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    Posted: August 11 2009 at 9:11am
Yes, we have heard  whispers of lists and conspiracies and elders terrified they will be left to die. And then we have official people saying how terribly silly, of course it won't be that bad? Look at Canada and U.K.? Well, there's a good one.  Everyone finally will get decent health care. Will they? Before this whizzes through with opponents being glared at- what is the research on this? Given our current finances- is this a good or bad idea?

Okay Reality Check- Canadian and verbal. What is your first hand observation being a Canadian citizen and user of the health plan as to how good it is? And for that matter other user in Canada and U.K. Of all times, this time you could truly contribute some useful data. Tell us of the good stuff about Canada and its health care.

Are you suffering from cattleyard medicine or is it pretty good? We need to know since it appears our plan is about to duplicate it. As we plunge into the abyss of socialized mediciian in the middle of a recession, how much bang for our buck (and by that way where are the bucks coming from) are we as aging baby boomers gonna get. And young people too?

Will it be better or worse? If is worse... why are we changing it?

Surely you all in Canadian must have some stories of health care. Please tell us? Should we embrace a plan like yours?

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Medclinician, would you please clarify what you mean when you say " socialized medicine."  I think it is a wonderful idea to have a thread that realistically discussed the Health Care Plan.  However unless we begin to disagregate the plan into it's components, I don't believe we will get very far.  Some topics I would enjoy hearing opinions on:

-How would the plan effect premiums and co-pays if you choose to keep your insurance? (mine have doubled in the last three years)

-How would the insurance exchange work, and are there things we can do to make that idea more effective?

- What will the next 10 years be like if we do not make any changes to the current system.  Medicare will be insolvent in 7 years.  What is the plan after that? 

-How did we end up witht the current system of subsidies for health insurance companies, and how do we get out of it?

What would adding a "public option" really do?

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99% of all the talk about the health care plan online and everywhere else is nothing more then garbage.

Ha.. I have been trying to find out exactly what the plan means myself.. And yet there is very little real information about it. (Unless you want to sit down and read the entire thing yourself) And even then you need a damn lawyer to figure out what it really means.

Fankly i don't know if it will be better or worse.. I do have the sneaking suspicion that it will be better for the people based solely on the fact that Big pharma and insurance companies are against it. Those two groups of people have been raping the American people for far too long.  But that is conjecture on my part. IE The idea that anything that hurts those SOB's is good for us.. (More then likely a gut reaction.. And not totally rational.. But then again it only takes 1 family member to die because of the current system before you get a bit angry about it)

The system we have now protects DR's that over medicate and over charge.. For services that are not needed or are substandard. Yes we need a change.. Is this the right change ? I do not know..



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As a Canandain
from personal experince
I never experince not getting treatment or long waits for needed treatment
 
I had to wait eight weeks for a referral to a specialist for gallbladder but If I required emediate treatment I could just go to the hospital for treatment
and surgery . no waiting list
 
In a perfect system I would not have to had waited.  But if I required surgery quickly I would of got it .  I needed time to get ready forthe idea of surgery so It worked out
 
 
My mother needed heart surgery and the first doctor turned her down 
now she was eighty three and had previous surgery
the doctor stated that she would not recover well ,
well no ine tells my mother no so she got a appointemnt with a heart specialist who said
 
yes
well she never recovered well and suffered not becaus eof lack of treatment
but because she was to sick to have the surgery and had other conditions
 
This would be the argument that elderly are refused treatment
I never meet anyone refused treatment , they  may be told they wont reocover well from surgery after eighty , but that depends on how sich they are and even those find doctors who will preform the surgeries l  
 
I cant see the American getting the same system as you would have to dismantle the system you have , as thoses insurance monies would have to go into the system to make it work
 
We have a one tier system and we fight against any for of two tier systems
 
Our doctor make enough money
hardly broke
sorry guys
 
I as a Canandian I am amazed you dont have our system
 
We dont let non canandians use it , I mean Illegals , they have to pay
but even that I have been told is less than you pay for services out of pocket  
 
My brother died of  complications  of kidney failure and he had high quality care the whole time even nurses who went to his house and that was covered
they woud weekly check his blood pressure  sugar and and diet plan . .  it was part of a umbrella of  services his hospital admission he went home with a plan of treatment and services lined up and nurses in place
When  he died he had a nurse around the clock in intensive care . one nurse on duty for him only and her breaks even covered .
 
and of course no charge
actually there were some bills for some things not covered . 18.00 in total
repeat test in a short period of time are not always covered . 
In the Sates he would of gone broke
self employed no private healthcare but he had alot of personal assets
so he would of had to pay out of pocket for the expences
 
I remembr once watching Law and Order and they had a character who was a lawyer who had a stroke and had used up his insurance and now was handicapped and living on the streets
 
We dont use up our insurance , he would of gotten more rehabiltaion and would at least ended up in housing or fully recovered .    
That character showed how easily that can happen to  American
One the character was hardworking and never would of expected to be on the streets
 
It would be a huge commitment to change to our sytem s 
 
 
 
 
  
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Socialized medicine verses Universal Heath care
Everyone entilted to receive universal healthcare
(except illegal aliens )
As a person with assets I would never want to live without universal healthcare
Only the poor can afford it
if you have nothing you have nothing to lose
 
Its the middle calss and the wealthy who would benifit
never worring that you will lose your house if you get cancer or lose your job or be told you have a preexisting condition  
 
You guys dont get it . the poor are Ok in the old system it is the rich and middle class who would benifit
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PS the women with the brain tumour in thoses comercial
 is getting razed in Cananda
seems she only had a cyst not a tumour and not cancer
but your insurance companies are wining and dining her
She is on the hot seat here
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Debracanice
 
You are very brave to post. The Truth is not something some will accept. It is much easier to believe in a conspiracy theory.

