Democrats' Healthcare Censorship Shows How Desperate They've Become

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Had a copay so high that you had to go on a payment plan with the hospital?
Lost coverage for a time when you switched jobs?
Had a claim denied?
Needed a specialist but insurance wouldn't cover it?
Needed a specialist but the referrals were impossible to get?
Had your premiums go up and level of care go down?
THIS is why there needs to be a public option for health insurance. It isn't socialized medicine. If you love your insurance, go ahead and keep paying for it so the CEO's can make $10,000,000 a year. But don't make everyone else "pay" because you think Rush, Beck, and the insurance lobby are your "friends."

Tim of MS 2:05PM August 06, 2009

I detect a whole host of anger that spills over into abuse towards government - The American people are generous and fun people by and large and I love them... I would love to see my uninsured friend given care if she goes down with a horrendous disease. I would also prefer that I did not have to carry the rest of the uninsured in society through my own insurance premium contributions! My brother is an executive in the health care industry, so I know a little bit about it..... don't imagine that we are not already having to pick up the shortfall! Start with the food chain? It is too much and too rich.... As for Government ..it is made up of men and women like you and I, they go to great extent to be elected to office, a thankless task, and they want to 'make a difference' Lets support all of their efforts, not trash our leaders - in general, its more productive to have discourse about these problems than to deplore democracy. As for cancer...there are many less destructive ways to both avoid and treat cancer which with any luck will be more available. Personal experience. Prevention is better than cure, and cure cannot be achieved with a simple pill from any doctor or government.. lets be cooperative, open the dialogue for a better way, no taking of sides, just all Americans?

Susanna Holt of AZ 2:00PM July 31, 2009

The problems facing our current health care system and the solutions proposed by the Democrats are extrodinarily complex and difficult to understand. But censorship is simple and easy to understand. So thanks, Congressional Democrats, for letting us know there are things you don't want us to know about your health care plan. We now know all we need to know.

Brad of TX 12:42PM July 28, 2009

There is no clause in the US Constitution authorizing federal government involvement in the healthcare industry. Congress critters and the president took an oath to follow the Constitution. Support for socialist healthcare violates that oath.

Bob Giramma of CA 10:26PM July 27, 2009

Why is Rahm Emanuel's brother on the White House staff when as a medical professional he believes in killing senior citizens instead of providing them care?
Is this why the Obamacare bill in the House calls for mandatory end-of-life counseling every five years for all seniors on Medicare? Plus with the 12 million of baby boomers who become Medicare beneficiaries in the next few years, Obamacare wants to reduce Medicare funding by $500 billion while adding 12 million people.
This can only mean rationing and withholding care from seniors while they die prematurely.
This not the CHANGE that was expected by the people who voted for Obama. He is not the same person who campaigned for office.

Ken of WI 6:49PM July 27, 2009

I KNOW ALL ABOUT NATIONAL HEALTHCARE! – IT’S A JOY!!!! And as a wealthy individual, I can vouch that it did not take away from our way of life in UK. Au contraire, it gave us freedom from fear, always! The government never decided whether or not we required a heart transplant, believe me, it was the doctor! We carried catastrophic insurance for serious injury, minimal expense, but for countless doctor visits such as cuts, stitches, accidents, mammograms, blood checks etc… it was superb. Not perfect, but isn’t occasional human failing inevitable as humans. And believe me, care was just as good if not better. Conversely, living in the States, always holding comprehensive insurance, at great cost, with high deductibles, I end up paying for every health check in addition. What kind of service is that? I’m slim and healthy. However, one hour in emergency with a simple back spasm from hiking cost me $2500. Placed on every conceivable machine in the ER, presumably to bring up hospital shortfalls to compensate for my friends without insurance! Bless their hearts and livers. What kind of justice is that! – America, please do yourselves a favor? Place a cap on lawsuits – if the doctor cuts off your pinky instead of your toe, you deserve compensation, but not multi millions. Save that money to see youngsters through medical school – we will have more good doctors. Another pitfall, if America insists on eating fast food, then lets encourage fast food chains that offer health-building alternatives. America, you deserve freedom!

Susanna Holt of AZ 4:12PM July 27, 2009

I KNOW ALL ABOUT NATIONAL HEALTHCARE! – IT’S A JOY!!!! And as a wealthy individual, I can vouch that it did not take away from our way of life in UK. Au contraire, it gave us freedom from fear, always! The government never decided whether or not we required a heart transplant, believe me, it was the doctor! We carried catastrophic insurance for serious injury, minimal expense, but for countless doctor visits such as cuts, stitches, accidents, mammograms, blood checks etc… it was superb. Not perfect, but isn’t occasional human failing inevitable as humans. And believe me, care was just as good if not better. Conversely, living in the States, always holding comprehensive insurance, at great cost, with high deductibles, I end up paying for every health check in addition. What kind of service is that? I’m slim and healthy. However, one hour in emergency with a simple back spasm from hiking cost me $2500. Placed on every conceivable machine in the ER, presumably to bring up hospital shortfalls to compensate for my friends without insurance! Bless their hearts and livers. What kind of justice is that! – America, please do yourselves a favor? Place a cap on lawsuits – if the doctor cuts off your pinky instead of your toe, you deserve compensation, but not multi millions. Save that money to see youngsters through medical school – we will have more good doctors. Another pitfall, if America insists on eating fast food, then lets encourage fast food chains that offer health-building alternatives. America, you deserve freedom!

Susanna Holt ARBS of AZ 4:12PM July 27, 2009

President Obama is correct in stating that the American People want a better health care system. This will not be achieved by rushing through an ill-conceived program that promises something for nothing. Free and open discussion is required as is a realization that the plan will cost lots of money and has to be paid for. If the democrats are correct, and large savings will be had by reducing the visits to the emergency rooms and better preventive care, then a bill should be fashioned that will adjust the required tax rates based on proven results. I have not heard this option discussed at all.

Ernest Freeman of MD 3:53PM July 27, 2009

....for your post, "A few reasons to say 'no' to the healthcare proposal. It's very well thought out and not once resorts to name calling. I wish more people could read it, so they would understand -- before it's too late -- what the Democrats' healthcare "reform" will really mean to them.

Angelina of NY 3:04PM July 27, 2009

This chart is probably all too real. It illustrates what happens when "smart" people try to replicate in government what exists better in free enterprise: complexity. The real markets in the real world have infinite complexity: you can buy, borrow, beg, barter, build, bequest, bill, and we're not even out of the "B"'s! Trying to "reform" health care, we would need to: (1) Cover the majority of normal, healthy people, (2) provide for the seriously ill who might need special care, (3) provide for those who cannot think rationally (mentally ill, comatose, drug-addicted, otherwise incompetent), (4) develop new drugs and treatments, (5) evaluate existing drugs and treatments, (6) weed out the grifters, grafters and those unqualified to practice medicine, (7) move needed resources from points of production to points of use, (8) prevent the unauthorized from abusing the system, and much much more.
Who among us thinks that government can do any of this better than the markets? Any government system or program is MUCH more complex than a private or market system to accomplish the same thing, and both cost and inefficiency rise exponentially as the complexity rises. It takes a dozen bureaucrats, a ton of tax dollars and years of time to do something as simple as pave a new stretch of road; can you even imagine what this "reform" of health care will take and cost?
From the movie "War Games", discussing global thermonuclear war simulations: "A most curious game ... the only way to win, is not to play." YES! Government health care reform, government interference in general, the only way to win is not to play.

James of UT 2:56PM July 27, 2009