Despite overwhelming opposition by the American public, on Sunday the House of Representatives passed the Obama/ Pelosi health care bill. Yesterday the bill was signed into law and tax increases, more government spending, and bureaucrat-run health care became the law of the land . After passage of the bill by the House, I released the following statement:
"The Democrat controlled Congress has taken our country in a perilous direction. With last night's health care vote, a signal was sent to the American people that their voice does not matter and that the tax and spend, big government policies of Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama trump the will of the people. If Nancy Pelosi was not elected Speaker of the House by the Democrats, than this so called reform would not have seen the light of day.
As a physician, I am troubled that our elected representatives would vote to turn back the clock on the health care advances we've made over the past 30 years. When elected, I will vote to repeal this legislation so that we can begin work on true health care reform."
We all seen and heard the debate, this bill is the wrong way to approach health care reform. Government-run health care is not what this doctor ordered and as I said in my statement to the press, when elected to Congress I will vote to repeal the Obama/ Pelosi health care bill!
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Explain how this healthcare bill turns back the clock on healthcare advances of the past thirty years.
While I have your attention,I have just finished reading T.R. Reid's book, The Healing of America.
On page 207, Reid cites a study by the Institute of Medicine, a branch of the National Academy of Sciences in 2002. The group's basic conclusion was that people without health insurance are 25% more likely to die of treatable diseases than those with insurance. The Institute reviewed data from the year 2000, when 30 million had no health insurance. They calculated that 18,314 citizens die each year because they do not have insurance. They comprise a group with too much income to qualify as poverty stricken, so they do not go to the doctor until their cancer, diabetes, hypertension, etc has reached a crisis stage. It's a budget buster. By the time they go to the emergency room, dramatic intervention, even if paid for by the insured, cannot save them.
How do you morally justify not helping these people get insurance?
Bill, how can you morally call them. "these people"?
Bill
How does an already bankrupt country pay for this?
HAHA!!
Joe you crack me up!
Who wrote this? Are you a doctor, too, Joe?
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Mr. Albero,
Concentrate on my question, not spelling, grammar, or syntax.
Ha ha ha! You heartless, corporation-loving Republicans crack me up. Oh no, OH NO, welcome to our new Socialist Hellscape! It's the apocalypse of democracy! All Democrats are Maoists! Whine whine whine!
Meanwhile you do nothing. You obstruct, you make no useful suggestions, you sit on your hands and let us, the hard-working uninsured people of America, SUFFER and DIE. I have no health insurance and I can't get any. My employer doesn't offer it. I can't afford it and I have pre-existing conditions. I have colitis and I pay through the nose for semi- effective medication that sometimes helps me be able to, um, you know, WALK AROUND without sh!tting myself. Now maybe by 2014, I can get coverage for a much more expensive medication that might actually work.
In the meantime, keep griping about the Socialist Apocalypse. It's funny. This bill ain't perfect and contains all kinds of nasty corporate welfare, but do you actually have any BETTER ideas for getting the average American worker some guarantee that s/he won't get rescissioned and thus de facto MURDERED by health insurance scumbags? Oh no wait, I forgot -- corporation shareholders are more important than our health.
Oh and it's funny that you still think a majority of anybody is against health care reform. Stop getting all your news from Rupert Murdoch's talking-points echo chambers.
I agree with Bill.
Joe, "these people" are the Americans who actually support the health care bill. They are the ones in need of all the medicine, proper treatments, etc., that are ignored in this current day and age by private corporations who only want the healthy so they can suck all their money away to keep their asses covered.
Now, while I will say that the bill is nowhere as helpful as legislation in other countries, such as France, the bill does allow coverage for more Americans. That's more illness, requiring more doctors, nurses, and medical technicians, opening up more jobs. What's to say that "these people" have no importance to this bill? We'll have more money for whatever needs a little extra funding with this tax, not that it'll really affect anyone except those health nuts, who say they're too healthy to need health care at all.
And to the person who asked where we'll get the money to pay for this, let me ask YOU something: Where do we get the money to pay for ANYTHING in this country? How are we funding Medicare, the military, anything, if we're in such debt?
4:19 The problem is a good % of the uninsured do not and are not going to take care of themselves. Do a study -what % smoke -drink -drugs -overwieght need I say more.
This will be a problem. Figure it out because your obviosly smarter than me. What will that do to cost Lower them like Obama says? If the tax payer has to foot the bill for those who pay no taxes then they should at least have to follow health care guidlines ie: wieght-smoking ect.... But that won't work then they will become healthy and not depend on the democrat agenda anymore.
The passage of the health care law shows that the US empire is declining because it illustrates the fact that people expect the state to take care of them
Oh, so if you are unable to afford health insurance (which most times for family coverage is more than your house pymt) you are automatically a fat, cigarette smoking drunk drug addict? And all the rich republicans are not?
Going to run on something he knows cannot be turned back, more empty Republican banter. What are his ideas for the problems we face tomorrow?
Since Harris is such a big backer of the health care as is, will he turn down the house medical program?
8:20 your a typical idiot! Take the 30 mil that is uninsured. I SAID IF YOU DO A STUDY you'll find the % is much greater than the general population that they are disfuntional and a much greater health risk due to thier risky behavior. That is a no brainer.
8:29, why do you people keep saying that the republicans don't want reform? are you all not hearing what they are saying or are you just too stupid to understand ideas that don't leave you with a nanny state? Just incase you are getting all your news from Katie Coric, here are the ideas you aren't being told about:
■Number one: let families and businesses buy health insurance across state lines.
■Number two: allow individuals, small businesses, and trade associations to pool together and acquire health insurance at lower prices, the same way large corporations and labor unions do.
■Number three: give states the tools to create their own innovative reforms that lower health care costs.
■Number four: end junk lawsuits that contribute to higher health care costs by increasing the number of tests and procedures that physicians sometimes order not because they think it's good medicine, but because they are afraid of being sued.
10:36pm, I've wondered this myself. We keep hearing over and over again that Republicans are just the party of "NO" and that they have no ideas, however, I've heard of their ideas hundreds of times and they are very good ideas. Is it possible that the liberals really don't know about them?
10:36pm and 10:19am, of course liberals have heard the Republican's ideas, there was a 6 hour conference where Obama and Democrats talked for 4 hours. OH yeah, how can one side be so heartless, why can't they just stop paying their own bills to make sure they pay their taxes so that someone who didn't pay enough attention in school to get a job decent enough to offer health insurance. If you have a job that doesn't offer health insurance, how is that everyone's responsibility. I dont' know what colitis is, it sounds awful, but drug companies will help with the cost of drugs if you are really unable to afford them. Medicaid is also there for low-income people. The state of Maryland offers insurance to those with pre-existing conditions, so to say that you can't find help is really you not trying or reaching out. Just be aware (to the person with colitis) that this bill is not about helping you, it's a power grab by the gov't. Just because insurance companies can't disqualify you for pre-existing conditions doesn't meant you will be able to afford the coverage, and guess what you'll be fined for being without it.
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