Saturday, January 22, 2011

The Lepage Business Model; Bill, Mary and Paul

   "If we just fix it they will come". Then we will allow Business to run our state, with their "equal voice" and added ability to out spend the citizens. "We can create a new Maine". One where people work and use government welfare. For Lepage's strategy has been to pay the majority of his employees as low as he can, thusly forcing them to use Mainecare, and Liheap (subsidized oil program), as well as regular welfare. You will see more jobs and an increase in the use of subsidy to make Maine work under King Paul's plan. Which is also the truth behind his "tiered Welfare plan"; "get 'em working for cheap and give 'em a subsidy'. "Pacify the asses".
     Meanwhile we have a new head of DHHS, the Department of Health and Human Services, Mrs. Mary Mayhew. Mrs. Mary has been billed as a Democrat, really, and a woman, amazing. She has already climbed the Lepage ranks from assisting with the interim budget, to being Paul's senior adviser on Health and Conservation, and now The head of the largest government service agency in the State of Maine. Here is the hook, Mary Mayhew is a lobbyist for Hospitals; she is/was the principle lobbyist for The Maine Hospital Association. She was also The vice president on government affairs for this company. She has stated that she believes Doctors and Hospitals should be able to litigate wrongful procedure. That is to say, If a doctor leaves a tool in you or cuts off the wrong appendage, and you think you should not have to pay for this unnecessary procedure, they should be able to prove that you should pay for their mistake. Looking at this makes me think 'pro-business', we can get our money one way or the other because medical insurance will not cover the lawyers. Wrongful procedure in a hospital is pretty cut and dry, indeed it is wrong or right. None-the-less, onward and upward with the best and brightest.
    Next, after fifteen years of good hard work bringing workers compensation for our state into a controllable, reasonable, functional place, Paul Dionne is stepping aside. He will be replaced with Mr. Paul Sighinolfi, An attorney who has made a practice of defending businesses from claims on workers compensation. Seems like another lobbyist to me. "Power to the Business," please try not to walk all over ME. Though if this man wishes to, he could be an asset to the people of Maine. Is this why he has been appointed? Probably not, but onward and upward with the best and brightest we can find.
   Our Chief financial officer has been in the hospital due to a chronic knee condition. Sawin Millet, is now being aided by Mr. Lowe, John Baldacci's financial guru. Sorry, Mr Millet about your condition, I hope you are well soon... but it is a chronic condition.     
  Anyone remember Mr. Bill Beardsley? Mr. Bill is to be our Head of the Department of Conservation. He ran against Pauly boy in the Republican primary. Yes, it is obvious he lost, but losers are regularly the best and brightest, in the pool of the limited and mindless. I hope the word Conservation means the same to Mr. Beardsley as it does to the rest of us. To conserve one must be careful, deliberate, and serving. Not conning the people you serve. Though in the new business model it probably means let the Cons out they are costing us too much money.
  Another quick side note, those of you who smoke and are on Mainecare may be denied benefits. To the rest of you on Mainecare surveys will be in the mail soon. We would like to know if you eat too much, take too much salt, go without sleep, take more than 2 aspirin a week, ect. For these are some of the other dis-qualifiers we will be looking at. Pre-existing conditions be damned, We are not paying for that!
  Now as for me, I read some where that a professor brewed a beer with 45 million year old yeast, I am going to find some of that. Talk to you soon, be well, keep thinking.
                                                                   Sincerely, Ms. Paula Page


 

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