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StumbleLETTER TO THE EDITOR:
Democrats show integrity by going for health reform
Monday, Dec. 28, 2009 | 2:02 a.m.
After reading Tom Harper’s Tuesday letter, headlined “Republicans were lacking in courage,” I see there are still intelligent individuals here in Nevada.
I personally think that the attitude of the Party of No (Republicans) will backfire. All I want to add is this: People of America, I’ve been glued to C-SPAN, HLN and CNN, and while listening to the Democrats, especially our president, you can listen to who is really sincere.
I’ll put it to you this way: Look who is going to lose millions in campaign contributions from health care insurance companies. Yes, I know, the Democrats get millions also, but look who wants to change it to make it more fair.
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What is your definition of "fair" Mr. Watkins? It certainly isn't fair if I have to pay higher taxes so you can go to the doctor for free.
Obozo sincere? Every other word that spews from his mouth is a lie.
I'll put it to you this way: Look who is going to lose millions in campaign contributions from health care insurance companies. Yes, I know, the Democrats get millions also, but look who wants to change it to make it more fair.
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Geez, whatever kool-aid drinker
Bryon Watkins laments "Yes, I know, the Democrats get millions..."
And here is what we are stuck with:
- At $1.6 billion it is NOT deficit-neutral. What this does is move money from our pocket to the government, Insurers, Hospitals, and Pharmaceuticals.
- States will have to pay for additional Medicaid coverage (except in Nebraska).
- CBO does not score a bend in the cost curve after real costs kick in 2014.
- Eliminated the public option and the Medicare buy-in
- Keeps the insurance industries anti-trust exemption
- Keeps insurance company limit on annual health care payouts
- Insurance companies will be able to keep a minimum of 20% of all revenue which will increase by over a trillion dollars in the next ten years.
- Hospitals will make more money
- Prevents the importation of cheap drug from Canada
- Pharmaceutical companies will make more money
- 23 million still NOT covered by health insurance
- A wait time of 6 months if you have a pre-condition
- installs a "Payment Advisory Commission" (wage, price, and rationing control board)
- A new Federal government board will set mandatory coverage rules for private plans.
- Mandatory changes to current insurance policies must occur within five years
- Private insurance premium increases 10%
- $490 billion taken away from senior's Medicare would reduce care per the report from Richard S. Foster of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Foster's office acts is independent technical evaluator (like CBO) , serving both the administration and Congress.
- $280 billion NOT paid to Doctors for services rendered
- A new 5.4% surcharge tax on small businesses
- A new 5.4% income tax surcharge
- Subsidies premiums for people making $88k
- It does NOT prevent government paying for abortions
- It does NOT include tort reform to save money
- It does NOT allow current private insurance plans to cross state lines
- It does NOT reduce the cost of healthcare providers
- It does NOT have a enforceable Individual mandate
- It does NOT allow for "catastrophic" healthcare policies.
- It does NOT preclude cost shifting.
- It does NOT impose tort reform to reduce defensive medicine.
Democrats show integrity
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Inept Senator Harry Reid has decided it is okay to have a destructive IMPERFECT health insurance bill fashioned by Unions, Special interests (MOVEON.ORG), Insurance Companies, Hospitals, Pharmaceuticals, Trial lawyers, and Lobbyist.
Earlier this year, the White House and Congress announced backroom agreements under which hospitals and the drug industry promised cost savings in return for the overhaul's expected expansion in the number of insured patients.
President Obama's and his top aides met frequently behind closed doors with over 500 health care industry LOBBYIST heavyweights as his administration pieced together a national health care overhaul, according to White House visitor records obtained under a FOIA request by The Associated Press.
The only person not represented by Obama is the individual consumer
SEIU President Andy Stern
Barry Rand the AARP group chief executive
George Halvorson, chairman and CEO of Kaiser Health Plans;
Scott Serota, president and CEO of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association;
Kenneth Kies, a Washington lobbyist who represents Blue Cross/Blue Shield,
Billy Tauzin, head of PhRMA, the drug industry lobby;
Richard Umbdenstock, chief of the American Hospital Association,
Laird Burnett, a top lobbyist for insurer Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc
Joel Johnson, a lobbyist with United Healthcare Services Inc. and Kinetic Concepts Inc., a medical products maker
Dr. J. James Rohack, the AMA's president
Richard Trachtman, who lobbies for the American College of Physician Services Inc., which represents internists.
Keep watching those low rated cable news programs that no one else is watching and stay ignorant to what is really happening in America.
Harry says "we don't need integrity," we can bribe them...
The wailer Watkins can stayed glued to C-Span all day long and he won't learn any more then watching FOX News. Obama reneged on his promise to have all discussions posted on C-Span as he has reneged on most all of his promises...
