King Hussein wants it both ways. Implementation of government run healthcare with no relief to the doctors in the form of malpractice awards. Guess what, if you’re a doctor and want relief you become a government employee. I believe you cannot sue the government. So now the private sector will have less physicians to choose from and Hussein got what he wants, you and I enrolling in their health plan scheme.
He’s smooth.
Is this the TAR I know? How the ehck ya been?
Dr’s have it bad enough already, to ask them to concede more is an insult to their dedication of their profession.They have conceded in treatment pricing to the insurance companies and treat us as cattle. I’m famous in the Dr’s office for a whopping 15 minutes then gotta go!
To ask them to further take a bite is nuts! This will only end up in increases in premium costs and added costs to us.Screw Obama’s health plan it doesn’t work!
I’m sorry to say you’re exactly right about our Constitution!
You should see how the good ole Southern people feel but they won’t get their lazy butts out to vote.
The North has accepted all the bull that the liberal dems have dished out for years and it’s spread to the mid-west. I thought were smarter, they were not.They had the potty pulled right out from under their butts when they were taking their UNION breaks!
Still in the rat race, hawking policies, watching business clients close their doors after years and years in business.
You see King Hussein rapidly making policy after policy, creating new departments, appointing a Czar for everything and no one is outraged. The communists used Czars, now it’s become an accepted word in what used to be a Capitalistic Republic. In a little over 150 days, government has become so sated, taking over public entities without Congressional debate. It’s really astounding what has happened.
So yes, back in the rat race.
I see you haven’t left? Way to stick with it.
Ciao
This Country is headed for disaster!
I don’t normally get involved unless something catches my eye on this site.
I normally scan the subjects only!
With all do respect to this site.
I will mention some names to see if you are the TAR I know,Margaret,Steve,Joe.
Well Joe I guess I am confused as to why they opened all these medical clinics around the world. They don’t keep them open for the ill when they are needed.These walk in clinics should be open 24/7 for the poor but instead when a methadone clinic opens they provide the hours needed for the drugs addicts to obtain their fix. I could go on and on.
I can remember driving by one at 5:30 a.m.watching cars pull in and out as if it were the drive through at a fast food restaurant.
It makes my stomach turn!
Please read this column by a black newspaper writer:
’45 Million Americans’ — Who Are Those Guys? Larry Elder
Thursday, June 18, 2009
About 45 million Americans lack health care insurance. Or do they?
A pro-“universal health care” television host recently cited this widely accepted “fact.” The number is bogus.
Here’s the skinny.
Start with the math. We have 300 million Americans. Subtract the 45 million — 15 percent of us — with no health insurance. That leaves 255 million Americans, or 85 percent, with it.
And the insurance is lousy, right? Not according to a 2006 ABC News/Kaiser Family Foundation/USA Today survey. It found that 89 percent of Americans were satisfied with the quality of their own health care.
Nearly half of the 45 million fall in the category of my 26-year-old nephew. He smokes cigarettes, dates, eats out, goes to movies and, like all young people, lives through his cell phone. With a slight change in priorities, he could afford health insurance, the cost of which at his age and health starts at about $100 a month. Take a look at a Reason Foundation video of interviews with a bunch of non-health-insured 20-somethings.
These Gen Xers copped to dropping money on clothes, booze, nightlife, the latest tech gizmos and other things of interest to them. With a change in priorities, these young folks — far more representative of those without insurance than the forlorn husband and wife sitting on a porch swing — could both afford and qualify for health insurance. They simply consider it a low priority.
Millions more can access health care — through SCHIP (State Children’s Health Insurance Program), Medicaid or other government programs. But for whatever reason, 11 million people simply refuse to take advantage of them.
Several million other Americans who want insurance do, indeed, go without it — for a time. Many are, however, between jobs, and most — at some point — will find employment that either offers health insurance or pays enough so that they can buy it. Millions more work at companies that offer health insurance, and for a few dollars out of every paycheck, they could add family members. They choose not to.
What about criminals without insurance? More than 2 million Americans — with access to health care, by the way — use jail, prison or penitentiary mailing addresses. And for every one behind bars, how many live among us who survive by theft, drug dealing, prostitution or some similar career path? Taxpayer health insurance for them, too?
So now we’re down to the Americans without health insurance on a persistent, long-term basis. This is approximately 10-15 million, a big number to be sure. But does this warrant a government takeover of the entire health care system?
Lacking health care insurance is not the same as lacking health care . By law, most emergency rooms must provide health care — to both legals and illegals. Yes, they stand in line, but no health insurance does not equal no health care.
