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I would like to see Well Care available for all U.S. citizens at a reasonable cost. This should either be required of all insurance companies in the U.S. or a government program should be available. Especially those with birth defects that disqualify them from private health plans.
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"Universal healthcare" is not about helping people. Senator Kennedy's version of health reform, ironically named Affordable Health Choices Act (people like Teddy "Mary Jo Kopechne" Kennedy knows that with a good marketing name, any garbage can be sold), is predicted to cost $1 trillion dollars over 10 years but insure only one-third of the people who lack health insurance. That's a cost to the taxpayer of $62,500 per newly insured person or $250,000 for a family of four. Amazingly, despite its lavish cost the Kennedy Plan would nevertheless leave 36 million Americans without health insurance after ten years.
Who is UH designed to really help? We must ask the following question:
Who's funding the Obamacare campaign?
If you believe the White House, there are 30 million Americans who support a government healthcare takeover. But if you look at the funding behind the Obamacare campaign, it's the same few leftist billionaires, union bosses and partisan community organizers pushing the socialized medicine agenda. Let's connect the dots.
On Thursday, a national "grassroots" coalition called Health Care for America Now (HCAN) will march on Capitol Hill to demand universal healthcare. The ground troops won't have to march very far. HCAN, you see, is no heartland network. It is headquartered at 1825 K Street in Washington, DC -- smack dab in the middle of Beltway lobby land.
In fact, 1825 K Street is Ground Zero for a plethora of "progressive" groups subsidized by anti-war, anti-Republican, Big Nanny special interests. Around Washington, the office complex is known as "The Other K Street." The Washington Post noted in 2007 that "its most prominent tenants form an abbreviated who's who of well-funded allies of the Democratic Party....Big money from unions such as the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, as well as the Internet-fueled MoveOn, has provided groups like those at 1825 K Street the wherewithal to mount huge campaigns."
MoveOn, of course, is the recreational political vehicle of radical liberal sugar daddy George Soros. The magnate's financial fingerprints are all over the HCAN coalition, which includes MoveOn, the action fund of the Center for American Progress (a Soros think tank), and the Campaign for America's Future (a pro-welfare state lobbying outfit).
HCAN has a $40 million budget, with $10 million pitched in by The Atlantic Philanthropies -- a Bermuda-based organization fronted by Soros acolyte Gara LaMarche. Also in the money mix: notorious Democratic donors Herb and Marion Sandler, the left-wing moguls who made billions selling subprime mortgages and helped Soros fund his vast network of left-wing activist satellites. By their side is billionaire Peter Lewis of Progressive Insurance, whose "Progressive Future" youth group has dispatched clueless volunteers armed with clipboards and literature bashing Rush Limbaugh and Fox News to scare up support for Obamacare.
And two more left-wing heavyweights are joining the HCAN parade: the corruption-plagued SEIU (which has battled numerous embezzlement scandals among its chapters across the country while crusading for consumer and patients' rights), and Obama's old chums at fraud-riddled ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
ACORN and HCAN are linked by left-wing philanthropist Drummond Pike, who heads the nonprofit Tides Foundation/Tides Center. As the tax disclaimer for HCAN discloses, "HCAN is related to Health Care for America Education Fund, a project of The Tides Center, a section 501(c)(3) public charity." For decades, the Tides Center and its parent organization, the Tides Foundation, have seeded some of the country's most radical activist groups of the left, including the communist-friendly United for Peace and Justice, the jihadist-friendly National Lawyers Guild and the grievance-mongering Council on American-Islamic Relations.
Pike is the same philanthropist who assisted ACORN founder Wade Rathke after his brother, Dale, was caught embezzling nearly $1 million from the group. Wade Rathke sits on the Tides Foundation board of directors. In a conspiracy to cover up Dale Rathke's massive theft of funds, Pike volunteered to buy a promissory note worth $800,000 to cover the debt. These are the populist do-gooders supposedly looking out for you and your health.
Why do they want Obamacare? An internal ACORN memo I obtained from August 2008 makes the motives clear: "Over our 38 years, health care organizing has never been a major focus either nationally or locally for ACORN," wrote ACORN Philadelphia regional director Craig Robbins. "But increasingly, ACORN offices around the country are doing work on health care." The goal: "Building ACORN Power."
The memo outlines the ACORN/HCAN partnership and their strategy of opposing any programs that rely on "unregulated private insurance" -- and then parlaying political victory on government-run healthcare "to move our ACORN agenda (or at least part of it) with key electeds that we might otherwise not be able to pull off."
The objective, in other words, is to piggyback and exploit Obamacare to improve and protect their political health. The "grassroots" movement is not about representing Main Street. It's about peddling influence and power at 1825 K Street.
