The Sickness ~ Lyrics ~ MobiusTripz

mental insanity it comes and goes
the physical pain places me in its throes
equal highs and equal lows
poor memories appear instantly on my toes

nerves shot and mind racing mad
it feels better just to feel a regular bad
instants in time all trapped in sad
coping look forward good times to be had

chorus 1

body cold and aching
times slips by without me making
my own due time participating
claims i should be staking

body alive like an electrical wire
mind still racing like a wild wildfire
so wrecked and ravage never for hire
these bones soon on a funeral pyre

darkness and blackness and mortal sin
sometimes the mind creeps toward his den
i know not from where it originates within
coping says it will pass its just pretend

with cold and spine that aches gout too
its never me that takes me away from you
into this mental prison Ill escape in a few
in a few, in a few, in a few spells of blue

chorus

body cold and aching
times slips by without me making
my own due time participating
claims i should be staking

several days past with change into autumn cool
feel like i am swimming in a drowning pool
i pray to the heavens to he who'll
cradle me make me feel not the fool

sinus cavity about to explode
mucous running out of my nose
this is the way life for a moment flows
healing musical writing trip here i go

chorus 2

healing less pain
ill make it go away
your not welcome cannot stay
i have no debt with you to pay

this therapeutic trip takes me away fast
a sailing vessel that found its lost mast
even keeled on course blues set acast
making up lost time from my lost past

on course i am glad i have set sail
these mental vacations never fail
productive trip back from the edge of hell
i stop looking back again on my trail

chorus 2

healing less pain
ill make it go away
your not welcome cannot stay
i have no debt with you to pay

left in my wake i smile once more
look forward to friends and family at the shore
this sickness pushed out from my core
never carry thoughts of past anguish and remorse

chorus 1 and 2

chorus 1

body cold and aching
times slips by without me making
my own due time participating
claims i should be staking

chorus 2

healing less pain
ill make it go away
your not welcome cannot stay
i have no debt with you to pay

SYRIA ... SERIOUSLY ... INSANITY ... WHAT DO YOU SEE?

Rest assured, this, military exercise, has been thought out long and hard, and it will happen.

We, as a populous have no control at this point, we exercised that away at the polls, as my Father and Brother (West Point 1952, and 1982 respectively) made this abundantly clear to this Obama supporter thus far, the son and the youngest brother!

Never think my mind is made up, as I am a Republican, seeking Peace, and looking to restore balance that I see the democrats are doing best over all for now, but enough about of my own flexibility, as usual we are, as a nation perplexed.

What we are faced with is a seemingly uni-lateral act of your perception;

1) we are going to defend those assaulted by chemical weapons (not to state we never use them ourselves)

or

2) we are going to play in to the hands of our largest enemies and actually [i][b]invade[/b][/i] another nation in the process, and further hinder our pathetic foreign policy, which is not even as respectable as a slap in the face!

(or)

...never look the greater evil, of the combines cons all against us !!!

Interestingly, Kerry states what would happen if we do nothing?

We have done nothing thus far, and by now placing our war chest on the table and threatening to do something, which is well planned and long term positioning without a doubt, we further lambast a very tired subject here and abroad, war!

We, as nation, as a collective core of citizens, are undoubtedly tired of warfare!

We as a nation are supposed to, at the same time, defend Freedom, and as I grew up that was here and abroad, however I think this is now to often a veil we hide behind in order to carry out a different higher organized initiative from the reaches of the deepest coffers of immoral capitalistic corruption most of you may not really imagine as a reality, this new order of greed and world dominance, compared to our objectives, let's just suppose pre - Viet~Nam conflict era, as a rather general bench mark, when we seemed to protect freedom, defend freedom, and promote freedom.

I am tired of warfare where we cut and run, most often leaving behind those that suffered atrocities we should, none of us ever, ever experience on any level.

We rape, pillage and burn where ever we go today in the cloaked veil of freedom and all the while leave countries in dis-array, hurt, and in worse condition then when we came, at perhaps the times we thought the peak of atrocity before our involvement.

My Father never was a man or will be, that would promote these cut and run tactics, which are no tactics at all and a bastardizaion of the word as we too often see today with out military ineptitude today and displayed.

We have become the greedy nation, a child on the political and world stage, egotistical and in with no common sense any more.

I could easily say lets conduct surgical strikes, lets have a defined mission, lets achieve objectives, but as of yet i see none spelled out in black and white, and this leaves me perplexed and curious as to why we may act and leave an open ended mission objective on the table with 0, read zero, international support.

