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July 23, 2009 9:42 AM
Media Fails Us (Again) on Health Care
As President Obama starts to work very hard on health care (finally!), the mainstream media has a story line - the president is trying to convince an anxious, skeptical public that health care reform will be a good thing for them.
What nonsense. Poll after poll shows consistently public support for reform, including significant majorities for a public option (think Medicare for all as an option). The public is not the problem. The problem is not even the insurance companies, drug companies and others who have been profiting excessively for decades. We always knew that they would act aggressively to defend their excess profits - our waste, duplication, delay and bad care is their profits.
We also knew that Republicans would simply vote no. As Sen. DeMint of South Carolina says, the Republicans see this as Obama's Waterloo and will do anything to kill health reform.
No, the problem is that some senior Democrats would rather represent those who are profiting from health care rather than representing their constituents who want reform.
At some point, the President will have to call them out rather than simply urge them to produce a bill. They will not like that, but it is the only way.
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Mitch McConnell and the Repubs are worried the best health care in the world will be rationed and are worried we will end up standing in long lines to see a doctor.
That's what we have already !
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Actually, poll after poll indicates that the public supports every possible option for reforming healthcare--and frantically oppose it whenever the pollster asks them if they'd still support the reform if it suffered the proven consequences. People want the healthcare system FIXED but the government has no intention of doing so. Its expressed intentions are to duplicate healthcare systems that are terrifyingly bad for whoever has those systems imposed upon them. People die twice as often from breast cancer in socialized medicine England than they do in America. You have to wait almost a year for access to an MRI in Canada whereas the STATE of Pennsylvania has more of this basic modern diagnostic tool than the entire nation to the north of us. That the healthcare system you want and pretend that the American people want is endlessly proven to harm people does not seem to matter to you. There is something ghastly about agitating for a policy that will harm people just because it happens to fit your ideological standards.
Obama's Waterloo can't come soon enough; hopefully it happens before he can harm us.
Actually, TMullins, they are worried that the administration is doing their very best to impose a failed and actively harmful healthcare model on the nation and further, that the administration does not care that their policy is dangerous.
The only thing more "dangerous" than 48 million Americans not having access to health care is 48 million plus one Americans not having access to helath care. This isn't about ideological standards, except for those of us who have none.
If Keith Moore were one of the 48 million with no access to care, I'm sure the shoe would be on the other foot.
"United We Stand?" As long as it doesn't cost us anything. Talk is cheap, and what we're really whining about is that, actual commitment to our fellow citizens isn't free.
"The only thing more "dangerous" than 48 million Americans not having access to health care is 48 million plus one Americans not having access to health care. This isn't about ideological standards, except for those of us who have none."
First, that is a false premise: if you can go to an emergency room and get Sudafed for your sniffles, you have access to healthcare. Second, the number is around 10 million according to the Census Bureau.
"If Keith Moore were one of the 48 million with no access to care, I'm sure the shoe would be on the other foot."
No, it wouldn't. I believe in being consistent.
"Talk is cheap, and what we're really whining about is that, actual commitment to our fellow citizens isn't free."
Actually, we're whining about the fact that we're required by the government to pay out of our paychecks to take care of whomever the government decides deserves it. I do not owe a red cent to my fellow citizens although given a choice, I would happily give of my time and money on a voluntary basis to help them.
I hope that this blog is still active. Lou Dobbs is reporting from country to country on the quality of healthcare in each given country. Thus far even HE can't give bad reports on the National healthcare schemes in each country. Keith, our healthcare ranks 37th in the world! Healthcare is rationed by our insurance companies. There are long waits for appointments, and procedures. Our life expectancy is shorter than most any country with National Healthcare provided. Our infant mortality rate is higher. I worked at the same company for 22 years, and my HMO whas changed 5 times. So much for "choice" in providers. I hope that in your consistency, you have the good since to take a detour when the bridge up ahead is out. I applaud you, Keith, on your charitable inclination. However, we have found that the "trickle down" was small change dropping while the large bills floated upward to the board rooms and eastward toward Wall Street. Human nature prevented its success. Few people give as freely to the needy as you, Keith. Your volunteerism should be documented to be used as a good example for all Americans to follow. I'm sure that you are doing all you can voluntarily, even as you fight tooth and nail for that red cent that you don't owe to your fellow citizen. That makes a lot of sense for you to do that. It's the Principle, right? It helps to explain Amerika as it is today.
"Keith, our healthcare ranks 37th in the world!"
No, it does not. WHO gave the ratings out then admitted that they had decided to stop because the question had become too complex. In other words, with better tools and more information, they were less able to rate healthcare than when they lacked both of these assets. Awfully convenient.
"Our life expectancy is shorter than most any country with National Healthcare provided."
Irrelevant; our low life expectancy is due to factors that healthcare cannot affect.
"I hope that in your consistency, you have the good since to take a detour when the bridge up ahead is out."
Better than that, I have the good SENSE to keep going when someone looking at the bridge down the river screams that the bridge I'm crossing is out.
"I'm sure that you are doing all you can voluntarily, even as you fight tooth and nail for that red cent that you don't owe to your fellow citizen."
That's right, I am. That red cent is mine and mine alone and belongs to no one else.
It helps to explain Amerika as it is today.
Not really. By the by... you seem to be having trouble spelling America. We use the English spelling, not the German one.
I just spent the last three days in the hospital because of intolerable back pain. I was taken to the ER of the hospital on Friday evening. After examination by a doctor and tests I was admitted and moved to a private room. From then on I was under good care by nurses and cnas. My regular doctor was there early Saturday morning to evaluate what had been done as to oversee my care. An MRI was ordered and early on Sunday morning I was taken from my room in a wheelchair and had the MRI. On Monday the results of my MRI were reviewed by a back specialist and a course of treatment decided on. Earlier in the day my another of my regular doctor's having reviewed all my tests decided I could be discharged Monday afternoon.
How long would have it been before the MRI was performed if my location had been Canada intead of Florida? I am sure when I went to the ER, according to everything I have read, I would have been given pain pills and sent home.
Obamacare is not about healthcare reform but about control.. control of our daily lives.
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