Government (aka taxpayers) already pays half of our health care dollar, with programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP and other federal and state plans. The stated goals are accessibility and affordability. Congress passed Medicare in 1965. In the 20 years before the program’s inception, the cost of a day in a hospital increased threefold. In the 20 years following Medicare, a day in a hospital increased eightfold — substantially higher than inflation over that period. Because of cost controls on government plans, providers increased the cost on everybody else.
So here’s the question.
Do we allow a complete government takeover of the section of health care it doesn’t already run, for 10-15 million or so without health insurance on a persistent basis? Again, 255 million Americans already have it. Many millions more could get it if they wanted to. And 89 percent of Americans are satisfied with the care they now receive.
What to do? Unleash the free market. Allow greater competition among health care providers. Decrease costly regulations that increase the price tag. Enable consumers to purchase insurance plans across state lines. Allow non-government-licensed paraprofessionals and others — currently prevented by law from offering any medical services — to provide low-cost care.
What about poor care and negligence? We have laws against force and fraud, as well as a common-law duty of care. That’s why God created lawyers. (Just give us “loser pays.”)
What about those who cannot afford it? What about those with pre-existing illnesses whose insurance applications carriers turned down? What’s wrong with charity — people helping people? America remains the most generous nation on the face of the earth. We donate more of our time and money than countries like England, Germany and Japan. During the Great Depression, before the New Deal, charitable giving skyrocketed. After the New Deal, charitable giving continued, but not at nearly the same rate. People expected government to address the problem, and taxpayers felt they gave at the office.
We can provide such “universal” coverage at a “low cost” — through rationing. That means long lines, lower quality and less innovation for services that Americans currently take for granted.
Economists call it T.A.N.S.T.A.A.F.L. There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.
Please also read the following site from time-to-time: http://mises.org/
Bdda Bing! Yoiu hit the nail right on the head. The problem in my opinion though is that percentage that is spoken of where they have Insurance available to them cannot afford to make that small payment but as the article says hospitals.the taxpayer does not pick upm the tab! I beg to differ with this article on that.
Hospitals have come after me for $200 so the people that do visit the emergency room are not off the hook to pay.Uncle Sam WILL NOT come in and bailout those who cannot pay the hospital.Thye individuals sign form after form commiting themselves to make good on payment to the hospital PERIOD.
So to a certain degree this article has some truths but it certainly has some falses.
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King Hussein wants it both ways. Implementation of government run healthcare with no relief to the doctors in the form of malpractice awards. Guess what, if you’re a doctor and want relief you become a government employee. I believe you cannot sue the government. So now the private sector will have less physicians to choose from and Hussein got what he wants, you and I enrolling in their health plan scheme.
He’s smooth.
Is this the TAR I know? How the ehck ya been?
Dr’s have it bad enough already, to ask them to concede more is an insult to their dedication of their profession.They have conceded in treatment pricing to the insurance companies and treat us as cattle. I’m famous in the Dr’s office for a whopping 15 minutes then gotta go!
To ask them to further take a bite is nuts! This will only end up in increases in premium costs and added costs to us.Screw Obama’s health plan it doesn’t work!
Hey Nobody,
I’mmm back!
This is Tar you know. I’ve been on a little sabaticle. Taking it easy, recharging the batteries. Hope you are well!
Ciao…
I’m sorry to say you’re exactly right about our Constitution!
You should see how the good ole Southern people feel but they won’t get their lazy butts out to vote.
The North has accepted all the bull that the liberal dems have dished out for years and it’s spread to the mid-west. I thought were smarter, they were not.They had the potty pulled right out from under their butts when they were taking their UNION breaks!
Well glad to hear from you.I’ll have to look up your number and give you a call. A lot has changed since we last spoke!
Be well!
Still in the rat race, hawking policies, watching business clients close their doors after years and years in business.
You see King Hussein rapidly making policy after policy, creating new departments, appointing a Czar for everything and no one is outraged. The communists used Czars, now it’s become an accepted word in what used to be a Capitalistic Republic. In a little over 150 days, government has become so sated, taking over public entities without Congressional debate. It’s really astounding what has happened.
So yes, back in the rat race.
I see you haven’t left? Way to stick with it.
Ciao
This Country is headed for disaster!
I don’t normally get involved unless something catches my eye on this site.
I normally scan the subjects only!
With all do respect to this site.
I will mention some names to see if you are the TAR I know,Margaret,Steve,Joe.
Well Joe I guess I am confused as to why they opened all these medical clinics around the world. They don’t keep them open for the ill when they are needed.These walk in clinics should be open 24/7 for the poor but instead when a methadone clinic opens they provide the hours needed for the drugs addicts to obtain their fix. I could go on and on.
I can remember driving by one at 5:30 a.m.watching cars pull in and out as if it were the drive through at a fast food restaurant.
It makes my stomach turn!
