Comments on: What Ben Nelson didn’t tell Nebraskans

By: Keating Willcox

Keating Willcox — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:09:20 +0000

1. permit all health insurance companies to operate in the entire country. Allow them to refuse anyone they want. Have a pool of “high risk” patients who are subsidized by all the other insurance premiums.

2. Allow Insurance companies to operate and be sued in the state they are incorporated, to reduce medical judgments. Take government out of the process of regulating companies, but make very public any consumer complaints, for shoppers.

3 Reduce medicaid and medicare fraud by having incentives for individuals to report fraud.

4. Tax incentives for homeowners to allow sick or disabled folks to live in and get some care.

By: anb

anb — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 19:20:38 +0000

Janeycat and dgmxz, you are morons. You want a solution that actually works? Tort reform. Allowing insurance to be sold across state lines. Period. Costs will go down. I look forward to your explaining the problems with this solution. Your stupidity is shown by the following quote: “eliminate the healthcare burden from corporations, and pay for it by raising taxes”. It is paid for one way or the other by the corporations, either directly or through taxes…what kind of ninny thinks inserting the government makes anything more efficient or better, when the evidence to the contrary is overwhelming?

By: janeycat

janeycat — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 16:55:03 +0000

I agree with ” dgmxz” all the way….

Quit your bitching unless you have a solution to the problem..as the saying goes,”if your part of the problem, then your not part of the solution”.

By: Ronnie Bell

Ronnie Bell — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 23:05:00 +0000

I fear for America. THE GREAT GIVE AWAY! The people who want everything for free are the first to riot in the streets and burn the city. If your illegal you are entitled to nothing but expulsion. America is collapsing under the socialist give away policies of Obama and the utterly repugnant greed and corporate theft of Wall St and the Bank Mafia.
I am Australian living in Queensland Australia and I can see clearly from here the pending financial collapse of a great nation into mass chaos. WW3 is next, God help the free.

By: dgmxz

dgmxz — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 08:10:35 +0000

you assholes have no solution to the health care problem – only bitching & moaning.
the only way to compete in the GLOBAL market is to eliminate the healthcare burden from corporations, and pay for it by raising taxes and outlawing for-profit insurance companies. period!
raise the taxes, especially on the filthy corrupt immoral rich. 90%.

By: The Bell

The Bell — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 21:29:39 +0000

Assuming we’re in agreement that Enron-esque bookkeeping tricks are wrong, can we conclude that such bookkeeping tricks are to be rigorously prosecuted wherever they crop up, all the way back through various Middle Eastern war budget scandals? Eventually, even, maybe to Enron itself?

Because that really hasn’t happened yet. There’s always the specter of gay marriage, godlessness and abortion in need of more urgent debate.

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:38:12 +0000

I am just sorry my Sen. Nelson (FL) didn’t hold out for more than a little Medicare Advantage money. Why should my state taxes go up to pay for Medicaid if Nebraska’s doesn’t.

By: Dale Simmons

Dale Simmons — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 04:18:05 +0000

I have a great Idea about health care.How about taxing the Insurance companies and insisting they pay for your health care according to the coverage,not the fine print.I had some minor health issues that required me to have some test a couple years back.I pay my own health coverage through my employer the cost is about 10k.According to the coverage page I have a maximum out of pocket expence of 1k. My part of the expenses was about 8k after all the disallowed charges and deductibles and other b.s. I spent more than the insurance company. Add insult to injury when I approched my doctors with how about they charge me the rates they gave the insurance company and I could save money by just payin for my health care and dropping theInsurance companies.The doctors simply said they couldn’t do that if I pay cash I have to pay the ficticious retail sum of which the insurance only paid about forty percent of the part they were billed.They have a contract with the insurance company they get pateints by heavily discounting the fees to the insurance company and if they charged me that amount the insurance companies would dump them.Sum it up I pay 60% more for the services than the insurance company if I pay cash on the spot. All of this is to force me to carry insurance and pay 10k a year for nothing except a discounted rate.

By: Old Patriot

Old Patriot — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:47:48 +0000

Senator Ben Nelson and some 30 others Congresscritters accepted a bribe for their vote. Just because Harry Reid was the one making the bribe doesn’t change its nature – it was dishonest. ANYONE who accepted – or offered – a bribe (“special favors”) to pass this freedom-destroying bill should be arrested, charged with the crime, and once proven guilty (there’s not much doubt), hung from the ceiling of the Rotunda as a reminder to the rest. Too bad none of us have the conviction of our Founding Fathers.

By: Daybro

Daybro — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:11:02 +0000

There is a great deal more fraud in the works as well. For example, there is a mechanism to save money by NOT readmitting patients to the hospital if they bounce back. Either those people will certainly die and the hospitals and doctors will ALL be sued back to the stone age or the patients will indeed be readmitted as obviously necessary: OOPs! Zero savings. The very idea that bureacrats are to decide who gets to be admitted to the hospital is insane. Just don’t call them “Death Panels” or you will be ridiculed as a far-right totalitarian, fear monger and a hick from flyover country. They also tried (Congress) to set up an “independent” panel to issue imperial guidelines for the practice of medicine—a panel that could not be dismantled by future legislatures. Although illegal and unconstitutional, look for that “savings panel” to be created in conference.