There are many here who value our neighbors to the north, and consider you as friend, not as oppressive marxist converts.  The staunch support as an in country ally is also much appreciated both Iraq and Afghanistan (Not Exactly Popular).

You have a system that works, and that the people like (Bravo) and you even managed to reduce the stresses of healthcare and going through a healthcare crisis. We know your system is not perfect (Perfect World).

It is kind of funny (Not Really) hearing about the Women with brain cancer.

Nothing wrong with a good dose of the Truth.

Here its all about deception, fear, and belief in deception, and if you dont tow the line they will scream or bully you into line. Amazing I know

Anyway bravo on defending your point of view, you have been through some nasty threads hear on the subject.

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you want it explained .. Watch this
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xa3872_keith-olbermann-on-health-care-refo_news
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Here's another topic that kind of overwhelms me.  I don't even really know where to begin to look to get an understanding of it.  Does this mean people with no insurance now (me) would have insurance?  Because that seems like it would be a good thing.... ?
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yes.. you would have medical coverage with the new coverage.. Everyone would. That is unless the idiots torpedo the bill. 
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Thanks wolfmanjack!
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Thanks Mary .. damn formatting on this site is a bit annoying at times :)

BTW everyone should watch that video link she riposted for me. It really does sum it up better then anyone else i have seen.
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Your never get the Canandian system the Ameircans insurance comapies will never let that happen
 
I dont know what your new healthcare system is
 
What ours is in a nutshell
 
Its not insurance but a basic right to healthcare
We have a healthcard . that quarantees you the right to medical care .
drugs are not covered unless your on welfare or a senior then they are covered
There is a two dollar charge per perscrioption on the goverment drug plan   , some drug stores absorbe the cost ,
dental coverage is not covered
 
drugs given to you in hospital are covered ,
under some circumstances  drugs are covered for out of the hosppital ( My brother had expensive medications covered by a special program , still I had to go to A DIFFERENT HOSPITAL AND get the drugs and bring them to him , still these were drugs that cost a few thousand dollars.   .   
and all tests are covered , except under specal circumstances , to many to often and then the cost are small and may be required very small costs  affordable 
People do buy insurance for drug plans or dental either through work or indiviuduals
insurance can get you a private room but not better healthcare
Its not unusal for a person to have no private insurance but the hospital only have a private  room so you get it no exta cost
 
My doctor refers me to specialist when I require them , there is usaully a wait , of six weeks
but I may see my doctor during that time , or I may go to emergency if I become sick while waiting .  My doctor does try to not refer me to a specialist if I dont need one . but neverless I get all the referals i need , He is not penalized . He is expected to make sound decisions of when to refer and when to treat me himself ,  He is expected not to put my health at risk which would only add to the medical cost but not to over refer.  he has to make sound judgements .  I have never felt that I was refused a referral . 
 
 
 
Our system could use extra cash
 
I hate the welfare system in Cananda and I feel it is abused too easily and would love to see the goverment go after welfare fraud and use that money for healthcare
 
Its so common that people work under the table and collect welfare , no checks , lets not invade their privacy
 
If I had my way I would flood the internet with a push for the goverment to overhaul the welfare system .
 
I want thaty money to take care of the elderly in their time of need
hate welfare fraud but love Universal healthcare
heathy people work and are part of the system and are contributating memebers of society
 
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Welfare can be a big problem, and enforcement difficult.
 
It needs to be a bridge not an island.
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Yes I am sick of welfare fraud
Its horrible . you get couples who claim to be single parents
and men who work under the table while collecting welfare
makes me sick
some even get disability which is more
There is no checks and balances and the welfare department dont police themselves as to payments and checking to see is the women are really single parents
 
I am a landord and is not un common for most of my tenants to be collecting
and working
I get women who claim to be single parents to welfare who are living with the child father and they dont work . He works they are his kids and she collects . common
especially in small towns  
  
When they piss me off I report them  most of them move and tell the welfare I was justlying because they own rent .  They still rarely dont get cut off
Our welfare system sticks
i dont know if that different in the US
I want that money in healthcare
You know what I bet it can happen . If people protect the lack of checks and balances in the welfare system
 
 
 
 
 
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That is not correct. No sizable portion of the right objects to saving people.

Another difference is the left object to a constitutional spending of tax dollars and the right objects to an unconstitutional use of tax dollars.

You see the constitution is very clear that protecting the country from threat is allowable and congress did authorize the president to go to war in Iraq. There are plenty of things wrong with the action but it was constitutional.

Meanwhile the constitution does not authorize the use of tax dollars to buy things for part of the population no matter how important the thing being bought is.

"Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government."
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"I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution, and I do not believe that the power and duty of the General Government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit."
-- President Grover Cleveland vetoing a bill for charity relief (18 Congressional Record 1875 [1877]

"I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for public charity. [To approve the measure] would be contrary to the letter and spirit of the Constitution and subversive to the whole theory upon which the Union of these States is founded."
-- President Franklin Pierce's 1854 veto of a measure to help the mentally ill.

So what are we to do since the constitution does not allow for charity?

