Health Care Debate - Mobile, AL

US Government can NOT handle money. They have screwed up every progam they have touched - just look at welfare.

need to open up bidding to all insurance companies to complete, i voted for obama but this is not what I sign up for.....kinda going the wrong way....

I think it is wrong prsonally in my opinion. What I've heard about it is President Obama would be taxing Americans so that he can send money over seas to help pay for abortions. If thats true I oppose

I do not want the government to oversee the healthcare issue. They have not been successful in anything else they are overseeing, why healthcare?

The plan relies too much on spending money as opposed to reducing costs. Also I do not believe that anyone who makes over $100,000 needs to, or be forced to, buy insurance as they can afford to pay their bills out of pocket.

Pegy wrote:

US Government can NOT handle money. They have screwed up every progam they have touched - just look at welfare.

What a generalized statement. Do not use the highways, buy food from any stores, visit the library or museum, count on the police, attend school (though I know many think home schooling is an adequate education)watch a space flight, collect social security, need I go on?

long overdue to look at healthcare in such a wealthy society. We're number 37 in the world.

When the Federal Government can show one program that they have administered that has been successful, I would consider endorsing this. They have failed miserably at every program attempted.

Health care for every one is a good idea. I work in health care. I get tired of telling patients "i can't send you to the specialist unless you have insurance." It puts me in a bind when i have to treat everything with medications when they need surgery. No insurance=no surgery, no clinic visit to the specialist. I can see it from the specialist point of view as well. They have a business to run, so they need to get compensated also. If everyone had health coverage, the generalist (family, pediatrican, internist)could better manage/prevent some the chronic medical conditons that puts a drain on healthcare.

DOC is RIGHT!

How high can you go?

It doesn't matter what the Republicans think today because the will of the people will soon be busted by thses numbers.

In a 1980 article in the New England Journal of Medicine, the former editor in chief of the journal, Arnold Relman,M.D. coined the phrase "medical industrial complex," suggested by President Dwight D. Eisenhower's "military industrial complex."

Eisenhower had warned that rampant commerialization of national defense would lead to nothing less than war for the sake of profit, and Relman feared that " a new investor-owned industry that was providing health-care services for profit might reshape... the system itself."

Even this dire prediction was an understatement. The profit structure of American health care now drives the entire system. This becomes clear just by looking at the astonishing and frightening economic growth of the medical-industrial complex over the past sixty years.

1950, 8 billion
1960, 27 billion
1970, 75 billion
1980, 212 billion
1989, 604 billion
2000, 1.2 trillion (approximate)
2009, 2.5 trillion

Estimated Future Growth

2012, 3.1 trillion
2015, 4 trillion

its stupid

No big brother telling us what to do. Even God gives us free will. Government stay out of our lives. Too invasive.

Sarah wrote:

I think it is wrong prsonally in my opinion. What I've heard about it is President Obama would be taxing Americans so that he can send money over seas to help pay for abortions. If thats true I oppose

Send money over seas to help pay for abortions? Who told you that?

I'm a health care provider and I support socialized medicine. Many people say they don't want the government involved in their healthcare. Pivate insurance companies are dictating your care now. There are times when i think a patient needs to stay in the hospital, but the insurance company tells me that they will not pay for another day of hospitalization so i have to discharge the patient home. Private insurances companies tell you when and where you can be admitted in the hospital too, what tests you can have done, and at times what medications you can use. Why is it that private insurance companies can tell you what to do, but the gov't can't?

The government should not have any control over my health care. We have freedoms in the USA, and privacy is one of them. As Americans, we should be responsible to take care of our own health.

Republicans are protecting crony capitalism (BIG MONEY)

democrats are protecting the unions and socialism. democrat politicians do not defend the Constitution, the Bill of Rights or the Free Enterprise System.

Roy Propsner wrote:

democrats are protecting the unions and socialism. democrat politicians do not defend the Constitution, the Bill of Rights or the Free Enterprise System.

Unions hire people, crony capitalism causes employees to lose their job. The consitiution is up for interpretation. I want results, not legal talk. Maybe you should direct some of you're anger toward corp. greed and crony capitalism.

These companies you confuse with the free market are eating you alive.
And all you can worry about is little old non-worker and the poor.
The poor and the non-workers could have lived the rest of their lives on this one scam.
But no you don't talk about how much the working man is being burned by capitalism gone amok.

Check this scam out. And remember this is a small token of what's going on.

Federal prosecutors said Friday that health care giant Johnston and Johnston paid tens of millions of dollars in kickbacks so nursing homes would put more patients on its blockbuster schizophrenia medicine and other drugs. From 1999 through 2004, a period when J and J's sales of drugs through Omnicare jumped from about 100 million to more than 280 million. More than one-thrid of that was sales of Risperdal; the other drugs were pain relievers Duragesic and Ultram and an antibiotic, Levaquin. Archives of Internal Medicine study published Monday covering nearly 17,000 nursing home residents around the country found one-thrid of those getting antipsychotic medications in 2006 didn't have appropriate symptoms. They also found that giving Risperdal and similar drugs to elderly patients with dementia-related psychosis increased their risk of dearh.
Reported by Linda A. Johnston

Like I've been saying - don't confuse crony capitalism with the free market.
Regulations are not socialism and are not meant to control the market.
Government needs to protect the people from such wrong doing.
The free market and competition will not stop crony capitalism.
Republicans are hiding the word ,inverted, crony, and, capitalism gone amonk, with the word (corp---tism)--- bul---it.

Words and opinion--TV MAN

Who hires unionistas?
democrats and some Republicans do not defend the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Free Enterprise System. I joined Domenici for Governor newsletter to continue the Republican revolution http://domeniciforgovernor.com/
Roy Propsner ~ Nogal, NM

Obama doesn't care about a second term.
Obama knows you must stand on the side of Banks, Wall Street, Big Pharma, and Insurance companies or you're done.
That's the Republicans job.
Stand on the side of Big Money and do a second term.