Comments on: Keeping Real Health Care Reform Off the Table http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/06/keeping-real-health-care-reform-off-the-table/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:34:32 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Christopher http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/06/keeping-real-health-care-reform-off-the-table/#comment-51623 Christopher Sat, 08 Aug 2009 04:18:56 +0000 http://dissidentvoice.org/?p=8752#comment-51623 Members of congress are not owned lock, stock and barrel by any private or public group. Each member gets one vote on an issue and they decide what they will vote for. It does not matter if the ACLU, NAACP, NRA or Santa Clause holds a check in front of their face for a trillion dollars. THEY cast the vote. As far as health care... 90% of Americans have great health care. Let us go help the 10% through tort reform and capping monies paid out in trials against doctors/hospitals, and getting government OUT of medicine. Medicare and Medicaid are prime examples of why government has no place in medicine. Those programs are in the hole to the tune of something around $ 53 trillion dollars. America produces over FIFTY percent of the world's NEW medicines, treatments and vaccines. We have the most robust and healthiest health care in the entire world. If you take out car accidents and violent deaths... NOBODY is living longer than us! So let us work on some societal issues and start some driving education courses and don't fix what isn't broke. I will leave you to your starbucks and University cafe's. Have fun with the revolution! Members of congress are not owned lock, stock and barrel by any private or public group. Each member gets one vote on an issue and they decide what they will vote for. It does not matter if the ACLU, NAACP, NRA or Santa Clause holds a check in front of their face for a trillion dollars. THEY cast the vote.

As far as health care… 90% of Americans have great health care. Let us go help the 10% through tort reform and capping monies paid out in trials against doctors/hospitals, and getting government OUT of medicine. Medicare and Medicaid are prime examples of why government has no place in medicine. Those programs are in the hole to the tune of something around $ 53 trillion dollars.

America produces over FIFTY percent of the world’s NEW medicines, treatments and vaccines. We have the most robust and healthiest health care in the entire world. If you take out car accidents and violent deaths… NOBODY is living longer than us! So let us work on some societal issues and start some driving education courses and don’t fix what isn’t broke.

I will leave you to your starbucks and University cafe’s. Have fun with the revolution!

]]> By: m http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/06/keeping-real-health-care-reform-off-the-table/#comment-48579 m Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:44:21 +0000 http://dissidentvoice.org/?p=8752#comment-48579 Why do we continue to elect the people that have made a mess of absolutely everything they've touched? This is THE MOST CORRUPT CONGRESS IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICA and we keep reelecting them. They are owned lock, stock and sweetheart mortgages by business. Anyone who votes for an incumbent is a fool. Why do we continue to elect the people that have made a mess of absolutely everything they’ve touched?

This is THE MOST CORRUPT CONGRESS IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICA and we keep reelecting them. They are owned lock, stock and sweetheart mortgages by business.

Anyone who votes for an incumbent is a fool.

]]> By: mike oliphant http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/06/keeping-real-health-care-reform-off-the-table/#comment-48478 mike oliphant Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:06:30 +0000 http://dissidentvoice.org/?p=8752#comment-48478 I am a health insurance agent in Utah. I sit on the board of the Utah health underwriters as webmaster for http://www.benefitsmanager.net/ and http://www.uahu.org/. I was heavily involved in designed a web connector to help Utah residents by pulling private and state sponsored insurance mechanisms together. It had a low budget of around $150k that virtually guaranteed health insurance coverage through either the private or state programs. Better yet all the local carriers agreed to split the costs. Our state insurance task force committee rejected the idea. They elected to go for a Massachusetts type connector program that isn't working well when you actually dig deep and check facts of where they are now. Our state approved H.B. 188 with a zero fiscal note attachment! My point is, I have been a fly on the wall in countless legislative meetings, insurance board meetings, hospital board meetings, the list goes on. The problem is conflict with the market demanding profit in all sectors of the system. Tough order to fill and keep costs down? You are absolutely right when you claim that healthcare is now unsustainable. I have been crying that a long time. Nobody listens. I am a health insurance agent in Utah. I sit on the board of the Utah health underwriters as webmaster for http://www.benefitsmanager.net/ and http://www.uahu.org/. I was heavily involved in designed a web connector to help Utah residents by pulling private and state sponsored insurance mechanisms together. It had a low budget of around $150k that virtually guaranteed health insurance coverage through either the private or state programs. Better yet all the local carriers agreed to split the costs. Our state insurance task force committee rejected the idea. They elected to go for a Massachusetts type connector program that isn’t working well when you actually dig deep and check facts of where they are now. Our state approved H.B. 188 with a zero fiscal note attachment! My point is, I have been a fly on the wall in countless legislative meetings, insurance board meetings, hospital board meetings, the list goes on. The problem is conflict with the market demanding profit in all sectors of the system. Tough order to fill and keep costs down? You are absolutely right when you claim that healthcare is now unsustainable. I have been crying that a long time. Nobody listens.

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