Comments on: Why ObamaCare is morphing into RomneyCare

By: Iam-ru Awake

Iam-ru Awake — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 08:29:56 +0000

It’s absolutely fascinating how quickly big pharma and Fox News can whip up a frenzy-fest of people who fight against their own best interests:

How providing cost reducing OPTIONS can be twisted into —> “a government take-over of health care”.

How providing free LIVING WILL CONSULTATIONS, can be twisted into —> “Obama’s death panels”.

How providing PREVENTATIVE CARE INCENTIVE for doctors, can be twisted into “government coming in between you and your health care provider”.

HOW FINALLY PROVIDING ADEQUATE CARE FOR AMERICANS WHO CAN LEAST AFFORD IT, IS TWISTED INTO —> “SOCIALIZED MEDICINE”

I have one simple request for anyone reading this:
Think for one moment what will occur if the insurance lobby wins and real reform is NOT passed:

Carefully think about this and ask yourself if you are happy with your health insurance cost going up by 200% the rate of inflation year, after year, after year.

Ask yourself if you are happy with millions of jobs being shipped overseas due to high health costs in the U.S.

Ask yourself if you will be happy as the U.S. health system continues to spend a higher portion of its gross domestic product than any other country, but also continues to rank WORST in preventable deaths among industrialized nations. WORST!!!

If this really is a Christian nation, as most would claim, I am seeing fewer and fewer signs of it every day. What ever happened to, ‘Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me.’?

I can’t help but to wonder why those angry mobs at the town hall meetings are not fighting FOR the PUBLIC OPTION rather than against it? Why they are not picketing the insurance industry that is financially incentivized to DENY your coverage (based on pre-existing conditions, etc. etc. etc.). Why medical payments are STOPPED, after a fixed period of time EVEN THOUGH YOU HAVE MADE INSURANCE PAYMENTS LIKE CLOCKWORK YOUR ENTIRE ADULT LIFE.

You want to see a REAL death panel at work? Just look into the current practices of even the most popular health insurance providers.

Get the facts, and then get real folks. If you assist in blowing THIS CHANCE for high quality health care that EVERYONE can afford, then there may never be another opportunity to once-and-for-all get this one right.

References:
http://www.nchc.org/facts/cost.shtml
http://www.americashealthrankings.org/20 08/index.html
http://www.who.int/whr/2000/media_centre /press_release/en/index.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNew s/idUSN0765165020080108
Matthew 25:40

By: Kate99

Kate99 — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 18:25:19 +0000

For those of you saying you want health care for all, please tell me who you think is going to have to pay for it? Where will the money come from? Oh, yeah, you want to steal it from the top 1% who pay most of the taxes in theis country. Why is it 1% of the country pays more than 95% of the country and 40% pay no taxes at all. Why is it a crime to be smart, get an education, work hard and get a JOB. Why should we have to pay for everyone else, most of those too lazy to apply themselves and work hard for a living. Oh, and if you can’t afford health care, STOP HAVING CHILDREN!

By: Mikel Oklock

Mikel Oklock — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:32:45 +0000

As a healthcare worker I firmly believe healthcare sould be provided to all. It basically is, with hospitals picking up the charity care and passing it on to all. With politics envolved you can’t even get medicare reimbursement paid out the same from state to state. How wrong is that? What politition will touch tort reform? When are the elected officials going to quit following party lines and sit their butts down and do their jobs!! What ever the politicians come up with they too should be covered by it! We already have a healthcare plan,its called medicare. Let everyone be eligable.

By: sally

sally — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:22:22 +0000

On the same page as your article an actress complains she cannot receive a CAT scan. That’s the problem with the costs of medical care. an x-ray would do.,

By: The Right Side

The Right Side — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:20:33 +0000

Let me get this straight from you room temp IQ libs…
You want the government who just brought you Cash For Clunkers that was recently suspended for lack of oversight to NOW administer your health risks and care.
It should be painful to be stupid !

By: sam

sam — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:02:43 +0000

Diego Hausfather:
people like you who go around comparing the US costs to Canada or British healthcare costs, without ever mentioning how much of the higher costs have to do with lawsuits and liability insurance, it is much harder to sue and the settlements are more standardised and smaller in both Canada and Britain then the US, democrats wouldn’t touch tort reform because trial lawyers own them. Your let’s do away with insurance companies and HMO’s, as though it would be possible to just destroy in a day almost 18% of the American economy, for dummies that’s hundreds of billions of dollars and millions of jobs going puff, ah not going to happen. Every country has private insurance and public healthcare just like the US which has medicare and medicaid for the old and poor except Canada and Cuba, since Cuba’s not worth really mentioning and Canada whole economy is about 1.2 trillion to compare it to US is ridiculous, and even in Canada in a decade they will have to have public/private insurance because their Healthcare costs are unfunded , and the wait lines have been struck down by the Supreme Court as against Canadian human rights, so let’s not copy a system that itself will be no more in less than a decade.

By: F. Sumter

F. Sumter — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 07:27:37 +0000

Responding to Diego Hausfather:

Why would you assume that government officials would be less corrupt than a large corporation?

By: Diego Hausfather

Diego Hausfather — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 06:18:10 +0000

The US government spends about 20% more per capita on health care than the Canadian government, even though the US govt only covers those on Medicare or Medicaid, whereas the Canadian government covers EVERYONE. On top of that, most Americans pay health insurance either directly or through their job. This means if we cut the insurance companies and HMOs out of the equation, the US government could provide universal health care without raising taxes. No paperwork required when visiting the doctor, no one between you and your doctor, deciding what treatments you can and can’t have. Why would assume giant corporations are less corrupt than the government?

By: zyz

zyz — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 04:19:38 +0000

JeffT, you’re the one who needs to get real. The American “free market” health care model is a travesty. I don’t want my health care needs being mediated by someone who receives bonuses to deny treatments among other bad-faith style practices.

By: JeffT

JeffT — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 03:01:39 +0000

If you want the government running your life, you’ll love Obamacare. If you think the government can do a better job than the private free markets, you are…a newborn. Get real!