Posted on 05/12/2007 3:25:31 AM PDT by bremenboy
DES MOINES, Iowa - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama (news, bio, voting record) on Friday proposed cutting government subsidies to private insurance companies under Medicare by $150 billion over the next decade.
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I was standing in the post office the other day waiting to get a package weighed and metered. I waited, and waited, and waited...
The personnel there seem completely disorganized and robotic.
I can hardly wait for government to take over medicine.
DMV and post office, two govt entities designed to fustrate normal citizens to distraction. Does not bode well for NHS
Sounds like Mr. Obama wants to put the Private Companies out of business then the public will insist on a socialised medical plan. Either that or raise the cost of Private medicine to a point the public will demand a socialised system.
Sounds like a path to disaster, but then a vote for Obama is just that anyway. Obama dosnt know his crap from Apple butter.
Just TWO of the more obvious examples of BigBroMoFo at the immediate local level—totally unneeded, but there for an intended reason, other than the usual incompetence.
I was thinking after posting, post office allocate 1 hour of my day, DMV allocate my whole day, get there at opening and bring good book. Damn glad it only happens once every f five years or so.
Birds fly. Dogs bark. Fish swim. socialists try to destroy America. No news here.
What Obama is saying is “We need to fund more government Medicare programs, so we can have more massive fraud, so we can expand our donor base.”
Well of course they love it, they're getting a big fat subsidy for their care from all the under-65 taxpayers. Much more than the already big subsidy those on regular Medicare get. What's not to like???
interesting viewpoint......new member
Well if he attacks this on the basis of what’s good for the goose is good for the gander, let him show us an example by advocating dumping government workers back into Social Security and applying civil rights laws to Congress.
What you fail to take in consideration is when you turn 65 you are in force into the Medicare program.
The Private Plans are saving Medicare money and providing more benefits. They reduce paperwork and cut Medicare fraud and the doctors get paid much faster.
This was the plan that Newt had put together and he was right. "Medicare as we know it will wither away on the vine"
Republicans like the Medicare advantage HMO’s but Dems always try to starve them out of existance. Everyone I know has Humana. It is fine.
New federal workers since the mod 80’s are under social security.
The Dems want a one size fits all that they can be the slave masters off
Humana is one of many that I offer. I like their drug plan but the health plan could be better. I rarely sale the health plan but for most people any advantage plan will be better than a supplement that costs $100 to $250 a month or more
I’ll believe that money is being saved in the Medicare program or that it’s “withering on the vine” when I see that deduction on my pay stub start to get smaller.
Barack Obama and his comrades in the political elite will have private physicians while the rest of us will be consigned to wards at Walter Reed Hospital.
So, a leftwing dipshit wants to run the private sector out of health care...and you think that's just fine...hmmm.
Obama is a graduate of Columbia University, one of the most left-lunatic, socialist institutions in the United States.
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