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

To: mel221 who wrote (114433)	5/31/2012 11:56:47 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

There is plenty of waste in the current system. Additionally, the high costs we are seeing today, which makes folks like you think that we cannot afford universal healthcare costs, is because the insurance companies are driving up these costs by requiring doctors to perform "unnecessary procedures", prescribe unnecessary pills etc. etc. When you walk into a doctors' office, the doctor along with his insurance company is more interested in protecting himself against lawsuits than devoting their skills and energies is correctly diagonizing the patient and truly focusing on the patient. The priorities need to change. Costs need to be cut down. And we need to move the "for profit" insurance companies out of the health care business. That should be the number one priority. Once we have a system in place to drive down costs, then we can begin to see (do not even have to talk about) affordability. I think the Republicans are already feeling the heat and they are signalling to the SC justices to be very careful about Obamacare because if they are not, then it could hurt the political party whom justices favor. ========================================== The Audacity of GOP Dopes on Health Care by Michael Tomasky May 31, 2012 4:45 AM EDT After attacking the Affordable Care Act for three years, Republicans now say they’d like to keep its most popular provisions. How convenient—and how clueless. In three weeks or so, the Supreme Court will rule on health care. Republicans have been discussing what they might do in the event that poor, beleaguered John Roberts manages to withstand that vicious assault of the liberals and to lead a majority that strikes down the individual mandate. This one is a classic, folks. After spending three years lying their eyes out about the bill and tearing this country apart over it, it now turns out that they may well want to keep several of its provisions. And of course they want to keep the easy and fun stuff and get rid of all that bad-bad-bad stuff, but what they don’t understand—or more likely do understand but refuse to acknowledge—is that the good doesn’t work without the "bad." It’s breathtaking and ignorant—whether breathtakingly ignorant or ignorantly breathtaking I’m not quite sure. Call it the audacity of dopes. ....contd at thedailybeast.com