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Telluride Gallery of Fine Art exhibits paintings and digital pigment prints by Ed Moses Zip #8. TELLURIDE, CO .- “Saving the Best for Last,” an exhibition of 24 paintings and six digital pigment prints by the late artist Ed Moses, opened at the Telluride Gallery of Fine Art December 15, 2020 through February 6, 2021. Online viewing is available at telluridegallery.com. This collection of work includes a group of his most recent acrylic paintings, as well as digital prints provided by Patrici...

The great news is today jan is cancer-free, shes on medicare, but alans been uninsured ever since. until last week. when he sat down -- when he sat down at a computer and im sure after multiple tries, signed up for a new plan under the affordable care act. coverage that can never be taken away if he gets sick. so, i just want to read you what he said in this letter. he says, i got to tell you, ive never been so happy to pay a bill in my entire life. when you dont have insurance at

Its been about the helplessness that a parent feels when she complai cant cover a sick child or the impossible choices an employer faces. i want to close with an example. a person named alan shaffer from prattsburg, new york. and hes got a story to tell about sacrifice, about giving up his own health care to save the barack oba woman he loves. alan wrote to me last week and he told me a story. four years ago, his wife, jan, who happens to be a nurse was struck with cancer. and she had to stop wo...

Cant cover a sick child or impossible choices a small business faces between covering his employees or keeping his doors open. i want to give you just -- i want to close with an example. a person named alan shaffer, hes from prattsburg, new york. and hes got a story to tell about sacrifice, giving up his own health care to save the woman he loves. so alan wrote to me last week. and he told me his story. four years ago his wife jan, who happens to be a nurse, was struck with cancer. and she had t...

A bill in my entire life. when you dont have insurance at my age, it can really feel like a time bomb waiting to go off. the sense of relief from knowing i can live out my days longer and healthier is a tremendous weight off my shoulders. so two days later, alan goes over to his buddy, bills, house. he sits bill down and his wife, die a diana, at their computer. and after several tries, alan helped lift that weight from their shoulders by helping them to sign up for a new plan, also. and compare...

0 its where then governor mitt romney, democratic legislators, senator ted kennedy, many of the folks who are here today, joined forces to connect the progressive vision of health care for all with some ideas about markets and competition that had long been championed by conservatives. and as deval just said, it worked. it worked. [ applause ] >> mr. president -- [ inaudible ]. for our generation [ inaudible ] mr. president -- >> okay. [ inaudible ]. >> okay. were talking about health care massa...

0 so a lot of people are makinging a the lot of website. i interviewed the secretary about this last week. but the idea that its emblematic of a disaster is probably overstate aing it. >> gloria, i think one of the issues is the salesmanship. one can argue empirically that being able to get health insurance regardless of your pre-existing conditions, no caps for individuals, and putting sick children, allowing them benefits that they werent able to have with kids with pre-existing conditioning, ...