What Do You Think About Health Care Reform? Let Us Know…

Name me one thing that the Government operates efficiently other than the military, and you want to give them responsibility for health care?

Medicaid is causing New York and California to go bankrupt and President Obama wants to pass another government run health care program? Unbelievable

Anyone but the government. Ask that Ron Paul guy. He seems to always get it right.

We just had a panel discussion on health care reform at the local library. 30 people showed up and the crowd was in favor of single-payer universal health care or at the very least a strong public plan option competing with private plans. People need health care not health insurance, and reform done right will correct the problems of high infant mortality and shorter life span compared to other wealthy countries.

So President Obama are going to cut the hell out of Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement to hospitals and providers by over 400 billion AND raise another 700 billion in taxes in order to put through a "public option" which will destroy our current health care system? All so only a fraction of the 15% of the uninsured population can have free health insurance. Sounds like a really great idea! To heck with the other 85% ?you"ll fall in line with socialized Obamacare when the government run crap outbids and thus drives private care out of the market entirely. Then EVERYONE will have coverage but no doctors to take care of them because without any “skin in the game” aka profit, the doctors will just leave the game.

It"ll be so great. Shortages of providers, long long waiting lists, cuts in basic care, denials of basic care, preventative care, medicines, decisions on health care made by political favoritism and who the government deems of "worth" to society. Sounds like hell to me.

A few questions ABC should be asking President Obama are:

The CBO has determined that the government option is going to result in 1 to 3 trillion dollars of extra debt yet only cover a third of the uninsured. Is this an acceptable price to pay for so little return?

Most economists are saying that the higher deficits that this plan represents will cause inflation to rise making the dollar worth half its current value. Is this ok with you?

Many are predicting that there will be a shortage of doctors available to meet the rising demands of millions of more people who would be insured under the plan and that some physicians will retire rather than receive lower compensation for their services. Is this ok with you?

Will your plan result in government rationing of health care for start of life, end of life, and chronic medical conditions? 

In that another government run health care plan, Medicaid, is causing States like New York and California to go broke, how do you plan to prevent another even bigger government health care plan from bankrupting America?

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OBAMA STYLE HEALTH CARE REFORM WILL NOT ONLY NOT WORK, IT WILL PUT US TRILLIONS MORE IN DEBT CAUSING FINANCIAL CHAOS AND COULD EASILY SINK CURRENT PROGRAMS SUCH AS SOCIAL SECURITY, MEDICARE AND MEDICADE. NOT IF, BUT WHEN SS GOES UNDER OR GIVES RECIPIENTS PENNIES ON THE DOLLAR, THE SENIORS WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA ARE GOING TO LOOK PRETTY STUPID!!

Social Security, Medicare,Medicade are disater programs that are sucking dry every taxpayer in this country, analyst tell me not to bother collecting social security when I retire in 20 years. MORE Government control just spells more taxes and more bureaucratic red tape. Having Government option healthcare is not the answer.

INTERESTING TO NOTE THAT EVEN THE DEMS IN CONGRESS ARE GETTING NERVOUS ABOUT SUPPORTING OBAMA'S HEALTH PROPOSAL. I THINK THAT THEY ARE BEGINNING TO REALIZE THAT IT COULD BE THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF THEIR TIME ON THE HILL - AND THEY WOULD BE RIGHT!!!!

I am a 57 year old Black female, currently unemployed, w/ a college degree. My annual income averages when things are great is usually less than 18,000 per year. I haven't had insurance since 1995 or health care since my children left for college. I have not been to the dentist, got my eyes examine for new glasses, had a mammogram, pap exam. I have had extremely painful shingles 4 times in the last 18 mos for which I never sought medical attention. I don't qualify for medicare, medicaid, because I am not old enough & I don't have and children under the age of 18. My employers, when I had one, did not offer it. So, what about all the other people like me that has fallen through the cracks? I recently went to a Dr. through a subsidized program, but I don't go often as needed because I can't afford the co-pay of $16.00.
So health insurance, or even health care is important, but will people like me be able to afford it?

We do need health care refore. The
Health Insurance Companies are crooks.
The only want the people that are healthy and decline the people who are
not. They don't want to pay for drugs
you must have, they make you take generic drugs and still don't want to pay for them. My Insurance is $800 a
month and I'm in good health but because
I was taking Evista for my bones they raised my Insurance $200.00 and refused to pay for the prescription because they
say I have bone lose. They are Crooks.

This government is not for the people rather it is in spite of the people. If the government wants to help those who need health care then find a way for those who need it, that are able bodied, to work for it, and leave the rest of us alone.

NO ONE IS DOING NOTHING ABOUT MEETING THE NEEDS OF THE PEOPLE.NOT EVEN THE MILITARY HEALTH CARE SYSTEM IS EFFICIENT IS A TOTAL DRAMA. STILL WAITING FOR SOLUTIONS TO COME AND WE DON'T HAVE THEM. JUST SHOOT THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM AND LET IT DIE.

The only workable health care is Kucinich's plan, which is to include all citizens and residents in the risk pool and make the Federal Government the insurer for all basic health care. Because of the size and nature of the risk pool the premiums would be small, perhaps as low as ten dollars a year per insured. That would also mean being able to get rid of Veterans' Health as a separate item, and all other public health care plans. They would just become part of the pool. That in itself would save trillions. This is the way many industrialized countries do it, and by taking the burden off the employers and employees it would stimulate economic growth. Any plan that include private insurers will be a disaster, and just another burden on the economy.

The government should keep their incompetent mitts OFF our health care! These people are total bozo's who screw up everything they touch! NO THANK YOU!! How about passing Tort Reform instead? That will bring down the cost of health care by BILLIONS PER YEAR!!

I don't see what the right wingers are complaining about. We already have a screwed up health care system now courtesy the GOP. So why they are so adamantly opposed to health care reform when millions go without health care and multiple hundreds of billions are wasted in corporate fraud, waste, inefficiency, etc...I guess as usual the Republicans like failure and want more of it. They don't mind the government running the military or the FBI or Homeland Security, but suddenly they say the government can't be trusted to create a new healthcare plan? Where is their logic? Where is their wanting the best for America?

Don't like the fact that you don't allow cut and paste. How are other bloggers going to cite you.

Some people go too far in efforts to cut down plagiarism.

pbbbth

I'd like to know if the Congress and the President and his family are going to have the same healthcare as the rest of us little people.

JL

Because just as with the bailouts the Dems are going to spend trillions on healthcare and still millions of people will not be covered.

And where do you get the idea that the GOP ruined healthcare?

Why am I forced into Medicare at age 65 if I have comprehensive private insurance? Why can't I opt out of Medicare without being penalized? Why should the taxpayers pay my medical costs instead of my private insurance plan when I reach 65?

Also, why can't the law require coordination of benefits up to 100% of allowable charges when people are covered by two health insurance plans and are paying two full premiums? (Dental insurance allows this type of coordination of benefits).

Also, why are hospitals allowed to bill non-insured patients up to 300% more for the same procedure than what gets charged when there's insurance coverage? That is inherently unfair.

Look at medicare, medicaid, the VA, and social security and the incompetence, waste and bureaucracy that those programs exhibit. When is the last time that the government has run any program efficiently or within budget; or has built a project on time or within budget projections? Why is this program going to be any different?