House releases health care reform bill
Leaders in the House of Representatives have released their comprehensive plan for reforming health care this week.
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Mon, Aug 19, 2019 - 08:59 AM
I wish people would get the whole story BEFORE they start judging.
Sat, Aug 17, 2019 - 08:13 AM
I guess someone on the Council wants to pick up the land in a foreclosure or condemnation
Wed, Aug 14, 2019 - 09:25 AM
Joe was not at the meeting because he is a slum lord with trashy trailer park.
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I want to see the nuts and bolts- how is this going to work?
Explain each and every flawed area in our health care system and then explain exactly what steps will be taken, how long it will take to overhaul the old way of doing things and how the Administration plans to pay for it.
Most importantly, how is this going to change anything for me?
Talk is cheap, I'm old enough to be sick of talk. Show me change.
Likewise, I don't want doctors to quit practicing because they feel it isn't a lucrative trade. Not all doctors get paid millions. I am aware of that. I am also aware that doctors spend enormous amounts of money to go to school and to serve in residence before ever possibly gaining their own practice so I certainly want them to be justly compensated.
However, I don't like hearing that drug manufacturers post record breaking profits quarter after quarter and that the majority of Americans live without health insurance at some point in their life. It simply isn't fair.
I want to see a system that is not funded by one sector and abused by another. I don't want to see emergency rooms used as Medicare "doc in the box" facilities.
How do we fix it? I am not completely clear on that yet. But I will continue to post. Perhaps through dialogue we can all put together a system "by the people, for the people."
I think we should first enact legislation to ban drug companies from making campaign contributions to any government party. It is illegal and unethical to allow drug companies (feel free to replace with oil companies, waste companies, banks, etc) to control legislation.
in combination with kicking out the 'keep eating habit' to forget the deep-seated instability and apprehension, I guess.
'Work or Break' health system with no brake or safety system might be one of the biggest hidden causes of mental stress, obesity or overweight threatening the overall economy, I cautiously suppose.
I pay about 11,000 a year just for myself for a policy that makes me use HMO's. I can not get coverage for my good eye because I have an eye that was injured by concussion. I sometimes wait six months to see a specialist, or at least two months minimum. My out of pocket per year is generally about $2000.
My opinion is people whining about nationalized health care probably do not have close personal friends in countries that have national care, and do not pay their own insurance or insurance for employees.
I pulled a tendon in a finger recently. I went to an emergency facility. I then had to go to a local doctor, 1 week wait. Next I had to go to a specialist, one month wait. There was no possible way to talk to the first specialist. I had to drive back in on another appointment. That first specialist had me do something that did not work, so I had to go to a different specialist. The first one, at Piedmont medical, never did transfer my records.
Another two weeks wait plus six weeks wasted with a bad treatment. Now two months later all is fine, but Blue Cross paid for multiple X-rays of the same thing because doctors would not transfer X-rays. They paid for multiple visits because doctors did not talk with me or each other. All this time I'm paying co-pays and trips.
The last doctor did the right thing and fixed the problem, but it took six months.
Contrast this to my friend in Australia. He lives way out in the middle of nowhere in a town of 200 people. He had a back problem. He made one call and was transported free to a medical center. He got immediate care, his total cost was $20, and he had no delay.
I have friends in New Zealand, England, Canada, and Australia that get excellent care and do not wait as long as we do here. Even a friend from Chile has excellent health care, and that nation is very poor. None of them complain, and two are doctors themselves. They have nice houses, lots of cars, and plenty of income.
Right now the USA ranks about 37th in health care, depending on the source. For example look at this one from the WHO:
http://www.photius.com/rankings/healthranks.html
I think most people in the USA listen to the rhetoric instead of looking at facts. We don't have an exceptional system, we don't have exceptional care. All we really have is exceptional cost.
Over the past 40 years we have moved far away from being number 1 in almost any area, from education to health care. This is because we allow the money to influence our opinions instead of looking at facts.
Our system is broken. It needs an overhaul.
This Bill is, in my opinion, a step in that direction.
I do not wish to have a bureaucrat between myself and my Doctor,
and this in my opinion is what is fixing to happen.
Back in the 70's there was a movie Soylent Green. Which medicine and nutrition came from persons who were euthanized by the
government.
I get the cold feeling we are headed that way.
To see how the government handles health care already, go to a V.A. hospital sometime and look around. If they can't treat our veterans any better, do you honestly think we'll be any better off?
I do not know what the overall solution is, but health care should not be a for-profit business like auto sales or housing construction. When it comes to health care companies, the profit motive opens the door to unethical and immoral practices. In health care, capitalism has led us down the wrong road.
I didnt go looking for a panacea I just want to get well, and the health problems corrected. I know I cannot be a 16 year old again.
I am 70 now. I am not looking for the problem in the woodpile, I am looking only to solve the problems I have. When I was working full time our company was purchased by a British company, and they could not understand why health care was so easy for us. Makes you wonder what is broken
If I was an illegal alien worker using a fake social security number I could pay no taxes and get free medical. If I earned minimum wage I could get earned income tax credits (cash in my pocket) and have our Government pay my medical. If I didn't work at all I could have free medical care.
The people getting shafted in all of this are the middle class working people and owners of small businesses. We rank 37th in the world in health care.
Why are we so proud of this system? Because the system tells us they are great, and we believe them.
Of the industrialized nations, the US spends more on health care per person than any other nation whether the money is out of pocket or taxed. Yet the US has one of the lowest life expectancies, higher infant mortality rate & higher incidences of cancer and heart disease.
Our system of health care needs fixed
Like someone else said, we have the most expensive system in the world and we rank way down in life expectancy and overall health. I wonder why we want to protect that system?
We can still use the VA. We can send illegal aliens and lifetime welfare people to those hospitals. This way everyone will get the care they worked for and earned.
My opinion is that our healthcare system is destined to fail with any rushed plan. It mirrors the bail-out plan. Everyone is rushing in to it but no one is taking the time to study it. That seems to be Obama's plan on everything. Do it and let the chips fall where they may. It's not smart business.
The Declaration of Independence wasn't conceived in a few months and neither was our Constitution. It was discussed and studied and put under a microscope. People worked together to do what was right for a country. Today it is one party pitted against another party and the majority rules.
The president is just a figure head. The real power is in congress and the senate. Everyone should call or e-mail their representative and senator and tell them to slow down. If healthcare reform is an absolute necessity, work together until all the members can develop a plan they can all agree on. Right now it all appears to be a show of leader ignorance to do anything to gain votes regardless of what it does to the country. A few congressional members have put themselves on a pedestal for the others to bow down to and show their respect to them for something, anything, right or wrong.
Our leadership needs to stop making politics a race to get a bill signed. They should work for and respect the people that elected them. That’s not happening today.
Is he not just the GREATEST you have ever listened to? Personally, I think we finally have a President for the people and it's about time. I never thought I would live long enough to feel this way. I can only hope every man, woman and child will come together to help create an atmoshere for our success.
President Obama is a true leader, a uniter not a divider. He makes me want to do something good for the Country...God bless the U.S.A.
This dude has all the right stuff, the U.S. has a chance to shine again.