Obama Administration: GOP Using Scare Tactics on Healthcare

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Since most people don't know what they will get sick from while they are still well most health insurance purchases are guessing games for everyone outside the insurance elite that is making BIG BIG BIG money upon the quasimedical guessing games
that people do because they are afraid of being sick and broke.
Real healthcare would pay clinics,doctors,hospitals,or whoever else for the kinds of care that people actually receive.
Since extant patient records already show who got what care
adding the actual cost of care is not very difficult.
What IS difficult is subtracting all those BIG BIG BIG bills
labeled as "health insurance premiums" and squandered upon hypothetical future "care" for all the diseases people thought that they "might" get...and did not.
Such subtractions would threaten enormous (and enormously unethical) piles of profits by private insurance agencies.
No wonder they fight.And fight. And fight.
Among other things these profiteers claim that GOVERNMENT payments for health care will "deny people choice."
That story will become untrue if prospective government paymasters are not instructed to dictate anyone's choice:
if they are spared such directives they can permit people to choose their own medical providers:
AND to insure that the providers are paid.
With no more vile "patient dumping" when people can't pay.
With no more guessing games.
That would be REAL healthcare.
And that is what we need.
Look to the countries where people live longer
Than they do in this country:
Twenty-eight countries do better than here.
Twenty-eight countries.
All poorer than this one.
I want REAL healthcare.
I want it right here.

Louise Esther Rothstein of OH 6:53PM September 01, 2009

The health care reform is desperately and urgently needed: 47 millions are without any insurance, USA on 29th place in infant mortality (6.5 pro mill, Japan, Singapore and Sweden under 3!} childhood immunizations are worse than in Botswana, longevity is behind many other nations. Tinkering with marginal issues won't do, the for profit insurance companies will manipulate and water it down. The only solution is an insurance system run by the federal gpvernment that provides first to the 47 million uninsured and will be awailable for anybody who choses it. Since the present for profit providers have a 20 to 30% overhead (providing well for their sharholders and giving millions of bonuses for theor CEOs) and the federal run medicare has an overhead of about 3%. The savings of the government run insurance would lower the premiums and provide a beneficial competition to the present insurance companies who practicaly a monopoly on healthe care. Of course they rare using all their resources to fight the Obama planed reforms, using out of context quotes like "death panels" to scare the uninformed and dumb masses.

Maria B. Tunner, MD of NM 7:24PM August 30, 2009

The health care reform is desperately and urgently needed: 47 millions are without any insurance, USA on 29th place in infant mortality (6.5 pro mill, Japan, Singapore and Sweden under 3!} childhood immunizations are worse than in Botswana, longevity is behind many other nations. Tinkering with marginal issues won't do, the for profit insurance companies will manipulate and water it down. The only solution is an insurance system run by the federal gpvernment that provides first to the 47 million uninsured and will be awailable for anybody who choses it. Since the present for profit providers have a 20 to 30% overhead (providing well for their sharholders and giving millions of bonuses for theor CEOs) and the federal run medicare has an overhead of about 3%. The savings of the government run insurance would lower the premiums and provide a beneficial competition to the present insurance companies who practicaly a monopoly on healthe care. Of course they rare using all their resources to fight the Obama planed reforms, using out of context quotes like "death panels" to scare the uninformed and dumb masses.

Maria B. Tunner, MD of NM 7:24PM August 30, 2009

The people need to wake up. Any kind of Government control isn't good. Our constitution says, "we the people" not we the government. Every time there is a plan for government takeover of anything puts them in control, taking away or rights set forth in our constitution. If they really want to help us, then why don't they just set a standard reasonable rate for an insurance premium or set it according to income. I do not want my freedom of choice taken away. This is exactly what will happen if you give them control. if they are successful with this, it just puts them one step closer to a New World Order, which is not what our forefathers designed in the beginning. I will never vote in favor of any such program. I do not believe this is to benefit "we the people".

