Comments on: Harvard Medical dean gives Obama/PelosiCare an F

By: Guy Davis

Guy Davis — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:10:37 +0000

I submit that much of the high cost of insurance in general is due to the exemption of the insurance industry from price-fixing legislation for the past 60 years or so. Permitting sales of insurance across state lines may help but for significant change the only industry in the nation not subject to anti-trust law must lose its immunity. Competition is the key, not price-fixing!

As for Tort Reform, it is being pushed primarily by physicians who believe they are entitled to a special exemption from having to take full responsibility for the harm they cause and instead foist upon the taxpayer the caretaker tab for their mistakes. Tactics including “loser pays” legislation which would deny all but the wealthy access to the courthouse and caps on damages at some arbitrary figure such as Georgia’s $350,000.00 cap on blindness, paralysis, etc. caused by medical negligence do absolutely nothing to reduce so called “frivolous lawsuits”. If a claim is worth $350,000.00 or more how is it frivolous and why should the victim not be fairly compensated?

By: Michael Kirsch, M.D

Michael Kirsch, M.D — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:22:55 +0000

Gregg, you are quite misinformed. With respect to tort reform, George Bush ‘got it’. He couldn’t get anything through the lawyer laden congress. This was the obstacle then. Now, we have a Democratic congress and president hostile to tort reform. You recall that the president state in his health care speech to a joint session that fear of litigation ‘may’ result in defensive medicine. This president doesn’t get it. See http://www.MDWhistleblower.blogspot.com under Legal Quality category.

By: dewstarpath

dewstarpath — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:39:48 +0000

- Linda –
I’m sure that everyone has a level of bias involved in
their responses to political questions asked of them.
But your responses are clearly more biased than mine.
Do your research (with the AJC search engine). I do
not spend the better part of the day defending Obama,
liberalism, or any kind of political viewpoint. I do not
have a political “agenda”. Philosophy IMO is more
important than politics, because most political arguments
nowadays only seem to cater to people’s whims, instead
of dealing with policy that will improve society. We need
philosophy to improve the individual; we need to improve
what it means to be an “American”, because what we
have today isn’t cutting it. This involves looking at a given
issue with objective eyes; it’s what is defined as being a
professional (or should be). I don’t know you personally;
I’m just reading your comments. Republicans are good/
Democrats (read liberals) are bad just doesn’t fly; the
viewpoint is too simplistic to answer the increasingly
complex questions that all Americans are going to face.

By: Linda

Linda — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:53:51 +0000

Misplaced @ 8:53, I’m not a phony. I’m genuinely concerned about our balance of trade. If we don’t buy imports, other countries won’t buy our exports. If we don’t manufacture exports, we don’t have jobs. What’s phony about that? It’s a reality. It’s the Golden Rule.
It’s difficult to follow your comments. I just figured out what a fridge is.
Whatever reason companies leave the US is due to profits, the difference between income & expenses. Labor is cheaper outside our country. Manufacturing is quickly & surly being outsourced to other countries & will probably never be reversed in our lifetimes. It’s the fault of unions more than any other reason.
If Walmart had done nothing for anyone except the Waltons, they would have been out of business a long time ago. They provide good jobs. Get real.
Our country was founded on the free enterprise system. Do you disagree with that?
You still didn’t address my premise. If we only bought American, we wouldn’t be able to DRIVE. We wouldn’t be able to buy oil/gas to DRIVE. It’s the Dems who keep a self-imposed ban on drilling for oil off the coasts of the US. They use the defense that they’re trying to “save the planet” but force us to buy oil from other “planets” such as Canada & Mexico, our 2 largest suppliers. We spend over $700 B a year buying oil from other countries, which jeopardizes our national security.
Why Buy American if it limits our ability to drive our cars?

By: misplaced

misplaced — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:53:14 +0000

Misplaced@4:02, I see that you have read that self-help book for liberals that goes something like this: If you can’t argue with the facts, attack the messenger. Do you have any facts to dispute any one thing that I wrote?

Linda I guess your phony conservative mind could not follow the thread I responded to from Axlefraud, Those companys did not leave because of unions they left because they wanted more money, they left so they could exploit people and make even more money while you and I still pay the same price, if the fridge you have was made by a union member in Ohio and that union member was paid $17.00 bucks an hour the cost was passed along to you. Now if that same fridge was made by a non-union worker in lets say Mexico for 50 pesos a day (about $5.00 bucks) was the cost savings passed onto to you? NO and you know that second Walmart has done nothing for no one except the Waltons, if they stuck to the plan that Sam Walton had you know like buy American maybe we could respect them however they make tons of money by supporting China and slave labor so I stick to what I wroye earlier get on a plane and see what these Corps are doing in other countries. when you have the weekend off or the next holiday you have off thank a union member some people died for you to have that day off.

By: Linda

Linda — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:00:41 +0000

David, I’m sure you know the difference between ladies & women & between gentlemen & men. I’ve always tried to act like a lady, but when I try to convert gays to Christianity, I am not limited to merely glowing & blushing.
Where you can really help is convincing moderates to see that what’s happening in DC today is as terrifying as terrorists. This is only the 3rd time in my adult lifetime that we’ve had both a Dem-controlled legislature & Dem adm. The last 2 were disasters. This one can cause the end of our country. I’m terrified.
Thank you for all your contributions & may God bless you & yours.

By: Linda

Linda — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:35:28 +0000

Dewstarpath @ 6:22, You’re right about the quote. Thank you.
It sums up the different philosophies between liberals & conservatives.
I’ve had a front row seat for over 3 decades watching the mess we now have in the economy. It all started with a philosophy that home ownership was a right, not a privilege. It was not fair for people who had jobs, saved & sacrificed for a down payment & paid their bills on time to qualify to buy a house. We needed Affirmative Action, diversity & social engineering! It started with the Carter adm with the passage of the Community Reinvestment Act, which was strengthened during Clinton, until the mess really hit the fan. Even Clinton BRAGGED about it! Before the economic collapse, in ‘04, in his autobiography, he took credit for the “staggering” “$800 B” in loans made to unqualified buyers. He also ADMITTED in 8/08 on ABC that the Dems resisted for yrs efforts by the Reps to reign in Fannie & Freddie.
Now, the Dems are using the same tactics for health care insurance. Now, health care insurance is a right, not a privilege.
The only people who need health insurance but who can’t get it are those who are out of work, sick with pre-existing conditions & illegal aliens.
If the DC bunch would focus on the economy, the unemployed could get back to work & have health care.
Our health care system could be easily tweaked to accomplish the needed reform to cover pre-existing conditions, etc., but this is not the objective of the DC bunch.
You called me biased. You’re not?

By: David Axelfraud

David Axelfraud — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:20:55 +0000

Linda, ok, thanks. Not sure what to tell you about the homos in Boston and San Fran.

By: Linda

Linda — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:26:36 +0000

David, you’re doing better. I’m proud of you. Make Kyle proud.
I found an article the other day written by a really nasty liberal & commented on by equally nasty liberals. Once I posted my comment, all the comments ceased. Checked it again the next day. Comments were still being accepted. Still no further comments. I shut them UP! Can’t wait to try it again. Was a great comment, if I do say so myself.
Still been unsuccessful converting any homos in Boston & San Francisco to Christianity but will keep trying.

By: dewstarpath

dewstarpath — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:22:44 +0000

- Linda –
I believe the quote you’re grasping for is as follows:
“Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime.”
It has nothing to do with being liberal or conservative.
Bias will get you nowhere.