Well obviously all the people who are complaining that there are people out there without health care should donate generously to worthy causes. You see the constitutions does not allow a private citizen to declare war but it does allow him to save his fellow man from lack of health care.
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   I was born and spent the first thirty years of my life in the UK, and I think universal healthcare is something any country that wants to call itself civilized should aspire to. The insurance companies are scared that their monopoly is about to end and the inevitable misinformation is coming out. The "death panel" quote from Palin is one that particularly galls me, as that's exactly how I would characterize what happens when insurance companies here routinely refuse to pay for life saving treatments. Wake up people - your fellow citizens are allowed to die here when cash becomes an issue, and that's a system that definitely needs to be changed. Watch the movie "John Q" - I work in healthcare and that's just how it works. In Britain, the criteria for heart transplants doesn't have anything to do with your bank balance or your credit rating.
    I read that someone recently commented how Stephen Hawking would undoubtedly have been allowed to die from ALS if he was British and the National Heath Service (NHS) had been responsible for his care. Where to start with this one? Firstly, Stephen Hawking is British (his voice synthesizer has the American accent. Duh...) and secondly, following the article - published in Investor's Business Daily - he has credited the NHS with actually saving his life.
   The wait times that are thrown around are no longer than the ones my wife and I have experienced in the US for surgeries. Recently a friend of mine in Britain suffered a serious riding accident and came out of it with six breaks in her pelvis, four broken ribs and a cracked collarbone. She was stabilized in hospital after emergency treatment and transported to another hospital within days for surgery on her pelvis. Following the surgery she had excellent afer care and therapy, and after several weeks in hospital she was sent home with follow up therapy to get her back on her feet. Her cost for care that she rated as excellent? Nothing out of her pocket. What's wrong with a system that takes care of you like that?
    Although the NHS is not without it's problems (someone please point me in the direction of the perfect system) the WHO ranks British healthcare as 18th in the world, while the US is way back in 37th place. The relative cost is two to three times higher in the States as compared to other countries - something directly attributable to the lack of competition here.
   What we're talking about here is the same money minded thinking that got Wall Street into the mess we're bailing them out of now. Bottom line is that big business looks after it's shareholders - patients come second to profits. The US system was designed for the healthy. Get too sick and they'll drop you. Have a pre-existing condition? Your copay just sky rocketed, if you can get coverage at all. And people are fighting to keep them in charge of the health of themselves and their families? Go figure...
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Very well said Jacksdad.
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Originally posted by Jacksdad Jacksdad wrote:

The insurance companies are scared that their monopoly is about to end and the inevitable misinformation is coming out.
 
And yet you'd happily replace a business monopoly with a government one, knowing full well that fraud, waste, and abuse are rampant at all levels of government? I hate defending the insurance companies on this issue, but what you're talking about here is worse than what we've got now. I do not want some nameless, faceless jackass in the government deciding what to or not to do in regards to me receiving any care I desire. Furthermore, this plan is SCARY! Have you read even part of the bill? I have. Why would the government want my bank account information? This is specifically cited in the bill sitting in front of your Represenative right now.
 
And I want you to point out one instance where the government needs to provide healthcare in the Constitution. I'll give you a hint: It's not there.
 
The example you've cited above, Jacksdad, is called emergency care. Not preventative or elective care. When someone needs to get their knee or hip replaced, check their wait times. You'll see six months to a year. Slipped disk (Third on the list of most painful afflictions behind kindey stones and giving birth) you get to wait four excruciating months for treatment. No thanks.
 
Also exactly how much medical technology innovation do you honestly expect to see come out of a socialized plan? Anyone that frequents this board should know that 95% of all innovation in the medical field comes from America because people want to make money from their inventions. You don't get no money when the gubmint owns all.
 
I asked this question in a previous thread: If our healthcare system is so crappy, why is it that people from other countries will come here for care, but Americans don't go anywhere else?
 
It's the same crap that's being pulled in Canada where the government unions are screaming bloody murder because private, for profit, clinics are opening their doors so people that want care now can skip the queue.
 
No thanks. I totally agree SOMETHING needs to be done, but this baby and bathwater throwing approach for a plan that's filled with garbage, liberal pet projects, and fraud is exactly wrong. I believe that maybe "He Who Brings The Light" might have read my solution in the other thread about a hybrid coop system though. The current bill in the House is probably going to get scrapped... A good thing... for an elective cooperative plan that's akin to paying for car insurance.
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just reading- the posts are more interesting than anything I could put up at this point..
thanks to those contributing some interesting stuff.

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If the dohbamans' plan made any sense they would give numbers defining the benefit. Instead they chose the way of the shape-shifter, ever lacking in form or logic, choosing fear as coercion. Thus they make obvious their true desire - your freedom in exchange for Their Way. Posse comitatus exists for a reason. Vigilance !

