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StumblePublished Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2009 | 2:01 p.m.
Updated Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2009 | 2:04 p.m.
Dina Titus
WASHINGTON -- Democrats are running radio ads this week in Las Vegas, shoring up Rep. Dina Titus’ support for health care reform even as the freshman congresswoman opposes the main tax aspects of the proposal.
The ad from Organizing for America comes after Republicans ran ads against Titus last month over health care. The group is a branch of the Democratic National Committee focused on passing President Barack Obama’s agenda.
The congresswoman is the first Democrat to hold the Las Vegas-area district that has historically been a swing seat, and is a target for Republicans in 2010.
The ad thanks Titus for her support of health care reform – even as she voted against the bill in committee because she opposes taxing wealthy households to pay for insurance coverage.
The ad says Titus is “taking on the lobbyists and the special interests and standing up for us and our families…. working every day to make sure we have affordable quality health care.”
will not vote for tittus...if health care passes...in fact will not vote for her at all.
I emailed Rep. Titus and informed her that i would like her to NOT vote for this Power Grab farce that they are calling Health Care Reform and this is what i got back from her. An email basically saying thanks for your input....but im gonna do what I want. So if she votes FOR it then i vote FOR her opponent!!!!!!
"Dear Mr.--------
Thank you for contacting me about health insurance reform. Americans across the country are struggling to afford the high price of health care or lack access to the care they need, and I appreciate the opportunity to respond to your concerns.
In Nevada nearly a quarter of 18- to 64-year-olds go without health care coverage, and as the effects of the recession continue to grip our region, more Nevadans are losing their insurance or are finding it harder to keep up with rising costs. Nevada's small businesses are also feeling the strain, as the high cost of health care is making them less competitive and dragging them down at a time when they are struggling to stay afloat.
As the health care debate in Washington, D.C., continues, one thing is clear: The status quo is unacceptable. In my 20 years in the Nevada Legislature and in my short time in Congress, I have strongly supported health insurance reform. I campaigned on the issue, President Barack Obama has promised it, the people have demanded it, and the country needs it.
The average American family pays an extra $1,100 a year in premiums to support the uninsured. And with premiums having doubled in nine years and growing three times as fast as wages, now is the time to act.
But to make health insurance reform a success, we must do it right. Nevada and our nation need health insurance reform that lowers costs, improves the quality of care and allows those who like their doctor or current plan to keep both. I want people to be in control of their health care, not insurance company CEOs or government.
Reforming our health care system is a critical component of our nation's long-term fiscal health, and we must ensure that the steps we take do not unfairly burden small businesses. Small businesses are the engines of growth in our economy, and their recovery will be critical to our efforts to pull Nevada out of this recession and create jobs that put people back to work.
Many positive aspects of health insurance reform were included in legislation that came before the House Education and Labor Committee on which I serve. Ending the practice of denial based on preexisting conditions and preventing insurance companies from placing a cap or limit on the benefits they will cover are critical reforms that we must pursue. I also support proposals to eliminate co-pays for preventive care.
But I also have concerns about the effect the legislation could have on our small businesses. I want to make it very clear that my opposition to this bill in the committee was not to protect the rich or put the needs of the few above the needs of the many, but to say that we can do better.
Businesses in Southern Nevada are struggling, making it harder for Nevadans to find jobs, let alone ones that provide health care. The current version of this legislation increases taxes that could hurt our small businesses and slow economic recovery at a time when we must do all that we can to strengthen the businesses that are the backbone of our economy.
It is also critical that Congress continues to explore other options to pay for health insurance reform, looking at every alternative before turning to increased taxes. This includes cutting back on waste, fraud and abuse in the system. We should invest in health information technology, which will make health care more efficient and affordable by reducing administrative costs and duplicative tests.
We also need to invest more in preventive care and wellness and control skyrocketing drug prices. There is still room for additional concessions from private insurers and pharmaceutical companies as well.
As the effort to reform our health care system continues, I look forward to seeing a final bill that meets the critical principles of controlling costs, providing choice, expanding access and strengthening the competitiveness of our small businesses. Only then will we have real health insurance reform that will give people the coverage and peace of mind they need."
Sincerely,
Dina Titus
Member of Congress
Listen, this health care debate is something that's very important to all Nevadans, because we have all been hit with this recession. The recession doesn't have party lines, so I'm not going to hold Dina Titus responsible for her efforts for trying to improve our standards of living with the health care reform efforts. Nevada is in a bad way right now with a 12.1% unemployment and our main industry has been all but crippled... people need some level of security in their daily lives. People expect representation when their cards are down, and I would certainly hope that Nevadans would let their representatives know what parts of the bill they do or don't approve of, so that we can debate the issues. I'm assuming that the other side still thinks that Gibbons is a better choice than Titus would've been as governor.
