Comments on: Obama Healthcare Plans Unlikely to Get Much Traction

By: Leshawn Thomas

Leshawn Thomas — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:58:07 +0000

According to a recent poll, only eighty-two percent of Democrats would re-elect Obama if they could vote today. They voted for hope and ended up with change.

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Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:04:23 +0000

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By: henry

henry — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:38:46 +0000

Melanie,
I gather you work for a pharmaceutical or an insurance company. The only intelligent people who are happy with our present system work for one or the other. The rest of us are “screwed” on a daily basis to the tune of billions of dollars a year and are either too dumb to realize it or wondering where we went wrong. I am not happy with the idea of the government having to intervene in health care, but the same self destructive greed that brought us to our knees with the latest financial crisis is operating within the health care system. I have to work with predatory insurance companies on a daily basis and they exert far more control over people’s lives than what the government is proposing. All in the name of free enterprise of course.

By: Melanie Stephan

Melanie Stephan — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:47:57 +0000

The Obama Morning After Pill is going to prove in-effective after Barack screws America over on his Socialist Health Care Plan.

When America wakes up the day after they are going to be sorry they ever let him in their bedroom and/or voted for him.

A Pill can’t cure the problems America will be in if his Bill Passes.

By: JR

JR — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 16:53:44 +0000

Living in the UK, I can say our system is far from perfect. Some hospitals have truly third world standards of care, especially if you are elderly. On the other hand our local care from our own doctor’s surgery is generally good. Would not swap for the US system but other European countries e.g France are known to be much better

By: Viola

Viola — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:19:54 +0000

alternative medicine.. uhmmm… sounds good, but… that’s a business too (with even less scrutiny). well, let’s not get into this disussion.

By: Gianna

Gianna — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:16:33 +0000

given I hate western medicine and the only time I would use insurance at this point in my life is in the event of a catastrophic accident I sure as heck don’t want to pay for something I won’t use.

the medical care I choose is all alternative and insurance, unless it changes drastically, will not cover virtually anything…

so I feel very different about this now then I did even 5 years ago when I actually had some faith in western medicine.

By: Doug Bremner

Doug Bremner — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:33:53 +0000

Yes, we pay twice as much as any European country and the only one that has worse outcomes is, oddly, Germany. Yes it is an absurd infatuation with capitalism and over influence of special interests which doesn’t make sense for them to say that you shouldn’t be able to negotiate prices.

By: Viola

Viola — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:22:57 +0000

When I was at the National Forum meeting last week I heard an illuminating talk from a writer who has gone around the world comparing different health care systems. Did you know that the UK, with their despicable health care system run by the government (AKA socialized medicine), have overheads <5% on their health care, while the US has 25%? And did you know that France has a insurance-based system, but overheads are still much lower (and overall healthcare costs) than the US? How is it possible? There is a little detail: France’s health care insurance companies are non-profit. Also, as in the case of UK (and many other countries), the system is centrally regulated, which adds efficiency. Until we take the for-profit enterprises out of health care, we will never solve this mess. Many other countries have understood this. Is a never-ending infatuation with capitalism that makes the US so retarded?