Coming Up EXCLUSIVE: Sebelius, Rockefeller, Pawlenty and Landrieu Discuss the Politics of Health Care

Trent, The Democrats are the fools to believe they can add 47 million to the health care bill and cut cost,quit drinking the Kool-aid before it’s to late.

Following Minnesota’s example doesn’t thrill me at all. After living in Kansas for years and having good health care, I moved to Minnesota and have not been impressed at all with medical service. When I had a physical and lab tests in Kansas, I was called and/or received a letter telling me the results. Here in Minnesota, I was told I would hear from them when test results were known, BUT, if I didn’t hear from them, call them. You know what happens then…you get their answering machine telling you to leave your name and telephone number and they will “get back to you”! Yeah, Right!

I would hope that when Pawlenty brags about MN health care, George lets him have it. Many seniors have been removed from Medicare over the Governor’s policies and because of cut backs at the state level, local communities have had to raise property taxes sky high to make up for the state’s cut backs in health. MN is a disaster and George should let him have it.

“Coming Up EXCLUSIVE: Sebelius, Rockefeller, Pawlenty and Landrieu Discuss the Politics of Health Care”——-does anyone see the problem with this headline? THERE SHOULD BE NO POLITICS INVOLVED!!! Aren’t these fools in DC supposed to be doing what is right for their constituents? The status quo within the healthcare system is not going to work and needs to be fixed. Allowing the the private sector total control of the system is what broke it in the first place. There is nothing political about it. it’s just common sense.

This past week former Minnesota Republican Governor Carlson was speaking about his observations of the Pawlenty administration over the past several years. I must say that I was surprised at how critical Carlson was about the lack of leadership and about Pawlenty’s unwillingness to deal with the state budget in a meaningful way.
Carlson mentioned that even though Governor Pawlenty choose to use unallotment as a tool to balance the budget, Governor Pawlenty deferred 70% of the cuts and left them for the next governor to deal with. In short a real lack of leadership and an inability to make hard choices that would have been very unpopular. It was also pointed out that when Governor Pawlenty came into office there was a projected budget deficit of over 4 billion dollars. When Governor Pawlenty leaves office there will a projected deficit of between 4 and 6 billion dollars. The Governor might have been better off to have followed his campaign slogan that said he would cut the “billions and billions of dollars in wasted state spending”. There again is the leadership rub.
My question would be this: If Governor Pawlenty cannot run the state of Minnesota in a fiscally prudent manner. What business does he have to try and replicate the same problems for the federal government?
Governor Pawlenty at best has a nice campaign slogan for his run at the presidency. ” I did not raise taxes”

The previous economic expansion was really fueled by housing. A huge amount of job creation was tied to housing. As well as a huge amount of consumption. Housing peaked 2006.
Short of another debt filled housing boom, where do you propose those jobs are going to come from? Do you realize that a very high percentage of the jobs that were lost were tied to the housing boom? We manufacture very little. You criticize the auto bailout. Who do you think works at those plants.
I hope that you don’t think that you are qualified to advise on economics just because you have a bank account.
Regarding the bank bailout: When you have a catastrophic fire happening what is the most prudent thing to do? You start by pouring and dumping as much water on the fire as it takes, until you have the fire under control. The obvious goal is to not have the fire spread any further and to prevent further damage.
After the fire, the chiefs can debrief and have that conversation about how they might have fought it more effectively.
The fed did what it had to at the time.
Unless you were for a period of Hoover like austerity then perhaps they should have gambled on a different outcome and let the chips fall where they may. Thankfully they did not.
The question you should be asking yourself is what the new economy will look like. As the old one was clearly not sustainable.

Dear George Stephanopoulos,
If Pawlenty and Glenn Beck do not suggceed at getting states to leave the USA and form there own country. Then he will do it by running for president of the United States and if he wins would change the condstitution or do away with it so the states could. He is also against any kind of legislation that will help the poor and if their is any middle class lefted. He also cut the budget from the 35 w bridge one year before it collasped by 6 million dollars and that money would also have hired more people in MnDot which is the hwy maintence divison of MN. When people would retire or die he would not replace the workers and fired a manager and did not replace them when it came to the concrete inspectors that inspect the bridges and so on. He cut the money for any new hiring period and there has not been any hiring sence the bridge went or before either. Do not let him lie about health care either.

