Comments on: Why Obamacare may be flatlining

By: ccd2

ccd2 — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:05:07 +0000

I am shocked at the number of feather-brained people who have written comments that this piece is racist. Is it that you are stupid or just illiterate?

By: Texpatriate

Texpatriate — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:55:58 +0000

A datapoint from Larry Kudlow:

“According to a recent ABC News/USA Today/Kaiser Family Foundation survey, 89 percent of Americans are satisfied with their health care.”

More: “According the U.S. Census Bureau, we don’t have 47 million folks who are truly uninsured. When you take college kids plus those earning $75,000 or more who chose not to sign up, that removes roughly 20 million people. Then take out about 10 million more who are not U.S. citizens, and 11 million who are eligible for SCHIP and Medicaid but have not signed up for some reason. … So that really leaves only 10 million to 15 million people who are truly long-term uninsured.

I I’m looking for the original links.

By: Dave S

Dave S — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:29:55 +0000

Tal, you have to be a friend of RSG. What a dork.

By: Dave S

Dave S — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:28:53 +0000

Why not a low cost catastrophic plan for that 10% between jobs or whatever? Maybe a 6 mo. govt. subsidized one for people out of work.

By: Dave S

Dave S — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:25:25 +0000

RSG, you’re an embarrassment. Why don’t you shut up and sit down. I think you work for the Obama administration and post idiocy like this to make conservative blogs look bad. Now drink your Kool Aid and go take your nap.

By: Schlomo Tal

Schlomo Tal — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:41:35 +0000

My advice?

Let the Iranians kill each other.

The more the better.

Who cares ?

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:33:52 +0000

As others have said: why not make Medicare perfect first? It’s government-run health insurance. It helps those in greatest need (well, never mind for a moment that the elderly have most of the wealth). It’s the ideal testbed for this nonsense, er, Urgent Moral Imperative.

So, make Medicare cheap, efficient, and wonderful by 2011, and maybe the Democrats will have some credibility. Good luck with that.

By: Christian

Christian — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:22:33 +0000

I’m so disappointed in the nature of some of these comments. There are so many legitimate reasons to be disgusted with ObamaCare without using racist and hate speech. What you are doing is weakening our argument because that is all the left will latch onto when they read this.

To them, we’re racist bigots because we oppose universal healthcare. You’re hurting our cause. Disgusting.

By: Craig - web traffic guy

Craig - web traffic guy — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:33:47 +0000

I would like to see some sort of compromise where I don’t have to fear getting wiped out by a sickness.

What about the tort reform issue. Why not try a compromise there. It won’t have anywhere near the sticker shock.

By: John Skookum

John Skookum — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:29:24 +0000

“So, we’re really discussing overthrowing what is really a decent system for about 10% of the population….most of whom have done an internal risk/reward scenario…”

Let’s not forget that a lrge number of that 10%, perhaps even a majority, are illegal aliens. I’ll be damned if even one nickel of my tax money should go to take care of a wetback who shouldn’t even be here.