Who Do You Trust About Health Insurance Reform?

Amidst all the noise over health insurance reform, Vice President Joe Biden asks the important question, Who Do You Trust? Lori Heim, M.D., (President, American Academy of Family Physicians) and Rebecca Patton, MSN, RN, CNOR (President, American Nurses Association) explain why doctors and nurses are calling for reform. November 30, 2009 (Public Domain)

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[4eva5000]

@JayPhilosopher , i feel sorry for your wife :( im glad she can get better. but why couldnt you have health insurance?? anyway, what about the other people who will die, or not get the care they need? and, btw, just because they will 'cover' her, does not mean she will get the best care possible. i am sorry to say. at least at this moment, you could get ANY thing you wanted to treat her, even if you couldnt afford it. not so will the health care reform.

[JayPhilosopher]

@4eva5000 Actually, my wife has a precondition, a heart problem, so she have been without health care insurance for the past 4 years. Now, because of this bill, we will be able to get coverage for her. So the way I feel, President Obama and the Democrats who voted for this bill saved my wife's life. I owe them big time.

I reject all the nonsense that the Republican teabaggers say about the death panels because the insurance companies already sentenced my wife to die. This bill gives her life.

[4eva5000]

@JayPhilosopher , the way this reform is set up is to look good upon its surface. what they say on the television sounds good. but search in deeper, read INTO the bill. and look at how it will effect you. i honestly want you to do this, because only then will you see that this is not good. on thing they will do is figure the average lifespan of a person, and if you are older than that, they can decide to not give you the care you need to live.

[4eva5000]

@JayPhilosopher , the way this reform is set up is to look good upon its surface. what they say on the television sounds good. but search in deeper, read INTO the bill. and look at how it will effect you. i honestly want you to do this, because only then will you see that this is not good. on thing they will do is figure the average lifespan of a person, and if you are older than that, they can decide to not give you the care you need to live.

[JayPhilosopher]

@4eva5000 I am disappointed that the bill did not have a public option. Anything that gives the federal government some control over the greedy tyrannical insurance pirates is a positive move for the country. If this bill saves some of the 45,000 workers whom the insurance capitalists murder each year, it will be a good thing.

[4eva5000]

oh gosh. i told you i wasnt going to respond, but this is just rediculous. the health care reform is bad for the country. i cannot change your mind, but you will see soon.

[indiasucksalways]

Biden, you filthy sellout, Get your ugly mug off YT.

Times have changed the powers that be see all Americans as stupid - hence the mad power grab by morons like Biden and Nobama.

"We need a revolution every 20 years to keep the gov't honest".

-- Thomas Jefferson

[no1saphead]

Insurance companies are just a private taxation.With the POWER to DENY TREATMENT.

[JayPhilosopher]

Please cite where in the bill says that you have to pay the government to have your own health insurance. This sounds like one of the insane lies you hear repeatedly on billionaire Rupert Murdoch's Fox News channel. Murdoch, age 78, has 4 billion dollars and can afford the best medical care in the world for himself. He has a life long hatred of the poor and working class and has dedicated his life to misinforming, exploiting. and enslaving them. You should not repeat crazy lies from Fox News.

[4eva5000]

ok, this is the last time i am going to waste my time speaking to you. you can have other health insurance, BUT, you would have to pay the government to do so. and, you say it will save money? what about the money we are going to have to spend to actually GET the insurance? and yes, this health care is like socialized medicine. i DID not get that form any new show. i got that from my OWN assesment. have you read the health care bill?