Premiums, Profits, and the Need for Health Reform
The President points to outrageous premium hikes from health insurance companies already making massive profits as further proof of the need for reform. Looking ahead to the coming bipartisan meeting on reform, the President urges members of Congress to come to the table in good faith to address the issue. February 20, 2010.
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I have red hair and …
I have red hair and green eyes. My birthday is 6-6 and my mother’s birthday is 8-22. In 2006 the world was supposed to end on both of our birthdays. I am The Chosen One from The Dead Sea Scrolls. The Best Friend and Son of God. Byron Heath Shavers, 1-256-599-7558, Route 2, Box 127B, Section, Jackson County, Alabama, 6518, County Road 19, Drag Strip Road, 35771.
There you go again …
There you go again making me feel sorry for you. There is no such thing as bipartisanship. Libs had super majority, had being the key phrase. They did not need the GOP for any bill they wanted to pass.
Being in the …
Being in the Healthcare industry as a Registered Nurse I see gross Medicare Fraud. Is anyone checking this out?
So, Tamarelane, …
So, Tamarelane, maybe it is you who should pull his head out of the sand. You should turn off Fox Entertainment News, Druggy Limbaugh, and NewsMax. The only scientist who have run from the issue are those who weren’t really scientist in the first place. The e-mails you sort of site were never backed up.
And Tri-star works very well. The VA is working better since the Obama Admin upgraded funding for it. Get rid of Part D by negotiating prices and Medicare will be in better shape.
Tamarlane, thanks …
Tamarlane, thanks for your enlightening comments. I did not realize the video’s of the bare ground where ice had been for thousands of years were doctored. Like I said, just ignore it, turn the G. Canyon into a giant landfill, and let the future worry about it.
If we had high speed rail instead of Interstate Hwys Amtrak would make money. The USPS doesn’t handle as much mail due to electronic communication, plus UPS, & Fed EX. The Republicans have passed unfunded mandates for others.
You need to catch …
You need to catch up. Scientists USED to make those claims, until the data was shown to be wrong supporting such hypothesis. Now the scientists are bailing out and apologizing for having been duped. There is plenty of information out there to support what I say. If you want to be honest, read it. If not, keep up your rant.
True enough our …
True enough our insurance and health care systems need reform. Reform does not include the federal government takeover of health care.
Government health care would be much worse than our present system.
Government run programs such as the USPS, Amtrak, and the VA and medicare and medicaid are examples of government run entities.
bjjones, I get the …
bjjones, I get the feeling that by looking at projections they know that probably 25% of that 55% will lose their health care over the next few years. And then based on what has been happening the last 30% of that 55% will have health care premiums that are so high they won’t be able to afford it. That leaves only the very wealthiest Americans with health care. Since the Corporations will own the government, then the government will supply their health care while the poor foldks die. You rich?
amerigross, …
amerigross, scientist say that the Polar Ice Caps are melting at an alarming rate. It took 1,000s of years for them to form. If man is not contributing to climate change, and there are things on earth that are, wouldn’t it be wise for man to figure out what it is & try to change it? IF man is contributing part of the problem should he just ignore his part and go on with his life on the chance that it is just a fluke of nature? Let’s see, you love your money, you hate Obama, you have no kids.
amerigross, what if …
amerigross, what if man is only contributing to climate change and other factors man can’t control are contributing too. Should man just ignore what he can control because of what he can’t control? If you reach a point of no return and the earth starts to deteriorate to the point it will no longer sustain life, where do you go and what do you do? So I agree, I am an old man, it is a pain in the to seperate all my aluminum cans, plastics, and glass. Just dump the stuff in the land fill.
amerigross, I …
amerigross, I totally agree. I don’t know why President Obama waste his time trying to convey anything to the American people. They were happier with, “is our children learning” & “fool me once, fool me twice, and I will always be a fool”. Cowboy politics.
Lets ignore anything that even hints at cliimate change. Stop all this recycling silliness. We can turn the Grand Canyon into a giant 1,000 year land fill. So what if the Colorado river becomes poluted. I live east of the Mississippi.
Well.if Barokeydoke …
Well.if Barokeydoke is going to keep coming on here and telling us how good Saul Alinsky’s watermelon tastes,the least he could do is give us a little tap dance to go with it
@harleymaster63 …
@harleymaster63 heh…well if you truly believe that man causes so called ‘global warming’ with CO2 emissions,then you need to man up and do the right thing…sell your bike and kill yourself….but since you’re a union grunt who is in love with Barokeydoke,we know you won’t ever do that….actually cutting back on CO2 emissions is for OTHERS to do,isn’t it?….like anybody who is skeptical of anAL GOREtentive and his coterie of climactic cretinous crybabies
I don’t think …
I don’t think President Obama has to read “actuarial tables”. We had a President who was a one man show and look where it got us. A mess that is going to take years to work out of, corporations who have no regard for the human factor in what they do, nor any regard for the health of the greatest nation ever formed on earth. So we have a President who can put more than two words together, surrounds himself with people who can read “actuarial tables” and is working to change 30 years of greed
Someone posted some …
Someone posted some information about Climate Change on this post and I responded to it. If you are a Christian, if you believe God’s Word, man was made steward over God’s earth. Adam named all of the plants and animals on the earth. Far fetched? I don’t know. But if we pollute the air, if we pollute the water, if we kill off species of animals or plants, are we being good stewards of God’s earth. I don’t know, heat the darn thing or freeze it down and find out the hard way. To deny is stupid.
@bnjones28 Because …
@bnjones28 Because the poster boy for negro inferiority has never read an actuarial table in his life and doesn’t understand the meaning of the term ‘risk assessment’ and how all that determines premium levels…he thinks all he has to do is wave his hand and freeze premium increases that don’t jibe with his Alinskyesque world view,and everything will be hunky dory….what did you expect from a Chicago thug who has no business experience and is an alumnus of Dickey Daley’s School For Scandal?
Almost 55% of us do …
Almost 55% of us do not want Obama care so why are they doing this?
A good read: “Why …
A good read: “Why Our Health Matters” by Dr. Andrew Weil. Includes specifics, data, and recommended actions.
Alaikum salaam
Alaikum salaam
@TAMARLANE Like I …
@TAMARLANE Like I said, to with you,squid
Like I said. Good …
Like I said. Good luck, dude.
@TAMARLANE I ignore …
@TAMARLANE I ignore it because it seemed patently insincere…a semi maudliln attempt to crawl out from under what was an obvious and very cheap innuendo based on nothing but your own pathetic carnal imaginings….you have no honor sir…to with your ‘apology’ and to with you
You continue to …
You continue to ignore my apology, and my references to the apology. For your own purposes I cannot surmise. good luck to you
@TAMARLANE You …
@TAMARLANE You need to reread my previous posts to you…I clearly addressed it at least twice…refuting your lame little libel both times….it was the proximate cause of calling you a gutless gob of Annapolis goat and offering to climb in the ring with you for impugning my honor with snide asseertions of dishonesty and sexual deviancy……you tried to whine you way out of that by suggesting I am ‘paranoid’…just like you did now….and you’re still a coward for doing so
You still ignoring …
You still ignoring my post about my guess that you were gay?U admitted I was wrong and apologized for it. But still you want to keep that alive? What for?
One of your posts suggested I had said I wanted to behead you. I think you got me crossed up with someone else. You were confused.I don’t care what you are, and I don’t understand your ire.
You do seem to be paranoid.