Please read this column by a black newspaper writer:
’45 Million Americans’ — Who Are Those Guys? Larry Elder
Thursday, June 18, 2009
About 45 million Americans lack health care insurance. Or do they?
A pro-“universal health care” television host recently cited this widely accepted “fact.” The number is bogus.
Here’s the skinny.
Start with the math. We have 300 million Americans. Subtract the 45 million — 15 percent of us — with no health insurance. That leaves 255 million Americans, or 85 percent, with it.
And the insurance is lousy, right? Not according to a 2006 ABC News/Kaiser Family Foundation/USA Today survey. It found that 89 percent of Americans were satisfied with the quality of their own health care.
Nearly half of the 45 million fall in the category of my 26-year-old nephew. He smokes cigarettes, dates, eats out, goes to movies and, like all young people, lives through his cell phone. With a slight change in priorities, he could afford health insurance, the cost of which at his age and health starts at about $100 a month. Take a look at a Reason Foundation video of interviews with a bunch of non-health-insured 20-somethings.
These Gen Xers copped to dropping money on clothes, booze, nightlife, the latest tech gizmos and other things of interest to them. With a change in priorities, these young folks — far more representative of those without insurance than the forlorn husband and wife sitting on a porch swing — could both afford and qualify for health insurance. They simply consider it a low priority.
Millions more can access health care — through SCHIP (State Children’s Health Insurance Program), Medicaid or other government programs. But for whatever reason, 11 million people simply refuse to take advantage of them.
Several million other Americans who want insurance do, indeed, go without it — for a time. Many are, however, between jobs, and most — at some point — will find employment that either offers health insurance or pays enough so that they can buy it. Millions more work at companies that offer health insurance, and for a few dollars out of every paycheck, they could add family members. They choose not to.
What about criminals without insurance? More than 2 million Americans — with access to health care, by the way — use jail, prison or penitentiary mailing addresses. And for every one behind bars, how many live among us who survive by theft, drug dealing, prostitution or some similar career path? Taxpayer health insurance for them, too?
So now we’re down to the Americans without health insurance on a persistent, long-term basis. This is approximately 10-15 million, a big number to be sure. But does this warrant a government takeover of the entire health care system?
Lacking health care insurance is not the same as lacking health care . By law, most emergency rooms must provide health care — to both legals and illegals. Yes, they stand in line, but no health insurance does not equal no health care.
Government (aka taxpayers) already pays half of our health care dollar, with programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP and other federal and state plans. The stated goals are accessibility and affordability. Congress passed Medicare in 1965. In the 20 years before the program’s inception, the cost of a day in a hospital increased threefold. In the 20 years following Medicare, a day in a hospital increased eightfold — substantially higher than inflation over that period. Because of cost controls on government plans, providers increased the cost on everybody else.
So here’s the question.
Do we allow a complete government takeover of the section of health care it doesn’t already run, for 10-15 million or so without health insurance on a persistent basis? Again, 255 million Americans already have it. Many millions more could get it if they wanted to. And 89 percent of Americans are satisfied with the care they now receive.
What to do? Unleash the free market. Allow greater competition among health care providers. Decrease costly regulations that increase the price tag. Enable consumers to purchase insurance plans across state lines. Allow non-government-licensed paraprofessionals and others — currently prevented by law from offering any medical services — to provide low-cost care.
What about poor care and negligence? We have laws against force and fraud, as well as a common-law duty of care. That’s why God created lawyers. (Just give us “loser pays.”)
What about those who cannot afford it? What about those with pre-existing illnesses whose insurance applications carriers turned down? What’s wrong with charity — people helping people? America remains the most generous nation on the face of the earth. We donate more of our time and money than countries like England, Germany and Japan. During the Great Depression, before the New Deal, charitable giving skyrocketed. After the New Deal, charitable giving continued, but not at nearly the same rate. People expected government to address the problem, and taxpayers felt they gave at the office.
We can provide such “universal” coverage at a “low cost” — through rationing. That means long lines, lower quality and less innovation for services that Americans currently take for granted.
Economists call it T.A.N.S.T.A.A.F.L. There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.
Please also read the following site from time-to-time: http://mises.org/
Bdda Bing! Yoiu hit the nail right on the head. The problem in my opinion though is that percentage that is spoken of where they have Insurance available to them cannot afford to make that small payment but as the article says hospitals.the taxpayer does not pick upm the tab! I beg to differ with this article on that.
Hospitals have come after me for $200 so the people that do visit the emergency room are not off the hook to pay.Uncle Sam WILL NOT come in and bailout those who cannot pay the hospital.Thye individuals sign form after form commiting themselves to make good on payment to the hospital PERIOD.
So to a certain degree this article has some truths but it certainly has some falses.