal favors the views of the humans who run Wall Street, in other words the very wealthy, the corporations, the banks, and other financial institutions (Republicans). The implication is that the Frankensteins who have become the Republican front runners are even worse than President Obama. The nerve of you Wall Street ingrates!!! You should be kissing the ground that Obama walks on. After all, he saved your asses after you destroyed the economy with your tricks and greed. Some say he should have let you sink in your own manure. But being a pragmatic realist, Obama knew that although you were not worthy, letting you sink would have pulled down all the other human Americans who wandered into your web and even humans outside the US. But instead of thanking him, you demonized him, complained that he did not bring the economy back fast enough, and placed roadblocks in his path. Considering what Obama had to contend with, and how much he accomplished in spite of you, Obama was the greatest president of our time and maybe of all time.
Chloe

HILLARY WON NEW YORK

Hi Humans,
Hooray, Hillary won the New York Democratic primary election. Now Bernie, don't say mean things about Hillary, stick to the real matters of substantive disagreement (none of this personal crap about who is qualified and who gets what financing from whom). And when the primary is over, actively encourage your supporters to support her. After all, do you really want Trump to be president?
Chloe

OBAMACARE VERSUS SINGLE PAYER

Hi Humans,
The question of Obamacare (Federal Government fills in the gap in health insurance for those without private insurance) versus Single Payer (Federal Government provides all health insurance) has become an issue in the Democratic Primary election. Hillary Clinton favors keeping and expanding Obamacare. Bernie Sanders favors doing away with Obamacare and all private health insurance and replacing them with Single Payer for all Americans. The Republicans say they want to destroy Obamacare. Cruz is enough of a radical ideologue to maybe really do it (big surprise for those among his supporters who depend on it). Trump and Kasich speak the Republican mantra about getting rid of Obamacare but in reality would probably change the name, give it some cosmetic watering down, and actually keep it. Now I am just a dog, so I asked Dad who happens to be a physician who worked for 15 years in solo practice in a suburb of Chicago and 32 years in an HMO here in California. During some years of his HMO time, he was the chief of his department and had some exposure to the administrative side of medicine. So this is why he favors Obamacare and Hillarycare over single payer Berniecare.
1. The HMO where Dad works consists of 2 entities, one insurance company and a confederation of medical groups. Although the insurance humans are not all just heartless money crunchers and the physicians are not all complete altruists, in general the job of the insurance company is to balance the books and the job of the medical group confederation is to provide quality care to the patients. So the medical groups are to some extent the ombudsmen for the patients and the insurance company concentrates on the bottom line. Since the insurance company and the medical group confederation are about equal in power, it works out. In the single payer system, the US government would be the insurance company with which the physicians would have to negotiate. The power would no longer be equal. The balance would be tipped in favor of the bottom line unless you had a comparably strong National Medical Group to negotiate with the government. We have not heard anything from Bernie about a National Medial Group. In fact we have not heard any details from Bernie.
2. A big issue in medical insurance today is that physicians and medical groups have to provide evidence of quality of care in addition to cost effectiveness to the entities that pay money for medical care (insurance companies, corporations, pension plans, federal and local governments, etc.). Gone are the days when the payer gave an HMO a sum of money to care for its people and just said, "Do it." The reality is that it is extremely difficult to provide that evidence. So in order to pacify the payers, measures are often dumped on providers as busy work with little relationship to real quality. This is one of the reasons why you can not simply pull medical insurance policy out of a hat. The process involves trying this or that, discarding what does not work, and expanding what does work (in other words incremental change, not revolutionary change).
3. Competition between insurance plans, including the government plan, is good. Single payer means a monopoly for the government plan.
4. One can say that single payer works in other countries. That might or might not apply here. The USA is an innovative country. Maybe whatever happens here will be better than what happens elsewhere. Medical education and technology in the USA are the best in the world. The problem here is in the distribution of payment. Care must be taken to not decrease the quality of what already exists while improving the distribution. Maybe the process will eventually lead to single payer care and maybe not, but single payer should not be a holy grail in itself. The goal is to provide good medical care to all USA humans however it comes about.
So you humans have a lot to think about. By the way, will you ever consider veterinary care in your plans? After all, that applies to us doggies.
Chloe