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   My wife (a US citizen) waited 6 months here in the States for a partial laminotomy to relieve pressure on a nerve in her back. She had to be transported to the ER on the day her disk herniated because she couldn't get up off the floor, and by the time the scheduled surgery was finally carried out 6 months later she was addicted to the oral morphine she'd been prescribed for the pain. She was admitted  to the ER twice during the wait when the pain got too much for her, even with painkillers. I called her surgeon about it each time it put her back in the ER and was told that six months was the best they could do.
   She also has asthma, and whereas in the UK she was treated immediately at different hospitals and clinics on three different occasions when she had attacks after her inhalers ran out, every trip to the ER here in the States has resulted in waits of at least a couple of hours, by which time a simple albuterol nebulizer treatment won't cut it. The wait was so long that they had to admit her for five days on one occasion.
   I came off a mountain bike a few years ago and suffered a grade 3 shoulder separation. It didn't puncture the skin fortunately, but my collarbone was so prominent it punched a hole in the t-shirt I was wearing, my left arm was a couple of inches longer that the right, I had tingling and numbness in my hand, and the bones in my shoulder would grind together. Despite that, it still took 6 months before I was able to get my doctor to agree that it needed to be surgically repaired over here (a two hour outpatient procedure that fixed all the symptoms). These are the kinds of wait times people hold up as examples of how the UK system is a failure, and yet me and my family have experienced them here under the private sector system.
  TG - I'm not trying to bring about a socialist revolution with this one. When I talk about healthcare I'm going on personal experience of two different systems that are poles apart, and you also have to understand that I have medical/dental/vision benefits for my family through work. I'm not fighting for me, but for the adults and kids in this country who don't get the care a first world country should give them.
    In the UK, if you're not happy with the NHS you have the option of going private. I'd absolutely oppose any attempt to make a government run system the only option, but I believe that we don't have competition in the marketplace right now because the insurance companies are all in bed with each other - they all got together and had themselves a nice cozy little convention in San Diego recently. They look after themselves at our expense. Why else are medical costs are so much higher in the States without the commensurate increase in health? We have an industry that has no competition except itself.
  If you're in the military you should get the very best of care from the VA, and likewise if you're a US citizen you shouldn't be excluded from getting medical care or receive second rate care because of your financial situation. That's how the second and third world operates - your kidneys fail in Manilla and unless you have deep pockets you'd better get your affairs in order and say your goodbyes in the next month. That's a deplorable situation in the twenty first century, and not what we should be aiming for here in the States - we should have our sights set way higher simply because we're better than that.
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I think I have made it pretty clear where I stand on this issue.No matter which insurance company I call, they have their rates all jacked up to be the same.There has to be competition in the market place!I am so sory about your wife,Jacksdad.I hope all is well now!
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   She's doing good - thanks for asking. 
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Well said jacksdad. Its always nice to read something based upon personal experience rather than just repeated from an email forward or rumor.
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Originally posted by no-bama4me no-bama4me wrote:

Well said jacksdad. Its always nice to read something based upon personal experience rather than just repeated from an email forward or rumor.


   You're welcome. It's nice to have a discussion that's not deteriorated into the usual unpleasantness. Maybe there's hope for us all yet. Damn - hope I didn't just jinx us  Wink
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Originally posted by jacksdad jacksdad wrote:

     TG - I'm not trying to bring about a socialist revolution with this one. When I talk about healthcare I'm going on personal experience of two different systems that are poles apart, and you also have to understand that I have medical/dental/vision benefits for my family through work. I'm not fighting for me, but for the adults and kids in this country who don't get the care a first world country should give them.
 
Again don't get me wrong. I agree with you 100% that SOMETHING needs to be done. The Insurance companies are and have been in cahoots for far too long now and are making money off people's suffering, but it's a systemic problem that's not simply limited to the insurance companies themselves, the problem starts all the way down at the provider level. When a business like a hospital has paid for an MRI machine it costs them, let's say three million dollars just for argument's sake. They pay for that MRI machine many, many times over and are making huge profits at the insurance company's expense, which is then passed down to the patients.
 
Six or seven years ago I had a bout with syncope (I worked out too hard and fainted) and someone called 911 who took me three miles to the hospital. I was charged $1700.00 for a ride to the hospital, where they took my blood pressure and hooked me up to an EKG which came back normal. I was in their care for under half an hour! I simply can not justify charging people $3400 dollars an hour regardless of what's wrong with them short of a transplant or burn victim.
 
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In the UK, if you're not happy with the NHS you have the option of going private. I'd absolutely oppose any attempt to make a government run system the only option,
 
The provision in front of your represenative says that you can keep your private policy until it runs out, then you're on the government's dime, and if you have any children they can't be added to your policy, they're also on the government's dime. Lastly, if I elect to not be on the government program, I still have to pay into the government system, thus making me pay twice for care. That is simply not fair. If I want a private company, I should be able to opt out of government asistance.
 
The Canadian system, which it is thought ours is being modeled after, there is no provision for out of pocket, going private. You go into a queue and when your number comes up, you get seen.
 
Originally posted by Jacksdad Jacksdad wrote:

Why else are medical costs are so much higher in the States without the commensurate increase in health? We have an industry that has no competition except itself.
 
I tackled this one earlier, and agree with you, but it's not just teh insurance companies colluding, it's every stage of medical care. No matter what you get done, say a broken leg, and you go to the Mayo clinic or the University of Nevada Medical Center you get charged nearly the same for care.
 
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  If you're in the military you should get the very best of care from the VA, and likewise if you're a US citizen you shouldn't be excluded from getting medical care or receive second rate care because of your financial situation.
 
Whoo boy, check a VA out some time. Some of them are extremely awesome, if packed to the gills. The one I use in Minnesota is a first rate medical facility that I would go to with confidence. The hospital that I went to through Scott AFB Illinois (They've got a contract deal with a local hospital) was one of the most harrowing visits I've ever dealt with, and all I had was a tonsil infection. I sat in the waiting area for eight hours, had a throat culture done, then got some antibiotics. There was a woman that was genuinely having a heart attack get told that the doctor would be right with her and to sit down! I went ballistic, grabbed a passing doctor, and forced him to look at that woman. He said, "My God, she's having a heart attack!" and took her away. Another woman had a broken tibia that was horrifically broken, she sat with me and talked. She got there twenty minutes before I did, and sat for six hours in a waiting room in a wheelchair without painkillers before she was seen. If this is the care people receive at a government run facility, then I'll politely decline and go with the private option. Situations like I'm describing won't become the exception under a government plan, they'll be the rule.
 
