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By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 23:45:40 +0000

I can’t believe what I’m reading. In the richest country in the world, it’s OK to deny someone health coverage because of a pre-existing condition? So I have asthma, a condition not caused by choice. By that logic, I should be denied health insurance. What if I get really sick and have to be hospitalized, or get seriously injured? You’re saying it’s OK for me to go bankrupt for something that is not my fault?! I know you’re going to say “but even people with pre-existing conditions get covered”. You’re right, and their premiums are up to $1000 a month (individual plans I’m talking about). So because I have a pre-existing condition, it’s ok for me to have to pay essentially rent, car and utilities twice? How selfish of you people, and frankly un-Christian.
Well guys, I have been really sick before, and again not of my choice. Go ahead, get really sick or injured. Go through the system. Go the ER and watch someone come into your room and say “now will that be with check or credit card?”
NO ONE in this country, poor or rich, should ever have to go through that.

By: John L Jordan

John L Jordan — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:46:42 +0000

The Dead Leading The Dead
It makes very little difference whether or not Mr. Obama “tells the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.” One lie more or less at this point is irrelevant because the whole mess of politics and politicians on the floor now is a Failure of Leadership. That monstrosity of unintelligible language called The Healthcare Bill is one more example in a long line of corrupt, conniving legislation designed to enrich the few at the expense of the many.
From the White House and both houses of Congress today we have the dead leading the dead. We The People need to start pushing back harder against the Zombie Politicians. We The People deserve to be represented by living Souls. They may not tell the truth all the time but at least they will be warm-blooded.
Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod, and Barack Obama bear uncomfortably close resemblance to hooded cobras in their respective facial features.

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:28:30 +0000

in reference to the first paragraph: It seems to me that one possible point to draw from this is that if inaccurate stories are the best the research staff of the White House can do, perhaps the evil insurance companies are not rescinding so many policies without justifiable cause as the forces for “reform” would have us believe. Of course, these people believe that the government should mandate that private companies cover those with pre-existing conditions, then regulate what they can charge for it so they must do so at a loss, and cut a deal with those companies not to object to this arrangement by dangling a “mandatory coverage” provision that will transfer those costs to healthy people who otherwise would have CHOSEN to forego health insurance. If you think that one’s cost for health insurance should have nothing to do withthe cost of providing one’s health insurance, then you cannot properly be said to “think” at all.

By: Jubal Biggs

Jubal Biggs — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 07:38:17 +0000

I find it ironic that the only cases of “bureaucratic bean counting”that are being reported in Washington are those involving private insurance companies. Everyone knows that private businesses treat people badly and government officials are all heart right?
In the first case, the man was able to get legal help and went to the courts as a recourse. It worked; the courts were able to give him justice in his unfair case.
Guess what? If the bean counter had been a Washington bean counter, he may not have had recourse to the courts at all.
A woman in Oregon was denied a medicine by her government supplied health care provider; the Oregon universal health care system. Guess what happened? The evil, greedy private company that made the drug figured they had a walking advertisement opportunity and gave her the drug for free. The state had an economic interest in her dying, because it cut her costs from their rolls. The private company had an economic interest in her living because it was great PR and they don’t want to look like a heartless corporation. Government does not care if it looks heartless, business does. It is that simple.
Think about it.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:05:15 +0000

I’d like to revise and extend my comment . . .
I just re-read the piece by Mr. Tapper.
Yes, it is totally slanted in favor of government health care – but it is still a departure from the lies of omission and flat out propaganda that have become SO prevalent in the major media (we ALL know which outlets).
Maybe ABC is reading the polls and looking at the political weather vane and is deciding to try to come back off the ledge upon which it has so firmly stood in support of Mr. Obama.

By: bill

bill — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:00:16 +0000

So let me understand, Jake, it’s ok to do inaccurate reporting if your intentions are good, where “good” is defined by WHOM ? Oh, I get it, it’s the new way to report.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:51:26 +0000

Jake Tapper just turned down the volume of this contentious debate. Thank you, Jake!
Did Obama “lie” about these anecdotes – yes and no.
You have to understand that “when politicians do it, it’s not lying” (or so they would have us believe) to paraphrase from the movie “Nixon”.
I recall (but have not specific information) of this kind of “truth stretching” from other presidents.
An honest critique of a president’s address (as done by Tapper here) is what is needed for the “right” to feel it is not being told bald-faced lies from a collusive media, and for the left to admit that Mr. Obama is a politician, cut of the same cloth as so many others (and not able to walk on water if he weren’t so criticized by the “right”)

By: Ken

Ken — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 03:30:28 +0000

Insurance companies *must* deny care for pre-existing conditions. If they didn’t, many people would not purchase insurance until they were already sick. The entire system would collapse within a couple of years as the only people with insurance would be those with illnesses and it would bankrupt the insurance companies. It is like buying auto insurance and expecting the company to pay for a wreck you had a year before you bought the policy.