Questions Remain Following President Obama’s Controversial Health Care Speech
On September 9th, President Obama gave an important speech to Americans asking for their support in improving the country’s health care system. No matter what your politics are, you know that our country’s approach to health care is in need of reform.
The cost of obtaining insurance has become outright exorbitant, and many citizens are forgoing essential medical care because it has become too expensive to see a doctor. The structure of our health care system is flawed, inefficient, and disorganized. You can read a transcript of President Obama’s speech here.
Top-Colleges believes that our great country’s hard-working doctors, nurses, medical technicians, and professionals, are not being represented fairly. The debate has become perverted into screaming matches over insurance, illegal aliens, and the so-called “death panels”. Top-Colleges would like to make a few simple points and ask a few questions about health care.
When medical students are about to become doctors, they recite the Hippocratic Oath, swearing to ethically practice medicine. One line of the oath states: “I will apply dietic measures for the benefit of the sick according to my ability and judgment; I will keep them from harm and injustice.”
Shouldn’t a great country not look away when a human is confronted with pain, illness, and physical suffering, and treat every person equally?
As an example: the man who cuts your lawn or cleans the gutter on your roof might very well be an illegal immigrant. If this man gets hurt on the job, he might need immediate medical care. Under our laws, specifically the Federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), doctors at the nearest hospital are obligated to admit this person if he needs emergency treatment.
Doctors treat the patient first and ask questions later, but in the end, someone still needs to pay for this man’s treatment. Under our current health care system, taxpayers and the federal government automatically assume responsibility for paying this man’s hospital bills. People who are hurt or ill should not be refused health care, plain and simple.
Doctors, nurses, and other allied health workers—we know you’re out there! Can you help us explain the hospital work environment? Weigh in on this very important issue below!
According to the Pew Hispanic Center, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research center in Washington, there are 11.9 million unauthorized immigrants currently living in the U.S. In an April report, the organization said that fifty-nine percent of adults illegally residing in the U.S had no health insurance in 2007, which is double the proportion of legal immigrants, and four times that of U.S.-born adults. The Center for Immigration Studies estimates it currently costs all of us about $4.3 billion a year to provide medical treatment for uninsured illegal immigrants.
During the course of President’s speech, Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) shouted out “you lie!” when President Obama asserted that nothing in his plan would provide health coverage for illegal immigrants. It’s not a lie, but it is an omission. Under the EMTALA act, which was established in 1986, all emergency patients are entitled to receive health care—regardless of their race, ability to pay, or citizenship status. Obama failed to mention that all illegal immigrants are currently receiving emergency care since EMTALA does not discriminate against patients. If his universal health care plan is passed, it would provide health insurance to all those individuals who seek it—once again, regardless of their race, ability to pay, or citizenship status. Not much would change on the issue of providing health care to illegal immigrants.
We want to hear from each one of our readers about their opinions on creating a universal health care system. What do YOU think of President Obama’s speech?
America is in need of quality doctors, nurses, and health care professionals. Job vacancy rates among health care providers in our hospitals and clinics remains high and is affecting every person’s access to health care. Our country needs more trained x-ray technicians, medical assistants, and surgical technicians. Overcrowded and understaffed health care facilities are a huge problem, especially in inner-city hospitals where many of the nation’s poor and uninsured go to be treated.
Rep. Joe Wilson believes that President Obama’s health care reform plan will allocate millions of taxpayer dollars into preserving the health of those individuals who are not American citizens.
However, both Rep. Wilson and President Obama failed to acknowledge that illegal immigrants would be provided with emergency medical treatment regardless of whether the universal health care plan is put into place. While the President’s speech was certainly a step in the right direction, it leaves us with more questions and not enough answers. For instance, how much does it cost the Emergency Room staff on average to treat a patient without health insurance? What is the true cost-benefit analysis to the tax payers if universal health care plan is put into place? No, President Obama didn’t “lie” when he stated that illegal immigrants wouldn’t be covered under his health plan, but we aren’t getting the whole truth either.
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I am a nurse, and have been for the past 24 years. We already see a change in the hospital environment. Some places, the nurses may have 7 to 8 patients apiece. Please tell me how one person can be responsible for all the needs of that person. All the overtime is being cut out but aren’t enough people to replace those hours, and that part seems to be getting worst day by day. So what do we do? Or more than this, what will happen to the people in their 70’s to 90’s? These are the people to be concerned with, and the people who are critically ill.