Dear George can someone answer this question on this week please!
Rep Joe Wilson question if an illegal come in the Untied States and gets hurt in a car wreak has to go to hospital who pays for it now the taxpayer do or are we going just going to leave him on the side of the road bleeding to death? NO we want we are a humane country!…..
THE GOVERNMENT PICK UP THE TAB FOR THAT ILLEGAL BEING IN THIS COUNTRY!!!!!
ANOTHER QUESTION:: WHY ARE THE ILLEGAL IN OUR COUNTRY, SOMEONE IS NOT DOING THERE JOBS BY REMOVING THEM FROM THE COUNTRY BECAUSE OF OUR RICH FARM OWNERS FOR CHEEP LABOR ! You don’t have a leg to stand about illegal being put in the Health Care Reform Bill!
WE THE TAX PAYER PAYS THE ILLEGAL PERSON HOSPITAL BILL NOW,
IT SAD THAT WE CANT GET HEALTH CARE COVERAGE LIKE THAT WE AMERICAN”S JUST DIE OR LOOSE EVERYTHING WE HAVE TO PAY THE HOSPITAL BILL TODAY!!!!!!!
WE ARE NOT STUPID PEOPLE LIKE YOU THINK WE ARE
“WHO PAYS THE ILLEGAL MEXICAN”S HOSPITAL BILL TODAY?
ANSWER THIS QUESTION MR. REP. JOE WILSON”?

why all the hub bub about health care coverage when we already have systems in place. there is medicaid, health departments offer services, hospitals do not turn down patients when medical services are needed and there are other resources available through individual states. it makes no sense to spend all this money and put limits on everyone’s care. it boils down to taxes for all…
Page 65: Taxpayers will subsidize all union retiree and community organizer health plans (example: SEIU, UAW and ACORN)
Page 84: All private healthcare plans must participate in the Healthcare Exchange (i.e., total government control of private plans)
• Page 149: Any employer with a payroll of $400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays an 8% tax on payroll
• Page 150: Any employer with a payroll of $250K-400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays a 2 to 6% tax on payroll
• Page 167: Any individual who doesn’t have acceptable healthcare (according to the government) will be taxed 2.5% of income.
• Page 170: Any NON-RESIDENT alien is exempt from individual taxes (Americans will pay for them).
• Page 195: Officers and employees of Government Healthcare Bureaucracy will have access to ALL American financial and personal records.

Why doesn’t the President cut the fraud and abuse NOW. Rather than saying that he WILL cut fraud and abuse IF his health care plan is passed. (And punching one drug company in the eye is NOT really going after the fraud and abuse! Get real!)

This is why I can’t watch your program. Thank GOD for the internet and other broadcasts, Fox News, so that we can get the truth. I know that this is a thorn in your sides because we don’t rely on your false information. Of course, the Dems want get control of the internet and other broadcast sources so you can continue to push and wrongly inform America. I won’t watch your show again.

Oh yeah….want to know why the Dems boo’d President Bush….he was saying that unless we get spending in MEDICARE under control, it would be BANKRUPT. THEY BOO’D HIM FOR SAYING THIS…..SURE IS IRONIC!!!

Florida all ready has public option / government option insurance. Citizens Property Insurance (implemented during Govenor Jeb Bush’s tenure) works. Why not use it as an example of how structure National Public Option Health Insruance?

Ms. Sebelius said that the Medicare Advantage program doesn’t give as good of benefits as Original Medicare. This is a LIE on her part. I sell Medicare Advantage plans and with these plans, participants get better benefits and more benefits and they also pay less in premiums than if they were paying a Private company for a Medicare Supplement. They save money!!!!
So, Ms. Sebelius, get your facts right before YOU start lying to America. Or is it just a requirement to be in the Obama Admin to be liar first.

Dear, Chief Washington Correspondent George Stephanopoulos,
That’s the capitol of the richest, most powerful nation in history. But when it comes to providing health care for people, that great country, our country, is a fourth-rate power. The World Health Organization says the U.S. health care system rates 37th in the world in terms of quality and fairness. All the other rich countries do better than we do, and yet they spend a heck of a lot less. How do they do it?
I ask, how can other Capitalist Democracies have better Health and pay half of what we do?
In Brea CA, where I live, if you get an MRI of your neck region, it’s $1,400, and the doctor in Japan says they get $98 for an MRI. So how do you do that?
Can Americans accept ideas from other Capitalist Democracies?
Well, the fact is these foreign health care ideas aren’t really so foreign to us. For American veterans, health care is just like Britain’s NHS. For seniors on Medicare, we’re Taiwan. For working Americans with insurance, we’re Germany. And for the tens of million without health insurance, we’re just another poor country.
But almost all of us can agree that this fragmented health care mess cannot be ignored. The longer we leave it, the sicker it becomes, and the more expensive the cure.