Comments on: Health Care Reform, Things are Looking Very Different Now: What happened to Mr. Obama?

By: Casey

Casey — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:04:44 +0000

It is ridiculous for anyone to blame the lack of progress on President Obama. It is not President Obama who is constantly throwing curves about healthcare, it is senators and congressmen who are responsible for this. Everyone is really quick to look at the president and blame him for what goes wrong, but let us not forget that it is the house, senate, and congress that has to approve of the President’s plan in order for it to take effect. There is never just one person who is to blame, there are many. I have heard senators all over the country being totally against President Obama’s health care reform bill, but not ONE person who is without insurance actively stand against it. Something needs to be done. If we want the health care system to be fixed, then we have to come together and find a solution. Not a republican solution, and not a democrat solution, but an American solution. Let us not forget as well, “A house divided against itself CANNOT stand.” Pray for Obama, and that his leadership is Godly and helps America.

By: BRENDA

BRENDA — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:09:19 +0000

America needs some type of healthcare reform. Medical bills are causing undue hardship on American families and that is a
fact. The cost of insurance premiums is escalating with the
benefits decreasing every renewal period. The high cost of
insurance premiums are a huge burden of business and threaten American businesses to compete in a global economy because foreing businesses do not have that expense. So what are your suggestions and have any of you who are openly against healthcare reform ever had an illness that affected your finances? It’s easy to criticize the President’s effort but what do you suggest? Health Insurance Companies are making huge profits and dictating how doctors can treat their patients. It is time for something to be done. I don’t want socailized medicine either. There must be something we can do that would be better than socialized medicine. I think that what President Obama is suggesting is universl
insurance that everyone who works would help fund. Many people working today do not have health insurance offered at their jobs because the employer can not afford it. Many people today choose not to participate in offered health insurance benefits because it is so expensive so they play
Russian roulette with their health care and when something
bad happens then the American taxpayer pays the price in taxes. President Obama says that before we can work on the huge budget deficit our country has, we must do something about the astronomical rise in healthcare cost. I believe him. Don’t be closed minded and look at this issue along party lines. Think for yourself and look at the true facts.
You will be able to see the issues more clearly and come up with your very own thoughts. Maybe someone who thinks for themselves will be able to come up with the solution.
I have great confidence in America. We are a people that rise up in the worst of times. We need to pray. We need to be
thoughtful and smart. Realize that there is many who would continue to benefit from leaving healthcare alone and it not
the average,hard working, struggling to pay your health insurance premium, regular guy.

By: Deana Carson

Deana Carson — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:30:47 +0000

Obama Bin Ly’in Impeach Now

By: Ted

Ted — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:39:04 +0000

HEALTH CARE REFORM THAT CAN WORK.

1.HEALTH INSURANCE CAN BE BOUGHT IN ANY STATE,NOT JUST WHERE YOU RESIDE.2.INSURANCE CARRIERS MUST ACCEPT PEOPLE WITH PRE EXISTING CONDITIONS AT AFFORDABLE PREMIUM RATES. 3. ILLEGALS WILL BE BROUGHT UNDER CONTROL OR SENT HOME. THEY WILL NOT GET ANY GOVERNMENT BENEFIT UNTIL THEY ARE DOCUMENTED CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES. 4.VA BENEFITS WILL CONTINUE AND IMPROVE TO PROPERLY CARE FOR OUR WOUNDED SOLDIERS.5. THERE WILL BE CAPS ON TORT MEDICAL CASES. 6. SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE WILL BE FUNDED SO THEY CONTINUE AS SET UP ;ESPECIALLY FOR AMERICANS WHO PAID INTO THESE PROGRAMS. 7. DOCTORS WILL CONTINUE TO WORK IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR AND WILL NOT BE FORCED INTO SOME GOVERNMENT AGENCY. DOCTORS WHO WISH TO WORK IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR CAN DO THAT NOW IN CITY AND COUNTY AND STATE HOSPITALS.

IN MY OPINION, THIS SUMMERIZES WHAT WE NEED, IN A FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE WAY.WE DO NOT NEED A HUGE NEW GOV`T AGENCY TO RUN IT. ALMOST EVERYTHING IS ALREADY IN PLACE.NO NEW CZARS AND THEIR STAFFS ARE NEEDED TO RUN THIS PROGRAM

By: Victor Sabin

Victor Sabin — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:51:56 +0000

The biggest issue in health care is controlling its cost. Health care reform should focus on that rather than overhauling the hole system. Folks, if we don’t control the cost of health care our next financial crash will be because of a health care bubble. We all know what happened in 2008. Greedy banks and Wall Street sharks sucked the life blood out of economy, the most prosperous in the world, and brought it to the brink of disaster. Why, because we failed to control what these greedy bandits were doing. The same thing is now happening to healthcare. There are no incentives to control costs. No body questions why a small 20 minute surgery and anesthesia should cost thousands of dollars. (To be exact, $14,000 for placement of tubes in both ears and removal of adenoids). These doctors who do procedures, (surgeons, radiologists, anesthesiologists, cardiologists etc)
are paid enormous amounts at the expense of the primary care physicians. An anesthesiologist always charges 20 % of surgeon’s fee, why? Who set these exorbitant fees? Any wonder very doctors want go go in primary care?

