DNC Targets Democratic Senators on Health Care

brought to you from the same people who promised unemployment would never go above 8.5% if we passed the stimulus package. How many people are traveling to Canada or the UK for medical care? NONE!! This is a disaster in the making.

Democrat or Republican, Liberial or Conservitive – Take Note. If you vote for this or Cap and Trade, you can kiss you job goodby in 2010. We have had enought.
Signed,
The Silent Majority

I want to apply for the ‘stimulus czar’ opening. Opps, guess not. I didn’t vote for Obama.

“We will certainly wish they haden’t when we can’t find a doctor to treat us and we are told that the procedure we need will have to wait!”
poor you – that happens NOW to people w/out coverage. And it’ll get harder and harder to get seen in an ER as people w/out coverage seek care in ERs and hold up the works. Hospitals aren’t getting paid so are having to lay off key workers. And the list will continue until the country can adequately solve this healthcare crisis and people accept the fact that there needs to be some type of solvency in ensuring EVERYONE GETS EQUALITY IN REGARDS TO HEALTHCARE. Those of us who do work and also put back into this failing system yet don’t have access to healthcare deserve medical care as much as those of you who are fortunate enough to have a healthcare plan at your place of work or be able to afford a private health plan. I put into the system too….why should I not have access to medical care because I work for someone who won’t offer healthcare insurance and I can’t afford a private plan?

This is to Mary, If you say that you want to pay for health care thru payroll taxes. Why do you not just pay for a plan out of your pocket. If you think that it will be cheaper your wrong. A plan either way is going to take 20% out of your check. probally 30 if it is unclesam. And you will not get a good of covereage or any system of regress if they do not pay.

Mary can you explain what system you are putting into? I doubt besides federal taxes and medicare/medicade you are putting anything more into the system that everyone else is also putting into – in addition to having to pay their own health care directly or indirectly through their place of employment. Consider talking to your employer and offer to take a smaller pay check home in exchange for health benefits. That way you can pay for your own as you claim a willingness to do.

I guess you can ask how many people travel from all over the world to come to America for certain operations and procedures that their “socialized healthcare” doesn’t provide??
Over 300 million Americans,; 250 + million have health care and we’re rewriting everything for the 40-50 million who don’t have it??? You want healthcare?? Get a job that offers it and don’t ask those people that have it to pay for yours!!!!!!!!!!!

“And it’s not like Canada or the UK are going to treat noncitizens for free….one has to work there for a year in order to qualify.”
An inadvertent logical home run! Since the biggest single expense in U.S. health care is treating “noncitizens,” why don’t we start by telling noncitizens living here illegally that we won’t pay for theirs?

Wow! so much fear mongering…so many GOP talking points that is just not true…

More from Wendell Potter, former insurance exec.
Potter’s argument is simple: Insurance companies have been spending less and less of their customers’ money on paying for medical care and pocketing more and more of it. According to PricewaterhouseCoopers, for the seven largest insurers, the medical loss ratio—how much of a premium dollar is used to pay medical claims—fell from 85.3 percent in 1998 to 81.6 percent in 2008. The result, says Potter, amounts to several billion of dollars for those insurance companies and a plunge in stock value for those companies that fail to continually cut their medical costs.
The soaring profits have been achieved by pushing unprofitable patients off the rolls, denying coverage, jacking up premiums and selling plans that provide little coverage.

This is a really good one… here we can pay for insurance but, not really have it..
The insurance industry does want the uninsured to have insurance, or at least the APPEARANCE of it. “The number of uninsured people has increased as more have fallen victim to deceptive marketing practices and bought what essentially is fake insurance,” Potter said at the sparsely attended Senate hearing. As an example of one of the many “limited benefit” plans, Potter cited CIGNA’s StarBridge, which doesn’t initially cover pre-existing conditions, requires an annual employee turnover of 70 percent and an average age of no higher than 40. In such plans, employees are left paying for the whole of their premiums, while the restrictions practically assure that the insurance companies make a profit.
IT is only and always has been about profit…

My sister-in-law is in a hospital in Tennessee. We are hoping she makes it. She has been there for 18 days. During that time the incompetence and the greed of the healthcare providers has shocked the whole family. Example: they took her at 6 am for an x-ray one morning. Then, at 9 am another doctor came in with orders. My brother said what do you need and he replied, “we need to take her to x-ray.” My brother said no, she just had one and she is not getting another one 3 hours later so you can bill for it. He has had to stay there at the hospital with her 24/7 just to keep an eye on the “healthcare” professionals. I appreciate President Obama’s efforts to make healthcare better for us. I do not appreciate the conservatives fear tactics of proclaiming “socialism” when they themselves know it is a lie.

The fact that small business has been hit by premium rate hikes is the very reason we need health care. Soon, they will not be able to provide it or it will cost an enormous amount of money and many things will not be covered. We need a health care system and it will not be like the one in Canada. The Canadians are not moving here to get health care so it cannot be that bad. We can examine what does not work with various health care programs and not include it in ours. I think we have an intelligent president and he certainly is aware of some pitfalls. The one thing we need to remember is that health costs are not going down and I am tired of the insurance companies taking my money and then limiting what coverage they feel I need. How democratic is that? They are a monopoly and our president is giving us a choice. If you are happy with your coverage…keep it. If not, here is a choice. We can decide what we want. The republicans are hitting us with the bad facts about Canada and that will not be what will happen to our health care. They are only interested in keeping Obama from succeeding in anything. It’s time they started thinking about the people and not their party.

What about a doctors rights in this? These people have gone to school for years, racked up big education bills, put in long hours at work. Now their reward will be, “you get to become a government employee.” What has happened to the rights of individuals in this country who work hard to get ahead, be something, do good for people, build their life? It seems that all the people who work hard for a living now, if you aspire to be great, the masses are tearing you down. This is not the USA.

I want people to prepare to travel to Mexico or Costa Rica for their health care. Even the seniors. Your care here will be just like or (yipes) worse than Canadas.
Medicare recipients will be thrown in with the rest of the couintry and be denied joint replacements, cardac stents and open heart procedures. Chemo will be with held for only those government workers who have that great insurance. By the way, what are we going to do about THAT!! Why should they be treated any better than us??? ANY IDEAS OUT THERE ABOUT WHAT WE CAN DO????
Don’t forget to vote in 2010.

Why do the Democrats in Congress have to make the “public option” of the health care bill so complicated and controversial? Just mandate that every insurance company selling policies in a state must offer identical health care coverage packages through a government “clearing house” to every uninsured person wishing to purchase health insurance. The packages must be offered at a cost no more than xx % above the cost they charge to their corporate clients, which is only meant (allowed) to cover higher administrative costs, if any. The government shall only act as the collector of premiums and purchaser of these “group” policies from the providers. The Government shall not dictate any operations / policies of the insurance companies, except as mandated for all policies offered, and shall only ensure that policies offered are identical. This accomplishes three major objectives: first, no one currently insured will flee from their current plan since the “government” option will cost more, second, the government has a vehicle to enforce mandatory participation, and third if applicable to the individual, the government will be able to subsidize those in need through the collections and payment process. Granted this is just a framework but it would appease all those against the public option.