Hm lets see now,shall i feed my family,or pay my health insurence bill?I'll starve a bit,but wont have to worry if i get sick,my health bill will be paid!I wanna see how they are really gonna pass a bill that is against our constitution?
1 of 5 people in this town are still unemployed.
Is harry reid going to pay their $750.00 a year penalty for not buying health insurance?
Maybe he can take it out of his humungus campaign fund.
right, because the democrats that are run by the corporations ("LOLhealthcare") have integrity right?
but i'm sure all you people don't want to talk about that
With a mandate to force people to buy health insurance Democrats will rake in contributions from insurance companies.
Btw, there is no integrity in putting a gun to a persons head and forcing them to buy things they do not want.
It's astonishing to read some of the "Letters to the Editor" and not think how the dumbing down of Americans that started in the early 1980's has taken strangle hold on clear and logical thinking.
How can any reasonable person use the word "integrity" without the preface "lack of" in reference to the Senate healthcare bill?!?
One has only to look no further than removal of the BoTax for a TanTax to see a blatant example of lack of integrity. Call the Republicans what you will, that was done by the Democrats all by themselves.
It's time for the moderates of both major parties to recognize that their leaders are tearing our system apart and look to an alternative. I am coming to the conclusion that the Libertarian Party can embrace such moderates and even benefit from it. The defining factor for libertarianism is personal responsibility, and I believe that moderates of both major parties accept that, too.
Holy Moly, Batman!!!! Once again I agree with Patrick!!!
Americans should not be forced to pay for medical care. The government should provide for its citizens in the same manner that it pays to protect us from other health and welfare issues like burglary, murder, terrorists, the H1N1 virus and foreign invasion.
That isn't exactly what I said. I said the government shouldn't force us to buy consumable goods and services we may not want or need. In this case, the government should not force us to buy health insurance. (If the government does force us to buy then the clear winners this year will be the insurance companies, I'm sure we can both agree on that point).
Protecting citizens from threats of violence is a legitimate use of government, which is why you can make an argument to tax people to provide those services. There is no argument such logical argument for mandating people buy insurance or that government provide the service. The vast majority of people without health insurance don't have health insurance because they do not want it or can't afford it, not because of some market externality that prevents an efficient market from operating.
There is, however, a large government externality (what I call the "Very Visible Backhand of Government") that is causing health care prices to rise faster than incomes.
Democrats = integrity like a hooker = john
They don't want to buy health insurance. They just want to be treated when they need it. You, for instance, don't want to buy anti-terrorist insurance. You just want to be protected against them if and when you are threatened. I, for example, don't want to pay to invade foreign countries because someone from that country threatened someone else's daddy. Attacked by a virus, attacked by a terrorist... both are indiscriminate killers. Both are health and welfare issues.
getalife, here's a clue: try understanding syntax before posting here.
Much to your surprise, your inane rambling isn't an analogy. An analogy uses ':' to signify a relationship, not '='. An equal sign equates and signifies an equality between two items.
In essence, you said that Democrats equal integrity like a hooker equals a john.
Sarah Palin might get a dense, confused chuckle out of that, but the rest of us just shake our heads at how our education system lets people like you slip through the cracks.
That definitely explains your broken rhetoric and failed ideology, though... so thanks for shedding light on that for us.
Let me grab a seat and sit in on the free grammar lesson. I like it when elitist Liberals show off their intellectual ability. I guess it goes along with the free health care that Liberals are so proud of.
Besides, Liberals still have not figured out the definition of "Integrity" as it doesn't appear in their dictionary.
The only word Republicans like is GREED.
That's why they got booted out of office.
They keep crying and crying because they
lost their power.
It's OVER for the GOP.
Did you ever wonder why Conservatives think "elite" is a derogatory word? They call progressives "elitist" and think they are somehow putting us down. A vocabulary lesson is in order:
elite, elite
noun
the most powerful, rich, gifted, or educated members of a group, community, etc.
adjective
leading, best, finest, pick, choice, selected, elect, supreme, exclusive, privileged, first-class, foremost, first-rate, pre-eminent, most excellent (the elite troops of the President's bodyguard)
synonym
aristocracy, best, pick, elect, cream, upper class, nobility, gentry, high society,highly skilled, creme de la creme (French)
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but "elite" will never harm me ...
Things can only get better for the masses when they decide to vote out ALL those affiliated with the Democratic and Republican PARTIES who have criminally indebted Americans' beyond their life-expectancies as a means of economically enslaving them in life-long servitude.
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If the democraps stay in control,RUN TO THE HILLS,AND RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!
Gag, gag, gag.