What do we really want to gain from this? ...and who wants these gains and at what interest?

Petroleum prices are already rising, and these petroleum bottom feeders always have a hand in every action ever taken recently and are greedy corporate pigs that do not car what we the common men and women, bare as the consequences for such action.

We may be larger puppets then Obama.

I will say this in closing... after throwing the pasta on the wall to see what sticks... I can support what makes sense over what polls and general consensus states, if they are not in agreement.

I love the idea of our fine service men and women offering freedom and a better way of life in a coordinated "new age" style attack, which can happen, however far fetched many may believe it to be true.

Drones, laser naval ships, painted targets, no boots on the ground, etc...but what is it this business of ours?

Do we want to see in awe our own militaristic power and show the world what we have in our collective tool box? Where we have evolved? ...and what we can do?

Are we that arrogant?... seemingly so !!!

Logic would state that if we are this arrogant in government, that we must have an upper hand that no one else truly knows about, or that we are just plain war whore mongering idiots, which we may very well be, and that we will now exercise the might we know we have, perhaps like a science fiction night mare!

Maybe it does not transpire now, but trust me, that is what we are always working in to dominate the world, and we have to have testing grounds.

I mean to be harsh, strike chords, get folks fired up, etc. because we are on the cusp of nothing good or worthy in the long run, and we cannot even see past the short term currently.

We are a nation ripped in two, torn from the inside out, and anything other then nation building at this point is divisive, dangerous, and ill informed and motivated.

but...it will happen. It has been planned for years.

...but then Rome has burned and who cares for history today ?

lessons simply lost...

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The End of The Beginning?

BLACK SABBATH

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My Response to Barry Ronan's Informative Blog Entry About Finances and Efficiency Changes at W.M.H.S., Similar To a Featured Article By, "The New York Times" the Following Day

If you are intrigued with modern health care, and most especially as we as a nation transition into new mostly uncharted territory, read these articles from two days of writing/publishing with an open mind, and see what is truly possible with a new state of the art facility run with exceptional management and making profits already under some of the strictest  guidelines in place by any state in the union, Maryland.

This is my home hospital here in charming Cumberland, Maryland and they are indeed setting an example here for what the model of proper, capable, affordable, efficient health care will look like once properly embraced under the new and forthcoming guidelines, and why the onus is upon the politicians to move forward with these cost setting and money saving initiatives that are going to revolutionize the industry in only positive ways for both the industry and the citizens.

There is no reason for any hospital in the nation to not emulate this model to the tee, as it provides better health care, shorter hospital stays, and more conclusive medical treatment for the patients and less re-admissions and all the while bolsters the bottom line of profit for the individual hospital while almost un-intuitively saving money for the government, which is adopted properly as set forth soon to take place will certainly save trillions of dollars nationwide on health care expenses,money we must start saving right away while we right our economic ship through progressive efficient programs such that we are among the leaders of here at home.

I say a heartfelt congratulations to Mr, Ronan in his expertise and his excellent staff from the top down at the Western Maryland Health Care's Cumberland Campus, (W.M.H.S.), and kudos on a job thus far exceptionally well accomplished in a short three year window after transitioning to a brand new facility from two former campuses, and well ahead of the coming timely and needed reforming changes so direly needed.

An ounce of prevention after all is most certainly worth at least a pound of cure!

The Ronan Report

"The Ronan Report" provides insight about the activities at the Western Maryland Health System in Cumberland, Maryland, and about the changes taking place in healthcare today from a CEO's perspective.

Friday, August 23, 2013

It Was a Very Good Year

At today's Board Finance Committee, Kim Repac, our CFO, provided a report on the FY 2013 Year End Review.  Wow!  Our admissions were down 774, which under our new payment methodology is a good thing.  Our Case Mix Adjusted Length of Stay was also down to 4.09 days.  The way we use Observation Beds has improved and we saw an 8% decrease over last year.  Our regulated outpatient visits were down by 10.5%, which is also a good thing; and our ED visits were up, but ED admissions were down by 4.5%.  Our readmission rate continues to come down each year.  We saw dramatic improvement in our potentially preventable conditions producing a reward of $1.78 million out of a potential of $2 million putting WMHS in the top 10% for all Maryland hospitals.  We also saw improvements in the financial performance related to physician practices by $900,000.  Overall, we had a net income from operations of $10,861,000 or a 3.6% operating margin and a total revenue over expense of $15,151,919 or a 5% total margin.  What a difference a year makes.  Now in fairness, we cut supply and labor expenses by almost $7 million during the fiscal year, along with convincing the Cost Review Commission to revise their formula related to averted bad debt, which cost us millions during Fiscal Years 11 and 12.  They also agreed to provide us with a one-time settlement of over $2 million based on a flawed formula on Medicaid expansion.  In summary, we turned around our financial condition from a FY'12 loss of almost $2 million in total revenue to over $15 million; we dramatically improved our Quality Based Reimbursement; our patient satisfaction results improved and we reduced admissions and readmissions along with our ancillary use rates for the third consecutive year. It was a very good year and hopefully one that we can continue to repeat year after year.

