Comments on: Here comes more government health care

By: Prep Pigskin Report

Prep Pigskin Report — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 21:36:25 +0000

[...] then begin preparation for NC State with a night practice on Saturday in a closed workout. Here comes more government health careAnd, football season upon us, no the “pigskin” is not kosher! We are NOT going to allow [...]

By: carlosbrewer

carlosbrewer — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 04:39:20 +0000

Check out http://www.obamamortgagerelief.org/ . There needs to be a program for the elderly but not quite to retirement age for mortgage modification when the have lost their job during this particular recession. I made a decent wage because I put my time into a company and now have no job. I am looking at $10 – to $12 hr jobs after working all my life. You can’t make a mortgage payment on that kind of money. I will eventually lose my home.

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Go Girl Urinal — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:37:20 +0000

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Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:16:22 +0000

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By: Kate Bigam

Kate Bigam — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:42:59 +0000

Hi, Jay,

Because it’s come up in some of your readers’ comments, I encourage you and your readers to read this blog post, written by Rabbi David Saperstein, Director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, about President Obama’s phone call last week with nearly 1,000 rabbis of all streams of Judaism: http://blogs.rj.org/rac/2009/08/there_has_been_some_discussion.html.

Kate Bigam
Press Secretary
Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism

By: bob

bob — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:41:02 +0000

Baucus, you can have gov option, I will take private option. Just don’t ask for me to pay for yours. The gov organized Katrina evacuations about as good as they organized Social Security.

By: bob

bob — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:56:06 +0000

Baucus, you go to gov and I will go to Navartis.

By: Baucus Supports Public Option

Baucus Supports Public Option — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:55:45 +0000

Because the government is purchasing the vast majority of the vaccine and the government is organizing the vaccine production to get it anywhere near the number of people who need the vaccine, and through trials Tony Fauci MD the Director of NIAID @ NIH is dictating what that vaccine will contain based on his trials to the five companies that make it. Any other questions?

By: bob

bob — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:52:56 +0000

NJ, this thread is Bookman saying we should be thankful to the gov for the vaccine. The vaccine is being made by private companies, how do we then say it is from gov ?

By: N.J.

N.J. — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:03:22 +0000

Amusingly conservatives talk about how great the health technology in the U.S. is but neglect to remind anyone that it is largely government research that is providing it. The government picks up the tab for most of the research on wonder drugs, new diagnostic procedures, new medical procedures. The result of all government research goes directly into the public domain and the medical business profits from it, with no financial return to the taxpayer who foots the bill.

The same people who brought us fear of Iraqi WMD’s are now bringing fear of health reform. Using the same old words like “socialized medicine” which barely exists anywhere in the world. In the vast majority of nations that have some nationalized plan, health care itself remains completely private, and health insurance companies are involved with handling claims and administration of the funds.Socialized medicine is another one of those rare occurrences that conservatives have mythologized beyond all recognition.

The two best in the world, France and the Netherlands take two totally different approaches, insure just about everyone in their countries, and have no waiting lists, nor is pre-approval from an insurance company required. In fact the overall wait to see primary care physicians is shorter than in the United States, and is about the same as in the U.S. to see specialists. Shorter in France, about the same in the Netherlands.

Conservatives point fingers at various select European or Canadian systems, but they fail to point out how poorly the United States performs in exactly the same areas. One might want to consider the mortality statistics for those who do not have health insurance at all. This is as valid a measure as picking out single diseases like colon cancer and so on. The United States does not insure a number more than fifty percent larger than the entire Canadian population.

America claims to be the best at everything. The fact that it is completely unable to provide health care for all of its citizens is a most glaring failure.

Pointing out various rates if deaths for single and relatively rare diseases is one of the more false arguments. When one is comparing the overall merits and demerits of a health care system, the only measure is the overall health of the people living under those systems.