Health care plan

James B · 08-04-2009, 05:35 AM

Is everyone here who does not favor a government option for health care, raising the issue with their Reps during their recess. We all need to call and email and go to their local meeting. Our lives are at stake here.

PLEASE, call them and get all of your friends and family to do the same. For it's faults, we have by far the best system in the world, we just can't give it up.

Fieldmouse · 08-04-2009, 08:30 AM

Saw this yesterday but decided to post it today.

cardeeer · 08-04-2009, 08:53 AM

When my rep sees me coming they lock the door or the sexatary always tells me they are out. Hey all polls taken show the MAJORITY of Americans dont want the plan. That should be the end of it. Scrap it you washington idiots. Majority rules . Move on to something else. They are suppose to Be are representatives do what we the majority wants. Not do what will fill their pockets. They are guilty of treason according to the oath of office they took to rep the people. Fire all of them greedy power mongers. And start with Barry.

AGRTigers560 · 08-04-2009, 09:10 AM

I have been trying to think of a way to restructure the healthcare system so that it would work, at least better than it does now and certainly better than it will if they pass this reform. (If you're still in doubt as to if this is a bad plan or not, read the CBO letter "raise deficits by $1,042 billion over the 2010-2019 period.")

I decided to try and incentive the whole shebang, and came up w/ 4 major players (major concerns/needs):
1- Doctors ($$, quality/helping)
2- Patients (quality, cost)
3- Businesses (cost, possibly quality)
4- Insurance companies ($$)

To help doctors, you need to pass legislation making it tougher to sue doctors. Also, you need to somehow (issue tax credits??) to new start up practices. This will reduce the quantity of patients that doctors see (increasing the quality, hopefully), and also lower their costs by cutting down on malpractice suits. Cost would go down and profits would go up.

The same for the doctors would also help the patients, reducing their costs and improving quality of care.

If businesses could come together, even across state lines, and form a pool to buy health insurance, the policies would be more affordable and would result in better coverage.

I got stuck on the insurance companies. Reducing the malpractice suits would lower their costs, some, but I never could come up w/ a way to get them to accept claims w/ out much hassle and still keep costs low.

Bottom line- I don't see an end in sight to this mess. I just hope we avoid the socialization of healthcare

AGR

Steve863 · 08-04-2009, 09:29 AM

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Originally Posted by AGRTigers560

Bottom line- I don't see an end in sight to this mess. I just hope we avoid the socialization of healthcare

AGR

That IS the bottom line for sure. Our current system IS a mess and anyone who thinks it isn't (like Fieldmouse) lives in LaLa land. I don't think socialized medicine is the best solution either since a good many people still have adequate insurance at least for the time being. The one good thing in all this is that people are finally talking about how the system can be improved. Something that hadn't been done for 8 years under the Bush administration. Anyone with half a brain knows that things can't be swept under the rug any longer.

ipscshooter · 08-04-2009, 09:34 AM

Doesn't do much good to contact my idiot Rep. She's of the opinion that she doesn't have to listen to her constituents. She was elected to represent us, not to do what we think is right, but to do what she thinks is right. And, heck, she's got important business to take care of, like making sure that African American names are adequately represented in the naming of Atlantic hurricanes, and offering Congressional honors at Michael Jackson's funeral that no one else in the House would vote on...

Of course, she's smarter than anyone else, so, why listen to a bunch of nattering plebes...

Frankly, I consider every person who has ever voted for Sheila Jackson Lee to be a moron. So, she's a little over half right. She's smarter than everyone who voted for her, which doesn't take much. And, she doesn't have to listen to those of us who didn't vote for her because, well, we didn't vote for her...

James B · 08-04-2009, 09:39 AM

We will get what they decide to give us if people don't speak up. Speak now or we are stuck with a socialist plan. Every Rep has a phone number and it will be answered and they will at least Note your message. The time to be the silent majority is way past, if we don't speak up npw, then we deserve what we get.

James B · 08-04-2009, 09:42 AM

Does out current system need work? Yes, Does it need to be destroyed or completely redone? NO DAMN WAY.

C. Davis · 08-04-2009, 12:48 PM

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Originally Posted by ipscshooter

Doesn't do much good to contact my idiot Rep. She's of the opinion that she doesn't have to listen to her constituents. She was elected to represent us, not to do what we think is right, but to do what she thinks is right. And, heck, she's got important business to take care of, like making sure that African American names are adequately represented in the naming of Atlantic hurricanes, and offering Congressional honors at Michael Jackson's funeral that no one else in the House would vote on...

Of course, she's smarter than anyone else, so, why listen to a bunch of nattering plebes...

Frankly, I consider every person who has ever voted for Sheila Jackson Lee to be a moron. So, she's a little over half right. She's smarter than everyone who voted for her, which doesn't take much. And, she doesn't have to listen to those of us who didn't vote for her because, well, we didn't vote for her...

I know not everybody in your district over there are morons ipsc.. because you are proof not everybody is. But, how does the queen of stupidity get away with a yes vote on "cap and tax" in a district where oil is the main industry, the mosquitoes can almost tread water in the humidity, and the a/c runs almost year round?

C. Davis