This is very idealistic. The Universal Health Plan is going to make everyone suffer. The people who work hard for their money and have to spend it on those who don't and everyone will have below par care. It's a socialistic program.
THIS IS A STATE ISSUE NOT A FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ISSUE!!!!
in the uk where they have socialist medicine like obama wants to bring here you cant get heart surgery if you are in your 50's
i guess you are not economically viable.
Don't know about other major cities, but in Dallas there is no one laying in the streets dying or long lines of people on stretchers, wheelchairs or crawling in long lines waiting to get Medical help. In short, there....is....no....emergency !!!!!
Gawd, the way the Messiah and his minions present it is that we are a nation of the most sickly creatures ever to live on planet earth.
The real truth is, sure, there is a segment of the population that cannot afford insurance, and, they need and deserve help. There are others who can afford it and choose not to purchase it. Others are invincible and in their late teens and twenties. Who needs healthcare at that age???? Remember yourself or your friends then?? Elders have Medicare. Illegal aliens are a substantial number that are lumped in with the overall and who and the hell wants to cover them???
Anyway, one way to curb some of the E.R. costs where some abuse the system is to set into practice the same standards that Attorneys are subjected to, and that is, pro bono Medical services at "Doc in the Boxes" for example and that would take care of a large segment of the un-insured.
The upshot is that anyone who is genuinely in need of help should get it. Otherwise, insuring for the sake of insuring is a total waste of the taxpayers money.
If you think Canada's system is great and the Veteran's Administration should be the ultimate model for our Health Care System, with the Messiah and his minions running it.... add another Czar or two, then, take a closer look at these two and then think again.
I say leave our health care system alone. Let the state governments set up a welfare type health system which is minimal and for emergency use only aimed only at the needy. Have them set up qualifications (like unemployment, homelessness, or senior care).
National Socialism for special groups is just theft from those that do the work. Medical for all just means expense of the healthy.
Not So Much ,,
During the campaign and throughout the ongoing health care “reform” debate, President Obama has made a promise to the American people – one that he repeated in a speech to a convention of the American Medical Association last week: “No matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people. If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.”
Now that the Democrats’ health care plan has been brought into greater focus, that promise doesn’t stand up to scrutiny. A Lewin Group study confirms that under a new government-run health plan more than 100 million Americans may lose their current health care coverage and be forced onto government rolls. Last week, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office reported that 23 million Americans would lose their current plans if a Senate Democratic health care “reform” bill was enacted. As a result, the White House began to walk back from its promise, with the Associated Press reporting, “White House officials suggest the president’s rhetoric shouldn’t be taken literally.” At his news conference yesterday, the President continued the reversal, answering a question about the promise with some rather tortured language:
JAKE TAPPER, ABC NEWS: “I’m sorry, but what about keeping your promise to the American people that they won’t have to change plans even if employers –“
THE PRESIDENT: “Well, no, no, I mean – when I say if you have your plan and you like it and your doctor has a plan, or you have a doctor and you like your doctor that you don’t have to change plans, what I’m saying is the government is not going to make you change plans under health reform.”
In an interview today on Good Morning America, the backtracking continued, with the President telling ABC’s Diane Sawyer, “I can’t pass a law that says, ‘I’m sorry, employers, you can never make changes to the health care plans that you provide your employees.’” In other words, the Administration has gone from “If you like your plan, you get to keep it” to “Well, we really can’t promise much of anything.” That’s “change” alright – but not exactly the type of change Americans were hoping for during this new era in Washington.
The reason this broken promise is especially painful for the Administration is because it underscores just the real fear Americans have about a government takeover of health care. Today’s Washington Post reports:
“Part of the reason so many are nervous about future changes is a fear they may lose what they currently have. More than eight in 10 said they are satisfied with the quality of care they now receive and relatively content with their own current expenses, and worry about future rising costs cuts across party lines and is amplified in the weak economy.”
No wonder Washington Democrats are doing anything and everything they can to NOT answer questions about how and why tens of millions of Americans will lose their current plan under Democratic versions of health care “reform.”
I am not adovacating free health care, I am saying WELL CARE should be available to EVERYONE, currently that is NOT the case. I think the cost of well care programs should be reasonably priced by everyone. Including private insurers. I'm not saying it should be free.
Well I know nothing is free.
What could be done to create "reasonable cost" without taking from another?
What is "reasonable cost"?
I myself have a disease from birth. I have an broken immune system that makes my skin itch all the time. My body is %5+ scabs. Insurance will happily cover me, but that's because no cure exists. They might cover 20-35% of a drug that reduces my immune system. $80 becomes $60 for $100 a month. I have not had a job that provided insurance for 7+ years, and I can't afford it. The last thing I want is government involvment, because in the last 30 years they have done nothing to pay for my medication while wasting my money on medicare, medicaid, and social security and other National Socialist redistribution.
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