oh, the horror.
man oh man, some of the stuff that people are spreading out here in cyber space about obama, his programs, health care etc, is way beyond the pale.
no thinking person could possibly believe that obama was not born in hawaii (oh, for you neo-cons a little secret...hawaii is a state) the state of hawaii has posted his birth certificate on the web, the newspaper in his home town published a birth notice when he was born. so to believe he was not born there is to believe a conspiracy that started in, what? 1961 i believe, where they posted a false birth certificate under the name of barack hussian obama because they were going to get him elected president 47 years later. and the world is flat. and we really didn't land on the moon. and obama has a secret plan to take your guns away. oh, the horror.
the new out-and-out lie is that the new health care plan is going to make elderly people commit suicide. oh the horror.
i think we have developed a rather large group people that have lost or never had the ability to think critically.
we need a national health care plan. we pay more for health care than any other country on a per capita basis. the rest of the industrialized world has national health care. they have longer life spans, lower infant mortality rates and their people are not put into bankruptcy by medical bills. only the insurance companies would be hurt by a n.h.c.; not you, not me, not our families. the insurance companies.
plus you are paying for health care over and over and over and over again. every time you buy a product you pay for the health care of every company involved in the manufacturing and shipping and storing and selling of that product. they all add the cost of their health care to the cost of the product. that is how business works. cost + certain %. duh. so if you buy a car that has 25 different companies involved in making it, you are paying 25 times for health insurance plus the health insurance of the truckers that brought it there plus the health care of the dealership. how much does that add to the cost?
every service company that has health care adds it to the cost.
every state, every city, every county has health care and we pay for that.
if we had a national single payer health care plan the cost of practically everything could go down. (oh, it won't because companies would make such a huge profit by eliminating their health care costs but not subtracting it from the retail price)
we already pay for it. but we don't have it. wake up.
tell the family that lost their home because of medical expenses that we don't need it.
and, by the way, this does not affect me. i am covered. i am in the v.a. and have medicare a and b. (both of which are a single payer system...duh)
our government officials have a single payer system but some of them, mostly republicans, don't want you and i to have it. i wonder why. could it be money from the insurance companies? nah, that couldn't be it.
oh well, i am farting in the wind. no one listens. besides obama is a foreign agent is going to sap our precious bodily fluids.
no thinking person could possibly believe that obama was not born in hawaii (oh, for you neo-cons a little secret...hawaii is a state) the state of hawaii has posted his birth certificate on the web, the newspaper in his home town published a birth notice when he was born. so to believe he was not born there is to believe a conspiracy that started in, what? 1961 i believe, where they posted a false birth certificate under the name of barack hussian obama because they were going to get him elected president 47 years later. and the world is flat. and we really didn't land on the moon. and obama has a secret plan to take your guns away. oh, the horror.
the new out-and-out lie is that the new health care plan is going to make elderly people commit suicide. oh the horror.
i think we have developed a rather large group people that have lost or never had the ability to think critically.
we need a national health care plan. we pay more for health care than any other country on a per capita basis. the rest of the industrialized world has national health care. they have longer life spans, lower infant mortality rates and their people are not put into bankruptcy by medical bills. only the insurance companies would be hurt by a n.h.c.; not you, not me, not our families. the insurance companies.
plus you are paying for health care over and over and over and over again. every time you buy a product you pay for the health care of every company involved in the manufacturing and shipping and storing and selling of that product. they all add the cost of their health care to the cost of the product. that is how business works. cost + certain %. duh. so if you buy a car that has 25 different companies involved in making it, you are paying 25 times for health insurance plus the health insurance of the truckers that brought it there plus the health care of the dealership. how much does that add to the cost?
every service company that has health care adds it to the cost.
every state, every city, every county has health care and we pay for that.
if we had a national single payer health care plan the cost of practically everything could go down. (oh, it won't because companies would make such a huge profit by eliminating their health care costs but not subtracting it from the retail price)
we already pay for it. but we don't have it. wake up.