What kind of answer do we have for them? It seems like maybe I should think of changing professions so I will have enough money to pay my bills and not be worried about all the cut backs of the nursing profession. Where I work, we are one of the lowest paid hospitals and haven’t had raises in over 10 years and Obama plan isn’t helping us out.
As important as health care is, it is not as important as other very serious problems right now..(economy and security)….. it has waited and can wait a bit longer, however OB needs a success as he is such a failure at being anything but a community organizer..big deal!.. this man has nothing else to fall back on or talk about,
I say get out of our personal lives to OB and big government… you are there to serve us, however Congress and OB are so out of touch they cannot understand it is the will of the people right or wrong and to serve the majority – this will be corrected in 2010.
Most of us are not too pleased with the wimpy left you find in college professorrs eitherl
P.S. OB is a very good speaker if he can see the prompter.All his speaches say the exact same thing… he needs a new writer.. .. However we all know he does lie, evade the truth and is a shallow man.
i think is a great ideal what the President is doing for heath care ,,,i am a 56yr old woman ,my husband pass away oct28 2009 thats when i lost my heath insurance ..i was attmited to the hospital ,,and i dont know how iam going to pay thoese bills i they will not give me heath insurance because i have diabetes and they say sorry every time i try ,,so yes i am please with right now people need health insurance
Of course we need health care reform, starting with laws that would set limits on the legal system’s harassment of the medical profession which has caused so many real physicians to practice defensive medicine. Of course we need to have the ability to seek insurance carriers across state lines so that small business and individuals alike can find the best health insurance at the lowest costs and not allow certain large companies to become monopolies controlling the cost of insurance leaving the consumer high and dry without the ability to challenge their fees through the public process of competition amongst companies. Of course we need to make sure that no one is denied coverage because of pre-existing conditions, this is currently the case in Florida with those covered under any group policy, provided you can prove prior coverage, you cannot be denied new coverage; however, the requirement to prove continued prior policy coverage is in this day and age and under the current economic circumstances of the county, unconscionable, as many have been left unemployed, under-employed or have lost their business as self-employed. This puts this class of uninsured individual behind an eight ball if they have preexisting conditions and want to get insurance privately or later.
Of course the rising cost of medical care, pharmaceuticals and hospital costs are rising at an outrageous pace, and we need to challenge these unquestioned charges and increases from many of these profiteers. Of course our current system of medical care in this county can use many remedies of its own and there are many needs to address and quickly; but the reality is that the system “ain’t broke” and your really do not want to throw the baby our with the bath water. The types of reform that the liberal left want and that Obama is more than willing to deliver has proven to be a nightmare in countries that already have these systems (Canada, England, etc….). I know of Canadians that have come for treatment to the US to save their lives and have left behind a system that would have them waiting as long as a year for a life saving operation of procedure. This would be unacceptable as a new problem in our country. There is much that needs to be done, but it need careful review and understanding and not fast talk, poor planning and quick, irresponsible reform. It is too big a problem to not tackle it correctly and judiciously. We need to look at every aspect of the problems. We need to think up multiple solutions and put these out for public debate and consideration to those that will ultimately be affected by these changes. We need responsible law makers that read and know what the proposed laws are and understand their consequences, not to mention are willing to listen closely to their constituency and forego their own personal agenda for the desires and will of the people they were elected to represent. There is much that needs to be done, and shouting about it or calling each other names will not solve our woes; but neither will fast, hastily enacted changes. Let civility and intelligence govern the day and lets solve our problems intelligently and with ours and our children’s best interests at heart always and foremost.
HEALTH CARE IS NOT WHAT THIS COUNTRY IS IN NEED OF.IT IS IN NEED OF WASHINGTON GETTING OUT OF THE AMERICAN CITIZENS BUSINESS.THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS OUT OF CONTROL THE HEALTH CARE IN THIS COUNTRY IS THE BEST IN THE WORLD. PEOPLE COME FROM ALL THE OTHER SOCIALIST COUNRTIES TO HAVE THEIR HEALTH CARE TAKEN CARE OF HERE. SO LETS NOT PUT THE HEALTH SYSTEM IN THE HANDS OF GOVERNMENT, THERE IS BETTER WAYS TO DO THIS.
