Health Care Hoops
A look at the match up between health care providers and the public option.
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November 25th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
It is the fact that people BELIEVE the govt will take care of them will be there when they retire that dooms them to a life equal to that of a pauper. If they had prepared on their own, they would be much better off.
No one is talking about removing safety nets. But, how long does a citizen get to “languish” on the safety net? Get your rear up and be productive, use a talent, PROVIDE for your OWN well being!
Besides, govt. picks & chooses winners to benefit the party, not the individual.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
This is too funny!! Love it!! If anyone has any questions as to how well the government can run health care just ask one of our vets!! They wait, and wait, and wait, and wait and wait, for every little test or procedure. The government has already screwed that up how do any logical Americans think they will do any better with the whole country under their control!!!!
November 25th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
The H1N1 flu vaccine is a prime example of how the feds can screw up a simple task. Obama promised access to the vaccination, yet only 1/3 of the projected amount was available to the public by flu season. The bill, HR 3200 allows Obama to appoint a lot of his cronies WITHOUT SENATE approval into high level commissioner positions, and there’s no legal verbiage to change things once it’s passed. Malpractice litigation is a $30BILLION dollar a year business for lawyers, ergo no TORT REFORM.
November 26th, 2009 at 6:00 am
That’s funny stuff. Although I despise insurance companies and the mess they have made of health care, introducing a government version of it will simply make things even worse for patients.
November 26th, 2009 at 6:42 pm
Luinreg…I worked as a Merchant Marine for 30 odd years under two Unions…NMU and I think SIU of SFU…Sea Ferrer Union,,,(sp) also worked without the union in non union stuff. I tried to get retirement benifits from them. A lawyer would cost me over $250.00 an hour…Wellllll, that quickly went South. NOW makin’ less than $800.00 a month on SS…if it weren’t for food stamps, and being a Veteran not having to pay Co-pay and heating utilities help a month I’d be living under a bridge somewhere
November 26th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
Which is exactly my point. A social safety net for a society to exist is needed. Rugged individualism does not exist anymore since there is no more expansion of land and building new towns.
Most people in our society wouldn’t even be working poor if it were not for social welfare programs that everyone funds with taxes. But now that we nickel and dime everything we are starving the very government that creates our society.
November 26th, 2009 at 8:44 pm
Luinreg, in 1900, the size of the federal government was roughly 3% of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product. Today, it is close to 30%! How much is enough?
Get some perspective, sir. Please.
November 26th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
And health care used to be 0% of GDP back during the 1900′s. An entire century with an ever changing society gives me enough perspective.
Also we all know this video is skewed. The captains of the health industry make 10 billion dollars a year in salary and that is excluding their stock. Their industry is very muscular taking up 18% GDP in our country.
November 27th, 2009 at 7:09 am
Yea really. Polio and aspirin were funded by non profit organizations.
But even the drug advancements that do come out of the private sector, come from the pharmaceutical companies… not from the health insurance industry.
November 28th, 2009 at 9:49 pm
Yeah pretty sure you are overstepping what I said. If anything Europeans have shown us as their education is considered better than ours and they do things such as school vouchers and have more private schools that it proves to be more efficient.
December 2nd, 2009 at 12:30 am
This is ridiculous. Public Option will eliminate the middlemen (insurance companies) NOT providers (your private doctors and hospitals). This video is intentionally trying to confuse the uninformed with disinfo.
December 2nd, 2009 at 5:09 am
Are you suggesting that one giant DMV style government insurance company is preferable?
December 2nd, 2009 at 4:41 pm
Roark86 Yes. Can you imagine if the DMV was run by corporations instead? The profit margins just to get a driver’s license and auto tag would be prohibiitve for the average working American to be able to drive.
December 3rd, 2009 at 3:50 pm
If anyone wants a good look at government run health care, look at the VA where health care is too often delayed, subpar, and yes, rationalized.
The solution to health care problems is more competition, not more government.
