Comments on: Maybe the noise is getting to me.

By: Charles the Hammer

Charles the Hammer — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:54:05 +0000

turf girl is absolutely correct”…The problem is having insurance companies sit in the middle of the medical transaction.” we can compound that factor by having the Federal government join the insurance companies in the middle of what should be a buyer/seller transaction. The misguided regulations already in place skew the price: anti-trust exemption that blocks interstate price competition among insurers; favorable laws for tort attorneys; medicare price floors and ceilings; and the notion that a third party other than the consumer should pay the tab. Returning to the agricultural analogy, such restraints on the market price results in truck loads of milk being dumped into the street.

By: OLD TIMER

OLD TIMER — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:39:53 +0000

The scariest sentence ever spoken is:
“I’m from the federal government and I am here to help”

By: Anon

Anon — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:00:12 +0000

Rose and Mikey agree on something!

By: turfgrrl

turfgrrl — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:48:43 +0000

Healthcare Improvement Advocate: Not me who posted it, thank Chris Mc.

By: turfgrrl

turfgrrl — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:48:00 +0000

fed up: Frivolous law suits are not the problem. Medical practitioners are paid by the procedure/percription, not the illness and not the cure. So if you want to see medical costs go down force treatment to be priced by the hour, posted in advance and let the consumer decide. Just like plastic surgery and lasik eye surgery is competitively priced, so should everything else be. The problem is having insurance companies sit in the middle of the medical transaction.

By: Healt Improbement Realist

Healt Improbement Realist — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:30:53 +0000

As for “governement helping the average citizen”– the “Great Society”was a 6 Trillion dollar government FAILURE.

By: Secondhand Rose

Secondhand Rose — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:12:29 +0000

Well, see, that’s part of the problem! I’m not unhappy at all with the health care I currently have. I’m not paying a penny for it, and during this past year as I dealt with breast cancer, which included 4 surgical biopsies, 3 surgeries, chemo, a bone scan, 2 MRIs, several echocardiograms, 2 ultrasounds, a dozen mammograms, and 35 straight days of radiation, I have not seen one single, solitary bill from anybody – other than my prescription and office visit co-pays. And at only $15 a visit or per prescription, you are not going to hear me complaining one iota about it either.

But according to what I’ve been reading and hearing, if the government health care plan goes through, after they get through monkeying around with my current health benefits, I will be far more worse off next year than I am right now. And to say I’m concerned is putting it lightly.

By: I want answers

I want answers — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:38:45 +0000

First of all.. FEDUP: 100% agree!

For those that do have health, are you really unhappy with the services provided? I for one am not. What doesn’t cost money now? I don’t get how no one balks at paying outlandish taxes, when the US Gov’t gives away billions to a bunch of Wall st crooks, CROOKS! the way we do about health care costs. Who feels comfortable having the US Government run anything!? I mean, who can answer that with confidence? How’s Medicare doing? How’s Fannie & Freddie? How about the wars we are fighting? Can we really trust these bunch of schmucks to get anything right? Wake up people…..
I WANT ANSWERS!

Here’s something to ponder….. Nancy Pelosi vs. Sarah Palin. I ask you: What’s the difference?? ……… ……… …….. …….. RED LIPSTICK.

By: fed up

fed up — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:17:06 +0000

You want to improve healthcare ?
Eliminate all the frivolous lawsuits and the incentive to practice defensive medicine for fear of lawsuits.
Cut the enrollments in law schools-TORT REFORM NOW.

By: Healthcare Improvement Advocate

Healthcare Improvement Advocate — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:01:55 +0000

TG-thanks for pointing out this excellent article, especially since it’s an indictment of the Republican party standing in the way of governement helping the average citizen in agricutlture as well as heathcare reform. Dr. Atul Gawande’s research on healthcare costs comparing 2 practices in Texas was very enlightening also. The Democrats have plans for cutting costs in healthcare, Mr. Gawande points out several demonstration programs in the reform bill. The Republicans’ attempts to block the bill without offering any alternatives seems fairly self-destructive to all of us.