Social Security - - - Bankrupt

Medicare - - - Bankrupt

Medicaid - - - Bankrupt

Cash for Klunkers - - - Bankrupt

United States Post Office - - - Bankrupt

I don't care if your Democrat or Republican or whatever or whoever.  This stuff scares the crap out of me.  Let's be honest....the health care system is broken.  It just is.  It's broken and needs to be fixed.  But the government??????  The track record stinks and they can't run this business. 

I come from a family of doctors.  My grandfather was a thoracic lung surgeon.  Dad?  Anesthesiologist.  3 brothers?  Hematologist oncologist, podiatrist and an Ear Nose and Throat doc.   I worked at an out patient surgical center for a number of years prior to going to law school. 

The system's broken, but the new system will drive all the good docs out of the business.  Early retirements.  No incentives by a doc to provide excellent health care.  Territories will come in for doctors instead of healthy competition.  Needless to say.....

The government should govern....and not ruin run healthcare.  They've bankrupted everything else.  Everything!!!!!  Not this too!  Just my .02 cents.

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17 Comments on Health Care Bill Passes the House!!!!! Why?????

NOV
08
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Hey now..... the guv't has done pretty decent with national parks......

but... you are correct.... this is the "lowest common denominator"

10:59pm • #1

Yep  its a bad idea.... don't worry, it won't pass the Senate...It just won't... We won't let it...

11:39pm • #2
NOV
09
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I agree except for the Post Office.   By subsidizing the U.S. Postal Service, it permits ALL users to have a reasonsble delivery system to urban AND rural areas. 

The postal service is one subsidy I think serves a good purpose for government to use tax money to keep viable.  Keep those rural post offices open.

Of course, if everyone had and used e-mail. . . . . . .

5:00am • #3
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Nice way to put it Larry.

Yes they are all bankrupt, and closing post offices too.

if we are all still here in a few years you will be adding health care to it.....IF it passes.

Making calls today....again...eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.

7:44am • #4
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Even the post office is losing money though. I agree its a valuable service however, if I didn't get such poor service when I go in, they probably wouldn't be losing money to UPS, Fedex and email. A 220-215 is awfully close. I do not think this will be the same in the Senate.  I'm making phone calls as well.

8:06am • #5
287,781 Points Outside Blog

Larry

It is a shame that a bill of this magnitude is allowed to pass by such a small margin.

8:14am • #6
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Tom....for this reason alone, the public needs to be scared to death.

Tana....I hope, and pray, that you're right.

Lenn....I agree, but, by the same token, the Postal Service is a mess too.

Missy...thanks for the inspiration.

Michele...the United States is divided.  Something of this magnitude shouldn't win on a simple majority vote.

Hugh....exactly....."Hugh da man."

 

 

 

 

8:40am • #7
182,315 Points

I completely agree. Going to the DMV today? Just imagine that being the doctors office.

8:45am • #8
182,315 Points

Larry- I featured your blog in Tea Party.

8:46am • #9
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Larry, while I can understand everyone's concern over the government getting into health care, they are not the ones who broke it.  And I don't think that the insurance companies can be depended upon to fix things unless they must.  Having said that, I don't have a real solution. 

9:07am • #10
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A representative from IL said on the house floor that this bill will handcuff a lot of people including small business owners and entrepreneurs.  He pulled out a pair of handcuffs and explained how in the bill that those who do not take this program could be subject to 5 years in prison and a $250K fine.  This was on C-Span.  Youtube it.  You will see it.

So much for freedom  of choice.  All about power and control.

9:51am • #11
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Some interesting feedback. I'm surprised the responses were "so calm" :) You really put it in an interesting light.

10:40am • #12

Tony I agree.  Pelosi peddles this bill as "choice", but it is actually the opposite.  How can you have choice when you see wording in the bill such as this?

"• Sec. 224 (p. 118) provides that 18 months after the bill becomes law, the Secretary of Health and Human Services will decide what a "qualified plan" covers and how much you'll be legally required to pay for it. That's like a banker telling you to sign the loan agreement now, then filling in the interest rate and repayment terms 18 months later."

Page 118 of the billl: http://www.defendyourhealthcare.us./images/111_ahcaa.pdf

• Sec. 303 (pp. 167-168) makes it clear that, although the "qualified plan" is not yet designed, it will be of the "one size fits all" variety. The bill claims to offer choice-basic, enhanced and premium levels-but the benefits are the same. Only the co-pays and deductibles differ. You will have to enroll in the same plan, whether the government is paying for it or you and your employer are footing the bill.

Pages 167-168: http://www.defendyourhealthcare.us./images/111_ahcaa.pdf

"On Nov. 2, the Congressional Budget Office estimated what the plans will likely cost. An individual earning $44,000 before taxes who purchases his own insurance will have to pay a $5,300 premium and an estimated $2,000 in out-of-pocket expenses, for a total of $7,300 a year, which is 17% of his pre-tax income. A family earning $102,100 a year before taxes will have to pay a $15,000 premium plus an estimated $5,300 out-of-pocket, for a $20,300 total, or 20% of its pre-tax income. Individuals and families earning less than these amounts will be eligible for subsidies paid directly to their insurer."

Looks like lots of realtors and others will be in jail if we don't continue to make enough money to pay!!

Georgia
11:42am • #13
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10
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Thanks for your comments.  I know that it's broke.  Believe me.  We all do.  But the current version is like taking a chainsaw to do surgery.  Sure, you'll cut your patient open, but he...let's be real....there ain't gonna be a lot of good things to come from it and the patient will probably die.  Just my .02 cents.

8:44am • #15
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It will be just like the Military Drs but for everyone.  Dont get me wrong they have taken good care of me but you have to be proactive about your healthcare.  Im sure other Vets will back me up on that.

10:35pm • #16
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11
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Larry....my dad is a doctor and would agree....with the expose from our local media.  If there's one place you don't want to go when you're sick....it's a V.A. Hospital.

12:49pm • #17

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