In reference to the comment from Miriam Figueroa:
No disrespect intended, but so far everything OB has promised has been just that.. promises.. but what has he really delivered? .. a lot of debt and no answers to the real problems.
Do you really understand what the health plan intends to cover? because if you did, Im not sure you would feel the same.If this health care plan is so good, why is it not good enough for the President and his family and all the Members of Congress???? You don’t think that sounds a little fishy?
What is happening is that he is trying to take away what freedom we have.
Please have someone help you to find out the truth about this issue so you can get the help you need.
instead of a Public Option, which sounds to me like Big Government……….running the show…….Let,s continue on the path of Health Insurance Reform……rather than, Health Care Reform …. tell YOUR CONGRESS…. in order to increase competition…to drive down insuance costs…..LET,S put a PUBLIC CO-OP Clinic in every community.,.. for the people. by the people……..pay as you go……pay according to your median household income or temporary lack there of…… this allows those who can pay only that which they can afford ….while also helping struggling families to get on thier feet (forgiving their debt). The premiums paid will cover the solventcy (whos going to pay for this ) issues. Details to be worked out….If only WE GET IT ON THE TABLE……and see if we can grow something out of this……I .may not have all the answers but Id like to get this out there.
I am a retired vet..In the proposed budget, there is mention of removing Tricare for Life from
all veterans and charging fees for services. Congress continues to remove promises that
military personnell have worked their entire career for. Why does no one propose that retired
Rep and Sen give up their retirement. (Which they voted in themselves, entitling them to full
pay for life)?????? The reason for all the commotion lately is that we are sick and tired of
our politicians telling us lies. What we really need is to get rid of all 584 decision makers we
have and replace them with somebody that really knows and cares….and by the way, why dont
we put all the politicians on the proposed health care reform bill for three years and then we can
decide if we like it or not…..
going into college, i looked forward to an experience that can only be truly accomplished in these united states of america – ending racism, racism practices.
many of our models for education, employment, healthcare, housing ownership, finance/economics are based on models in use since pre-slavery. responding to these models as a democratic peoples has produced the underground railroad, segregation practices, sds, bpp, other organizations on one side or the other of the issue.
healthcare should be a cost to the employer. illegrants are here to take advantage of opportunities that afford jobs and medical care regardless of citizenship status. who should pay for healthcare costs of workers, indigents, children?
common sense dictates that space, material wealth are in limited quantities. we can neither employ all the people in the world, provide healthcare for all the people in the world or house all the people in the world in this finite space – the us of a.
because employers do not provide healthcare, access to housing or a fair share of costs to educate illegrants, it is borne by our social services system and, as such, never adequately funded as local/regional governments are denied the capacity to track and monitor services provided to this group of people.
efforts to make fundamental changes that close outdated loopholes are rigourously opposed by many businesses and government organizations who receive funding from businesses to maintain such a position.
in california these public administration policies are cause for contention and contentiousness championed or not by lawyers, representatives, legal agents associated with government operations.
to make necessary changes we must move to more citizen involvement, participation. keep the salaries in place, just replace ever elective, appointive, political civil service employee ever two years at random to nonconsecutive terms on local/regional/state/federal level.
that should end special interests, collusion, corruption and the personalization of nonhumanized corporate entities, such as is now permitted per the 14th amendment.
thank you.
You have given some good reasons to adopt the Obama plan. I have a few answers to your questions:
1. They don’t! In my area, doctors have interacting computerized records. My promary, cardiologist, urologist and others are constantly in touch and up-to-date by computer. In those areas wher it has not yet happened, HAVE FAITH! The Obama plan will see that this is implemented everywhere!
2. Not yet, but this is another area that will be alleviated under the Obama plan.
3. The computer and the internet are relatively in their infancy. A program such as you describe will take some time. A government option will certainly hasten the day that this will arrive.
4. It is pretty much a matter of charging what the traffic will bear. Unfortunately, a Republican Congress under President Bush, in adopting Medicare Part D [the one that covers prescription drugs] adopted a rule that prohibits Medicare from bargaining rices with pharmaceutical companies — a move that would have saved the government [and consumers] billions of dollars. This will also change under the Obama plan. If the government bargains for lower prices, the pharmaceutricals will have to supply private companies for less as well.
