Health Care Debate - Fort Worth, TX

Let’s unburden American business so we can put Americans back to work. We need to remove the financial albatross from around the neck of employers so they can compete on a level playing field against that of other countries. 90% of American workers that have health insurance get that insurance from their employer. That employer is burdened with that cost which keeps going up by double digit rates year after year, making American goods and services less competitive than those produced in other countries that have national health care.
Lets unburden American industry from health care costs and put Americans back to work with a single payer system like that of the rest of the industrialized world. When our businesses can compete, they can hire. Then all of us can have a more secure future with a stronger economy, stronger business, in a more competitive America.
The Democratic health care plan is a step in the right direction. Call email or write your Congressman, Senators and the Whitehouse to tell them to pass the Healthcare Bill with the public option.
Do it now.

Republicans are corporate socialists.
They want freedom of choice ,but allow free health care for those that don't pay. You can't be a true conservative and have it both ways. You have two options 1. Buy insurance. 2. No pay no service.
Republicans started this mess. The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) became law in 1986 it was government forcing our capitalistic system into socialistic mold. It was passage of that Law by the Reagan administration that is directly responsible for the condition we are in today where everyone must be treated in an emergency room regardless of citizenship, legal status or ability to pay and why half of all emergency room visits go unpaid, driving up costs for the rest of us. Can you remember what party that was? Allow me to remind you.(REPUBLICANS)

I honestly do not know if I agree with it or oppose it, because I cannot figure out exactly what it entails! Same for the alternative proposals offered by Republicans. It is such a nasty quagmire that I can see no clear way out of it. I KNOW that changes need to be made, but what changes? And how much should it cost? And what personal responsibility should individuals be forced to shoulder, even if they do not have the current means? I do not know.

Frank wrote:

Let’s unburden American business so we can put Americans back to work. We need to remove the financial albatross from around the neck of employers so they can compete on a level playing field against that of other countries. 90% of American workers that have health insurance get that insurance from their employer. That employer is burdened with that cost which keeps going up by double digit rates year after year, making American goods and services less competitive than those produced in other countries that have national health care.
Lets unburden American industry from health care costs and put Americans back to work with a single payer system like that of the rest of the industrialized world. When our businesses can compete, they can hire. Then all of us can have a more secure future with a stronger economy, stronger business, in a more competitive America.
The Democratic health care plan is a step in the right direction. Call email or write your Congressman, Senators and the Whitehouse to tell them to pass the Healthcare Bill with the public option.
Do it now.

Exactly what sort of "single payor" system does the rest of the industrialized world utilize? I believe that England, Canada, and most other European countries practice socialized medicine. Because of my professional experience, I know for a fact, that socialized medicine in England is not exactly up to the standards that we Americans have come to expect. True -- one can opt out of the system and go private (for a hefty fee, of course). Is that really what we want for our children and grandchildren? I do not! Now, if you mean that you wish to return to the 80%-20% regular insurance with a REASONABLE monthly rate, I certainly do not oppose that idea. But just try to get insurance companies to come to a REASONABLE rate! I would really like to be a little mouse in the wall when that conversation goes down!

Our current health care system is in need of many changes. We cannot keep on ignoring the needs of the poor and sick. The hospitals end up turning people away and taking the loss for the ones who are lucky enough to get help. Please read my story here:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2707...

I believe universal health care is a moral issue. When I read the Sermon on the Mount, I don't see how I can NOT support health care for all. Medicare should be made available to all who want it. Those who don't want it should be allowed to purchase private health insurance.

Judi wrote:

More & more doctors are refusing to take Medicare patients, because the government doesn't reimburse enough for doctors to stay solvent, just imagine how it's going to be when more people are on gov't subsidies (more people on Medicaid and Medicare). Where does the money come from and where do we get the doctors? Also, anything the gov't touches seems to denigrate in quality and accessibility.

Agree totally

veritas wrote:

<quoted text>Agree totally

no more people will have insurance, that is what this is about.

It will cause my insurance premiums to increase and even possibly cost me my own policy through work because my workplace twice what I paid already leaving me to pay the $185/mo premium. If they are required to pay much more than that with rising costs (multiplied by the thousands of employees), then it will be cheaper for them to pay the fine and I will lose my insurance! I am not happy with that scenario!!! The administration should have spent the trillions this is gonna cost the U.S. taxpayer and businesses fine tuning the current system rather than doing a major overhaul similiar to the one the European unions have recently determined was a failed experiment!
I am also not happy with the fact that abortion on demand will be a provision that this administration lied to us about. I value the sanctity of unborn life and in no way want that blood on my hands whether it be by personal contribution or as a taxpayer.

Ziggy-Behind Enemy Lines wrote:

What?! CFC was a wild success! What planet do you live on? Planet FOX news? Think outside the Fox!

You don't have to watch Fox news to know cash for clunkers was a wild success for about 3 months!!! Now those that bought those cars and lost their jobs are also losing that spankin new car and dont' even have their junker to use to look for another job! Look at the drop in auto purchases, we the taxpayer cannot sustain any such program for long, or we lose everything we worked for also!!!

You don't have to watch Fox news to know cash for clunkers was a wild success for about 3 months!!! Now those that bought those cars and lost their jobs are also losing that spankin new car and dont' even have their junker to use to look for another job! Look at the drop in auto purchases, we the taxpayer cannot sustain any such program for long, or we lose everything we worked for also!!!

readthebible wrote:

I believe universal health care is a moral issue. When I read the Sermon on the Mount, I don't see how I can NOT support health care for all. Medicare should be made available to all who want it. Those who don't want it should be allowed to purchase private health insurance.

Then take care of your brother, brother, and leave the rest of us out of it! It's a spiritual condition to be undertaken between man and Jehovah, not taxpayers and governments. And the churches and spiritual citizens have been doing that just fine. Government have no business taking my money and giving it to whoever they choose to. That is my decision, between me and Jehovah. I can directly pay for anybody I so choose to go to the doctor, but the government can use my financial blessing to kill unborn babies; not a wise choice; for that blood will be on their hands come judgement day, and take just that much money from me to help my elderly neighbor who needs medication assistance, or dentures, or whatever they need me to help them with.

Of Course I support it, a pool that large will command cost control. It is the ONLY way insurance will work in this country very shortly.

I cannot afford todays insurance prices.

Bob wrote:

The govt cannot run cash for clunkers yet we are supposed to believe they can handle health care? No way

There aren't any people going it alone in 2010, we depend upon one another in modern society because the costs associated with a transportation, medical, OR home owner's claim would eviscerate a middle class American's bank account sending them into bankruptcy. So Insurance was designed.
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UHC, would provide a HUGE INSURANCE POOL... I ask you, since it is a fact that with all of the thousands of health-care insurance pools existing today that can only deliver a family of 4 a basic policy for $13,000 dollars per family, expLAIN to me how you are able to throw out that UHC would then cost 50% of your income when the following is true??

Turd Blossom wrote:

you oughtta be joking...not a bad idea as an idealist but aint close to practical

The larger an "insurance pool" is the firmer a hand manager's have over administrative fees.
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The larger an "insurance pool" is the greater leverage buyer's have over Sellers in negotiating lower drug prices.
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The larger an "insurance pool" is the lower medical procedures cost because of things like uniformity, efficiency, AND the Certainty Principle.
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The larger an "insurance pool" is the more positive control that is established over medical outcomes.
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The larger an "insurance pool" is the lower the financial costs are to society in general, and the health outcome better.
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The person who says "I'd rather die with my money than live with my health" is a silly person indeed. They need to get their priorities straight.