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   I was born and spent the first thirty years of my life in the UK, and I think universal healthcare is something any country that wants to call itself civilized should aspire to. The insurance companies are scared that their monopoly is about to end and the inevitable misinformation is coming out. The "death panel" quote from Palin is one that particularly galls me, as that's exactly how I would characterize what happens when insurance companies here routinely refuse to pay for life saving treatments. Wake up people - your fellow citizens are allowed to die here when cash becomes an issue, and that's a system that definitely needs to be changed. Watch the movie "John Q" - I work in healthcare and that's just how it works. In Britain, the criteria for heart transplants doesn't have anything to do with your bank balance or your credit rating.
    I read that someone recently commented how Stephen Hawking would undoubtedly have been allowed to die from ALS if he was British and the National Heath Service (NHS) had been responsible for his care. Where to start with this one? Firstly, Stephen Hawking is British (his voice synthesizer has the American accent. Duh...) and secondly, following the article - published in Investor's Business Daily - he has credited the NHS with actually saving his life.
   The wait times that are thrown around are no longer than the ones my wife and I have experienced in the US for surgeries. Recently a friend of mine in Britain suffered a serious riding accident and came out of it with six breaks in her pelvis, four broken ribs and a cracked collarbone. She was stabilized in hospital after emergency treatment and transported to another hospital within days for surgery on her pelvis. Following the surgery she had excellent afer care and therapy, and after several weeks in hospital she was sent home with follow up therapy to get her back on her feet. Her cost for care that she rated as excellent? Nothing out of her pocket. What's wrong with a system that takes care of you like that?
    Although the NHS is not without it's problems (someone please point me in the direction of the perfect system) the WHO ranks British healthcare as 18th in the world, while the US is way back in 37th place. The relative cost is two to three times higher in the States as compared to other countries - something directly attributable to the lack of competition here.
   What we're talking about here is the same money minded thinking that got Wall Street into the mess we're bailing them out of now. Bottom line is that big business looks after it's shareholders - patients come second to profits. The US system was designed for the healthy. Get too sick and they'll drop you. Have a pre-existing condition? Your copay just sky rocketed, if you can get coverage at all. And people are fighting to keep them in charge of the health of themselves and their families? Go figure...
 
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Instead they bring semi automatice rifles to presidential events, with signs of hatred, Fear, and conspiricy theories of red commies taking over the country.
 
Meanwhile our families are destroyed, and millions go without, for what?? 
 
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The internet will change that , /For the first time we are the media .
not some stupid think tank , not some study done by a cigerate company . at least we will be imformed to say its byu a cigerate company
 
What I mean things are changing fast , the truth about whatever is available 
 
take the whole issue with the womean who claimed she had brain cancer and the Canadian goverment said to wait a year
she had a cyst not life threatning , she has been wined and dined by your insurance companies .  the internet changed how much imforamtion you get . you can look up our coverage of you system . you have dfirect link
 
Both countries have never looked at each other so closely and this will become a pattern that insurance companies wont be able to drown out    
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Originally posted by newgirl newgirl wrote:

Here's another topic that kind of overwhelms me.  I don't even really know where to begin to look to get an understanding of it.  Does this mean people with no insurance now (me) would have insurance?  Because that seems like it would be a good thing.... ?


NewGirl- even though I launched this thread I have mostly lurked and read. Some very informative and insightful posts.

The essence of the Senate bill in committee which we have a copy of- as interpreted by some is a huge list of platitudes ending with 'the committee will decide' who gets what thus invalidating the benign feel of the bill as a whole. One of or advisers has said bluntly - if it isn't broken, why fix it? The American health system does in a way provide health care for everyone, it simply does not make them pay for it. Under the new system we would pay more for less. However, U.K. and Canada have a rather intense tax system as exemplified by the Beatles song Taxman and Ringo move to Morocco as to avoid it . These kind of programs move us towards socialism which Putin and other Russian have cautioned - was not a real winner for the U.S.S.R. nor would t be for us. Someone must pay the bill for these glorified tax and spend democratic typical endeavors- which stir the masses with dreams of give me give me- and obscure the reality of the inceased taxation of the the miiddle class and a lot of frowning Chinese and other more knowledgeable source who know meanin of th term.. money pit.

My point- the new health care plan = money pit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Money_Pit

Sensing the growing grassroots opposition to the coming health care plan, President Obama in private conference is not as calm about things and recent in closed door meetings with the head of the CDC stated 'take the grassroots events where millions of people support are lost with each town hall meeting- more seriously."

Better the beast we know- medicare- medical- etc. and its stumbling functionality than trying to take medicare away from people or their existing health care packages. There will be a massive resistance to this.

From the moment Walter and Anna take possession of the house, it quickly begins to fall apart. The entire front door frame rips out of the wall, the main staircase collapses, the plumbing is found to be full of gunk, the electrical system catches fire, the bathtub crashes through the floor (this causes Walter to laugh vehemently), the chimney collapses, and a raccoon has invaded the dumbwaiter.

Contractors Art (Joe Mantegna) and Brad Shirk (Carmine Caridi) are called in, work permits are issued, and the job is originally estimated to take two weeks. This is because the original intent was to demolish the house. Still, the estimate of two weeks is a running gag throughout the movie. (When asked how long a process will take, the answer is always "two weeks"). Walter is increasingly frustrated by the delays and increasing cost and dubs the house “the money pit".