I want to see people asking questions about the issues that affect our state, but please leave room for debate.
www.citizenzero.us
If this plan is suppost to be so good,why is it good enough for the american people,but not good enough for the stuffed shirts trying to push it down our throats???
You're not going to believe this because it's frightening, but here is what it says.
"The Federal Government will require everyone who is on Social Security to undergo a counseling session every 5 years with the objective being that they will explain to them how to end their own life earlier."
THEY ARE GOING TO PUSH SUICIDE to cut Medicare spending!
The Democrats have got to come up with a plan and the best way is to have anyone on Medicare consider Suicide.
The government will tax you for dying and then your family till they get all your money. Remember the movie Logan's run; there anyone over 30 got whacked. This scenario will be anyone over 60. The book and movie "1984" written by James Orwell hits to gut the idea was Big Brother is watching you and he is for a very long time
Can we be reasonable here? Rep Titus is soon going to learn that she cannot have it both ways on the health care debate, and Sept 1st is almost here. Not so sure about any of you, but paying approximately 4x the amt for an uninsured person to go to UMC doesn't work in my calculations for a budget that balances. People w/o access to decent health care have families who get sick. It is exponential.
The arrogant Democrats led by Harry Reid and our dictator, Obama are forcing the socialist health care on us and will not listen to what we the people want. This is what the great Harry Reid had to say: "These are nothing more than destructive efforts to interrupt a debate that we should have, and are having," Reid said Thursday. "They are doing this because they don't have any better ideas. They have no interest in letting the negotiators, even though few in number, negotiate. It's really simple: they're taking their cues from talk show hosts, Internet rumor-mongerers ... and insurance rackets." VotE this man OUT of office and save America!
Representative Dins Titus is so removed from the people that voted for her! She should be voted out of office. She is a liberal that will vote for Obama's socialist agenda.
I would never vote for anyone who is licking the heels of obama! We do not need his deathplan nor do we need more of his puppets in office. Reid has to go! With unions backing him it's going to be hard to get him removed, but it CAN be done!
Dina, I love your baby picture.
I have noticed that a lot of these violent "Nazi" protersters share with me the same hairline and belt size. If they become violent, I gurantee it will be brief.
Am I the only one who has noticed that physical violence was not a problem until Obama sent in his "Brownshirts" to push around, beat up and insult senior citizens?
Harry Reid has defined himself as a traitor, fraud, coward and incompetent so I am not required to point out the obvious. Please don't follow Harry down the Rabbit Hole". It's crazy down there.
Medicare caused all the medical fraud perpetrated by doctors in this country...Medicare was started by another Democratic administration .LBJ should be dug up and shot for starting "The Great Society" Bull Pucky! We ain't that great,and we never were, and we never will be. People should start buying health care insurance instead of tattoos, ipods, and drugs...(illegal drugs) The youth of today are nothing more than takers ... and not givers.. with the exception of our brave men and women in the Armed Forces
Most of the people not voting for Titus would never have voted for her in the first place.
"You're not going to believe this because it's frightening, but here is what it says.
"The Federal Government will require everyone who is on Social Security to undergo a counseling session every 5 years with the objective being that they will explain to them how to end their own life earlier."
THEY ARE GOING TO PUSH SUICIDE to cut Medicare spending!
The Democrats have got to come up with a plan and the best way is to have anyone on Medicare consider Suicide."
No I don't believe it, because it is a complete fabrication, i.e. bull:
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/st...
James,
Suicide is pushed in the Canadian and British system. So what makes the American political hacks any different.
When 24K is spend on you, your toast! It is the only way to make the system work!
Want your country to go on? Consider:
"Democracy is a form of government that cannot long survive, for as soon as the people learn that they have a voice in the fiscal policies of the government, they will move to vote for themselves all the money in the treasury, and bankrupt the nation."
-- Karl Marx
Preventive care costs pennies. Sick people cost money. When the elderly are say 80, the return through future taxes is nil. Therefore, cut the loss to the system, give what cost little to alleviate pain, and offer them the ONLY way out. Suicide.
PG 425 Lines 4-12 Govt mandates Advance Care Planning Consultation. Euthanasia and Doctor-Assisted Suicide.
