Hows that working out for ya! Is this the kind of change you thought you were signing onto? You drank the coolade and the only difference between the Jim Jones followers and you is that you will live to see and experience the damage. Did you really think Obama would fight so hard for a public option health care bill? A bill that will crush the very will of the doctors, nurses, hospitals, clinics, and medical technicians who serve us so well? Are there problems in the current health care system, sure there is, but spending a trillion dollars that we don’t have and don’t have a chance of getting any time soon, isn’t the answer! How about for starters, every patient gets a full and complete itemized bill from any and all health care providers for all of the services which were rendered. That would allow you to study and compare prices and actually rout out the things you didn’t receive and question the costs which seem unreasonable, like any other purchase you make in your daily life. How about putting an end to the greedy, self serving lawyers who just look for doctors and hospitals to sue. lets establish a regional board to review complaints against the health care system. Let’s have three levels of review, minor, moderate, and fraudulent. Minor would be a review of a doctors decision to do or not to do something, the penalty would be a reasonable cost adjustment or solution such as a refund of the cost of service. ( No punitive damages) . A moderate review would be where a patient had a very adverse effect form a decision made by a health care professional. A total refund of services and free care for life, at a facility of his or her choice, for all things related to the incident and a reasonable monetary award to be paid quarterly based on any increased cost of living by the patient. (No punitive damages). Fraudulent would be for obvious over the top verifiable fraudulent behavior. The individual, not the hospital, unless it can be proven in complicity, would be charged and forced to forfeit his or her personal wealth to compensate as decided by the board. (Punitive damages allowed). Legal fees would be based on reasonable and verifiable hourly rates, not on the millions and millions of dollars currently charged by the lawyer at 33% of the award. This public health care system will kill us, it will take the competitive edge way from a system with little competition already. The day of the multi, multi millions of dollars payday has to end and end now!
Jim Salmon
Brother Jim,
I couldn’t agree more! Please don’t stop there! How about all the unintended consequences of all these decisions that Obama and Pelosi want to make in a vacuum that we are too stupid to understand! My God, they are talking about another stimulus! When will we see the world will not tolerate us printing money and cheapening our dollar! China, Russia, and Saudi Arabia are now moving away from the dollar as their world-trade monetary standard, as we speak!
Let’s construct a letter writing campaign to our elected representatives that asks one question: “Will you ask what are the unintended consequences of each decision or vote, and if they can’t be envisioned then vote “NO.” If you vote yes, then please have the list of envisioned unintended consequences and your research ready for review. Will you do this?” This is how to effect great change, but we must do it now!
An example: who will really pay for a new health care system that guarantees nobody will be denied coverage, no matter what their preexisting conditions. How the hell can that work, especially if I’m self-employed and don’t choose to have insurance (I assume the risk), pay the fines, get cancer, then they have to take me, and It costs everyone else… how much? What are the unintended consequences of a socialistic agenda that extols the virtues of “same” instead of “free”, free to be as much or as little, but you decided in your own life.
We can have a better health system, but we need to police the one we have first! How about we look at a truly bipartisan group, not just the Democrats making this decision about health care. Assign six from each party, and one voting Facilitator who reports to Congress, to lead this process toward the best plan. Give them a 12 month deadline, and require their meetings have posted minutes for all to read and review and comment on. This is not the time for shell games and mistrust. In one year, let’s have them vote on what they have: plan A, plan B, or Plan C. Then, at least we would all have a say in this through our representative government. We would know they read the bills being brought forth for vote.
Let’s support individuals having choice (which includes doing nothing, and being responsible for it), build a system that strengthens the individual’s rights and we will continue to be a great nation. Create a system that rewards acceptable social minimums, entitlements, and victim thinking and we will not continue to lead through freedom.
One thing about a welfare state, or federal or state government who’s customers are on welfare programs: they need customers, so it can become a self fulfilling prophecy. We must ensure all welfare programs, and please know I’m not against assistance when needed, must support the individual becoming self-sufficient as soon as possible. No exceptions!
A strong Federal Government, and an even stronger State Government, and even stronger Individual rights is what we need. I need my federal government to be strong for national defense and infrastructure for the common man; I need my state to be stronger for local disaster, security, and infrastructure for the common man; I need to be able to dream and be free to succeed or fail as I choose, not as someone deems it through their version of “acceptable minimums.”
These are my own beliefs, I am fully responsible for them.
Bill
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