Obama: Health Care Reform is No Longer a Luxury

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hopeandfaith wrote:

Obama must be mad.....where does the money come from? We are already printing money out of thin air, begging the Chinese to continue to bankroll us....Americans are so far in debt, and his answer is to open up the credit lines......with his bail outs of big business and with the government exercising its business panache, we are expected to believe that Obama can tackle the health care problem.....Obama must be mad....or delusional at least.

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Seeking truth wrote:

What's unclear, however, is if he, or any in Congress, will get that the majority of Americans want a Medicare-style, single-payer system as our neighbors to the north in Canada have. There, you have no worry about losing your job and therefore your health insurance, no worry about huge premiums because of pre-existing conditions, and no worry about bankruptcy from medical costs.

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Joe wrote:

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Obama somehow thinks he must be the smartest person ever. He really isn't, he just has socialistic ideologies that he wants implemented and he knows that the more things he throws out there at the same time, the less people can keep track of any of them. Basically our government is being operated in a state of panic and fear and most of population hasn't figured that out yet.
At some point the Ponzi scheme will have to end and it will be a very unfortunate time to be living in America, especially to watch it's demise. It's absolutely pathetic to see what's going on.

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Joe wrote:

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Obama somehow thinks he must be the smartest person ever. He really isn't, he just has socialistic ideologies that he wants implemented and he knows that the more things he throws out there at the same time, the less people can keep track of any of them. Basically our government is being operated in a state of panic and fear and most of population hasn't figured that out yet.
At some point the Ponzi scheme will have to end and it will be a very unfortunate time to be living in America, especially to watch it's demise. It's absolutely pathetic to see what's going on.

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Jkjkhardcore wrote:

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He's throwing so much out there, i bet if he didn't do anything you'd call him worthless and lazy... He's the president he has to tackle every possible problem that america faces. Instead of using this to bash him why don't you add something to a proper solution, or how exactly socializing healthcare is a bad thing and what exactly we should do otherwise? Of course I may be giving you too much credit, but maybe that's because you didn't resort to the normal "Obama's scum, kill treason" that I hear one - liner.
While, bailing out banks and several other policies that he has I strongly disagree with, this one I have no grounds to disagree.
The system is broken, and we need to fix it.

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Policies wrote:

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If you take a look at the multi billions of dollars in profit that the health insurance providers are making every year at the expense of Americans, you might see a different solution to the cost of health care. The multi-bizillion dollar lawsuits against doctors and hospitals, the pharmacutical companies and the billions that end up in the hands of greedy lawyers. My cousin is a physician. He opened a practice with two fellow doctors. Malpractice insurance costs them $70,000 a year. It's no wonder there's fewer and fewer people in college right now becoming doctors.
You have hospital and medical practices indulging in redundant billing practices, which is why insurance companies shave 50% or more off the original bills submitted. But the uninsured American has no idea this happens and there's no one protecting them from it. The way bills are coded, you might be getting charged three times for the same procedure. The government knows about this, so why aren't they doing anything about it?
If we got rid of the fraud, capped class action suits, cut the profit out of it for these greedy, bloodsucking lawyers and stopped redundant billing practices, the cost of health care would likely be cut by half or more. But then the government can't get their share of the pie and the money from pharmacutical companies and insurance lobbies will dry up their election funds. We can't have that, now can we?

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Policies wrote:

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If you take a look at the multi billions of dollars in profit that the health insurance providers are making every year at the expense of Americans, you might see a different solution to the cost of health care. The multi-bizillion dollar lawsuits against doctors and hospitals, the pharmacutical companies and the billions that end up in the hands of greedy lawyers. My cousin is a physician. He opened a practice with two fellow doctors. Malpractice insurance costs them $70,000 a year. It's no wonder there's fewer and fewer people in college right now becoming doctors.
You have hospital and medical practices indulging in redundant billing practices, which is why insurance companies shave 50% or more off the original bills submitted. But the uninsured American has no idea this happens and there's no one protecting them from it. The way bills are coded, you might be getting charged three times for the same procedure. The government knows about this, so why aren't they doing anything about it?
If we got rid of the fraud, capped class action suits, cut the profit out of it for these greedy, bloodsucking lawyers and stopped redundant billing practices, the cost of health care would likely be cut by half or more. But then the government can't get their share of the pie and the money from pharmacutical companies and insurance lobbies will dry up their election funds. We can't have that, now can we?

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Squeeky wrote:

You knuckleheads, it's not socialized medical coverage Obama is working for. It's Universal Coverage. Hospitals and Doctors are stil in private practice. They are not owned and operated by the government!!! If you're going to throw the word "socialism" around, at least understand what it means.

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Cranky old man wrote:

People bought fine homes they could not afford and a lot of people chose to disregard health insurance to help make the house payment. The never do wells who could not keep a job, or did not want one, and the mexican illegals bleeding welfare for all they can get are the others causing health care problems. People should learn if they can not pay for something, they must do without it. It should not be the responsibility of people who work and pay their bills having to keep up people who always make bad choices. We already have bankruptcy laws, a welfare system, and jails for them.

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socalgawfer wrote:

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Not to mention that after the dependancy on a govt subsidized health program is entrenched, the needy will have to keep voting for whoever promises them more stuff for nothing

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Jkjkhardcore wrote:

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Your absolutely right it's just one more step to dependencies on government, what ever happened to the "Liberal" party less government. Honestly the closest I see is ron paul and he's a republican.
Reason he's probably gotten so much negative attention is because big government fears a politician who wants to do away with government.