Pg 425 Lines 17-19 Govt will instruct & consult regarding living wills, and assume power of attorney of all enrollees. Mandatory!
PG 425 Lines 22-25, 426 Lines 1-3 Govt provides approved list of end of life resources, guiding you in death decisions to end your life.
PG 427 Lines 15-24 Govt mandates program to mandatory end of life programs. The Govt will mandate how your life ends.
Pg 429 Lines 1-9 An "advance care planning consultant" will be used frequently as a patient's health deteriorates
PG 429 Lines 10-12 "advance care consultation" may include an ORDER to initiate end of life plans. AN ORDER from GOV to terminate a life.
Pg 429 Lines 13-25 -- The govt will specify which Doctors can write an end of life order.
PG 430 Lines 11-15 The Govt will decide what level of treatment you will have at end of life
Contrary to his suggestion, the link to ABC that James Kresnik put in his 8/16 post has a headline that says
"Experts Debunk Health Care Reform Bill's 'Death Panel' Rule.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/st...
There are many sites that indicate that this "End of Life" counseling is optional, and there are many doctors who are pleased that Medicare will pay for this counseling.
http://factcheck.org/2009/08/seven-false...
http://aarp.convio.net/site/PageNavigato...
When you check into a hospital , they ask you what you want to do if the operation is not successful. It makes a lot more sense to make this decision in discussion with your doctor and family before you are confronted with a situation where you need to make a fast decision when you're stressed because you're facing an operation.
There are a lot of wasted dollars in Medicare. However, people who are on Medicare love the benefits. The current bills in Congress plan to stop this waste. There are NO plans to cut Medicare benefits.
I lived in Canada until I graduated from college. My family still lives there. My mother had a lot of medical problems during her latter years, and received excellent care. She died at age 84. All of my extended family are very happy with their healthcare. They do not have socialized medicine in Canada (where the government owns the hospitals, and the doctors work for the government). They have government insurance instead.
All that is being proposed in the bills currently in Congress are that a public option be available -- a government insurance choice to go along with private insurance. There are many parts of this country, especially in the rural areas, where there may only be one insurance company available -- we need a public option to give some choice to people.
People are losing health insurance because they are losing their jobs. If you are privately insured, you cannot get insurance if you have a pre-existing condition. And there are a lot of people who are paying for insurance, but the insurance company will find a reason not to pay when they really need it. More than 60% of the bankruptcies in our country are due to medical costs, and most of those people had health insurance, but were underinsured. And prescription costs are affecting our older people.
Also, in the early 60's, when Canada went to their single payer system, their healthcare costs were 7% of their GNP; ours was 9%. Now their costs are 11% of GDP; ours are 16%. Our country cannot afford not to change the way our health system is delivered.
The same arguments against health care reform were presented by the Republican party when President Lyndon Johnson got Medicare passed. We were all communists or socialists and it was going to ruin our country. These same people are all now old enough to be covered by Medicare and it is amazing how some want their Medicare untouched (keep government out of Medicare, etc.) but they don't want the younger Americans to be able to get affordable health care.
My daughter is 22 years old, was covered by my health insurance up until her 22nd birthday (she is in college) and now she is having difficulty getting health insurance because she was once treated for "tension headaches" (a pre existing condition). They even wanted to argue that she had another pre existing condition, a canker sore (ulcer in her mouth). Both of these conditions were mentioned in a healthcare visit to a primary care physician. This is ridiculous if a young healthy girl with an occasional head ache and a small sore in her mouth is denied health insurance for pre-existing conditions. Both of these problems are treated with over the counter medications but the insurance company is afraid that she will ask for prescription medications for these ailments. Pre existing conditions do not have to be "major" medical conditions to cause concern with the underwriters of health insurance. Anything that might present with a prescription or a doctor's visit is considered a problem. I really don't know what you are paying premiums for. If she pays extra and does not go to the doctor for 12 months they will re-examine her risk. So, her $2,000 a year premiums will be paid and if she doesn't use health care for a year then they will decrease her yearly premium by $400.00. What a deal, don't go to the doctor and you will be allow to pay each year. Of course if you really get sick and have to seek health care then you in trouble for next year and when you exceed you limits you probably will be cancelled. Those on Medicare are certainly not rejected for a pre existing condition and told to avoid treatment for 12 months so that they can be reevaluated for their risk.
American's with healthcare coverage provided by their employer's need to cross their fingers that they never lose it because individual coverage is not easy to get even if you are only 22 years old and healthy.