Comments on: Obama Healthcare Proposals

By: Sandra

Sandra — Sat, 30 May 2009 01:49:25 +0000

I believe in the health casre reform,I have lived in and visited countries with this system and it is much more beneficial to their citizens than here. Health care access should be the same for every american.The wealthier citizens like myself could always afford private hospitals and insurance. But too many of our brothers and sisters are dying because they cant afford to even go to the doctor.Education and health care should be equally accessible to every USA citizen.

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 29 May 2009 21:54:43 +0000

When are Americans going to get it?

What we have is ‘Disease Care’, Barack ‘Teleprompter’ Obama now wants the government to control ‘Disease Care’.

True ‘Health Care’ means little bribe money for the government and a financial catastrophe for the ‘Evil Medical Industry’.

Money rules! The last thing that government and the ‘Evil Medical Industry’ are concerned with are a patient’s welfare.

Do you really think that they actually care about the children who suffer?

By: suzan

suzan — Fri, 29 May 2009 21:19:04 +0000

If we can spend trillions on bailing out the crooks on Wall Street and a war that was unwarranted with a greed motive, we can certainly provide healthcare for everyone. Medicare works great. No reason we can’t all be in that system.

By: AARON BENEZRA

AARON BENEZRA — Fri, 29 May 2009 20:32:11 +0000

This article is informative only to the extent that it educates the reader in the grossest general terms about the dollar size of the healthcare expenditures of the nation and the legal conflict in seeking to control costs by setting an expenditure ceiling, which may conflict with anti-trust laws. Unless the article is meant to imply that ultimately there is no real difference between industry healthcare modeling v. Obama healthcare modeling, the reader is not informed by this article about the fundamentals of an Obama healthplan v. industry healthcare modeling. There is therefore no real knowledge base by which to weigh in for or against Obama healthcare proposals, unless one already has such a knowledge base prior to reading the article.

By: boredwell

boredwell — Fri, 29 May 2009 19:34:35 +0000

Most Americans on limited incomes/without comprehensive health insurance KNOW that our care provider system will make you wait, too. Whether your brain tumor is growing or not! How do I know? I’ve got a 3cm brain tumor. With the onset of new symptoms in November,I managed to get a neurology appointment in March. The doc ordered an MRI which not happen until July. If the radiology report shows no change, I will not get a followup. If it does, I’m penciled-in for August, one month after the MRI. At the behest of insurers, most protocols are rationed to cut costs. When they are prescribed, your symptoms must fit a medical model checklist to warrant the expense. In healthcare it’s this is referred to as “effecting a positive outcome.” Meaning: if the doc orders say, an MRI, the expense must be justified by the high probability that the tumor has grown, changed, become cancerous etc. That negative is paradoxically the “positive outcome.” I really don’t mind waiting. And I’m not really complaining, either. Since I’m marginally insured, I have to play it as it lays.

By: bob kerschbaum

bob kerschbaum — Fri, 29 May 2009 18:30:19 +0000

screw the insurance companies — they are not in business to provide health care –they are in business to make $$$$ and do so by limiting choices , coverages .they invented previous conditions ,experimental , drug formularies – if you need anything beyond an asprin or a band-aid it aint covered — screw them —bob kerschbaum

By: Thomas R Yock

Thomas R Yock — Fri, 29 May 2009 18:27:59 +0000

I think all government employees have the best health care plan in America.I don’t understand why the federal government can’t open up the same or simalar plan to all americans and regulate the cost to americans.I’d allow all insurance providers to bid on the goverment contract.This would be one way to regulate the cost and still show a saving to the people.

By: George

George — Fri, 29 May 2009 18:14:46 +0000

Dem. or Rep. the problem is the system that allows the fox to run the hen house.
Lawyers, doctors, insurance companies and hospitals spend millions of dollars on lobbyist to to ensure OUR elected officials act in there interests NOT OURS! If you want to change the medical industry asking our elected officials to do it is frankly a BIG JOKE. Why should bite the hand that feeds them. Until we reform the political system there will be NO CHANGE. Quite blaming the parties they are both corrupted.

By: JOHN JUANOPULOS

JOHN JUANOPULOS — Fri, 29 May 2009 17:51:32 +0000

OBAMAS PLAN IS NOT WHAT HE PROPOSED BEFORE HE BECAME PRESIDENT.IN HIS CAMPAIGN HE SAID OVER AND OVER STORIES ABOUT HIS MOTHER DYING FROM CANCER IN A HOPSITAL BED ARGUING WITH THE INSURANCE COMPANY ABOUT PAYING THE BILL.HE NOW REVESRSES EVERYTHING HE SAID,BY TRYING NOT TO HELP THE HEALTH INDUSTRY BUT HELP THE MILLIONERS AND USELESS TO SAY THAT CONGRESS HAS BEEN BORROWING MONEY ON SOCIAL SECURITY BY GIVING OUT IOU’S. COME ON PRESIDENT OBAMA GET IT RIGHT.STOP SAYING ONE THING AND DO ANOTHER.DO NOT MISSLEAD THE PEOPLE THAT ELLECTED YOU
THANK YOU

JOHN JUANOPULOS