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twitterLETTER TO THE EDITOR:
Health care reform is a problem for all of us
Saturday, Aug. 1, 2009 | 2:02 a.m.
I think the main reason the majority in America won’t push aggressively for health care reform is that too many think it’s somebody else’s problem.
The sad truth is that not enough people feel immediately threatened, which makes too many willing to listen to too many conflicting theories as to what might happen if we follow a particular plan.
The problem is that solving the health care issue is essential to the future of America’s economy. I hope responsible people will become active and make their voices heard.
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The reason most Americans are against nationalized health care is that we are quite happy with the health care we receive. We are also intelligent enough to realize that there will be huge increases in taxes to fund this monstrosity, and most upper middle class Americans think taxes are much too high now.
On top of that, intelligent Americans are quite aware that everything the government touches turns to s**t very quickly.
jlb101 said...... intelligent Americans are quite aware that everything the government touches turns to s**t very quickly.
It only seems to happen when it is touched with a republican hand.
Why are you "quite happy" with a system where premiums are skyrocketing and deductables and co-pays are rising every month. Don't you understand that someone is paying for it? Wake up!
Casino Kid-No the government employs the dumbest most incompetent people in the world. Stupidity is not partisan. Look at the cash for cars.
Schlegel- If I did not have to pay more to pay the bills of the parasites on government programs and the dregs using ER rooms my premiums would not be going up. Real men pay their own way and don't suck off of people better than they are.
jib101: Diabetes and heart disease. Real man willing to pay. Tell me where I can buy it.
Nice fair system. Your insurance company selling me insurance will drive your premiums up. Why can't you grasp the fundamentals?
The health care system took every thing my parents worked for because it cost so much now.
There won't be an inheritence for me because they have become parasites in your opinion they are up in there seventies in a rest home fighting for one more day they paid for your infrastucture that you use, will this happen to you I pray that it does'nt.
Casino Kid-My dad scrimped and saved all his life up into his eightiess because he felt it was his obligation to pay for his old age,not the taxpayer. He died at eighty nine and his saving went to pay for the three additional years my mother lived in a nursing home. Over $100k. I got very little inheritance. I'm not bitter, I am proud to be the son of a good, honest and moral man. There are not many like him left. By the way he pulled himself up by his own boodstraps starting life as a sharecropper in Tenessee.
I recently talked with a Central New Jersey constituent about health care reform and my belief that we need an optional publicly administered health insurance plan. He objected, voicing concern that government should stay out of the health care business. Government-run health care would be inefficient. It would be costly. It would put the government between him and his doctor. It would mean socialized medicine.
How did he pay for his health care, I asked.
"Medicare" he responded.
See the whole article here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-rush-h...
Article finishes:
This week, it is instructive not simply to commemorate the creation and success of Medicare but to remember the long struggle that led to this successful program. The program is so successful that some do not even think about its operation by our government. One American wrote a letter to President Obama saying, "I don't want government-run health care. And don't touch my Medicare." Another told one of my Congressional colleagues at a town hall to "keep your government hands off my Medicare."
More than 40 years ago, Congress and the president were right to enact Medicare.
I predict that more than 40 years from now, today's cries of "socialized medicine" and today's political chatter about who is benefiting from the debate will have faded. Instead, it will be noted that we did the right thing by finally ensuring that all Americans have health care security, a goal that has eluded our nation for a century.
Think about this, a person is elected to the U.S. Congress and serves only one term. The pension plan pays that person, full salary for the rest of his/her Life. WOW !
Propose this in 2009:
START A BILL TO PLACE ALL POLITICIANS ON SOCIAL SECURITY
Perhaps we are asking the wrong questions during election years.
Our Senators and Congresswomen do not pay into Social Security and, of course, they do not collect from it.
You see, Social Security benefits were not suitable for persons of their rare elevation in society. They felt they should have a special plan for themselves. So, many years ago they voted in their own benefit plan.
In more recent years, no congressperson has felt the need to change it. After all, it is a great plan.
For all practical purposes their plan works like this:
When they retire, they continue to draw the same pay until they die.
Except it may increase from time to time for cost of living adjustments...
For example, Senator Byrd and Congressman White and their wives may expect to draw $7, 800,000.00 (that's Seven Million, Eight-Hundred Thousand Dollars), with their wives drawing $275, 000..00 during the last years of their lives.
This is calculated on an average life span for each of those two Dignitaries.
Younger Dignitaries who retire at an early age, will receive much more during the rest of their lives.
Their cost for this excellent plan is $0.00. NADA!!! ZILCH!!!
Now do you wanna talk about their 'gold plated' health care paid for in full by us taxpayers?
Let's demand that Congress suspend all the perks they are doling out to themselves until we taxpayers get the same benefits they vote for themselves. ARE YOU WITH ME?
Contact your elected officials here: (enter your zip code on the left side of the page)
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home...
What's so bad about spending 100 Billion a year on providing free healthcare for All Americans? (Neither Democrats or Republicans raise their voice in protest each time they release another 100 Billion in our dollars for the military to fight useless wars in Iraq & Afghanistan.
With FREE health care for All, Imagine this:
No more worry about getting sick and filing bankruptcy.
No more dying because you couldn't afford a checkup that would have caught your terminal illness in time to cure it.
No more missing work because too sick to afford a doctor.
No more losing everything you've worked so hard for because the medicals bills just keep adding up.
No more doctors/hospitals looking at your insurance coverage or financial report before deciding your course of treatment.
No more fat cat health insurance companies looking for 'pre-existing' conditions to find excuses to deny your medical payments (after willing accepting your insurance premiums for the past 14 years)
No more 42% insurance premium increases.
No more wondering if I should buy bread or my prescription drugs.
PLEASE Dear God, GIVE ME the Obamacare Bureaucrat who stands between me and my doctor, OMG, What's this bureaucrat saying: "How can I help you? What do you need? Let's get you the help you need now!
Yes, give me a 'socialist doctor'! I already have a socialist policeman, fireman, & school teacher/librarian who never run my credit, check my insurance coverages or my financial reports before heading over to help me with my problem.
What's Not to Like?
Reform? Why do we need health-care reform? Everything is just fine the way it is.
Oh really? (this article at Newsweek "Nails IT"
http://www.newsweek.com/id/209817
If only 1 of you conservatives opposing health care reform could issue a logical counterpoint by point to this article above, I would read it.
We are developing into an oligarchy, just as John Adams hoped. The top few are reaping the benefits of the "lower working class". When Congress gives up their elite health care and slum it with the rest of us, then I'll sign on for "Obamacare".
However, if any of this plan looks like the care coming from the VA hospitals - run for the hills. Check out the Sacramento Bee, July 28th, for an article about a young 20 year old airman who lost both legs - not in Iraq - in gallbladder surgery at the VA hospital. They accidently cut his aorta. If he hadn't been rushed to UC Davis, he'd be dead. Of course he can't sue .... read it and weep for that young man and his family!
lvsunreader writes: "Check out the Sacramento Bee, July 28th, for an article about a young 20 year old airman who lost both legs - not in Iraq - in gallbladder surgery at the VA hospital."
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lvsunreader, that's a terrible tragedy.
And you just know that somebody somewhere will try to use Airman Read's tragic amputation to score cheap political points but the alarming truth is that nearly 200,000 Americans are killed every year in hospitals all across our nation due to medical errors!