http://theronanreport.blogspot.com/2013/08/it-was-very-good-year.html

MY RESPONSE:

P1

I have had a run of poor health for a while and as I have been a patient, most especially in the ED more then I care to, of course, I can see an over all settling in by the staff and better efficiency along the lines of better diagnostics and faster more thorough chart reviews. I can see where that has had an overall affect on shorter hospital stays and less often returning patients. The treatment I have received by Dr. Lamm and Dr. May has been better then my own PCP as I can tell they are able to quickly review my charts and familiarize themselves well with my many conditions and treat me effectively and I very much appreciate that they ask me what has worked well for me or what has not and are able to cater my care to my specific needs at the moment and get me quickly on my way to healing with these recent sudden onset events. I was raised to only utilize the ED when it was an emergency, of course, and as I find it harder and harder to get a quick appointment with my PCP and I am most often told to go to the ED instead, especially if my symptoms worsen rapidly. I must say I have a confidence now that I did not feel at first after the initial transition to the new facility. I am very impressed with the protocol in place as a patient, and having been in management a better part of my productive working life, the keen management style is impressive to say the least. I very often read your blog. I will one day require cervical fusion and I want to know that what ever hospital I finally choose will be one that is comforting to me as well as capable and competent, and I am starting to feel that trust building due to the marked change that only comes from listening to patients well and closely analyzing cost efficiency while increasing the quality of health care.

P2

I would like to suggest you write the local paper as well, if you have not and forgive me if you did and I missed it, and share a brief synopsis of these wonderful changes that are being made. I expect with the new facility that you will be attracting even finer doctors such as Dr. Lamm and Dr. May to further compliment your excellent staff and become the leader in this entire area that we need while the country transitions now into a new arena of healthcare that you all seem more then competent to be the example of while so many other institutions, politicians, and citizens, seem resistant to this needed change. I know that will not be an easy task what so ever, but with your numbers in FY2012 in comparison to FY2013, and the scrutiny of the Medicaid formula and resulting credit, it is again great to observe you have an excellent staff and impeccable leadership. My hat is off to W.M.H.S., and as usual I will still speak my voice as the consummate observer, and I will equally always give credit where credit is due. I like your style and transparency, and going back in time I appreciated your factual reporting on the concerns with Bath Salts that were epidemic at the time and not reported to the extent you shared anywhere else at all! I started a petition, addressed a local meeting in person siting your statistics amoung other specific details of the deadly molecular structures skirting the federal state and local laws, wrote and was published in the paper and wrote a blog entry as well that has been more widely read then my published article at the U.S. Department of Energy (Google; Swygert HRDC)  and I believe your blog was at least one instrumental part in a victory we should all be proud of! Your transparency was a major catalyst along with friends stories of family members ruing their lives with the


P3

abuse of these drugs. I sincerely hope perhaps you will entertain writing an entry of the after effects of the laws passage and if it has helped as I pray it has, and what the statistics are now in relation to their usage. I earned a degree in Science with a Major in Police in Police Science so these figures are of great interest to me as I hope we can always be so collectively efficient locally when any need arises. Your leadership shines and I hope one day to volunteer and offer back smiles and caring service as has been offered to me when ill. Sorry to be so long winded, but the expertise I have received while at the Ed has had me slowly back to a more productive level I was dearly missing. Cumberland is a better city and a healthier city with your experts and professionals caring for us all. If you have a day to blog about the one item I mentioned earlier and another day to blog about volunteer help desired and requirements and contact information, I would gladly share that and make myself available at any capacity from time to time. Thanks for your consideration in publishing this reply and offering a space where we may all interact.

Sincerely, John "Stephen" Swygert 


The following day, Mr. Ronan had a wonderful new blog entry and the following, "New York Times" article sighting the expertise and example that W.M.H.S. has become for the nation to follow! ; as follows.

