Posted on 05/02/2008 6:47:06 AM PDT by GulfBreeze
Lowry’s observations and points are well made.
Next time you go to the doctor, ask before you go in, “How much is this going to cost?” Be ready for the answer, “I don’t know.”
It amazes me that folks in the medical profession don’t have a clue what their procedures cost. They don’t know because they just file the procedure with the insurance company and hope for the best on payment.
That is no way to run a very large piece of the American economy.
Last year, I had to have some x-rays.
Initially, the bill showed the cost at $200.00. That is what I would have had to pay, if I didn’t have insurance.
When the Insurance paid, they only paid $29.00. I had to co-pay $13.00. The remainder was ‘written off’.
That shows how much medical costs are inflated for individuals who do not have insurance.
I tried to be a McCain supporter. But he lost me when he criticized the NC GOP when they ran a completely fair, factual and tasteful ad against Obama.
I might vote for him if he picks a decent VP. Otherwise I’m going to vote for Republicans in other offices and leave the prez box unchecked.
McCain: Too much of a rat-pleasing wuss for me.
I like his idea better than what we have now. I think we need to change the system. I have recently bought insurance after doing without for a couple of years.
I never felt neglected or unable to take care of basic medical needs. As a matter of fact I came out ahead.
My worry was what if something major happened. The big problem with medical insurance is that it covers “office visits” and “routine” items. These should not be covered as they just amount to a trading of dollars and having to pay someone to handle them in the middle.
From a previous post: “I tried to be a McCain supporter. But he lost me when he criticized the NC GOP when they ran a completely fair, factual and tasteful ad against Obama.
I might vote for him if he picks a decent VP. Otherwise I’m going to vote for Republicans in other offices and leave the prez box unchecked.
McCain: Too much of a rat-pleasing wuss for me.”
I totally agree. McCain makes me ill. He’s a creep. I definitely won’t vote dhimmicratic - ever, but will withold my presidental vote in Nov. If the repubs have any balls, they’ll find a way to pull McCain. Unlike the lefties, we won’t riot... we’ll celebrate.
Go McCain!.......I think it’s a good start at a health-care solution and that’s what we’re looking for in a President.
http://washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080502/NATION/920196823/1001
McCain sets sights on moderates
By Ralph Z. Hallow and Stephen Dinan
May 2, 2008
Faced with a crumbling Republican Party image, Sen. John McCain is gambling on a general-election strategy that relies on winning over conservative Democrats and independents, breaking with President Bush’s 2000 and 2004 game plan of focusing on the party’s core voters.
We are looking for socialist redistribution schemes in our president? Are you high?
It’s a good article but you have to look at the whole thing. Haley Barbour says John is going after the right overall Demographic to win.
And there is a common theme that McCain reitterates that has been heard again and again right here in FR and other conservative boards. PPH - “We, Republicans, lost faith with the American public not over the Iraq war but rather because we spent too much. We spent like Democrats.” This message should get every conservatives attention.
This is a powerful quote from Black about the reality on the ground: “Mr. Black said the reason the GOP has a smaller pool of loyalists from which to draw is the damage inflicted by Republican overspending, the Bush administration’s conduct of the Iraq war and its handling of Hurricane Katrina. On the generic ballot, Democrats are 12 points to 15 points ahead.”
The active duty military are crazy happy about McCain. They like his ideas of going to the battlefield stronger with more than enough troops and not ‘just’ enough.
McCain’s worst problem is that he strikes these “independent” stances on things without thinking them through and he is just foolishly dogmatic rather than listening to those who would really like to be fighting to help him.
I hope he will curb this. It will make working for him a whole lot more palatible.
Come on. A tax credit for people who are buying there own health insurance? An end to telling employers what benefits they will offer? An encouragement of free market solutions?
This is socialism?
I’m not trying to pick an arguement. I get a lot of the complaints about John McCain. Can you tell me why this is one. I mean break it down for my weak mind, don’t just through hyperbole at me. I don’t smoke crack but I STILL don’t get your last comment.
Has Charlie Black ever won a Presidential campaign?
From the article you referenced:
“Charles Black, who has been a part of every GOP presidential campaign since Ronald Reagan’s nomination run in 1976.”
I know, just wondered if he has ever won one that he has actually run.
You make a very strong argument and up until a week or so ago I was willing to swallow McCain’s support for Global Warming Paranoia and UltraTaxation, his support for Reaching Aross The Aisle, his friendship with all the liberals and leftists in this country, his antipathy towards all the conservatives in this country... I was willing to accept all that, as you say, because of Iraq.
But I don’t know. Something happened. When the NC GOP produced that very lovely, very intelligent, very accurate and very truthful anti-Obama ad, McCain criticized it in a way that made me want to barf and I thought to myself, you know, I can’t take 4 years of this. I’d rather man the barricades against a full-blown RAT administration than barf everytime “my” president opens his unbelievably low-IQ pie-hole.
So go ahead. Call it a temper tantrum. I know I did. I used those exact same words against other freepers here (and I apologize humbly to all of you) but that’s it for me.
I’m off-board for John McCain.
And I feel better already.
I think it’s a good start at a health-care solution and that’s what we’re looking for in a President.
We are looking for socialist redistribution schemes in our president? Are you high?
Making the States work together to reduce the buearacracy and encourage companies to market in all states....is not Socialism. Cost reduction and free-markets are good goals.
“Candidate of Change? (John McCain)”
Yes. He truly is. We can change from being the United States to being Mexico Del Norte.
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