6. [unnumbered] ABSOLUTELY TRUE!
7. [unnumbered] Joe Wilson is an ass! Yes, it is ok the challenge the President, but there is a time and a place for everything. No one else in the history of this country has ever had the audacity to to speak out to verbally abuse the President of the United States in the course of a formal address to he Congress. What a level of disgrace he has brought us down to! He should be ostracized from Congress or shot at sunrise [whichever comes first! LOL] [and this notwithstanding his apology, which was in any event coerced and insincere, although the President graciously accepted it]. Furthermore, he was absolutely wrong! The President’s plan does NOT include undocumented aliens, just as the President was saying when he was so rudely interrupted.
If there are unanswered questions they can be addressed later. If we hold off until we have a system that will work perfectly from day one, we will be looking for a Utopa that has never been manifested in the history of the world, not only of the United States. It is a goal we can never acquire in one step. Let’s get this workable plan in place now, and make any needed adjustments as they are uncovered, as we have done with every law ever enacted, else there will never be ANY progress..
The problem is as you stated it as “President’ Obama’s plan”. This is still America; For ,of and by the People -NOT Obama!
What is being proposed is a naked grab at our liberty and freedom. America, wake up and smell the stench of despotism!
I do not know all the details of the proposed health care plan, but I do know this. The government intrudes far too much in our lives as it is, without giving them the authority to con trol how health care is administered and who will be eligible for benefits. We need to have the ability to choose, else we are only cattle being driven to whatever someone else deems apprpriate. The government in just a few short months, has become part owners of the automobile industry and the banking industry. They are supposedly representing we the people, but how many of we the people have benefitted from the government buying these entities out or shoring them up? When Congress and the Senate decide we are worth what they are, (salaries for life, the best health care available at NO COST TO THEM, etc.), then maybe I will be more willing to listen to them,but at this time, I feel like they are scavengers, taking advantage of the weak and the poor to benefit themselves. It is a shame and I am sure the people who sacrificed to found this country and release us from tyranny in any form, and the countless thousands who have died defending our country and our way of life, really appreciate what is being done. I, for one am truly frightened as to where this country is headed.
Yes , we do need some reform on the health care billion dollar engine . However , under this proposed plan , it will fail miserably , collapsing the economy even worse than it is . Which is arguably the plan in whole. Tear it down so it must be remade to their design. What I WANT TO KNOW is how many days after it is passed will the GOVERNMENT tell the people that it has plans to REQIRE AN EMPLANTED IDENTIFACATION CHIP IN EVERYONE WHO WANTS TO SEE A DOCTOR ? HOW MANY DAYS ? A MONTH ? 2 ? 3 ? 6 MONTHSS LATER ? Be NOT DECEIVED , IT WILL BE REQUIRED UNDER THE GUISE OF SAVING ON PAPER WORK. LETS SEE HOW LONG THIS STAYS POSTED . ITS 9/ 14/ 09 2:45 PM EST.
The comments I’ve read here are more thoughtful than the comments I’ve heard or read eminating from Pres. Obama or his staff on the healthcare proposals. If we as the American population are being so deeply effected by any proposed changes…our President must understand he cannot raise support for his plan by rushing and putting a sense of immediacy as a fire under our hearts and his pen to sign something into law NOW. There are far reaching implications and He Will Fail any attempt to continue to be supported if he does not allow these proposals to be fully examined, publicly debated and dissected to see where the roots go. Traditionally, when rash decisions and hidden costs are not brought into the light of healthy debate something is amiss… SLOW DOWN, examine the truth to the costs each proposal will incur, do not attempt to back-end any misrepresentations about abortion funding. It seems that promises made to certain groups who heavily supported Obama’s election are coming now with their hand out saying: “Pay me!!” But the american public will not be a pawn to these agenda groups no matter how much money they donated to the president’s campaign. We need to see multiple proposals on each subheading of this mammoth bill. Yes,for example, we can vote to allow Medicare D to be able to negotiate and bargain prices of drugs with pharmeceutical companies…but one good contingency doesn’t mean we vote to accept massive unexamined changes in one moment of time. Let’s take this step by step and allow our congressmen and senators to read, deliberate, debate and propose alternatives…let’s project costs with more accuracy than…we think this will save us money in the long run…No let us be proactive and investigative…only then will the american public receive a comfort level to know what they are getting when they agree to make such a massive change effecting their very life!!! We need more transparency…we will not be rushed into a ONE STEP WIPE OUT without knowing what is in there!! READ the Label…Buyer Beware!! We will let our voice be heard and any congressman and senator who does not reflect his constituency–will be voted out! and SOON! We await– hoping to hear more truthful, open debate.
