Posted on 06/28/2009 9:16:20 AM PDT by ianschwartz
Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius appeared on "FOX News Sunday" to discuss the Obama administration's plan for health care. Sebelius says the system needs competition. She said Obama is "open to discussions" to how to make the government-run plan better. Sebelius also discussed how this would be paid for, the question of rationing care and tort reform.
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I noticed that she did not answer one question Breit asked. She danced around them all.
playing field has to be leveled only as determined by Sebelilus
I noticed that she did not answer one question Breit asked. She danced around them all.”
Right on!!
She also kept using terms like:
The President says...
The President feels..
The President thinks.....
The President wants...
A trained parrot would be cheaper and say the same things.
I felt she was lying all during the interview, and that she knew it, also.
I noticed that she did not answer one question Breit asked. She danced around them all.”
Right on!!
She also kept using terms like:
The President says...
The President feels..
The President thinks.....
The President wants...
A trained parrot would be cheaper and say the same things.
I felt she was lying all during the interview, and that she knew it, also.
If the playing field is leveled doesthat mean the mediocre stay that way and the exceptional get mediocre?
How exactly does she think “the playing field will be leveled” ???
One one side are a number of companies. doctors, hospitals, labs, etc, that have to make a profit to keep going. They pay very high insurance premiums over malpractice issues.
Curbing the tort laws and lawyers would go a long way to solve the cost of health care.
On the other side is a taxpayer funded mandate that has no worries about overhead/profits. Nothing the government calls for makes a profit, anyway. It just sucks more and more money out of the taxpayers pocket. The government doesn’t face malpractice lawsuits, either.
I don’t want the playing field leveled! If you don’t work and or don’t want to buy your own insurance then IMHO unless there is a reason you can’t get insurance then it is your fault you have no coverage. I can see them setting up a large basic catastropic insurace policy that can be bought into but I do not want the government anywhere near my healthcare choices!
Currently it's rationed by hard work and freedom. Obama's method just eliminates incentive for hard work, and freedom.
Political double speak for lowered quality health care.
In short, “Yes.”
As part of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987, draconian cuts in all medical surgical specialties were made and not announced except under the nonspecific umbrella explanation that cuts would be made over a five year period by phasing them in. In 1990, surgical specialists were paid by Medicare a barely profit making reimbursement. In 1991, the unannounced cuts of 1987 were instituted on Jan. 1....and, no surgical specialist was prepared for them. Some specialties were cut 50% or more by direct and indirect means. These cuts were draconian then and are the model for draconian cuts to come. Again, the break year was 1990/1991..the reimbursement scales in the specialties affected have remained the same for 18 years. The only significant cuts to physicians were made in that break year...all analyses on physician medicare reimbursement must compare that break year to the present for accuracy in reporting and data analysis. All years thereafter were all at the same low level varying only a couple of percent a year off the low base up to the present.
The massive cuts directly impacted MDs ability to pay malpractice insurance..the income disappeared. REPLACE PHYSICIAN REIMBURSEMENTS IN THE SURGICAL SPECIALTIES TO 1990 LEVELS AND THE MALPRACTICE FINANCIAL PROBLEM DISAPPEARS!! It was mainly caused by direct govt intervention that has been hidden for a couple of decades.
Sebelius is a mental lightweight.
How about a discussion on how to keep government OUT of health care?
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