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

The New York Times Article

It's not every day that your health system is featured in the NY Times, actually it's not any day as it has never happened before.  About two weeks ago, Kathy Rogers, Director of Community Relations, received a call from Eduardo Porter, a reporter from the NY Times.  Eduardo was calling to interview me upon recommendation from Maryland's Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene, Joshua Sharfstein, MD.  Dr. Sharfstein visited with us several weeks ago and was impressed with our innovative approaches to population health and he suggested to Eduardo that he call us for his story on health care delivery in Maryland.

Eduardo and I spoke on the phone and he decided to visit Cumberland to interview Dr. George Garrow, Chief Medical Officer for W.M.H.S., and me.  George and I met with Eduardo last Thursday for over an hour providing him with a perspective on how we moved from a volume-based delivery model for health care to one of value.  George and Kathy then took Eduardo on a tour of our health system, highlighting those areas where we have dramatically changed how we deliver care to our patients.  Eduardo was especially impressed with Dawn Snyder, our Nurse Practitioner for our Congestive Heart Failure Clinic.  Dawn's photo was featured in the attached article. 

Eduardo left Cumberland and said that the article would run this week and it did.  It is tough to write on such a complicated subject, but Eduardo did a nice job.  Thank you, Dr. Sharfstein and Eduardo Porter, for recognizing the very innovative practices that have been put in place in western Maryland as we work to meet the triple aim of health care reform (better quality, reduced cost and a healthier community).

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/28/business/economy/lessons-in-maryland-for-costs-at-hospitals.html

Lessons in Maryland for Costs at Hospitals

J.M. Eddins Jr. for The New York Times

Dawn Snyder, a registered nurse, runs a heart failure clinic at Western Maryland Health System.

By EDUARDO PORTER

Published: August 27, 2013

CUMBERLAND, Md. — This hardscrabble city at the base of the Appalachians makes for an unlikely hotbed of health care innovation.

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Yet Western Maryland Health Systems, the major hospital serving this poor and isolated region, is carrying out an experiment that could leave a more profound imprint on the delivery of health care than President Obama’s reforms.

Over the last three years, the hospital has taken its services outside its walls. It has opened a diabetes clinic, a wound center and a behavioral health clinic. It has hired people to follow up with older, sicker patients once they are discharged. It has added primary care practices in some neighborhoods.

The goal, seemingly so simple, has so far proved elusive elsewhere: as much as possible, keep people out of hospitals, where the cost of health care is highest. Here, the experiment seems to be working.

Hospital admissions here are down 15 percent. Readmissions have fallen, too. In 2011, 16 percent of people who had been discharged went back into the hospital. Now, that figure is 9 percent. Many patients report that they are happier with the care.

And Western Maryland has reaped financial rewards. In the fiscal year ending in June, the system made an operating profit of $15 million on about $370 million in revenue, said Barry P. Ronan, the chief executive. That’s a spectacular return, given that the average margin at hospitals across the state is a meager 0.8 percent.

Western Maryland’s initiatives to take charge of people’s health, rather than simply provide services for a fee, fit a core objective of federal health care reform: changing hospitals and related facilities into something resembling an Accountable Care Organization.

Yet the innovations taking place in this corner of Appalachia rest on a policy that the architects of President Obama’s health care reforms never tried to emulate. Indeed, this innovation was only possible because in Maryland, hospital fees are subject to government price controls.

Western Maryland Healthcare System is one of 10 rural hospitals that agreed with the state’s Health Services Cost Review Commission to accept a guaranteed budget every year to take charge of the health care of the community they serve.

If revenue comes in under the budget one year, the hospitals are allowed to increase prices the next to make up for the deficit. If revenue exceeds the budget, however, they must reduce prices to give the surplus back.

The system, adopted by Western Maryland in 2010, helps spur innovation. But it was only possible because Maryland has a commission that sets the fee that hospitals can charge patients regardless of whether they are covered by Medicare or private insurance, or are uninsured. Everyone pays roughly the same.

Price controls are not unique to Maryland. Medicare has regulated prices for decades. Other states — including New York, New Jersey and Connecticut — experimented with them in the 1970s, only to drop them in the 1980s and ’90s when, for a time, managed care seemed to keep a lid on prices. In West Virginia, price controls have been in place since the 1980s.

Maryland has the longest track record, however. Price controls were put in place in the mid-1970s, when hospital costs had been rising at an alarming pace.

