Health Care Debate - Lenoir City, TN

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I support healthcare reform in America and a healthcare for All Amaericans. I do not favor socialized medicine, but I will not support any initiative that will allow the insuramce companys to continue making insane profits, paying huge bonuses to it's manegment and allowing for pre-existing conditions. In the 21st century if we cannot come up with something other than capitalism vs.socialism, then God help us all.

We are the smartest people in the world, if we cannot come up with anything better than capitalism v. socialism then God help us all.
Until I am presented with an option that provides reasonablr coverage at reasonably to ALL Americans, then I will suppot socialism. The problem with cpitalism these days is it is all or nothing.

In the 21st century, if we cannot do any better than Capitalism v. Socialism then God help us all. As long as the republicans answer to the problem continues to let the healthcare industry run wild, then I will support Mr. Oboma. It might not be idea, but at least it is and idea.

Sorry about all the comments. The comment section would not clear as it usually does and I did not think it was posting. Again...sorry.

Health care be rationed and will be too costly

Too costly and health care will be rationed

We can't afford it.

RMJones wrote:

In the 21st century, if we cannot do any better than Capitalism v. Socialism then God help us all. As long as the republicans answer to the problem continues to let the healthcare industry run wild, then I will support Mr. Oboma. It might not be idea, but at least it is and idea.

Excellent!

Keep in mind though - most of the popular opposition to comprehensive health care reform is the direct result of Madison Avenue type PR campaigns, funded by those benefiting from the status quo, and targeted at people not smart enough to know about they're being worked.

For example, I've been told more than once in the last three weeks by people here in Loudon County that health care reform will result in "rationing" of health care services.

When challenged to explain why, they all said "look at England". It is at this juncture that it is important to know that none of them knew anything at all about the British health care system that hadn't been told to them by media health care opponents, and not a single one had actually been to England.

As sad as it is to observe, many of our countrymen oppose this purely on ideological grounds. They are literally willing to watch 45,000 of their countrymen die necessarily each year so they can grind a political axe.

Yeah ... I know. It disgusts me too.

RMJones wrote:

In the 21st century, if we cannot do any better than Capitalism v. Socialism then God help us all. As long as the republicans answer to the problem continues to let the healthcare industry run wild, then I will support Mr. Oboma. It might not be idea, but at least it is and idea.

I have to agree! There has got to be a middle ground. I also do not support a gov't option, but I do support a plan that levels the playing field for all parties. The radicals would have us believe that it is all or none, but the national debate should lead us to changes we can all agree upon. We are closer now, than ever before to a solution, but the status quo...has got to go!

Currently the only government run health care system is the Veteran's Administration. It works, though with some problems, mainly being not enough facilities/staff to serve all veterans. Other countries in the world do have health care systems in place and they also work. When I was stationed in Germany, the Germans I knew were happy with their health care system. Everyone was taken care of regardless of financial status. Most of the negative PR about the universal health care system is coming from the ones who have $$$ to lose, namely the insurance companies. They stand to lose the most and are spending lots of money on PR to stir the public against it. Insurance companies are IMHO nothing but rip-off companies. They want your money, but don't want to pay it out. They get laws passed to insure that every motorist has to have auto insurance. My last car had a book value of $300-500. My deductible was $500, and the cost of liability was $600 a year. So if I totaled my car, I'd get nothing out of it, since it was less than my deductible. Now in the 5 years I had the car, I had zero claims. Did I get any of that money back? Now wouldn't that money have been more profitable in my pocket drawing interest in a bank, yes. But instead it to make a profit for the insurance company. Same with health care, how many pay for it and don't get their monies worth? How many with pre-existing medical conditions, get denied for coverage? Why does the hospital's and doctors charge you one price for cash and yet have to charge a higher price if it goes to an insurance carrier? Why do insurance companies hire people who's job is to find existing policies flaw's so they can drop the individual. If you failed to mention you had Acne as a teen, they can and have dropped people for that. Usually just before or right after a major medical procedure which would cost the insurance company. Health-care should be one thing that is not PROFIT driven. I agree doctors should be paid well, but hell we only pay our EMT's around $9-10 an hour, and they are a first-responder who's critical in making sure the patient survives long enough to see a doctor. So complain about universal health care if you want, at least the current administration is attempting to make it a reality unlike previous administrations, that make a token attempt at reform just to say they tried.

