Obama Surfs the Net, Explaining New Health Care Website

Obamas surfing the net to see how he screwed up healthcare, has he read the complete bill yet?.. as 60% want it repealed
Or maybe he trying to see how far he has set back race relations in the US with his blundering, idiotic, racebaiting, and quick to judgement decisions
OBAMA VERSES AMERICA

He talks about health care insurance, while his lawyers are in court fighting the states, telling the courts its a TAX not insurance.

The White House putting out their biggest seller, the president himself, to explain what many Americans still have questions about is not surprising.
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Is Obama really their “biggest seller”? He’s had trouble keeping his popularity up during this health care push.
Also, while this website sounds nifty, there are numerous private websites that do about the same thing. I know I can do it with my auto insurance (I’ve not been in the health care insurance market, but isn’t there a similar website?)
So I don’t believe that *this* is why they passed the huge health care bill.

how about all the people that are unemployed whose COBRA has now run out and qualify for Medicaid…

Do you think you could possibly ask Obama why he said to George Stephanopolis :that The Health Care Bill s “not a tax in any way, shape, or form.” And now his Justice Department argues in Court the Law is Constitutional because it is a Tax? Or do you think the question might make the President uncomfortable?

I actually went to the government website and was happy to see it was educational, informative without being stuffy.
It would be interesting to know which of those leaving negative comments about the health care reform bill were profiting from the old system. Because there is so much good for the consumer in the actual bill, there is no reason to complain about it.
Notice the complainers don’t give any specifics about what is bad in the bill, just a lot of doom and gloom generalities. There is a reason for that, the bill actually will help working and retired Americans have better health care opportunities and protections.

Notice the complainers don’t give any specifics about what is bad in the bill, just a lot of doom and gloom generalities.
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If you look around at news stories both in print and on the internet, you will find specific complaints.
A big one is the effect it will have on many corporations and the benefits they offer. White Castle is one who recently disclosed the problems they have with it, but there are so many that Henry Waxman had planned a hearing (he thought they were bluffing).
That issue would be a good place for you to start, if you want to see specific complaints.
Another problem with the bill is the state funding problems with regard to the high risk pools.
The absurdity of requiring calorie counts on menus and breast feeding rooms in private businesses.
The government is falling behind in creating the very complex regulations the bill called for.
The difficulty in bringing costs under control, considering the ‘medicare doc fix’ problem.
Those are a few things you can look into, if you are actually interested in seeing substantive criticisms.

Now I’ll complain specifically about the website.
I went to esurance and got to the screen describing private plans available in about 9 fewer clicks.
The healthcare.gov website does include information about government options, which is nice, but it is difficult to navigate and puts very little information at my fingertips about whether I qualify. (theoretically)

There are several options to help the uninsured.. help employers hire and subsidize the health plan, provide a public option of some sort for the underemployed and near hopeless and adopt many of the items Berwick likes from National Health. I would say to stop pandering to Big Pharma and the healthcare executives and workers.. but it’s a bridge too far.

“Doctors and hospital office staff are already overwhelmed dealing with the dozens of ins. companies in their state.” – Lydia
Foolish talk.
Our health care providers are not that incompetent.
They can handle the insurance hoops.
If there is anything that overwhelms them it’s the constant silly CYA paper work and procedures they follow so that they may be able to protect themselves against an unjustified lawsuit.
Of course the wondrous Yeswecan Care didn’t address this costly problem at all.

I sure hope Obama’s has a Spanish (and Chinese, Russian, Tagalog, Vietnamese, etc etc etc) version of the website. How else will his core constituency read how to get the “free” healthcare? He might also wish to hire some of those no out-of-work census workers to explain verbally the “free” Obamacare to those illegals, and even citizens, who cannot read or have access to a computer! Then again, he probably would advise his illegal friends to just visit the ER as they normally do….

Anecdote (so salt heavily):
Duke University Hospital. With 900 beds, they have 1300 billing clerks.

“Because there is so much good for the consumer in the actual bill, there is no reason to complain about it. ”
“Notice the complainers don’t give any specifics about what is bad in the bill, just a lot of doom and gloom generalities.”
As compared to your assertion that there is so much good in the bill? Classic fail.

