Comments on: McCain Defends Palin on Obamacare Claims

By: bleep

bleep — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 22:53:23 +0000

I wish people could just talk about the subject at hand.this is too important to be held subjected to stupidity.all i have to say is national health care or bust.i will go to jail before one more idiot tells me how much i have to pay for something(mandatory health insurance).

By: SisT

SisT — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 21:42:52 +0000

So…you think the idea of “death panels” began with Obamacare?
Check this out!
The young lady’s insurance company refused to pay for her cancer treatment;it seems those “people” (if you want to call them that) decided that the young lady was TOO YOUNG TO HAVE CANCER!!! Now, THAT’S a death panel;and it already exists at your “friendly, neighborhood insurance company.
And my OWN perscription insurer one day decided that I did not need the amount of medication for migraine headaches that my doctor had been prescribing to me for YEARS!! Did they ask my doctor her opinion? NOOOOOOO! They simply reduced my meds and said if I wanted more than that amount, I had to pay for it myself! I had to switch to another medication…only to find out that they don’t want to pay for that one either! Sound like a panel that has no regard for our pain? Does to me! So what makes anyone think that a public option would,or could, be worse? My husband has medicare. He has it so much better than I do.
Obamacare will be, and can only be, better than the private options that are allowing people to suffer and, yes, die no matter WHAT age they are.

By: Brian Green

Brian Green — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:11:22 +0000

If Senator McCain wasn’t in the Senator and didn’t quality for Medicare, he wouldn’t be able to obtain healthcare insurance because of his history of melanoma. If he wants a quotidian lesson in healthcare, he should have one of his staffers apply for health insurance for a “fictitious” 50-something male with a history of melanoma and see what happens. Then let’s see if he reports the results to the media!

By: Neil

Neil — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:45:25 +0000

To JRL, if you knew anything about the economy and insurance, you’d know that your health insurer was merely asking about the cause of your broken ankle to see if it happened at work – and then it would be paid for by your workers compensation insurance. It would still be paid for by an “evil” insurance company. To all you buffoons, including your fearless leader, who are piling on the insurance companies as convenient scapegoats, know that they make contracts with you or your employers and if they don’t pay according to the contract, you can sue the bastards and probably do quite well for yourself. Check your coverage and if you think you need something more, complain to your employer or go BUY the extra coverage. Take responsibility for yourself rather than wait for Daddy Obama and the nanny state to do it for you.

By: JJM

JJM — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:47:41 +0000

Sarah Palin’s turning the real health care concerns into a Robin Cook novel. The U.K. is discussing charging money for their “universal health care” because it’s not working. England has the highest mortality rate of cancer patients in the world. Their health care cannot afford to pay for life saving drugs, and universal health care takes away the incentives for medical technology. The failure of other systems concerns most rational minded conservatives.
I do not believe a board of Dr. Kevorkians will decide who lives and who dies. Sarah Palin is unintentionally mocking those of us who are living in the reality. I wish she were on the other side of the issue!

By: William Joseph Miller, Los Angeles

William Joseph Miller, Los Angeles — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:43:24 +0000

Let’s look at the facts about John McCain that you don’t get on ABC News.
During his political career received $ 7 million from the health sector, including health insurance companies and pharmaceuticals. $ 1.2 million of McCain’s campaign money comes from lobbyists who are now descending upon Washington Dc like locusts from a Biblical Plague in an effort to defeat Obama’s health care reforms. From 2005 to present McCain’s top 5 political contributors include Merrill-Lynch, Morgan Stanley, and Goldman Sachs, all of which are reaping record profits from health insurance companies and pharmaceuticals.
Isn’t this the BIG reason McCain back Sarah Palin’s lies? Every time, we pay an insurance premium, John McCain gets a political campaign contribution. Does McCain tell his followers these facts at his town hall meetings?
Incidentally, I got my information from Center for Responsive Politics. I invite anyone else to do the homework and find out for him or herself.
My big question am I not getting this information from ABC News?

By: WWW

WWW — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:48:34 +0000

All the provision would do is pay doctors for their time in helping to ensure that their patients’ wishes are made known. If a patient wants everything done to be kept alive, his or her doctor would not be paid any less for the consultation. There is no incentive to encourage a patient to “pull the plug” even though Sarah Palin and Betsy McCaughey suggest there is.
So, Ed Taylor, what in tarnation are you reading in section 1233 that is so “bad” and so “evil?”

By: Ed Taylor

Ed Taylor — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:46:32 +0000

It doesn’t really matter whether a democrat or republican places the evil lines in the bill. What does matter is that we can read and the bill has bad stuff in it.
Several networks have begun so-called Fact Checks on Obamacare. Three of the outstanding ones are ABORTION, ILLEGAL ALIENS and RATIONING. The purpose of the fact checks are an attempt to use a minion media to suggest that “we the people” don’t know the facts and are reacting to rumors.
However, a fact that flies in the face of the administration and the media is that especially for these three facts there is further evidence that proves the opposition is right and that the media has failed the public. That further evidence being that for all three of the above there have attempts to specifically exclude by amendment which have been voted down by a party line vote!

By: talmag

talmag — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:53:47 +0000

I just wish that just one journalist would step up to the republicans ie.McCain and say that part about a “living will” was put in by Johnny Isackson of Georgia not President Obama. It has been proven over and over by Fact Check and other sources that he did not put that in but this fact is never mentioned. Isackson has tried to back away from this, however, Mr. Isackson, it is a good idea. Families need their doctor to level with them and tell them the condition of the patient and then the patient can decide what his wishes are exactly. Most patients do not have this and the burden comes back to the family. I just wish someone would stand up and say Hey…Isackson put that in not Obama. The republicans never will.

By: Marie Hardy

Marie Hardy — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:22:18 +0000

Hey America Medicare is runned by the GOVERNMENT and is going BANKRUPT !!!The only thing this NEW HEALTH PROGRAM is going to provide for us is a COMPRIMISED HEALTH PROGRAM — which means get on a WAITING LIST program .What does this mean? It means you will wind up getting and paying for PRIVATE INSURANCE along with paying PUBLIC INSURANCE by this “smart” PRESIDENT through him raising TAXES!!!!PEOPLE are loosing their homes and going hungry and we are talking HEALTH REFORM????