The repair work ends up taking four months. Anna attempts to secure more funds from Max by selling him some artwork she received in their divorce. Max doesn't care about the artwork, but gives her the money anyway. He wines and dines her, and she ends up in a compromising situation. (The morning after he agrees to buy the paintings from Anna, Max allows her to believe her assumption — having woken up in Max's bed — that she has cheated on Walter, but in reality she has not). Walter later asks Anna point-blank if she slept with Max, but Anna hastily denies it. Walter's suspicions push Anna to admit that she slept with Max, but the damage is done. Anna later confides in Max that, "He (Walter) can't forgive me, and I can't forgive him for that."

Due to Walter and Anna’s stubbornness, their relationship becomes more and more hostile, and in a rare moment of agreement, vow to sell the house once it is restored and split the proceeds. This nearly happens, but Walter misses Anna and says he loves her anyway, even if she did sleep with Max. Anna happily states that she didn’t sleep with Max, and the two reconcile. In the end, they are married in front of their new house.

The movie ends with a cutaway to Rio De Janeiro, where Estelle and Carlos (John van Dreelen) — now revealed to be con artists — are taking a cash-filled briefcase from Walter's father, who is thrilled to be getting such a great deal for a house.



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Instead they bring semi automatice rifles to presidential events, with signs of hatred, Fear, and conspiricy theories of red commies taking over the country.
 

 


the man who brought the gun to the town hall hated all government and would have been just as likely to have brought a gun to a town hall with any administration in power. He was in no way representative of the majority of people who simply do not like this plan.
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   I was born and spent the first thirty years of my life in the UK, and I think universal healthcare is something any country that wants to call itself civilized should aspire to.

Any socialised country should aspire to that - and then they should realize they made a mistake and aspire to become a capitalist country.

What they should aspire to is for those who want to give to provide for the needs of those who are in need. In the states we have accomplished that goal. Unless a person does not seek care they can get it. Either through insurance, private pay, or through public aid.


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Yes, misinformation is out there. Most of the objcections are right on the money but there is some misinformation. Do you have any evidence that the source of the misinformation is the insurance companies? because I could provide numerous examples of misleading information coming from the Obama administration.

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 The "death panel" quote from Palin is one that particularly galls me, as that's exactly how I would characterize what happens when insurance companies here routinely refuse to pay for life saving treatments.


If an agencey that routinely denies medical treatment can be characterized as a death panel then it is completely fair to say that a government panel that is designed to determine what treatments are given or denied is a death panel. Why would you be galled that someone called one death panel a death panel while at the same time you are calling another one a death panel? Of course when the death panel run by the insurance company denies treatement one can appeal to a judge and then apply for public aid. When a death panel run by gov denies your treatment you can run to another country like the Canadiens do. Oh wait, the world is running out of countries to run to.


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Wake up people - your fellow citizens are allowed to die here when cash becomes an issue, and that's a system that definitely needs to be changed.


Here in the US no one is denied treatment for lack of money. 100% of our citizens can apply to public aid.


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 Watch the movie "John Q" - I work in healthcare and that's just how it works. In Britain, the criteria for heart transplants doesn't have anything to do with your bank balance or your credit rating.


In Britain people are denied health care based on the bank balance of the government.

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    I read that someone recently commented how Stephen Hawking would undoubtedly have been allowed to die from ALS if he was British and the National Heath Service (NHS) had been responsible for his care. Where to start with this one? Firstly, Stephen Hawking is British (his voice synthesizer has the American accent. Duh...) and secondly, following the article - published in Investor's Business Daily - he has credited the NHS with actually saving his life.


Someone made a mistake by saying that Hawking was not a citizen of Britian and made a retraction the next day.But the point they were making was that in Britain they rate the worthiness of a person to receive care and people in wheelchairs are rated lower than others. Hawking was lucky he is also a genious and that the care he needed was not super expensive. Otherwise he might just have found himself to be rated too low.

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   The wait times that are thrown around are no longer than the ones my wife and I have experienced in the US for surgeries. Recently a friend of mine in Britain suffered a serious riding accident and came out of it with six breaks in her pelvis, four broken ribs and a cracked collarbone. She was stabilized in hospital after emergency treatment and transported to another hospital within days for surgery on her pelvis. Following the surgery she had excellent afer care and therapy, and after several weeks in hospital she was sent home with follow up therapy to get her back on her feet. Her cost for care that she rated as excellent? Nothing out of her pocket. What's wrong with a system that takes care of you like that?


I am glad that you rate high enought, and have not experienced a situation that cause you to have long waits. But the long waits do exist for many Britians and there is zero doubt that if we get universalal single payer we will have very long wait times too. Sometimes on the order of many months.

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    Although the NHS is not without it's problems (someone please point me in the direction of the perfect system) the WHO ranks British healthcare as 18th in the world, while the US is way back in 37th place. The relative cost is two to three times higher in the States as compared to other countries - something directly attributable to the lack of competition here.


The WHO ranked countries on several measures. the measure of how well the system responed to a persons needs ranked the US #1. The measures of how socialistic a country is caused the US to drop way down. I would much rather have a medical system to provided for my needs than one that was more socialistic.

The cost in the US is ore because we get more.  It cost money to buy new microscopes for the labs rather than to use 50 year old scopes like they do in canada. It also costs more to get the latest and the greatest of anything. It also cost more to treat people who have the highest rates of homicides, and junk food and smoking. And it cost more to provde as many plastic surgeries as we get here.