tell the family that lost their home because of medical expenses that we don't need it.
and, by the way, this does not affect me. i am covered. i am in the v.a. and have medicare a and b. (both of which are a single payer system...duh)
our government officials have a single payer system but some of them, mostly republicans, don't want you and i to have it. i wonder why. could it be money from the insurance companies? nah, that couldn't be it.
oh well, i am farting in the wind. no one listens. besides obama is a foreign agent is going to sap our precious bodily fluids.
posted by Ron Shock | 11:33 AM
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Once Congress finishes mandating that we all buy private health insurance, it can move on to requiring Americans to purchase other defective products.
A Ford Pinto in every garage?
Lead-painted toys for every child?
Melamine-laced chow for every puppy?
Private health insurance doesn’t work.
Even middle-class families with supposedly good coverage are just one serious illness away from financial ruin.
Illness and medical bills contribute to 62 percent of personal bankruptcies — a 50 percent increase since 2001. And three-quarters of the medically bankrupt had insurance, at least when they first got sick.
Coverage that families bought in good faith failed to protect them. Some were bankrupted by co-payments, deductibles, and loopholes. Others got too sick to work, leaving them unemployed and uninsured.
Now Congress plans to make it a federal offence not to purchase such faulty insurance.
On top of that, it’s threatening to tax workers’ health benefits to meet the costs of simultaneously covering the poor and keeping private insurers in business.
President Obama's plan would finance reform by draining funds from hospitals that serve the neediest patients. His other funding plans aren’t harmful, just illusory. He’s gotten unenforceable pledges from hospitals, insurers and the American Medical Association to rein in costs, a replay of promises they made (and broke) to Presidents Nixon and Carter. And Obama trumpets savings from computerized medical records and better care management, savings the Congressional Budget Office has dismissed as wishful thinking.
The president’s health plan can’t make universal, comprehensive coverage affordable.
Only single-payer health reform — Medicare for All — can achieve that goal.
you sir, are absolutely right. anything less than a single payer system is a sham and a hoax.
Yes, after all - Medicare, Social Security, the DMV, Post Office, and every other govt. run entity is bankrupt. Why not throw health care in the mix too.
Can you honestly say you want Obama in charge of your health care. He won't be president forever.
Would you have wanted Bush to be in charge of health care?
Don't you look at the tragedy that is the Canadian and British systems? Are you that blind?
If you want socialism, move, and let us true American live like American.
Dear R2KABA,
A few months ago Medicare paid in full for a U.S. doctor to do a surgery on my wife that would have cost $4,000+ here in Costa Rica.
News of its demise are premature...
Social Security, from your final comment, would be in better shape if Bush's idea of privatizing part of it had gotten better traction...
Good thing "we" kept you from investing your SS nest egg with AIG or Lehman...
DMV/USPS bankrupt? Dude, please...
If USPS got close to broke, the credit card companies would underwrite the loss in a flash...
try delivering millions of "prequalified" offers at UPS rates.
In fairness (or at least equity) I can understand your not wanting Obama to be in charge of *your* health care, considering that a whole bunch of folks (arguably a majority of voting citizens in both elections he *won*) wanted Bush to be in charge of zilch...
Canadians...Brits...do you know any who have had tragic outcomes ?
I lived in Labrador on an airbase that was split USAF/CAF and I don't recall any Great White Northern brethren trying to defect.
I worked with a number of Brits in the U.S. and I never heard a sob story about National Health.
I think the standard American scenario is "want change... vote!"
So, if you're hot to get to some place where you aren't threatened by the Orwellian specter of socialized medicine, well, you'll be happy to know that you can still post to Ron's blog from many non-First World countries...why it'd be like living in your very own 100 years ago history book, just not here...
Or you can deal with it for now and try to reinstall the other political team next year...they'll be happy to tell you how efficient and diligent and honorable are the corporations that own almost all of our asses. Just make sure you don't get a cold or the flu and get euthanized by a death panel...
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