Re: President Obama - Your Turn: Join the National Online Discussion on Health Care Reform

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[docger14]

Your system keeps decisions in the hands of insurers. How do you think insurers are motivated? Your system does nothing to thwart overuse of tests and procedures with creative coding on a fee for service level. Nothing to stem defensive medicine. Doctors profits are already regulated on all levels by fed, state and insured. Are Italy, France, Britain, Canada, Germany, Japan, etc all "Marxist" countries? Their residents all have longer lifespans than we do. And you are aiming for that as you say.

[ScarlettKnights]

docger14:

Most of the countries you mention are socialist or Marxist light. In re: to md profits; you are referring to MD's you take medicare and medicade?

Who do you think should set premium prices for insurance companies? Do you think the government should set salaries for anyone outside of the government?

My ideas would stimulate competition!

[docger14]

Scarlett, . I have been involved in health care for forty years in univ, military and community hospital settings

, been a patient and have a 97 year old Mother who has failed family care, home health aide care and is in a NH, having spent down all her funds and now being supported by Medicaid. Insurance agents led her to believe she had long term care insurance. She did not. We need CARE, not COVERAGE

My plan eliminates insurance. Direct provider-patient care. Signing off. We shall not agree

[ScarlettKnights]

Policies for those with pre existing conditions, on par with group policies, in other words also pooled into groups on par with group rates offered to companies and corps with the extra cost to the insurance companies reimbursed by the state.

[docger14]

Thank you, Ms Scarlett.

Re the questioning - OK before the election. No longer relevant unless you want to stagnate government with impeachment proceedings.

Re your plan -thank you for a positive proposal. Does nothing to eliminate huge insurance profits and overhead (30% vs 3%). Does little to provide care to the poor, underinsured or uninsured. Does nothing to eliminate parasites (billing, coding, provider fraud, insurance fraud and overtesting to avoid the lawyers.) I see no cost decrease

[ScarlettKnights]

Abolition of nursing homes except for extreme cases where home care is impossible in favor of home care where caregivers (whether family members are skilled care provided by private companies) are reimbursed by the state in lieu of the horrific cost of nursing home care and loss of life due to nursing home abuse and depression of the patients.

[docger14]

You want extra costs to insurance companies reimbursed by the State.. Why do insurance companies rate that favoritism? There are already Home Health Agencies that do what they can. Totally insufficient for a large number of seniors. I know that only too well -it is not theory. Patchwork remedies will not reduce the cost -simply shift it. Profit must not be a primary driver in healthcare. Our lives are too important.

If you would update your video to policy issues, it would help.

[peacebetty]

i agree with you. communism is not synonymous to socialism; those who are against socialized medicine have either enough money for insurance or have been lucky enough to have never run into any level of illness themselves (as soon as they did, however, they'd be socialized health care's greatest advocate); and i too living in canada pay much, MUCH less money per year while also receiving excellent health care as well as the security in knowing that my ass is always covered.

[1170bxl]

Egocentric? I am confronting you about the fact that you randomly and blatantly yell socialism this and marxism that.

it is egocentric to believe that you know about everything and are dead sure socialist policies would make us all evil communists.

Of course they are my comments I MADE THEM. God, you must have gotten your PS degree from a cereal box.

There is also a difference between socialism and marxism. Universal healthcare does not mean we send people to labor camps.

Grow up

[peacebetty]

ignorance.

[sdliger]

im sorry, but the pres is such a wuss that he would never join anything that would allow regular people to talk to him...

[silverpurkat]

Depends on the self employed specially if you have a heart for your employees and you are not in the 500 club or even the 50k club either. It's the ones who don't that don't have a problem with this system as it is now.

[silverpurkat]

I have been thinking for years to become a Canadian and live there especially after this year of stupid nonsense reasons not to have a health care for all. If they don't do something by November and there's no improvement than I will see you all soon, AH :)

[silverpurkat]

I agree to that, I have a surgery gone wrong and it wasn't life threaten or disability. I didn't sue my doctor because it is was unexpected and not personal. He's a good man and a great doctor why would I want to screw up my relationship with him! I agree with this statement and yes it's one of the reasons the premiums are going up too.

[silverpurkat]

You're not a business owner are you? You are clueless. You have no idea how much insurance cost to cover each employee and their families. Yet again this year in my state it's going to jump another 24%. We have to let go people to keep ahead or make them pay their own insurance. So when youre sick with cancer is it still not a right to you? and if you survive go luck finding a plan cheap enough for you to live on. 64% jobs in US are small business with terrible insurance plans. Think about it!

[markymcclellan]

I am self employed- for 20 years now- and I have been getting reamed by the insurance companies ( legalized gambling with YOUR money) for over 20 years cause my previous employer didn't have health insurance either. I feel I should have the health care as the people in Congress cause I PAY THEIR SALARIES!!!!!!!- YOU TOO NUMBNUTS!- "Do your work son" is a degrading statement to most of the hard working people in the US that DO work hard and all their money goes to is the Pentagon.

[imabigmonkey]

You liberals are missing one major concept. Health insurance is not a RIGHT, it is a BENEFIT. If you have a decent job, it probably has HEALTH INSURANCE benefits. If you do not have a job, or a job without health insurance, get a job, or a better job with benefits. Saying that its wrong for a rich person to have better healthcare than a poor person is like saying poor should have the same house or car as a rich person. Do work son. If you want better stuff, work hard and earn it.

[dmbfan07cb]

our health care if fine. we need to do something about the American lifestyle, obesity, smoking etc. if someone has an illness related to smoking or being a glutton then why should they be treated for free.

[Hydron27]

I got a plan for lower health care prices. STOP SUEING THE DOCTORS FOR STUPID SHIT! There. Its true the doctors run tests on people that are not nessisary cause if they dont and it just so happens that they should of they get sued. So in order not to get sued the run all sorts of tests to save there own ass from being sued. So make it to where you cant sue the hospitl or doctors for stupid shit. I can understand some situations but not the petty shit.