December 3rd, 2009 at 11:28 pm
Weffie;
I had to quit seein my head shrinker because I made a statement that she didn’t agree with…I was told she had the athority to have me confined…(arrested under hospital care for who knows how long). Soooo, now I can’t talk freely to my headshrink. Kinda sucks huh? Now I have to deal with depression on my own. The internet has a few help spots in this field but not like 1 on 1 with a headshrink that cares 4 U. I’m not satisfied with my doc at the VA either. I change, I’m makin waves.
December 4th, 2009 at 5:35 pm
I have yet to see a better illustration of this situation! Wonderful job Pillcast!!!! I follwed a link the Patriot Post has to it.
December 4th, 2009 at 6:14 pm
I should tell you why the headshrink thought I might be crazy…I’m from Texas. I told her that lincoln got over 600,000 of his fellow Americans killed back in the 1860′s and should not be praised but considered a WAR LORD and be classified as a terrorist for all the termoil he and his henchmen caused to these United before he got into office States. When he saw the Southern states leaving the Union he should have resigned prez and let the next in line become prez. I was dramatized by her reply
December 4th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
In ’08 and the 1st 4 mos of ’09 the leftest folks thought Obama was the answer to America’s problems. NOW, look at the Democrats that voted for him. Most say they voted for McCain and not Obama. Kinda funny ain’t it? Too bad the folks back before TV and Radio talk show hosts were not warned of the leaders of these United States. NOW we know what our prez is doing and what he had for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Good to be in the know ain’t it???
December 5th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
Cut of Medicare by $500 Billion OKed by liberal big gov’t loving AARP (elders association) who hated GOP for not growing bigger Medicare and called sameness “cuts”. H.R. 3961, the Medicare Physicians Payment Rates Reform Act, passed House w/ only Republican vote ( Michael Burgess, R-TX MFSOB), amends the rate of pay for MDs serving Medicare patients. Strong arms in charge are messing up and the American public will pay through the nose for sloppy mismanaged care. Micturation on the lot of them!
December 5th, 2009 at 4:59 pm
Yankhadenough, you mean like how nobody can afford TVs, radios, or cell phones (nevermind actual cars)?
Heck, by your logic, if government is so great, why not just have them run everything?
December 5th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
Yes, you dull ignorant clod, I can imagine the DMV being run as a business. It would probably be efficient.
If you want to support another ponzi scheme like social security with confiscatory taxation then go to sweden.
December 7th, 2009 at 2:46 am
We need Socialized Health Care because Congress is now filled with Commies and they’re gonna shove it down our throats because they RULE!!! Hello Democrats!!! you, your kid’s and their kid’s kid’s will pay for your stupid short coming’s belief’s. Now…stick that in your butt’s and whistle Dixie you bunch of commie lookin’ asinine pieces of crap. Only GOD can make a tree but democommies will burn it to the ground in the name of green peace/pea’s. Some are born stupid. Democrats work hard to be.
December 8th, 2009 at 11:39 pm
Find some dirt on Obama like found on Tiger Woods and…We can shit can this asinine before he can RAM this Hi Dollar Health Care down our throats,,, Who knows??? Maybe we can soon get rid of all his CZARS…Hillary and that stupid VP and all below them…Cross your fingers…You may have to die under Obama’s Health program if he manages to run it through…The American people who DON’T WANT IT…We can’t afford it folks!!! Put this asinine in Gitmo where he tried to shut down. He’s a terrorist
December 9th, 2009 at 6:44 pm
Travis, I have no love for Mr. Obama and I fully oppose this government health care insanity but I’m pretty sure I don’t agree with THAT.
December 9th, 2009 at 6:54 pm
Roark;
We know nothing about Obama. Never did he show his real birth certificate. He bows before kings like he was their subject. He claims to be a Muslim. He lied about his preacherman of 20 years and been caught in many more. He’s broken the Constitution by buying car companies, mortguage firms ETC… with tax payers money. He’s bankrupting our country. He blames Bush for his short comings. He has no business experiance. That health care and taking our guns will leave us open for envasion.