Its funny you mention illegal immigrants. and the number of them is at 11.9 million when are we going to start enforcing the laws that we already have in place? They are here which means they have commited a crime. Punish them! Its that simple. The health care plan that is being propsed does not include everyone and its just like car insurance they mandate you have to have it then if you dont they will fine you up to $3,800.00. Is this what the founding fathers had in mind when they said a goverment for the people and by the people. If you support these reforms as they are called and you support a socialist goverment then vote for it> If you like freedom and those that have died to defend the idea of freedom then tell your congress man/woman to turn this done. It goes against all the ideas that this great nation was founded on. I like to be able to say how and when i will spend my money but if this passes i might as well just go to work and receive no pay because they are spending my money for me.Wake up America this is not the answer i have told many that if they believe this is the answer then go to a VA hospital and talk to the vets and see how they are treated and how long it will take to get appointments 3-6 months that is a goverment run system that is your frame work. After a visit and talking with them you will see you are not a person but a number and here is some motrin come back in 6 months is the current treatment. This is not what America needs at all !!!
Why is Pres. Obama pushing the health care bill? Why the rush without bottom line numbers? The hospitals do not have enough RN’s and the hospitals are cutting back overtime because they have to answer to stock holders. The medical malpractice suits should be looked at. That is why the costs keep climbing. Overworked and under paid, is not the way to run a hospital.
And Spending Trillions to put us into a deeper hole is wrong. It is not a top priority. Give the real facts, not scare tacticts.
The president can not solve the problems of the American people whether it is in health care or any other problems we face. Our President is sadly mistaken if he thinks that health care is the most important problem that Americans have. You can place a bandaid on a wound but that does not stop the wound from hurting or sometimes keep it from being infected. Americans are infected by wrong thinking in that they those who think health care reform will help any of us. This problem did not just happen and no health care reform act will solve it.
I am a 76 yr.old woman living in Texas. I was born and raised in Michigan. I am amazed by the attitude of my neighbors and friends here in Texas. They litterly hate Obama, I wont accurse them of being racist, it may be that they just hate Democrats. I am definitely in the minority as a Democrat and a Yankee.I am on Medicare and presently live in Hud housing. I know what the Democrats have done for me. Most of my neighbors are not only on Medicare and Medicaid but also live in Hud housing. I cannot understand WHY and HOW they can be so against something that is litterly keeking them alive.I have spent most of the IRA money I earned while working on Health care since I have had open heart surgery. I am neither ignorant or lazy, but like many others have just had some unfornunate things happen in my life time. There are mambers of my own family, raised in Michigan, that came to Texas and made a lot of money. They are now Republicans and I am ashamed to admitt have very little compassion for those less fornunate than they are. I must have failed somewhere in raising them. I am very depressed as to the future of this country. I thought with Obama and the Democrats in power things would be better. But I am now convinced, MONEY runs this country and most of our voting public are uneducated, sad to say….I pray thing will change but time is running out…..Looking for a brighter day…Barbara
The Democrats booed President Bush while he was President and nothing was said or done about it. Here on many called this President a Liar and they are making it into a Federal issue. That is one of the problems, they can do what they want, but if someone else does it them shout and scream so loud and LIE so that people who do not know the truth believe them and make a ruckus all over the USA. Another issue is that they make it a racial issue, when the President is not all Black, his mother was white or Hawaiian or something, when he wanted votes he looked to the white voter, now if someone complains the press makes it a racial issue. Please look at the facts. Was his mother something other than Black and if so is it prejudice against blacks or whites. People get upset over the issues and some of the are the murder of babies [fetus which means little one] the rights of a nurse or doctor to not take part in an abortion without penalty, a hospital to not take part in abortions without having money taken away from them, and the elderly to get medical treatment without being told they are old they should suffer or be offered assisted suicide or euthanasia. Everyone talks about Slavery yet they are like the people who did nothing when people owned slaves, sayng slavery is not for me, but he can have as many as he wants. Abortion is not for me, but she can have as many as she wants. No one who supports abortion can claim to be for the poor, or civil rights, because they do nothing for the least of our members of the human race. A baby’s heart beat starts at eighteen [18] days, so don’t say you want all to have medical treatment when those who need it at the earliest stage of their lives are aborted or cease to be. If that child was not aborted, then it would have been born a human being, just like our President’s mother did when his father walked away. Every life is important and can make a difference in this world we live in and any medical plan that agrees to kill that child is not a medical plan for the good of mankind.