They addressed “the price dominance of hospitals, which are often monopolies or oligopolies and have a lot of price-setting power,” John Colmers, who heads the commission, told me.

At a stroke, the controls turned hospitals into something like public utilities — with regulated prices and a low but stable profit. Four decades on, the state’s experience offers fairly solid evidence that the hospital-as-utility model can work.

Not only could it help usher in changes called for by the Affordable Care Act, as it has at Western Maryland, it could also address head-on Obamacare’s main weakness, providing a direct means to rein in the cost of care.

From 1977 to 2010, Maryland’s price-regulated hospitals experienced the slowest rise in costs per patient in the country, according to the commission. Before the advent of price controls, the cost per each patient admitted into a Maryland hospital exceeded the national average by 26 percent. In 2011, it was 4 percent lower.

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What’s more, costs are more evenly spread. On average, hospitals across the country charge private patients about 44 percent more than patients on Medicare and Medicaid. The uninsured — who don’t have the clout to negotiate lower fees — must pay a sticker price that includes a 220 percent markup over costs, on average.

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This, hospitals say, makes up for uncompensated care and the fact that Medicare and Medicaid pay almost 8 percent less than cost.

In Maryland, Medicare and Medicaid get only a 6 percent volume discount compared to private payers. And the sticker price markup over costs is only 33 percent. All hospitals contribute proportionately to a pot to cover uncompensated care — and this cost is incorporated into their regulated rates.

Unsurprisingly, health insurance in Maryland is among the cheapest in the country. Health plans that will operate on the new health exchanges created under the federal reforms will charge among the lowest premiums of any state.

Could price controls work nationwide? Studies have foundthat they helped manage costs in other states that later abandoned them, including New York, Massachusetts and New Jersey.

They didn’t work everywhere, however. Maryland hospitals bought into the system because Medicare accepted paying the higher rates set by the commission as long as increases in the cost per patient — measured from the base year of 1981 — came in lower than Medicare’s national average. This provided hundreds of millions in extra revenue from the federal government.

But in Washington State, regulation couldn’t keep costs down in the face of resistance from the hospital industry. And even Maryland’s regulations have had trouble controlling the volume of care.

The commission has no control over physicians’ decisions, the primary drivers of health expenditures. It hasn’t figured out how to transport the global budget used in Western Maryland to urban settings, where hospitals could cut costs simply by encouraging patients to go to the hospital down the block.

Indeed, Maryland’s cost controls are an example of how difficult calibrating regulation could be.

As Maryland’s hospitals have done a better job keeping healthier people out, they have ended up with sicker, more expensive patients, raising their unit cost. At hospitals like Western Maryland, a fixed budget means that each person kept out of the hospital automatically raises the cost of each patient in it.

This is threatening the Medicare waiver, which relies on keeping costs per patient low. It has forced the commission to authorize very small price increases of late. “Hospitals have taken it in the stomach in the last four years,” said Carmela Coyle, president of the Maryland Hospital Association.

The problems seem fixable, though. Global payments might be brought to urban areas by defining the population each hospital must serve and shaping compensation schemes for patients who are treated elsewhere. Mr. Ronan at Western Maryland suggests that global payments could be extended to physicians, too.

Maryland is now negotiating a new measure with the federal government to keep the Medicare waiver — one that will take account of the growth of hospitals’ total costs, rather than the cost per patient.

The rewards seem worth it. Robert Murray, a former head of Maryland’s rate-setting commission, estimated that if every hospital in the nation followed Maryland’s price guidelines, we would have saved $2 trillion between 1976 and 2008 in lower hospital costs.

Given that health care consumes 18 percent of the nation’s economic output, Maryland’s experiment seems worth a try.

E-mail: eporter@nytimes.com;

Twitter: @portereduardo

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/28/business/economy/lessons-in-maryland-for-costs-at-hospitals.html?pagewanted=2&_r=0

Cruisin' Bitches ~ Lyric ~ MobiusTripz

cruisin' my 89 f150 out on the highway,
sun setting colors and clouds basking in glory,
lady by my side we're listen' to country,
living the songs ourselves present real life stories.

chasing a dream trying to make a livin',
filled her up with gas gettin' ducks in a row,
I like wheelin' and dealin' and makin a buck,
working my own style so in the country i can take it slow.

a car payment has never or will be mine,
i like old jalopies that hum history in time,
odometer keeps clicking no liens just fine,
greasy fingers and cut scarred finger lines.

i talk to cars and know them well,
i redeem many from the pits of hell,
one last blast before outcast,
most these machines made to far outlast.

my 98 escort zx2,
practical and pretty sporty too,
mazda badged ford in perfect dichotomy,
and hundreds other cars I've driven too

94 lincoln mark viii beast,
luxury power feels so elite
cars make different attitudes,
4.6 liter dohc 285 hp in leather eludes.

drivin' these bitches up and down the road,
blessed and wrapped in old school steel,
when you buy that $ 50,000 ride you feel,
remember it's my baby at $ 650 twenty years time, a steal.

