Posted on 07/15/2006 5:33:03 AM PDT by joebergeron
Fix Healthcare? Define Fix
A couple years ago, the WaPo OpEd page carried an odd piece of bi-partisan puffery from Sens Bill Frist (R-TN) and Hillary Clinton (D-NY) now both potential 2008 presidential candidates. As experts on healthcare Dr. Frists daddy founded HCA, which made him filthy rich, while Clinton was appointed in 1993 by her hubby to put her estimable cattle futures investing skills to work revamping Americas broken, overpriced, and heartless healthcare system.
The following quote isnt news to those of us who arent privileged enough to have private healthcare coverage paid for by the federal government (as members of Congress do):
Today our care is often afflicted by systemic error and dramatic inefficiencies. According to a recent Rand Corp. study, even patients with the best available coverage receive recommended care, on average, only 55 percent of the time. Costs continue to escalate far in excess of inflation.
What theyre saying is that American healthcare is sub-par even for those with good coverage and, inexplicably, it just keeps getting more unaffordable. So what have either of them done about it?
For her part, Clinton, through sheer Cheney-like secrecy and incompetence, managed to set the cause of national health care in this country back 100 years. The plan she and her minions devised back in 1993 made Bushs prescription drug plan read like a haiku.
For his part, Frist supported a slick Harry and Louise national ad campaign paid for by the healthcare industry to de-rail the Clinton plan.
So now that shes the presumptive front-runner for the 2008 Dem presidential nomination, the bigfeet in American healthcare must be shaking in their booties, right? Hardly.
As it turns out, Sen Clinton (D-NY) is the second highest recipient of healthcare industry financial contributions nationwide, beat out only by Sen Rick Santorum (R-PA). In the past year shes taken $854,462 from the same Big Pharma, for-profit hospitals, private insurers, and doctors she accused in 1993 of price gouging and unconscionable profiteering. Their motives are clear better to have Clinton inside the oxygen tent micturating out, than outside micturating in. But her motives? We can only guess.
And what about the 50 million Americans (10 million more than in 1993) who dont have health coverage? Maybe they should sink a grand into pork bellies and make themselves a small fortune. What else is there?
~Jack McEnany
Or sink a grand or two into catastrophic health insurance rather than into a flat screen TV.
Peoples' screwball priorities are not my problem.
You didn't learn from the last thread you posted?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1663771/posts
Remove the illegal aliens.....No citizenship..no treatment....
You're going to need a fix after this. Stand still, it only hurts a little...
ROTFLMBO!
Exactly. When its "free", you and I and other families who pay taxes, will be blocked from getting care because the system will be gutted with people who have never paid a dime of taxes and live off the teet of Uncle Sam.
@$$hole klintoon has the nerve to go to Canada and tell them they have the best medical system in the world. I wish he would have waited to get his ticker surgery there if he thinks its so great.
Now THAT'S a FIRE!!!!
The reason Health Care is "in crises" is because the Wacko Leftist like Kennedy, have been messing around "fixing it" since the 1960s.
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I absolutely agree, the government created a problem where there was none and now we have a real problem and they will insist on more government interference to fix it. We will wind up with no health care worthy of the name.
I know another joe who EARNED his fuzzy pimp hat. Now he and "wife" are suing....
For her part, Clinton, through sheer Cheney-like secrecy and incompetence, managed to set the cause of national health care in this country back 100 years. The plan she and her minions devised back in 1993 made Bushs prescription drug plan read like a haiku.
Hillary Rodham's idea of health care reform is collectivism in its sheerest sense. A lot of left wing health care reformers don't seem to realize that they too will be among those who would lose their freedoms of choice, have their records maintained in computer files, and would learn the first lessons of Utopian Marxism - - "get in line" and "you'll have to wait years for your appendectomy (or heart surgery, hip replacement...)"
Marxists control costs by limiting services. The true believers among the left will never, ever understand this until it's too late.
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feel free to use as a tagline, it isn't an original from me, not sure where I first heard the phrase.
"Marxists control costs by limiting services"
Even more so by limiting ACCESS to service....you'll have to ask Mommy Hillary for permission to see the doctor...
I might have overreacted to your comments, or misinterpreted them, so.............. forget what I said.
It seems that poster had 'history' I wasn't aware of.
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