Meanwhile other countries hide the cost of their health care. Lower employment costs money. And when doctors in the us have to charge higher wages to recpoup their cost of going to school that will raise wages. In France the government sends medical students to school at taxpayer expense. So people pay those costs one way or another they just don't know it.

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   What we're talking about here is the same money minded thinking that got Wall Street into the mess we're bailing them out of now


The mess they have was government caused and we should not bail them out.

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. Bottom line is that big business looks after it's shareholders - patients come second to profits.
And government makes sure that they don't harm people are fail to live up to their contracts. Is government doing that? If yes then there is no problem.

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the us insurance industy was designed for the healthy as it should be. But we also have a private pay system and a public aid system which are both designed for everyone.

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 You and I think that is wrong. It is the governments job to stop companies from harming people. Why are they not doing their job?


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When was the last time you bought auto insurance for an accident you already had? how about homeowners insurace for a home that was already burned to the ground?


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"If you're in the military you should get the very best of care from the VA..."

   Turboguy - the reason I worded it the way I did is because I know how it varies wildly across the board. I've worked in healthcare for about 15 years and I've heard both praise and condemnation for the VA. As an EMT I spent a lot of time at my local VA hospital transporting patients to and from the facility. On one occasion I transported a veteran 150 miles in the back of the rig on his own dime because he didn't wanted to be treated at the closest VA hospital and insisted on being taking to another of his choosing because of what he considered less than ideal care. My feelings on the subject are that military service should entitile you to the very best that can be offered for as long as you need it.
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"When was the last time you bought auto insurance for an accident you already had? how about homeowners insurace for a home that was already burned to the ground?"

  Exactly - that's why accountants should dictate the terms of your car and home owners insurance, but not be in complete control of the health of you and your family. Thank you for making that point better than I did Thumbs%20Up
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     I'm sorry to disagree with those who see no big deal with the Health bill going through;( When read,you discover that eventually the Government will end up pushing/forcing out all of us who wish to keep the great insurance we have now,and make us turn to them for health care. Then you have to look at just "WHO" Obama has working very closely with him, his Czars. Almost all of them have or still do back things such population control. The elderly, sickly, disabled will go without. No doubt here folks,all one has to do is read. Unfortunately most of our Senators, Congressmen have absolutely no clue as to whats in the bill. Nothing new, just pass the dang thing because Obama says to.
     Lets not forget to look at everything else they have ran for us;) Social Security, Medicaid, the Post office....all failures. Now they have their mitts into the Banks, Auto Industries, next our precious health care, what could be next!?
     This health bill is but a small part of things being passed without our knowledge. Oh! And let us not forget this part of the health bill.... The government will require to know your personal checking account number..hmmm wonder why that is? People better wake up and become Politically Literate real soon, before it's too late. The days of sitting back and voting strictly democrat or republican are over...we are loosing our Constitutional rights on both sides!
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One thing I know for sure... bikes are.... Very... dangerous.   I know a guy who fell over the front of his bike, tired after a race.  He had the collar bone thing.  No bikes...no thanks.
Walking is excellent exersize.  Some of the Health Ins in NYS is ...ok... but they don't cover very expensive care like... eye exams and glasses... Dentalwork..remember the connection to Dental health and heart problems? and no hearing exams or hearing aids...elderly need that...and it's extremely expensive.  The HEAD needs to be PART OF the Body....hello?
 
 
I wanted to see about a tax credit for a new storm door... etc... and I went to the Govt site... They want you to ask..for a special Manufacturers code... have a special type of installer... and you need to read this...and figure it out...I am thinking very few people who really need to tighten up their older homes will understand all this or bother to do it.
 
 
It's insane.  To offer what sounds intelligent...helpful...and then to find it is an exersize in mental futility.... another Govt. wiz bang program... brought to you by tax payer dollars... go ahead, just try to get a few of them back.
 
 
If you can make sense of this...you are amazing.  It goes on for a mile.
 
(and they want to control our health care?)  I am afraid.  But I know we need health care for all.
 
 
 
 
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Part III - Administrative, Procedural, and Miscellaneous

Nonbusiness Energy Property

Notice 2009-53

SECTION 1. PURPOSE

This notice updates interim guidance, pending the issuance of regulations,

relating to the credit for nonbusiness energy property under § 25C of the Internal

Revenue Code. Specifically, this notice provides procedures that manufacturers may

follow to certify property as either eligible building envelope components or qualified

energy property, as well as guidance regarding the conditions under which taxpayers

seeking to claim the § 25C credit may rely on a manufacturer's certification.

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  I've been lucky - I've come off my bike quite a few times over the years, and although I have patches of skin that don't tan anymore from being scraped off too many times, I'm still here. The fall prior to the one that messed up my shoulder happened because I had someone open a car door in front of me as I was sprinting at about 30mph. I bounced twice (actually my head) and when I came to a stop I looked up and saw the tread of a truck tire a foot from my face. Luckily he was paying enough attention to stop after he saw me go airborne in front of him. After being strapped to a back board and loaded into an ambulance with my bike (they do fit in the back - I know from experience) the ER doc gave me a lecture about not wearing a helmet. I'm bad - I don't. As I pointed out, there's nothing up there to damage. Ask anyone that knows me  Wacko
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I'm hearing your wife say...
 
 
never a dull moment.   :)
 
 
and here I am looking at how the Congress (send in the ...)  introduces Bills...
 
