Comments on: What the Government Isn't Telling You About the New Healthcare Bill

By: Chuck D

Chuck D — Thu, 13 May 2010 02:56:53 +0000

I am under medical care for a broken ankle and a prostate cancer radiation program. My health insurance is paying the bill and medicare is picking up some costs too so good for all concerned. But the Obama health care program will not cut costs, will not cover medical needs, fewer doctors, med techs, medicians etc will spin supply and demand into the ground for the consumer, see England, Canada and other European nations, the demand goes up the supply goes down, and economic fact from Econ 101. Sweden is going back to private practice slow but sure. Canada comes to the U.S. for care so why can't the Congress listen to the people a majority in many polls say no, say repeal. start over. The people should write the health care program not politicans. Local write their ideas sent to state sent to national meeting and finally give to Congress and allow them to shape but not amend the meaning and procedures written, the people will pay so they should write program they will suffer under it otherwise. The people should rule and the Congress and President should listen.

By: Wakeup

Wakeup — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:46:19 +0000

LGF, wake up — do you seriously believe premiums will be going DOWN on any front??? Wow — naive ignorant cattle like you are what's allowing our government to railroad the masses and drive our freedom into the ground. How terrifying. Absolutely pathetic.

By: LGF

LGF — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 21:27:25 +0000

What this article isn't telling you: The article only tells you half of what's in the CBO prediction for insurance premiums. First, it's important to note that only policies "purchased by individuals" will go up by 2016. If you have health insurance through your employer, your premium will go down by that time. But more importantly, the article fails to mention that government subsidies will make most individually purchased insurance premiums *go down by 56-59%* in that year. Go ahead and argue that's socialism if you prefer to be free to continue paying more.

By: iInez Deborah Emilia Altar

iInez Deborah Emilia Altar — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 02:22:08 +0000

I think it is a human rights abuse and nauseating to force health care on people, some people may opt for alternative and natural medicine as well as natural health, and it is very wrong to force people to the vilely indecent especially prophylactic examinations of modern health care which have not stopped cancer in a decade, let´s stop imitating Oriental fools with their prophylactic medicine, afterwards they spent the time executing or detaining those physicians, they would not have done it if they were so wonderful

By: arlie

arlie — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 19:08:55 +0000

communism? in 2014 it will be the law to have insurance or pay a fine,even though it will start out as small fine, isn't that a form of communism to force people to do that

By: embarrasseddamerican

embarrasseddamerican — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:38:40 +0000

Please see You Tube video titled: "Severely Autistic Boy Beaten by Big Government"
It's an eye opener. Mom takes you inside the crazy system serving disabled and exposes some of the apathetic people we have working in our agencies. Amazing. Shocking. Sad. We need big change with less government right now.

By: Bill Veen Arde

Bill Veen Arde — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:28:06 +0000

I have said this to Bush. I have said this to Obama. It is not healthcare that needs reformed. Healthcare reform by Obama is going to try to make insurance affordable to everyone. (Which it will not!) There is a reason insurance is sky high. First. It is because the price of medication and medical service is jacked up due to greed. The higher the prices, the higher the insurance premiums. An example. $10 for 2 Tylenol in a hospital visit. Price gouging is illegal but it is done in healthcare and they get by with it. What is needed is medical price regulation and lower medicines. If this was done, the prices of health insurance would come down to amounts affordable to the people.

But to force something on the people is not the American way. In any case, to pass this healthcare into law will produce criminals out of law abiding citizens. If I am not mistaken, the constitution forbids the passing of laws that turn law abiding citizens into criminals. Besides. How will the unemployed pay for this? They have no income except unemployment checks and then that will also dry up soon and then they still will not be able to afford it.

The real question that should be asked in this is, "Who is going to make the most profits from it if this healthcare reform is passed?".

Those that accept it will wind up paying more in the long run for their healthcare. Watch the prices of medicines and health services to go up.

One thing I almost forgot. Drug manufacturing companies and hospitals get government grants to develop new medicines and equipment and hospitals get grants to purchase that equipment. So why does it all carry exuberant high prices to patients and insurance companies when grants are not paid back and grants come mainly from the taxes the citizens have paid?

By: S. Dwight Woods

S. Dwight Woods — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:07:26 +0000

The current bill does have serious flaws, but seems to be the only way to get health care coverage into law. The current system is horrible, and serves those currently insured very well. A large number of people receive no care, are unemployed, may be unfortunate enough to have a chronic disease, such as diabetes, and suffer the ravages of the disease with amputations and early death. My hope is that we will eventually get a single payer system, with controls on lawsuits and the heavy costs to the health they currently incurred. I have practised surgery since 1963, and directly observe that this is the worst climate for providers, and patients. And everyone in the country shoiuld be eligible for health care, regardless of ability to pay. That is what requires higher tases and costs.

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:44:55 +0000

The trial lawyers cost health care and citizens between $80-200 Billion per year. 1% of our GDP!. The US is the most litigious society on earth with more litigation here than all countries combined! In Japan there is 1 lawyer for every 20 enginners. In the US, there is 20 lawyer for every engineer. These trial lawyers advertise more now than car dealers on television. They pay the DEMarixst Party in $100 millions in what amounts to be political bribes. Don't whine to me about insurance companies until you tell me you are going to whine and go after the John Edwards of this country. They are all scum….greedy scum.

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:38:26 +0000

Marcel, I have to wonder what would have happened to you, your country and your family over the course of the past 100 years, if it had not been for that 'gun toting' America to save your sorry ass along with many other places on this planet. Thank your llucky stars America wasn't a socialist European country during the first half of the twentieth century. If it was, we would have looked the other way while the Huns and the Nazis laid waste to your landscape. Where was your family when the Nazi 6th Army rolled into Paris? My guess is that if every Frenchman had a gun in his home, the Nazis might have thought better of that. But I am missing my point. The very fact that you are anti-gun means you, like much of your nation is pascifist. Just try to imagine the millions and millions of people who have been murdered because of pascivists like yourself. Lastly, our citizens enjoy a 38% better chance of not dying from Cancer than you and your fellow Europeans. I guess as far as health care is concerned, that makes Europe 'a mere medieval country'.