health care reform

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-obama-veterans-20100711,0,6249040.story Obama administration has decided to allow more military veterans of PTSD disability benefits. What the heck is wrong with this socialist commy? Doesn't he know that veterans are liars and just want...

http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/106887-health-law-risks-turning-away-sick "The Obama administration has not ruled out turning sick people away from an insurance program created by the new healthcare law to provide coverage for the uninsured. Critics of the $5 billion high-risk pool...

Apparently 'abortion foes' are using the new health care exchanges to restrict the right of access to insured abortion coverage. So they are using the new law to impose 'government regulations' on 'the decisions between a doctor and their patient'. Irony...

http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/04/boehner-in-feb-hcr-has-no-gop-ideas-in-it----boehner-today-populart-parts-of-hcr-were-gop-ideas.php?ref=fpb So it was a bipartisan bill and he was lying then? Or it wasnt and he is lying now?

This is a poll for left-wingers only, please. How do you feel about what passed? ETA: You can vote for more than one option on this poll, too. I voted for option 2, 3, and 4, personally. I think it might be better than nothing, but suspect it might make everything worse, and sort of wonder if...

When Sue Lowden said that people should barter with their doctors for health care, many gave her the benefit of the doubt that she meant "bargain." However, she clarified the statement. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/m.s.-bellows/the-cost-of-healthcare_b_546542.html This lady is crazy.

"I am one of the self-insured, albeit by choice. And I hereby pledge that I will not buy this perversion of health-care reform. Pass this at your peril, senators. And sign it at yours, Mr. President. I will not buy this insurance. Brand me a law-breaker if you choose. Fine me if you will...

For real. Big Associated Press article, picked up by our local paper this morning. You maybe can find and read the article on our Eau Claire Leader-Telegram website. I will go look for it. VERY, VERY interesting long article. Shocking, if true. Found it. Enjoy! Here...

This … from the NYSlimes … http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/24/business/24leonhardt.html?hp This, from the author of the Senate bill, Senator Max Baucus, speaking after passage of the bill: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY4Qbv7gPbo&feature=player_embedded And here's the former head of the...

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/mar/23/obamacare-for-everyone-but-obama/

http://townhall.com/columnists/DennisPrager/2010/03/23/its_a_civil_war_what_we_do_now

The former Bush speechwriter David Frum gives the following analysis: http://www.frumforum.com/obamacare-more-popular-then-you-think Here's the Gallup report: http://www.gallup.com/poll/126929/Slim-Margin-Americans-Support-Healthcare-Bill-Passage.aspx

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20100324/pl_politico/34907 Outright threats of murder against the Congressmen AND their families. This is not how people behave in a Democracy. This is how brown-shirts in 1933 Munich behave. And Tea Party leaders refuse to take down the addresses of...

There was a web page set up for replies. This is the reply I sent the AG: (The insurance industry donated $40,000 to McKenna's campaign.) It's one thing to pull this tactic in a red state, but pulling it in a blue state when there's no real evidence the Republic* talking point "America doesn't...

I think it's time for a new thread on this. Now that the bill has passed, and the House has passed the reconciliation package, the Senate has taken up this set of amendments. Republicans have vowed to do all they can to block it. If they succeed in getting even one amendment to this package...

That's right. I said it. I do not believe that health-insurance is a "right", like Freedom of Speech, Religion, Association, etc. However..I do believe that every American having health insurance is GOOD for our economy, our society, and our future. Millions of Americans go bankrupt, because...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100320/pl_nm/us_healthcare I read this afternoon, that NOT only do we now have enough votes in the House to pass health-care reform, but we can even do it without the sneaky way of not voting for the Senate plan, while voting for changes to it. We will follow the...

An interesting development. Link WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Most Americans believe the healthcare reform plan in Congress would help the poor and the uninsured, but say it would be less likely to benefit other groups including themselves, according to a poll released on Friday. So no one who is...

I noticed this in the "unconscionable maths" article, and it got me thinking. I don't imagine there's anyone left who believes that every individual, or even every family, should pay personally, out of pocket, for all the healthcare they consume. Bills of tens of thousands of dollars...

Ready for rationing? A total of 1,195 physicians from various specialties and career levels in locations nationally were surveyed. Nearly one-third of physicians responding to the survey indicated that they will want to leave medical practice after health reform is implemented. This combined...

If you add up all the private Health Insurance company's rejection rate (Blue cross Blue Shield, Aetna, etc.) it is much less than what Medicare/Medicaid rejects. If we go to Universal Health Insurance, why would you expect it to improve?

"Each bill that comes before the House for a vote on final passage must be given a rule that determines things like whether the minority would be able to offer amendments to it from the floor. In the Slaughter Solution, the rule would declare that the House "deems" the Senate version of...

Yes, another healthcare thread, but with a twist. Rather than us benighted citizens of countries with UHC systems trying to convince the stubborn Republican / Conservative / Libertarian opponents of universal healthcare that ours is the right approach, I'd like to take the opposite tack. Would...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704548604575097602436388116.html# Here's Ryan's analysis: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748703807904575097394068626652.html

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704625004575089362731862750.html How low the current batch of democrats have sunk in order, as this article points out, I say if these people force this through Congress against the American people clear wishes, we the American people need to...

Or did they not care? And if they didn't care, are they convinced their base is so malleable there is no need for an actual intelligent discussion? Just drill home the talking points message over and over like an Excedrin commercial? Was that really their conscious tactic today? There are...

So, today we had the big summit. We heard what the GOP and the Democrats have in common, and how they differ. Its now pretty much all out there. So, what do we do now? The Democrats and Obama clearly do not wanna "start over". We see this as just a way of killing reform. We think it would...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100218/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_health_care_overhaul_14 Good for Obama. Time to show some balls. Good to have you back. If the GOP chooses politics over the American people, then we will do what needs to be done..without you.

Do YOU support or reject the idea of a nation-wide or a few regional non-profit private health insurance co-ops for Americans to buy into.....set up by the govt?

Okay, so let's take a different track on the Politics subforum for a change... what can Dems/Repubs, cons/libs, whatever actually agree on regarding health care reform? What are the basic elements we can put into an HCR bill to get something useful passed through Congress with bipartisan...