Health Care Reform and the Reid Family

When I see the pile up news.. these days.. I always think.. was someone texting?

Maybe his wife/daughter’s brush with death will wake Harry up as to what is important in life.
Do these old as dirt Congressmen have a life outside of politics or is that their whole life?
When they are on their death bed i bet they will be praying for more time with family not Washington.

I hope for a quick recovery for Harry’s family. I totally disagree with this new healthcare program. It will make people pay the large insurance companies giving them a larger profit than they now have. Any one who can think knows they will charge you more than it costs them, ALOT MORE. Look at their Medicare Supplemental policies. They pay 20% of the cost and charge you more than Medicare who pays 80% of the cost. Why aren’t their premiums 20% of the cost of Medicare. Let’s go 30% because they should make some profit.

I think they way you represented Mr. Ried’s family stuation and then dove tailed into the Health Care was not fair. Mr. Ried’s family will never not have health care coverage. Mr. Reid has better health care for himself and family because he is a congressman.
Once again, if congress had to live by the rules the bring down on all of us we would all be better off.
I know you want Health Care Reform, I think most Americans dotoo. But try and be somewhat fair about how you represent it with your stories.
This morning was not a good example of balanced journalism. Unless that is not a factor anymore.

Victims of auto accidents have injuries paid for by the other drivers auto insurance (bodily injury liability), not by their own health insurance. (And if the driver doesnt have auto insurance, then the victims own Uninsured Motorist auto insurance provision kicks in)
Is it any wonder that the American people are falling for Obama’s insurance scam? The media paints a false picture of what health insurance does and doesn’t cover.

Raven, this bill is not a ‘government takeover’ of health care.
It is simply protecting consumers from the worst of the insurance company’s tricks to increase their profits at the expense of folk’s health and finances.
We’ve all seen what happens when the government doesn’t regulate by the recent banking crisis. We almost had a depression thanks to little regulation of banks.
Regulation isn’t a dirty word. It is necessary to protect us all from the greediest among us.
Dan, I don’t know what kind of Medicare supplemental you have, but my mother-in-law’s worked just fine on her recent 5 day hospital visit. The only thing she has had to pay for is a share of the ambulance bill.

I love all the talk about free health care. So the Doctors, the nurses, the hospitals and all the employees just do not get paid for giving this free care?
If they get paid, then it is not free; someone is paying for it.
So how dare any politican call this care free!
Also, when they speak of lower premiums for people by using subsidies, how is this actually lower cost? Your just allowing someone else to pay for some of it. The premium is not any lower, your just making it someone else pay some of it!