Yes, healthcare is a GRAND topic at this very moment in our society. The health insurance industry has completely and totally trampled over the ’small’ people!!! I am glad to hear that it will be illegal to deny health insurance coverage to individuals with pre-existing conditions and those who oppose this are those who got it good right now, but the one day you don’t, you’d wish priority was put on this cause.
I am a serious advocate for the healthcare reform, because you never know and health is the one thing that is completely and totally vital to human sanity. As far as illegal immigrants, I do hope a program will be set up for them (e.g. like 30-day insurance coverage that they would have to pay for and can not be renewed until they have become legal) to recieve health assistance.
I am excited about the price adjustments and the fact that there will not be a cap on the amount of insurance an individual can carry over a lifetime…NOW THAT IS DECENT HUMAN GENEROSITY!
IN MY COUNTRY , COSTA RICA, WE HAVE THE INSURANCE FOR EVERYBODY ,
IF YOU HAVE MONEY OR NO, EVERYBODY WE HAVE INSURANCE IS A UNIVERSAL INSURANCE, AND YOU PAY DEPEND YOUR SALARY !
WE CAN HAVE A INSURANCE , WE DONT HAVE DESCRIMINATION ! IF YOU ARE WORKING !
BUT , SOME CUBAN PEOPLE DONT WORKING THE TRY LOSE THE RAZON , TO TAKE A DESABILITY, TO TAKE MEDICARE, TO TELL THAT LIES.
BECAUSE CARIDAD FAMADA, 2025 NW 28 ST APARTMENT #
MIAMI , FLORIDA , 33142
SHE IS A EXAMPLE SHE DOESNT WORKING , BUT SHE HAS A GOOD INSURANCE, MEDICARE !
OTHER PEOPLE ARE DESABILYTY , BUT THE DONT HAVE INSURANCE, BUT THEY WORKING AT GOODWILL ! YOU CAN REVIEW , PLEASE ! SI TRUE ! PLEASE TO HELP FROM PEOPLE ARE WORKING AT GOOWILL THEY NEED HAVE A GOOD INSURANCE ! WE ARE U.S.A FOR A BEAUTIFUL NATION ! GOD BLESS AMERICA ! AMEN !
SHE SAY , I HAVE DESABILITY FOR MY HEALTH , SHE SAY I AM SEPARETE FOR MY HUSBAND , BUT NOT IS TRUE , HE HAVE A GOOD JOB , HE IS WORKINK FOR DIFERENTS TIMES ON THE OCEAN ! THER ARE TOGETHER , WHEN HE CAN COME BACK !
SHE HAS MEDICARE, AND SHE NEVER HAS WORKING FOR THIS NATION, FOR THAT REASON , SOME PEOPLE DONT WANT THE CHANGE THEY DONT WANT TO WORK !
I would like to know in this new Health Care reform that some people like (OBAMA) and others.
If a newborn has some really bad health issue will they be denied health care? Are they going to be as curl to a new born or to a child that has been abused so bad by its parents that its life or death to keep them alive or will the government killed them because of the preexisting condition or would they be consider a burden to society and then not get treatment to keep them alive.
To me that is what it seems, just to save a little money for the government.