Folks, 5-6 years ago a computer cost was $3000, but now it is $800. Why is it so? Because market forces of free competition, economy of scale and increased productivity bring the cost down with time and make a product and a service affordable to the average citizen. This does not happen in health care. Fifteen years ago CAT scan’s cost was $2500 and the greedy radiologist’s reading fee for 20 minutes was $1500. Now after fifteen years it has not come down, in fact it has gone up in some big cities.

Why is it so? Because there just are not any incentives for cost control in health care, neither for doctors and clinics nor for hospitals, drug and insurance companies. They are all hand in gloves to fleece the American public. Folks, health care is an essential service, which we cannot do without. All essential services (police, military, fire fighting etc.) should either be run by government or properly controlled and regulated by government. However inept and inefficient government is, it is NOT a greedy profit amasser. So the government by law must freeze all health care cost increase for next 3 years, reform our health care model by creating a public option for people who cannot afford expensive health care premiums. This public option must be deficit neutral and not add to our deficits. And of course, private health care option should be open to all who wish to use it. We should create competition to shape up the wildly expensive health care system and bring the costs down. Please note UPS and FedEx compete with US Post office and make good profits. There is no government takeover here at all. The same thing should happen in health care.

If we allow our wild health care costs to skyrocket every year, then we are in big trouble. Be prepared for the next financial crash in next 3-4 yrs, brought on by a health care bubble. We will deserve what we get.

By: JOHN PEPPERCORN

JOHN PEPPERCORN — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:12:19 +0000

OBAMA KEEPS CHANGING HIS MESSAGE AND POSITION ON HEALTH CARE. THE US CANNOT AFFORD MORE TAX AND DEFICIT AND OBAMA IS LEADING THIS COUNTRY INTO IRRERVERSABLE BANKRUPTCY.
I HAVE LOST TOTAL CONFIDENCE IN OBAMA.

By: mahalapril

mahalapril — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:55:48 +0000

Obama is and will always be the same naive,ignorant,anti-America,anti-US military,anti-cop,anti-white,anti-CIA and militarily and economically incompetent president. As a pathological liar you can only lie for a time until you run out of lies and then starts blaming and demonizing everybody but himself. Obama can’t lie forever.Obama is now exposed and shown his true colors.

By: Isabella Varner

Isabella Varner — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:58:36 +0000

I believe that the following are two issues which disturb me as a citizen.
1. The expansion of the federal government and the need for more taxes for the new health care system under consideration. I have not heard exactly how it is to be financed.
2. The expansion of executive branch of the federal government and the lessening of the power of the legislative branch.

By: Michele Balfour

Michele Balfour — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:39:54 +0000

Obama has interfered with the way America should be handling the current problems. Bail-outs, healthcare and next social security, He just doesn’t have the ability to handle the job. We do not respect his ability or his knowledge as he goes along with the crowd to be famous or important and self serving. That attitude is not productive. We need a President that is a leader and is strong in conviction. He just doesn’t have it…….Get the picture, it may be too late. Who is going to be able to streighten out his mess?

By: Dwayne

Dwayne — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:15:43 +0000

The largest problem with this whole mess is that the very ones who are running around with their townhall meetings and promoting the healthcare overhaul and are the ones who are goiing to vote, or the ones who haven’t read the bill they are voting on. A number of the democrats have made the comment that it would take an army of lawyers weeks to go thru the bill, so how can they be expected to know what is in the bill – yet they are going to defend and vote on it? There are a lot of what liberals call myths being put out by the Republicans, that aren’t myths. Instead what the Republicans are saying is that the areas of concern are what either the bill says, or implies by not saying it. A bad bill should not be voted on just because the intentions are good. If the democrats and Obama want this bill passed, then do what they have said they want, and put a bill together that encompasses what everyone wants. But instead, Palosi, Obama and the liberals are saying that anyone who opposes the bill, that we are just Nazis and terrorists. No, we are more patriotic than you are, and are of the mindset that it is better to not do something than to destroy the very fabric of our country. The democrats say that there are 47 million (and by the way, even their own studies dispute that number) that are without coverage. Most of those are either illegals, young people who normally opt out to save money, etc. But, iif the democrats want to help them, then set up a plan that covers them and leave the rest of us alone who are happy with what we have now. Oh, by the way, stop the doggone lawsuits and you’ll lower the costs also.

Another point, medicare doesn’t save money. Instead, they tell the doctor what is going to be reimbursed, and the rest of us by higher fees cover what it actually costs for the doctor to operate. We are goiing to see droves of doctors leaving their practices, and less young people entering because of their massive school bills, lawsuit expenses, etc. because Obama and his plan aren’t goiing to cover thhe actual costs. Those who support the plan, because they think they are goiing to “get something for free” should move to Canada and leave the US alone.