Comments on: Dr. Flowers: “Stop this Abusive Health Care Situation!”

By: ddean1987

ddean1987 — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:09:42 +0000

the capitalist private healthcare sector won’t give me healthcare because of my pre-existing condition. what am i supposed to do to fix that?

By: discountbrains

discountbrains — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:32:24 +0000

Take the Small Business Administration they provide a lot of assistance to help small businesses be a success, but all the government gets is criticism from business and people like you. Or take the CDC, what if there was no agency keeping tract of diseases and epidemics? You are one ignorant piece of crap. What you are talking about is the military; that’s where Raygun got his notion that there was a lot of government waste!

By: discountbrains

discountbrains — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:25:48 +0000

higg, you buy into that mantra of the political right. They recite the same mantra repeatedly and fools like you believe it. We are rated as 37th in the World in healthacre by the World Health Org! Yet we pay 50% to 100% more. You want to tell me about waste? You would be surprised about how frugal these agecies you mentioned are if you ever worked in one. These agencies provide many benefits to you that you don’t appreciate.

By: jeannettetita

jeannettetita — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:43:11 +0000

Baloney!
Anyone who wants to keep more of the same dealt out by the Bush administration that keeps so many uninsured and many more underinsured is likely thinking with his/her head in the sand. The status quo of ‘healthcare’ today is much more expensive than that proposed by President Obama.

By: emschurch

emschurch — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 01:01:26 +0000

Apparently you have never had to have any sort of “elective” surgery. I have in the last two years and both times my insurance company made decision about when I could have those procedures. Not my doctor, not me, my insurance company. I also had to wait both times–the first time they delayed long enough that my deductible no longer applied so I got stuck with a larger portion of the bill. Its not the Baucus 8 that are killing us its the For Profit health care industry we have in the country

By: timparcival

timparcival — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:27:32 +0000

higgs,

In front of whose gun are you standing? Not mine! (I don’t own one, and never will.)

I’ll die eventually too. I’m undergoing a cancer procedure in two weeks. Without the treatment I’ve undergone, I may have been dead for a couple of years. My spouse and I pay upwards of $17,000 a year for insurance. I’d have paid nearly $20,000 already for what I’ve had to undergo, and the procedure will be worth about $20,000.

Most of us DON’T HAVE that kind of money. So, we should die? Thanks.

By: timparcival

timparcival — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:20:54 +0000

higgs,

Bureaucratically controlled, huh? Did you know that there are 400,000 employees of insurance companies nationwide whose responsibility is to turn down claims?

On what grounds do you assume that a government system is more “bureaucratic” than a corporate system? What evidence have you?

Criticized as paragons of waste BY WHOM? I can answer for you: Those who are being regulated by them.

Best healthcare in the world? What planet are you from?

By: higgme1ster

higgme1ster — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:48:42 +0000

So Tim, as you think if is OK for government to force me at gunpoint to accept your world view, just have them pull the trigger. After all, Im going to die eventually. You know you really want them to. Oh, I just called my dentist for an appointment Monday only one weekday later. Then I called my Doctors office for an appointment effortlessly. I have no fear that my insurance wont pay for the visits. I greatly fear the personal privacy intrusion of Government provided healthcare.

By: higgme1ster

higgme1ster — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:16:51 +0000

You are a Socialist, trusting government to provide bureaucratically controlled medical services and I am a Capitalist that understands that the private sector is the only way to continue to have the best healthcare in the World up to now. Never you mind that the IRS, the Postal Service, Dept of Ed., the VA, Commerce Dept, HUD, GAO, DOJ, the Park Service, DEA, numerous institutions – ad infinitum, are continually criticized as paragons of waste, inefficiency and incompetence.

By: timparcival

timparcival — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:54:52 +0000

higg,

1) MASH was a movie, a comedy, and and anti-war commentary. And it was military–and a bunch of physicians who were drafted and didn’t even want to be there. Get it?

2) It’s not a question of “control.” It’s a question of availability. Are the insurance companies to be trusted? You pay your dividends and they won’t cover you when you need them?