Comments on: The States Turning Down Heath Insurance Expansion Need It The Most

By: leeda luciano

leeda luciano — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 15:55:00 +0000

Good.. In 2016 the Republican party will lose the poor mans vote in those states as they have lost the Latino vote. It is only a matter of time until the poor working man realizes that the GOP is not, and has never been, his friend.

By: JSquercia

JSquercia — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 02:08:00 +0000

I found it interesting that while they indexed the Estate Tax, they did NOT index the AMT nor did they index the amount above which a Senior is considered Upper Income and has to pay tax on his Social Security Benefit

By: JSquercia

JSquercia — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 02:05:00 +0000

I found it interesting that while they indexed the Estate Tax they did NOT index the AMT , nor did they index the amount above which a Senior is considered Upper Income and has to pay tax on his Social Security Benefit .

By: mac macey

mac macey — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 03:04:00 +0000

Vote the GOP out in 2014. Pay for their idiotic behavior by polling them out. You know, they’ve got purdy mouths.

By: BigTurd

BigTurd — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:01:00 +0000

Nor do they learn from those past mistakes. That’s why they’re going to down the “tubes of irrelevancy” what a shame.

By: dtgraham

dtgraham — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 17:19:00 +0000

Well said. I was wrong about Canada’s health care being as expensive as the U.S. A quick Google search will show how wrong I was. The costs that I was shown seemed high but it’s all relative. What’s high? I had nothing to compare them against and we’re not used to seeing or thinking about health care costs in Canada. Controlling costs is the government’s job, and first world quality health care is not cheap anywhere. In retrospect, my wife’s hospital visit would surely have cost more in the U.S. I wasn’t thinking.

Obama’s Medicare board (Sarah Palin’s death panel) is doing a similar job of finding savings and bending the cost curve in the same way as governments in single payer systems do. Now imagine if Medicare could be opened up to all Americans with that same cost containment element. Costs could be dramatically lowered.

The Republican idea of selling insurance over state lines, and tort reform, as being the panacea of making health care affordable to all is horsepuckey. Paul Ryan’s proposal to make the end user be the catalyst of cost containment through market forces is both abhorrent and coocoo for cocoa puffs. The suggestion that consumers will shop around from hospital to hospital looking for the best price for chemotherapy or appendicitis is absurd. Health care doesn’t work that way. It’s not like buying shoes.

These are phony, made up stories designed to absolve the GOP from coming up with the kind of health care policies that would actually make it accessible and affordable to all. They don’t even believe in the concept.

By: Sierra111

Sierra111 — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 04:14:00 +0000

I believe anyone can go to the Federal government if their state refuses to set up a system. That is in the law.

By: nobsartist

nobsartist — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 21:51:00 +0000

We can only hope that Obamacare has provisions that allow for modifications to allow single payer health care thru medicare. Removing the redundant insurance management costs and the elimination of the massive billing structure would save billions.

By: Michael Kollmorgen

Michael Kollmorgen — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 19:31:00 +0000

Well, we really can’t judge Obamacare yet. It’s not even in force yet. It’d don’t go into full force for several more years from my understanding.

What I judge is what it HAS BEEN compared to what may take place in the future.

When Obamacare does take place, it should be a major improvement compared to what we have now.

At least, that’s what I hope…………….

By: Brian Sheehan

Brian Sheehan — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 17:40:00 +0000

Probably because French doctors don’t have to pay off loans from Med School.