Welcome to ObamaCare, ladies and gentlemen. This is where the separation of church and state will fall apart, because you’re going to pray to God you never get sick again.
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House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) issued the following statement today along with this chart:
You are alway right on, what can we do about this? I call, I fill out petitions, I inform everyone and it doesnt mean shit! This is just one more thing they have pushed through, and I can tell you I am getting so tired of it all, but that is what they are counting on. I want obama to prove he is a citizen, I signed that petition on wnd.com, I am mortified that he can appoint czars to do what ever the supreme puba deems will socialize us without anyone knowing, the take over and bail outs of goldman sacks, which has ties to government, GE more ties the union, . so called global warming, al gore, illegal alliens, … it goes on & on. on a daily basis We need to organize EVERY conservative organization, club, websites the NRA etc and get our country back just let us know where to sign on IM IN!
In case you missed some of the boxes in the chart, Get a load of this:
Office of Civil Rights (oh, it’s a right now)
Office of Minority Health (racist dems think minorities are another species)
Cultural and Linguistic Competence Training (English not required)
Public Health Workforce Corps (feels like another ACORN to me)
Language Demonstration Program (huh?)
I am currently on a strict weight loss plan, with increased exercise. Trying to get in shape while I still have a doctor to go to should it all go horribly wrong. There is no way I can navigate the mess described on the chart – guess I’ll just go without.
Of course, since I have two wonderful dogs, I am wondering where their box is on the above chart – they are uninsured and make no money or pay taxes. Doesn’t that qualify them for some of this?
Obviously freedom of choice does not extend past the womb and since our bodies belong to them they can demand that we have them insured.
Notice how far apart health care providers and consumers are? Sheesh!
I managed a dr’s office for 5 years. I handled the ins billing, accounts payable and ordered supplies. My boss finally had to stop accepting Medicaid (that’s the free care poor people get). He literally LOST money on those folks; I know because I know exactly what it cost him in supplies and overhead to run his office. Medicaid paid just six dollars for a particular procedure that Medicare paid $43 for, and private insurers paid even more.
I doubt that any national plan will be any better than what Medicaid currently pays, and I can guarantee you no doctor anywhere is getting rich if his practice is mostly Medicaid patients. People may gripe about the cost of insurance or the cost of paying out of pocket, and those costs are directly related to making up for what the government *doesn’t* pay. The cost of doing business in health care factors in the lower amounts paid by government programs. It is simply the cost of doing business, and it is passed on to the consumer like any other service.
Whether we have insurance or not, we all pay more for health care to subsidize these programs over and above any taxes taken directly from us.
My concern is that, if Obama’s plan passes, it will seriously break the health care sytem we already have. If there is not enough profit to be made, many people and businesses will stop accepting government plans if they don’t pay well. If the government tries to force them to accept lower payment, they will simply go elsewhere…..or the good doctors will go elsewhere, and we will be left with shoddy overcrowded clinics and substandard care.
Taxachusetts has had subsidized-but-mandatory health insurance for 3 years. They are starting to figure out it costs too much, and are cutting people from the program:
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“Because of its three-year-old law, Massachusetts has the country’s lowest percentage of uninsured residents: 2.6 percent, compared with a national average of 15 percent. The law requires that almost every resident have insurance, and to meet that goal, the state subsidizes coverage for those earning up to three times the federal poverty level, or $66,150 for a family of four.
But the recession has made an already difficult experiment far more challenging. Enrollment in Commonwealth Care has risen sharply in recent months, to 181,000, as more people have lost jobs. That increase, combined with plummeting state revenues, made it impossible to maintain last year’s level of service, said Cyndi Roy, a spokeswoman for the state’s Executive Office for Administration and Finance.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/us/15insure.html
If this plan passes will I have to wait long to see my doctors, Abbot and Costello?
Reminds me of a joke, which I’ll try not to screw up:
In the Soviet Union, a man was thrilled that he was finally going to get an appointment to see the doctor, after a long wait in the healthcare queue. The front desk person told him “we have an opening three years from now on May 13, at 4:00pm.” Horrifed, the man said, “I’m sorry, I’m going to have to reschedule, that’s the same time as the appointment i was lucky enough to make with the state plumber.”
this isnt any worse the the nonsense my dying aunt has to deal with to get her chemo, and she has to pay so much that she will likely go bankrupt because of it.
so…6 of one, half dozen of the other.
Charlatan: flimflam, quack, mountebank. BHO, Pelosi and Reid selling snake oil.