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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Little Joe who wrote (60832)	8/15/2009 10:09:03 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

As far as I am concerned that is all pie in the sky. However, I am willing to try it in a Blue state. Maybe yours, where to you live? Let's find out if the government can make it work, before we do something we will be sorry for. What is wrong with that. This is an apprehension, an outcome of fear mongering politics practiced by our politicians during the past decade. Remember, the fear of Saddam and his WMDs spun by the previous Administration. Remember the fear when the stimulus bill was being passed. Think of those today. No WMDs. Mistake in removing Saddam and causing regional geo-political instability. Less than 15% of the stimulus funds have been disbursed and the tailspin of the economy has been arrested. To me, that is reason enough to start believing once again. It is not an issue of Obama: Had Enough? Instead its is I want more of Obama.

To: Little Joe who wrote (60832)	8/15/2009 10:11:04 PM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Respond to of 149317

LJ - move to Switzerland, where people live much longer and they have healthcare and the average income is 65k. check it out. you might like it. unless of course you make 300k, can easily pay the usary insurance rates and don't give a fak. if that's the case, say it.

To: Little Joe who wrote (60832)	8/16/2009 12:09:27 PM
From: Bread Upon The Water	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

I think you have made some good points. Those are the kind of questions people need answers to and why there is unease out there about the changes to be made. Just a side note on "national" insurance companies. They sell nationally but each state's insurance commission/dept. sets its own rules. So the pricing is fractured as well as the procedures. You are also correct about the need for better accountability in the billing process for Medicare. Politics aside, we could probably have a single payor system modeled on Medicare if the more controls were in place on the billing side. That is a large effect what the argument(s) are about--what controls (savings) to place on the billing side. Everyone (Drs., Insurers, Patients, Hospitals) will have to adjust to a more controlled environment in order to "universalize" the system and change the way they make money. That is why the argument is so intense. People's food bowls are being shuffled.