Obama pushes health care plan at town hall meeting

This week, President Obama continued to push his health care plan through a town hall meeting at a community college in Annandale, Virginia. He also hailed the U.S. military withdrawal from Iraqs cities as an important milestone. First Lady, Michelle Obama, joined the president to honor Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month with a reception at the White House.

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[dirtydesertdog]

now its fifty million?funny how that number keeps creeping up.

[CoIIegeguy]

*no matter how the doctor bill is payed. Socialized medicine will not change this. Just make waiting lists to see doctors much longer. Malpractise lawsuits should be curtailed so doctors dont feel so much pressure to refer patients to specialist so they will not be sued for not "trying hard enough."

[CoIIegeguy]

That does not prove your theory but it is sad she died. Liver failure is not uncommon in elderly people to begin with. If this woman had a lot of specialists as you say than I take it she had many things wrong with her. Toxicity due to medications is a possibility, but you do realize that the people who go in for treatment aren't exactly olympic athletes in perfect condition. There is only so much that doctors can do. And unforseen complications do happen, no how the doctor bill is payed.

[WinterHaven]

ONLY if the condition TRULY warrants a specialist-in most cases, doctors refer to specialist on conditions they themselves can treat - and many times it is due to milking medicare/medicaid that clinics encourage this practice. I know this to be true because I knew this one elderly lady who had so many specialists-EACH prescribing their own meds, she went into liver failure due to the toxicity of all of these drugs.

[CoIIegeguy]

So you would rather be treated by a general practice doctor than a specialist?

[CoIIegeguy]

I doubt any conservative would say I don't have a job because I am in the military.

[okayplayer82]

You don't have a job according to conservatives, since you work for the government.

[okayplayer82]

So you're blaiming doctors now?

[theninjaman87]

So, I have a proposal: If our health care is too convoluted, our tax code is worse! So, if Obama can start with fixing that, then he will have my full support on health care.

[satanic6ritual]

All these people in the medical industry are like a big mafia all the way down to the nurses. This bill is just another example of Obama's socialist network. Why don't they ever promote alternatives to drugs and nutrition. How many doctors talk about colon flushes? They are not healers.