Posted on 01/20/2010 8:37:04 PM PST by Nachum
A candidate for Senate in Florida, former Miami mayor Maurice Ferre, talks about the health-care legislation before Congress:
Of course I am for healthcare reform, but this is not the right plan for the working families of Florida.
This plan was arrived at with unacceptable compromises. It is a special interest plan that raises taxes and favors insurance and pharmaceutical companies. I fear the President has lost sight of his original goal of extending healthcare to all Americans and at the same time controlling healthcare costs.
(Excerpt) Read more at campaignspot.nationalreview.com ...
we need health care reform and we need it now however we need some common sense..
Eureka!
“Suddenly Everybody Hates the Health-Care Bill”
And two weeks from now, the media will report how the republicans wrote and tried to jam this bill through.
/Only half kidding
I put on my hazmat suit and ventured over to DUmmyland. Quite a site to behold. LOL!
Strong Aftershock Hits Democrat Party.
I think it might be slightly more accurate to say “Suddenly everyone has the courage to admit they hate the healthcare bill”.
There will never be REAL Health Care Reform without massive TORT REFORM!
The DUmmies are calling this a Republican bill. The Republicans had NOTHING to do with this bill. I guess that’s why they’re dummies.
Such integrity, with steadfast leaders, uh???
This going the way the wind blows (when they HAVE to) makes me puke.
Just get the government out of health care, State and Federal!!!
What, to your mind, needs reforming?
85% of the country is insured. Many who aren't are uninsured by choice. And, reportedly, 88% of those insured are satisfied with their plan and coverage.
There might be some improvements at the edge, but the current system seems to be working just fine.
That was not his goal. He is working to take total control over the American economy and America’s citizens.
Obama is a Marxist who resents the wealth of America and wants to lower our standard of living by siphoning off our tax dollars and sending them to third world countries.
Seriously?
Unreal!
Do you have a link to the thread you were reading?
Olympia Snowe and Big Pharma wrote the bill behind closed doors, don’t you know?
Dems in the open....Fire for Effect!
pre existing illness coverage in a pool like care insurance for first time drivers..... more expensive but you can get it.
compete and buy insurances across state lines
fund medicare and medicaid to full funding. Put back the wellness piece taken out by the dems. no expansion of coverages just fund what you have.
allow prescriptions from any where with oversight on quality.
pay doctors the full amount for medicare dissolve the death panels if there are any.
increase the veterans hospital budgets to pay for our troops illness that made it home. Put them in the ground with dignity 300 bucks is not enough to put anyone in a grave more like 2000 or so for a good wood coffin. if you use the military then there is a cost long term and it is their health care caused by their service. Seems fare to me.
use standardized health care methods and practices to make competition work. All electronic records for all medical records.
publish the health service industry/hospitals/insurance company denials, deaths, and ration of profits to those numbers. who is killing patients and who is curing them.
publish records of doctors and how good they are so everyone can see who is helping and who is hurting.
let competition and the market decide who goes and who stays. If you dont publish your performance then the market will decide if you in business or not.
I just clicked on a random one discussing health care. It was in the ‘breaking news’ section.
Agree.
compete and buy insurances across state lines
Agree.
fund medicare and medicaid to full funding. Put back the wellness piece taken out by the dems. no expansion of coverages just fund what you have.
Rather than adopt or amend part of the existing bill, let's just bury it. Forever.
allow prescriptions from any where with oversight on quality.
Anywhere in the US. But not across national borders.
pay doctors the full amount for medicare dissolve the death panels if there are any.
The current bill is dead.
increase the veterans hospital budgets to pay for our troops illness that made it home. Put them in the ground with dignity 300 bucks is not enough to put anyone in a grave more like 2000 or so for a good wood coffin. if you use the military then there is a cost long term and it is their health care caused by their service. Seems fare to me.
What might be a better idea: Every VA hospital I've been in has reminded me of a charity hospital -- run down, old equipment, etc. And there are horror stories about dealing with the VA on any issue -- as you'd expect, it being a government agency.
Instead, when a veteran is mustered out, let's give them a paid-up healthcare policy -- let them seek whatever care they want wherever they need it. I'd wager it would be less expensive than maintaining the VA system. And provide better care -- which veterans surely deserve.
use standardized health care methods and practices to make competition work. All electronic records for all medical records.
So long as they aren't shared with the government. Or anybody else.
publish the health service industry/hospitals/insurance company denials, deaths, and ration of profits to those numbers. who is killing patients and who is curing them.
Y'know, every insurance company is going to look alike. That's the way the free market works -- overcharge, under-provide, you lose business. Better actually to allow Medical Savings Accounts and encourage the purchase of catastrophic healthcare coverage.
publish records of doctors and how good they are so everyone can see who is helping and who is hurting.
let competition and the market decide who goes and who stays. If you dont publish your performance then the market will decide if you in business or not.
The AMA could, indeed, do itself a favor.
Two other suggestions:
1. Tort reform -- lower the cost of malpractice insurance and, more importantly, the costs associated with defensive medicine.
2. Eliminate exotic coverage mandates. One of the major reasons for the high cost of health insurance is the mandates that the federal and state governments have imposed on insurance companies. For example, I don't need to be covered for a.) abortions, b.) sex change operations, c.) AIDs, d.) voluntary cosmetic surgery, boob jobs, etc. I should be able to exclude them from my coverage and experience the resultant savings.
Oh, and get the government the hell out of healthcare.
On balance, we're pretty close...
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