Somber Slumber, Per Chance to Dream ~ Lyrics ~ MobiusTripz

time twinkling stars twisting on,
spacefabric ripped it won't be long,
event horizon close rats as a throng,
radioactive dead dolphins sing no songs.

oblivious drones fly off to work with glee,
not aware of the invisible misery,
fission confusion fusion confission mutation trees,
new dna program evolution of death for free.

fukishima glows with auras that cant be seen,
invisible mass media distraction gleened,
turbulent tide reckoning hammer head peen,
the un~evolved with no idea what it means.

chorus

cryptic septic fungal pools,
zombies all around us drool,
hypothyroid and bloody stools,
swallow the pills you stupid tools!

history like dead men tells no tales,
distorted reality around us the salesman sells,
but all whaling ships always set sail to kill,
mankind the next species harpooned and soon to fail.

mother nature wins always as balance shifts,
stupid fools waste time lost in mortal rifts,
on angels wings set aloft to offer one last kiss,
this planet away we have really pissed.

money greed and impotence plentiful do last,
the morals, friends, and gods now outcast,
eyes of sin blind can never ever see past,
moments right now human species dying fast.

chorus

cryptic septic fungal pools,
zombies all around us drool,
hypothyroid and bloody stools,
swallow the pills you stupid tools!

somber slumber,
per chance to dream,
nothing left,
Syrian screams.

death gas on air floats,
bodies lying dead bloat,
the earth is his kingdom,
that god damned goat.

chorus

cryptic septic fungal pools,
zombies all around us drool,
hypothyroid and bloody stools,
swallow the pills you stupid tools!

the time to lift off is soon.

KEEP MARYLAND SMART ON CLIMATE ~ PETITION

Petition Overview

Climate change is happening right here in Maryland, right now. The effects of climate change are harming our people, our agriculture, our communities and our ecosystems. We’re witnessing rising seas, summer heat waves, and more frequent and violent thunderstorms. All of these changes affect Maryland’s citizens, their livelihoods and the State’s economy.

The time to act is now. Please take a few minutes to thank Governor Martin O’Malley for moving forward to address climate change--he needs to know that Maryland residents support him.

Under Governor Martin O’Malley’s leadership, Maryland is moving forward to address climate change with a Plan that will reduce greenhouse gases 25% by 2020.  The Plan encompasses more than 150 programs and initiatives that will result in an estimated $1.6 billion in economic benefits, support more than 37,000 jobs and positively impact public health. The Plan is a comprehensive, multi-sector, multi-agency plan that incorporates many innovative strategies.

The Plan is good for Maryland and will support a green economy, preserve valuable agricultural and forest land, aid in restoring Chesapeake Bay, diversify energy sources, and promote renewable energy. Please take a few minutes to thank our Governor by signing this letter today.

To: Governor O’Malley,

Thank you for taking the lead on making sure Maryland is in the forefront of addressing climate change and its impacts on Marylanders throughout the state.

I’m very concerned that Maryland is among the states most vulnerable to climate change and that rising sea levels, along with increased storm intensity, will have devastating and far-reaching environmental and economic impacts on the Chesapeake Bay and on the quality of life Marylanders enjoy.

I am also aware that there is a high cost of inaction and that you and the many agencies you worked with to create the Plan are taking actions now to safeguard our communities from climate impacts we are already seeing and expect to see in the future.

Thank you again for showing great leadership regarding climate change while you have been in office, you are a champion and and an advocate for the health of our environment and Marylanders.

http://www.movingmdforward.net/action/keep-maryland-smart-climate-fb


MY REPLY:

Great work thus far, however 25% by 2020 is not nearly enough.  Please Google (HRDC / Swygert) and read my article at the U.S. Department of Energy!  I have been on the forefront of this a very long time and we have to continue to set the progressive example of change, not simply follow along. The scientific fact is that we are near a tipping point, and more quick efficient change is a must immediately! Thanks and you have my support if your initiatives are even stronger!