We need reform but this is not the correct way to go. Out country is so in debt and because of Congress wants to continue to spend money that we don't have. This is going to cost everyone lot more than we are being told.

We have got to wake up America. Who can you really trust in Government, sad but true. The current bill will cost all of us more money in the form of taxes and expenses. Insurance companies continue to have record revenue. It is a shame that legisltation can't be implemented that gives health insurance to unmarried dependants up to the age of 25 instead of only those that attend college. This would help insure alot of young people who just receive no health care. How much would that cost the insurance companies?

[First of all you shouldn't have carried physical damage on a 300 dollar car. Secondly, most property & casualty insurance companies have a combined ratio of about 96%. That means for every dollar in premium they receive they spend 96 cents in expenses. This is fact. Lastly, do you want people out there driving with no insurance? What if they hit you? That is an irresponsible attitude.

2 brief comments-In my line of work everyday several people choose to share that "I'm bi-polar & just waiting for my 1st disability check". & I haven't worked in seven years, my boyfriends supported me & my kids or my mama's got my kids-she gets the state check from child support & SSI, I'm still trying for disability. Why??'Cause they are too blasted lazy to work & expect the perpetual govermnet handout so we continue to support people who are more able to work than most of us seniors. I'm tired of it! Apparently it's way too easy for some to qualify for disability or they know how to lie really good or just get hooked on drugs & you automatically qualify!!
2nd-ponder this. I heard discussion on tv about a pharmacist who said he has to sell a $4 tube of ointment for $263!! Yes $2-6-3-because the drug company says so. How can you reform health care so everyone is covered with this happening? Right now I'm taking 7 Tamiflu capusules-my co-pay was $60 for 7 freaking pills!!! I'm pretty hot-temperature wise & temperment wise. Something got to change..

It will result in rationing of care and also it will be too expensive.

Marion Sims wrote:

It will result in rationing of care and also it will be too expensive.

Assessing the cost of doing health care reform would require assessing the cost of NOT doing health care reform and dollars and cents notwithstanding, it remains true that 45,000 Americans die each year (one every 12 minutes) because they don't have health insurance - more than automobile accidents and homicides combined. http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idU...

I suppose if one can justify the human impact of fifteen 9/11 attacks each year along with skyrocketing health care costs while the insurance industry's profits soar to record levels and the quality of care for the masses plummets, then maintaining the status quo makes sense.

Sometimes, where we are is so unacceptably bad that we are faced with deciding the "least bad" alternative. I think this is such a time. I am a fiscal conservative - a proud descendant of a very frugal viking "Eric the Cheap" - and even I have come to accept that something has got to change - and soon. Health care costs are strangling the competitiveness of American business - you know, the ones who create jobs.

I've been watching the polls and with the exception of insurance companies, their media shills, and the 'tea baggers'(Fox News viewers who buy their Chinese-made T-shirts for a dollar a gross at Walmart), support for comprehensive reform is high.

It is going to happen.

I just hope they do it the right way.

The simple truth as I see it,is that the cost of health care has sky rocketed because the DRs and Hospitals have over charged the insurance companies,medicaid and medicare for what ever reason,and the whole system is in a hell of a mess.My son was born in 1966 and we didn't have insurance at that time ,and we paid out of pocket.Obama promised that he would deliver a health insurance to everyone,and that is what he is trying to do,and I don't think the American people will be satisfied with what they get,especially the unions who helped elect Obama when companies like ALCOA make them take the government insurance,ALCOA would love to get rid of the health insurane plan they have today for their employees ,it is very very costly.That is my opinion ,I am retired from ALCOA and a former member of local 309.

get a job take responsibility for yourself and remember the government does not have any money until it forcefully conficates it from someone who EARNED IT!