“Tell that to the OBGYN who opts out of the OB practice because malpractice rates are so high that there is no incentive to continue”
If that were true you would have more doctors per capita in states with malpractice damage caps versus states without such caps or you would have seen the amount of doctors rise at a faster rate in states with caps versus those without.
38 states have tort reform, the effect had been negligible.

“Our health care providers are not that incompetent.
They can handle the insurance hoops.”
Do you have any idea the amount of overhead for a doctor’s office is spent on processing insurance claims?

Ryan C you don’t live in Texas-before tort reform high-risk specialists like neurosurgeons were leaving in droves. That stopped with tort reform.

We have been severely lied to about transparency, and now Obama expects to convince us Obamacare is good?
Obama appoints a left leaning rationer-in-chief and expects us to believe there will be no rationing.
The costs were misrepresented and Obama expects us to now believe?
The national debt of 13.2 trillion dollars would require 520 billion dollar payments per year if we were just to apply the credit card reform minimum payment rule of 4% of the balance. And those payments would be for some 50 years.
Of course the bottom line is that Obamacare is neither constitutional nor did it arise out of town hall meetings in the 435 congressional districts across this late great nation. It arose behind closed doors fed by lobbyists and special interest.
It is time to sit down and read the Declaration of Independence considering that King George seems more and more like a putty cat in comparison to Obama and His congress.

“Ryan C: any combination of Waxman Hearing and Health care will get you there.”
Find a hearing that was canceled dealing with Catepillar, Verizon & Deere Co because those companies sought to book accounting charges
Nothing on White Castle.

“White Castle’s criticisms were more recent. Waxman had already canceled the hearings with the other companies.”
So one had little to do with the other.
White Castle doesn’t have open books and given that this is being pushed by right wingers, I’ll have to wait for more information since this has the stench of being Breitbarted.

LOL Oh joy America has a new Mr. Rogers. What an absolute joke this presidency has become.

“I didn’t say they did.”
Bad wording perhaps?
“A big one is the effect it will have on many corporations and the benefits they offer. White Castle is one who recently disclosed the problems they have with it, but there are so many that Henry Waxman had planned a hearing (he thought they were bluffing).”

All this technology gives me such a warm fuzzy feeling. 91,000 pages of secret documents leaked and we are to trust the government to our privacy?Perhaps you have a condidtion you don’t want made known so some jerk hacker in a basement finds out and blackmails you..keeping that secret for a few bucks. And we have the government with access to our credit cards and banking now thanks to nozy people with nothing better to do than to run peoples lives all in the name of protecting them.
Where are the people who cried gagged, flogged themselves and puked at the thought Boooosh was listening to their phone calls?

“Duke University Hospital. With 900 beds, they have 1300 billing clerks.” – Flash Override
Hey Flash, well that just tells me that the system is broke.
I’m not a fan of Insurance Companies but from your example I’ll bet that is a direct result of goofy billing practices. Must be hard collecting $35.13 for a single Tylenol. What’s the going rate for a Q-tip?
Besides that, different people and companies get charged different rates for the same procedures and services.
Here’s an idea, charge the same for a Colonoscopy no matter who’s paying, that includes if it’s an individual and not an insurance company. If you don’t have insurance and want to pay for your hospital visit yourself you get charged a lot more. Why is that legal?
Hospitals made a huge mistake when they went the way of Bizzarro Billing and Charges ala the Airline Industry. It’s a sickness developed in boardrooms where substandard business men and women engage in overblown ego stroking and worthless paper ideas at which point they then infect the institutions they are running. The cure is Common Sense™ but that’s hard to come by since we don’t manufacture that here in the USA anymore.
“Defensive medicine costs are larger, but still not a major factor in health care cost.” – Flash Override
That depends greatly on who you ask.
For me, I don’t need to search for any polls or studies or experts on line to know what’s going on. I can see what happens with my normal immediate family. Extrapolate on that and Defensive Medicine costs are huge.

“For me, I don’t need to search for any polls or studies or experts on line to know what’s going on. I can see what happens with my normal immediate family.”
Anecdotal preferred over empirical but only if it confirms the preconceived notion.
That’s the right wing mentality in a nutshell.

Mr. Obama should do a search on “Obama Birth Certificate” and see that pitiful computer-generated in 2008 document. Let’s have the real thing… a copy of the long-form certificate with all the signatures and the baby footprints… the American people deserve no less…

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