Now keep in mind we all want good Health Care for all... (some how) and we want
 
to understand what it is they will do for us and how they will pay for it...
 
 
Before we sign on the dotted line.... is that too much to ask?   It is done for every sane
 
transaction I'm aware of, all parties are aprised of the contents prior to agreement.
 
Why is this Health Care Plan...  any different?   It's our tax dollars... hello?
 
 
oh their wonderous Congressional ways....   (I remember ( lived in CT for a while)  the big
 
thing there at the time was legal jargon to be written in an easy readable form for all...not a bad idea.)
 
 
Congress could get a grip and stop the games.... they are many.
 
 
 

ok now.... follow the pea...er    Bill

Which cup is it under?
 
 
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 that had the same title as this bill.
 
 
Often bills are incorporated into other omnibus bills,
 
and you may be able to track the status of provisions of this bill
 
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Note that bills may have multiple titles.
 
109th Congress: S. 969: Attacking Viral Influenza Across Nations Act Dead
 
109th Congress: H.R. 4062Dead
 
 
This bill never became law. This bill was proposed in a previous session of Congress.
 
 
Sessions of Congress last two years, and at the end of each session all proposed bills and resolutions that haven't passed are cleared from the books.
 
 
Members often reintroduce bills that did not come up for debate under a new number in the next session. 
 
Last Action: Dec 17, 2005: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13960)
 
Sets forth prohibitions against charging excessive prices during a public health emergency for, reporting false pricing information to the Secretary about, or employing a manipulative or deceptive device or contrivance in connection with the purchase or sale of, drugs, devices, or biologics for the prevention or treatment of influenza at wholesale.

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hopfully that part was inserted ....again.... somewhere else?
 
 
 
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Heh Jack, good thing your head cushioned your fall and prevented you from actually getting hurt!
 
Your question: Yep, I am still over here in the sandbox. Should be until sometime in October (I'm prevented from giving more solid dates, OPSEC being what it is and all) Aside from a chipped front incisor (that jersey barrier came out of NOWHERE!) and a heat related injury where I decided to sweat out all my salt, but took care of it with gatoraid, I'm doing great. I've even lost a little more than twenty five pounds from the armor, running to and fro, and unbelievable heat. Someone somewhere decided to turn up the heat in the last couple days as it's gotten unbelievably humid on top of the already unbelievable heat...
 
Originally posted by Mahshadin Mahshadin wrote:

Words that just are not being heard by some. ClapClapClapClapClapClapClapClapClapClapClapClapClapClap
 
Therein lies your problem: We, The People are listening! It's not about who's the president or the congress, or the city council! People read the bill and got angry at what they saw. You keep attributing hatred into the equasion in a paltry attempt at an Ad Hominem attack against those that are protesting and, quite honestly, it's hurting your cause far more than the protesters.
 
Originally posted by Mahshadin Mahshadin wrote:

 
Instead they bring semi automatice rifles to presidential events, with signs of hatred, Fear, and conspiricy theories of red commies taking over the country.
 
You mean that black man that brought that rifle to the event to protect himself from the union goons that your side has enlisted to frighten and intimidate people into not standing up to this garbage bill? Your side threatened the violence first, and the fact that a black man was fearful enough for his life that he had to bring an AR15 to a political event shows that your insinuation of hate is totally unfounded, and is in fact far more on the supporter than on the protesters.
 
How about Barney Frank's vitriol when he said that one of the people queestioning him was like talking to a kitchen table? Our elected officials are surprised that anyone would be outraged at what they do. And that's just arrogant in the extreme. What about when Claire McCaskill getting a huge "NO!" shouted to her when she asked if the people trusted her. Your problem is that the protesters aren't just a fringe, it cuts across all political, economic, and social boundaries and is in fact a majority in this country against it. You're calling more than half the people here ignorant haters because they might not agree with you, Mahshadin, that's illuminating.
 
Originally posted by Mahshadin Mahshadin wrote:

Meanwhile our families are destroyed, and millions go without, for what?? 
 
Go without what? Massive debt? Crappy healthcare?
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was like talking to a kitchen table? Our elected officials are surprised that anyone would be outraged at what they do.
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puts me in mind of the time Gov Cuomo visited the coutry folk... in NYS... when they wanted to truck Nuk waste over the back roads to what they considered an obscure county.  The Gov. was amazed at the outcry...the anger he encountered.  They later figured out what people were trying to tell them... too hilly to be safe travel for the waste... seems no one had actually come out to see the terrain to be traveled over.  
So many things get overlooked in haste. (plan was scrapped)
 
Health Care for All is nothing to rush into without a lengthy discussion ...
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I cannot even begin to believe any of these changes will be good for us looking at the debaucle the FDA is trying to mandate in agriculture in the name of "health!"  Let us not forget our bag of chips, or tortilla chips is probably made from GMO corn which accordingly will not be identified.   Would you really eat those chips if you knew there were flounder genes in your corn?
 
What about the unknown health implications there?  If down the road, there is a resultant illness there caused by GMO's, who will cover that?  I am sure there will be a no-fault clause somewhere that will let the government and big agribusiness off the hook for one of the biggest science experiments in history.  
 
This is so very disturbing!
 
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No no no no Sheeplady, the benevolant government is here to help you... Yeah, that's it, help you.
 
The fact that they'd pass a law that could ostensibly be used to outlaw backyard and private gardens is Friking amazing.
 
But hey, they're the government and they're here to help...
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To coin an old adage...with friends like that, who needs enemies....
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