w of GA 12:48PM August 27, 2009

I watched on TV with my own eyes and ears and the people there (PA, Senator Specter, am session)were not "sent" or "paid" or "made up" information. There were almost ten individual citizens that had downloaded "from the government website" the actual language in the bill in "black and white" and cited the proposed changes which were more than just about healthcare reform. The specific citings are very troublesome to America as we know it with democracy and freedom blended in with the new proposed healthcare reform. This is what some very smart, informed, dedicated American citizens are opposed to. They are not about "fear mongering" and against any and all change. The press is glazing over serious issues in the bill with words of "angry mobs","fear mongering", "false accusations", etc.
Suggestion to all Americans...download the proposed healthcare reform and READ IT ALL FOR YOURSELVES AND SEE IF THERE AREN'T SOME CITINGS IN THE BILL THAT 'NEED TO BE REMOVED'.
LET'S MAKE THE RIGHT, HELPFUL CHANGES AND NOT TRANSFORM DEMOCRACY INTO SOCIALISM.

D. Bradshaw of NJ 1:41PM August 17, 2009

It would be very interesting to see one of our Statesman present a bill that would require Congress and Senators to use the same system for health care, Medicare and Social Security as the working citizen. Also, take away their windfall retirement pensions over one million dollars and put it back into the budget and use the same Medicare and Social Security program that we use. They are out of touch with the average American worker and their needs. Get back to being a servant of the people and not the master.

Sidney Potter of TN 2:44AM August 17, 2009

This nation (USA) has been in the War to Long.

Freddie Fitch of TX 5:43AM August 14, 2009

"Thursday, August 13, 2009
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows that 29% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-seven percent (37%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -8 (see trends).
Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter is feeling the heat of the health care debate. He now trails Republican Pat Toomey by double digits in an early look at the potential 2010 race. Two months ago, Specter led by double digits. Most Pennsylvania voters oppose the Congressional health care reform effort. Also, Specter’s lead is shrinking in his Democratic Primary match-up with Congressman Joe Sestak.
The Presidential Approval Index is calculated by subtracting the number who Strongly Disapprove from the number who Strongly Approve. It is updated daily at 9:30 a.m. Eastern (sign up for free daily e-mail update). Updates also available on Twitter.
Overall, 47% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President's performance. That’s the lowest level of total approval yet recorded. The President’s ratings first fell below 50% just a few weeks ago on July 25. Fifty-two percent (52%) now disapprove.
Seventy-seven percent (77%) of Republicans disapprove along with 65% of those not affiliated with either party. Seventy-eight percent (78%) of Democrats offer their approval. Most women (51%) offer their approval while most men (56%) disapprove. For more measures of the President's performance, see Obama By the Numbers and recent demographic highlights from the tracking polls.
Later today, Rasmussen Reports will release new data on which party voters trust when it comes to health care. Premium Members can get an advance look at the data.
Nationally, support for the health care reform plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats has fallen to a new low. Just 42% favor the plan while 53% are opposed. Other data shows that 51% fear the federal government more than private insurance companies. Forty-one percent (41%) fear the insurance companies more. Overall, 32% favor a single-payer health care system for the U.S. while 57% are opposed."
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll

Barry of CA 3:22PM August 13, 2009

1) This White House video lying about the following videos of Obama:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fubrjxYMzeM
2) This video Linda Douglass was lying about in the White House video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-bY92mcOdk
3) And this video (uncut) of Obama, putting the lie to Linda Douglass:
http://www.breitbart.tv/obama-in-03-id-like-to-see-a-single-payer-health-care-plan/

Barry of CA 3:16PM August 13, 2009

"Top White House aides gave Senate Democrats a recess battle plan on Thursday, arming the lawmakers with tips for avoiding disastrous town hall meetings while showing them polling on popular aspects of the reform effort.
Senior White House adviser David Axelrod and deputy chief of staff Jim Messina told senators to focus on the insured . . .
“If you get hit, we will punch back twice as hard,” Messina said, according to an official who attended the meeting."
Does this remind you of 'The Untouchables’?
"They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way!"
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0809/25891.html
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094226/quotes

Barry of CA 3:15PM August 13, 2009