Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:00:10 -0400
...needs to point out that it would be "too disruptive." ONLY to the profiteers and parasites in Big Ins/Pharma......not to the rest of us. We'd we just fine, thank you. But the Media continues to spout conservative propaganda ...not to mention our political "leaders".....in quotes because not a one of them.... can....actually....lead.
Go along...get along....protect the status quo.... and continue to stuff their pockets with ill gotten gains.
They disgust me.
I can't believe that we are still fighting the same fights as when the Reps were in power.
Nothing has changed!
"Misogyny,..is bullet-proof. It’s not merely tolerated, it’s openly celebrated ...Except for a puny consortium of bruised and contused blamers ...even the victims of this oppression embrace it."
I just read an article yesterday about a cancer treatment that might extend life for about a month. The view of the article is that such treatments are too costly at the end of life to be covered by insurance. They seem to be arguing for many of the treatments done in the last months of life for many people to be looked at, since they are the biggest cost to our health care system, or so says the article.
My father was a case in point. After Mom died, I think primarily the taxpayers paid over $300,000 in Medicare payments over the next four years. He was sick, didn't do anything, and Mom was already gone. "My" father had been gone for years, the one I grew up with. It was pure maintenance to keep him alive. I wondered to myself, to what purpose? The only answer I have for that question was that he did live long enough to be ready to die. When he went into the hospital for the last time, he told us to make sure they had his living will and he would refuse the respirator. He had always opted for the respirator before.
Stan Davis
Lakewood, CO
Wes Clark: "We're no better than our own sense of humility."
"Misogyny,..is bullet-proof. It’s not merely tolerated, it’s openly celebrated ...Except for a puny consortium of bruised and contused blamers ...even the victims of this oppression embrace it."
At his health care townhall just now, President Obama was talking about a "health care exchange," where people could shop for and compare various private plans, which would also include a public plan. He added that the various plans would describe the benefits of the plans and the costs of selecting the plans. No one would be denied, he said, based on pre-existing conditions.
Fine. But what it says to me is that an array of plans with different benefits means that some treatments would be paid while other treatments would not. I would hope that the public option would be more inclusive in the treatments included than the private plans.
But the problem is that the people can't predict or choose what illnesses they might suffer. "I think I'll not get XYZ since it's not covered in my plan." Sorry, it doesn't work that way.
The correct treatment for whatever might befall us should not be a function of whether or not our plans include that treatment. All treatments should be included, by law.
Which leads to: If all the plans look more or less alike, why not just have one system that everyone understands?
I guess this is too simple and logical.
ADDENDUM: Obama just said that a single payer system would be "too disruptive." Exactly. What we need is a complete disruption of the lousy plans offered by the profiteers in the private health care insurance industry.
Stan Davis
Lakewood, CO
Wes Clark: "We're no better than our own sense of humility."