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August 26th, 2009 at 10:02 am
Lynne, wonderfully said.
August 26th, 2009 at 10:32 am
August 26th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
For anyone to argue that we don’t need health care reform is laughable. But much like my philosphy on energy- ALL options must be on the table. I can’t see the clip (work filters) but much like everything in life the extreme on both sides are wrong on this one. I can only hope that whatever is passed in the house and senate (because make no mistake about it something will be passed) that it doesn’t drive us further into the red. I think I’m looking for a miracle on that one though.
August 26th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
Excuse me, I must inject some reality checking here. A public option is not an “extreme” proposal.
The VA is public option (actually, it’s fully gov-run). Medicare and Medicaid are public options. We already have it. This is just extending it to the millions of Americans who can’t afford the exorbitant prices from the private insurance industry.
If you want to screw up reform, let’s have our taxpayer money going to subsidize that industry. Right. That’s sane.
But that’s the choice you have before you. Right now. Either we 1) extend a Medicare system to include anyone who wants it, or 2) subsidize the twice-higher cost of those people who can’t afford it getting private insurance.
So it’s 1) insure people and save money, or 2) insure people and waste money on some profit margin of ridiculous.
No one is gonna take your binkie away if you want to keep your expensive private insurance. But good luck paying for it. I’ll take the higher-quality, lower cost public option thanks.
It’s knee-jerk to say that just because the public option is public, then it MUST be wrong or costly. The fact is, you are wrong.
August 26th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
I love talking to you about this stuff Lynne, you’re so sane. I wish you came on CAP a little more then you did when we were scheduled together I think we might have had some fun. Anyone who differs from my opinion is automatically wrong. Way to put words into my mouth though- you don’t even know what I think and you went all defcon 6 on me. Where did I say the public option is extreme? Please tell me?
August 26th, 2009 at 3:38 pm
Well, actually, I suppose it’s the general talking points like “public option is socialism!” and “government can’t do anything especially health care!” bull I’m reacting to. Distortions and lies. I get sick of hearing them. You sort of sounded like them.
But you are wrong about stating that the left version of this is extreme. What else but a public option would you be talking about? That’s the furthest “left” of the proposals that are on the table realistically. So either you are talking about something less left-leaning (no public option for instance) as the “extreme view” which makes no sense, or you don’t know what’s being talked about as potential proposals, which I doubt.
Even single payer isn’t really extreme. My conservative pro-business friends in Canada are for keeping their single payer government insurance system. A lot of the rest of the world has single payer or variations on it. Come on. If we’re going to debate, at least don’t use hyperbole. And if you want to be taken clearly, you have to be clearer in your comments, then. Because what else was I supposed to assume you mean? I’m a mind reader? You’re conservative. I assume unless you state otherwise you hold conservative views.
August 26th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
With Republican strategist Sarah Palin - bet you never thought those words would appear in order - and her cronies forming the new rock band ‘Death Cab for Grannies’ what could pass for intelligent discussion and policy formation on this huge problem, one that if not fixed, will slow any long-term economy recovery, appears to have exited stage right.
August 26th, 2009 at 10:26 pm
Who knew Senator Douchy McDoucherson could be such a…jerk.
Seriously though, no wonder Republicans think the government is so ineffecient. They think everybody with a problem has to attend a town hall meeting, ask a question, hope the senator offers personal assistance, then show up at the senators office. And that’s just for starters.
August 27th, 2009 at 10:47 am
Contrary to Blind Massachusetts Group Think, Ted was wring on every major issue. He never knew a tax increase he did not like. He never knew a federal power grab he did not like. He loved “green energy” as long as it did not obstruct the view from the compound.
The government created the health care “crisis” and now the left thinks the government can solve it? What are you smoking?
Nearly %500 is spent every year in defensive medicine. Tests and procedures ordered that may be of limited medical benefit but deemed necessary to avoid a law suit.
Do any of you actually believe that a national health care plan will ever affect people like the Kennedy family? It will not. The wealthy and power elite will always have there own separate system.
The difference is that at least under the current system, when an insurance company says they won’t pay for something, you can still seek that treatment if you have another way to pay for it. Under the proposed reforms, the government will decide what treatments you can have whether you can pay out of pocket or not.
It is nice to fantasize about utopia but the reality is that every nation with single payer health care has death panels. They just don’t call them death panels.
Nearly all of BO’s health care related appointees support rationing and withholding treatment from the disabled, including children with Down syndrome and elders with dementia. You can say that “rationing is not in the bill” and be technically accurate. But in doing so you ignore the fact that every proposal leaves the details to appointed committees whose members are not accountable to voters. Y’all need to read the books authored by Tom Daschle and Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel. These guys are the owns that will be guiding the regulators and writing the rules for what doctors will be allowed to do.
Oregon already treats suicide as a cancer treatment “option.” Do you really think that won’t become national?
August 27th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
“Nearly all of BO’s health care related appointees support rationing and withholding treatment from the disabled, including children with Down syndrome and elders with dementia.”
Excuse me if I don’t take your word for it.
“…leaves the details to appointed committees whose members are not accountable to voters.”
The committee in question is MedPAC and it was a GOP creation in the 90s. The intent was to get real technocrats to look at the cost problems of Medicare. Problem is, the political process screws up any chance of implementation. The plan is to fast track MedPAC recommendations and require a joint resolution to stop them.
Already debunked your BS about Emanuel.
August 28th, 2009 at 10:13 am
The government created the health care “crisis” and now the left thinks the government can solve it? What are you smoking?
Nearly %500 is spent every year in defensive medicine. Tests and procedures ordered that may be of limited medical benefit but deemed necessary to avoid a law suit.
And the fact that this is not a problem in any country that has a government-run health care system, but only in our for-profit system, suggests…what to you?
The difference is that at least under the current system, when an insurance company says they won’t pay for something, you can still seek that treatment if you have another way to pay for it.
Excuse me, sir, is this your elephant? I found him in my living room.
Nearly all of BO’s health care related appointees support rationing and withholding treatment from the disabled, including children with Down syndrome and elders with dementia.
This is lie. A grotesque lie. A lie that makes one question the decency or sanity of the person who tells it.
Y’all need to read the books authored by Tom Daschle and Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel.
Like you’ve ever read a book by Ezekiel Emmanuel. No, tightly-cropped excerpts that you don’t understand, but have explained to you by Michelle Malkin, don’t count.