People think about this will they help your child or your grandbabies if they have a really bad health issue? I bet know one has thought about that part of this health reform!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Very upset with this new health care system or health care reform
I am shocked at the hate Mongers that continually harrass the people who are trying to get
rid of the Stupid people that have been running this country! Our country is totally out of touch
with the progress that has been made in other countries because the Corporations running this country send out propaganda to direct your thoughts against your own good welfare! Usually these people will claim that they want no regulations of any kind and they want society to just go along at its own pace. Well folks we have had 8 full years of these kinds of
people and because of their self-interested governments, we have food that we can’t eat, water we can’t drink, pharmacuetical companies running our health care ( and americans pay 400% over what everybody else pays) and our insurance companies telling us when we can get medical help at all!
President Obama’s speech was great. A man of honor and integrity, he explained that our first job is to bring offenses in line with common sense! I would like to see the people get in back of their own best interest and stop spouting attitudes of the corrupt people and institutions that put us in this bad position. Frankly, I don’t want to hear anything from the same republicans that have been in office during the Bush administration and nobody else does either!
SOCIALIZED MEDICINE IS NOT THE ANSWER! JUST ASK THE THOUSANDS OF CANADIANS WHO COME TO THE U.S. EVERY YEAR FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT! THE REASON? BECAUSE, BY THE TIME THEIR SOCIALIZED MED SYSTEM COULD TREAT THEM, THEY WOULD BE DEAD!!!! I’VE BEEN IN THE MEDICAL FIELD ALL MY LIFE! OUR SYSTEM IS NOT PERFECT, AND DOES NEED SOME REFORMS, BUT GOOFBALL OBAMA’S PLANS SPELL NOTHING BUT DISASTER FOR EVERYONE!!! GET A LIFE, BIG O! CHAPLAIN DAN BRODEK
HE IS A LIAR!…
I do not have television and thrilled for reasons of indoctrination from media and poweres that be to sway general society. I am for medical reform. It is only the elite who generally get better than average or excellant medical care. It has been my personal experience-they are largely inadequate and bleeding this system dry, irresponsible at best while they put their offspring thru medical school with your latest new illness-they lack lack general medical ethics. If I need a vacation in a psychiatric ward I will call my doctor-she prescribes medication I now send to the coast. After instantaneous fall: a direct face first chin to pavement slam, neck twisted stage left on 90 degree slope. Seven months later she still has not authorized therapy. With a crookedneck, loss of upper body strenght. numb hands now use lock and cramp funtions and I drop everything. She is the reason I advocate change-only those who have what they think is best care are opposed. Natuarally I see their point. All the care in the world can assure them safety until rheir neighbor who can not afford helath care brings a disese to challege the insured neighbor. I think people should quit tunnel thinking and start thinking on a bigger plane. We all have to live together this means we have to broden our perspective, 911 brought about many changes, like it or not change is inevitable. Dictating to the under class that their job is to cultivate and generate anothers income, bow with thanks fpr nothing, take responsibility for employers greed and lack of humanity and pay all societies debts with sweat, blood and tears. This is not a tea party. The American public needs to shed gang banger attitude, think purposefully use brain- leave this world better place than when they came into it-not oppressed, uneducated, complacent foolish actions with concequences others should not have to endure or left as tip for next generation. But, bet your bottom dollar those opposing reform, might just be the same folks who did not step up to oppose no child left behind act for their kids. I don’t know- I am glad I had a fairytale attitude about life and people for most my life -because I would not have wanted to live through this hogwash otherwise.
I teach American Government at the college/university level. For my class I obtained the White House Health Care Reform Proposal (original version 167 pages) the House Health Care Reform Bill (original version 1,018 pages) and the Senate Health Care Reform Bill (original version 615 pages). In the last two semesters we have discovered that all what we thought were scare tactics are TRUE! The so called “Death Committees” are there, refered to as “End of Life Counseling Sessions” that are mandatory every 5 years after the citizen reaches 65 years of age. The Health Care Card is actually government access to your financial accounts (checking, savings, mutual funds and etc.) to make sure you can pay into ths system. Doctors are prohibited from owning their own practice and must serve the “community” where the “community” feels they are needed. Minimu GOVERNMENT coverage will be $5,000 per individual or $10,000 per family with a penalty, originally, of $1,000 for those refusing to take insurance, which was upped to $4,999 a day ago. This thing is not for Health Care Reform. It is actually for a Socialist/Communist/National Socialist take over of our daily lives. It will take our very freedoms away. Call, write, email or meet with your Representative and Senator to voice your opinion and STOP this thing from happening!