Health Care Legislation: USA

[roni]

New poll reported in the NY Times yesterday. Here are a couple of the findings.

Personally I favor a public option. Apparently so do the overwhelming majority of US residents

Across a number of questions, the poll detected substantial support for a greater government role in health care, a position generally identified with the Democratic Party. When asked which party was more likely to improve health care, only 18 percent of respondents said the Republicans, compared with 57 percent who picked the Democrats. Even one of four Republicans said the Democrats would do better.

The national telephone survey, which was conducted from June 12 to 16, found that 72 percent of those questioned supported a government-administered insurance plan — something like Medicare for those under 65 — that would compete for customers with private insurers. Twenty percent said they were opposed.

Health Care Reform Poll Article

[STOGEY]

Originally Posted by roni

New poll reported in the NY Times yesterday. Here are a couple of the findings.

Personally I favor a public option. Apparently so do the overwhelming majority of US residents



Health Care Reform Poll Article

You know I've always been confounded about the short memory spans of the average American citizen. After all the problems that Barney Frank and his co conspirators have caused the US with our current financial problems. The same people when poled want to trust the likes of Barney Frank with their health care. I think they are absolutely nuts.

I am beginning to realise why the govnt is so slow and hesitant to have a real war on hard drugs. Its the use of these drugs on a large scale that causes peopple just not to care what happens to them as long as they can get their fix. After all we are fallowing the model that China uses in not having a hard line against the use of opioum based products.

[u2girlie]

I have to say - (and let me note that I lean to the faaaar left) - I am extremely hesitant to support a government run health care option. It isn't that I don't support the idea of a government based health care system because I know it works well in some countries. However, I have first hand experience in the administration of the Medicare plans in the U.S. and I have to say they are probably the most inefficient and difficult to administer plans I have ever seen. It's not that it couldn't be efficient or well run, it just isn't! Knowing how inefficiently they run Medicare makes me cringe when I think of an more inclusive health care plan within the U.S. Again, it's not the philosophy of government run plans that scares me. It's the actual administration and regulation of it that makes me uncomfortable.

[u2girlie]

Oh and I participated in that phone poll the other day. It's one of the few that I actually have participated in.

[roni]

Originally Posted by u2girlie

However, I have first hand experience in the administration of the Medicare plans in the U.S. and I have to say they are probably the most inefficient and difficult to administer plans I have ever seen.

From what I have been reading Medicare is more efficient than private sector plans in the USA.

My 80 year-old mother is pretty satisfied with it. She has good supplemental insurance along with Medicare.

[maya]

Originally Posted by roni

From what I have been reading Medicare is more efficient than private sector plans in the USA.

My 80 year-old mother is pretty satisfied with it. She has good supplemental insurance along with Medicare.

I am 61, I cannot afford health insurance. My husband is 71-he also has a good supplemental along with Medicare-has not paid one penny out of pocket-this includes major surgery. Something has to give for us not 65. Doing nothing like the previous administration sure isnt the answer.

[roni]

Originally Posted by maya

I am 61, I cannot afford health insurance. My husband is 71-he also has a good supplemental along with Medicare-has not paid one penny out of pocket-this includes major surgery. Something has to give for us not 65. Doing nothing like the previous administration sure isnt the answer.

My mother's husband had mulitple hospitalizations for depression and for Parkinsons before he died. Like your husband, they paid very little out-of-pocket.

[beerbreath]

Everyone in congress gets their health care from the government,and I don't hear them complaining,not even the Republicans.

[birdman]

Originally Posted by roni

My mother's husband had mulitple hospitalizations for depression and for Parkinsons before he died. Like your husband, they paid very little out-of-pocket.

Roni,
Let me remind you there is no such thing as a free lunch.
If somebody got something for nothing, someone else got nothing for something.
I can't wait for the Barracko, Barney, Nancy, & the rest of the gov ner do wells to saddle the under fifties crowd with a multi trillion dollar health care program.
My private plan gets dumped & the young fools that voted for Barracko can start paying my way.
Change they can count on. hehehe

[birdman]

Originally Posted by beerbreath

Everyone in congress gets their health care from the government,and I don't hear them complaining,not even the Republicans.

"We the people" will never get the coverage they get regardless of what they may want you to believe.

[beerbreath]

Originally Posted by birdman

"We the people" will never get the coverage they get regardless of what they may want you to believe.

My point is it is government run,and they have no problem with it.

[roni]

Originally Posted by birdman

Roni,
Let me remind you there is no such thing as a free lunch.

You are right, however having worked since my early teens, I do not need reminded.

As for my mother and her husband, they worked and paid taxes for decades, and also pay/paid monthly premiums for their Medicare and their medicare supplemental insurance.

[jeffandbecky]

Since I am currently dealing with Medicare over my mother's hospitalization and rehab, if the majority of Americans want it, let them have it. When the revolution comes, then we can fix a problem that will be so broken that there is no chance of repair.

BTW, if you really think that we can reduce costs by adding tens of millions of people covered, I am very angry with you. You are smoking some very good dope and not sharing it with the rest of us.

[jeffandbecky]

Originally Posted by beerbreath

My point is it is government run,and they have no problem with it.

You are absolutely right that they have no problem with it. First, they write the rules and second we get to pay for it.

BTW, how much does it cost the taxpayers to cover a member of Congress?

[STOGEY]

Originally Posted by roni

My mother's husband had mulitple hospitalizations for depression and for Parkinsons before he died. Like your husband, they paid very little out-of-pocket.

They may have paid very little out of pocket, but they still paid through their taxes. One way or another we pay. It's that I don't want Barney Frank anywhere near my health care.