Congress is negotiating various health care proposals, many of which include a public option. This article in today’s Wall Street Journal analyzes previous government programs and cost estimates. Keep this in mind when you hear that the proposals are “budget neutral.”
http://tinyurl.com/yle9ds2
My main fear is that with the government controlling the auto industry and the financial markets, adding health care to their portfolio will give the government direct control of over half our economy and indirect control over most of what is left.
I to have a great concern over the proposed health care reform. I also share a great concern over the budget and recent spending. I have seen no benefit to the American people. No new jobs. The spending should not have made the fat cats that caused the problems to benefit with more money.
American were better off when wh just had hospitalization. No coverage for Dr. visits. Drs. did not charge such high bills.
I am a dentist in Lee’s Summit Mo. today as I was driving home for lunch I heard Gov Jay Nixon talking from the dental school about a program that is going to add to the number of dentist trained yearly at the school. It is a wonderful thing he commented as we have a “severe crisis in dentist shortage” As a wet fingered dentist I can assure you that the most common topic of conversation with my colleagues is the business issue. Most of us at this time are not as busy as we could be. The problem as I see it is that a democrat doesn’t understand the difference between need and demand. They project all there estimates on need. If dental care were free there would still be a huge need. People are as they are and some will not care for themselves.
I’m still trying to figure out how they went after healthcare to get costs under control and now the costs are HUGE. If we did that as families we would go broke.
I have to agree with the hospitalization comment, I can remember when we just had that. I never could figure out why they added Dr visits.
Thanks for creating a gathering point for ideas and solutions. I look forward to participating in the present and the future.
I am concerned that the government is no longer protecting the rights of the people, rather they are attempting to prescribe the rights of the people and as part of that prescription they are favoring the rights of some over the rights of others; in most cases the rights desired by a few and eschewed by the majority.
I am concerned that there is no longer any honor in government and that representation in our Republic has disappeared from both major parties. The Constitution is no longer viewed as the foundational document rather it is considered a living document subject to the will of the majority and the whim of presidents.
I am concerned that the separation of church and state has morphed into the separation of morality and government; truth and righteousness have given way to compromise and realism.
While I am encouraged by the efforts shown here and in other places I am concerned that The United States of America will soon be sold out to the rest of the world and wrested of all things that have made her great.
Drs wouldn’t have to charge such high fees if they didn’t have such high overhead with med mal insurance, defensive medicine, and the bureaucracy needed to deal with the insurance companies, including and especially medicare.
This healthcare debate is missing the point, likely on purpose. Let the free market and competition control costs, healthcare costs the same no matter how who pays for it.
Everything the govt. has been involved in is an economic mess and it is obvious where this legislation will ultimately lead.
Tort reform is being left out of consideration, and is all to obvious as to why.
We are retired military and civil service. Until age 65, we paid for our health insurance. At 65 we are forced by to sign up for Medicare as primary and our insurance becomes a secondary. Why if Medicare is broke are we forced into this failing system. Why couldn’t we just continue the coverage we had had all along. Now, the Government, who can’t even effectively run Social Security and Medicare want control of all of our health care. This is terrifying, we are opposed to a Government take over and want Government to stay out of our decisions for health care.
Our Country is being forced into bankruptcy by our President and Democratic congress, and for the looks of it, no one has any say over anything they want to do. People better wake up to the mess we are in and stand up for their rights while they still have some. The 2010 elections can’t come soon enough and I hope the American people will make their votes count in November of next year.
The President promised change, but I don’t think this is the kind of change that most who voted for him thought he meant.
BARRAK HUSSAIN OBAMA MMM…MMM…MM
Let me just say this people NOW is the time to stand up for FREEDOM. there is to many people who don’t agree with these policy’s, but we have to keep standing together. if they didn’t see a million people once then will have to try again until they realize that this is our land…THE LAND OF THE FREE, AND THE HOME OF THE BRAVE!
Too many in Congress forget that they work for us………WE THE PEOPLE!!!!!!! Vote them all out in 2010!
We are being ignored. Our wishes seem to mean nothing. Insist on being heard.
Write letters, make phone calls, talk to friends and neighbors…even those who seem to disagree………..
Wake up and take our country back before it is too late!!!!
May God continue to Bless America.
I agree, the government is not for the people(common) anymore, rather for the rich(bureaucrats). When did we loose our voice? Wake up america! We can’t afford President Obama. He is blinded by his own importance. Yes, respect is due our president, but likewise he should respect the voice of the people. No more taxes, free trade( They send products here, we send same quantity there. They put high tarrifs on ours, we put same on theirs). I am a firm believer in helping those in need. I do not however feel that our country should suffer needlessly at the cost of our freedom & well being. The monies that were given (from the american People) for the economic stimulus only helped the greed in our country & showed some that it pays to be greedy. Don’t worry about rocking the boat because it’s going to sink.
I agree with Maggie and Mark, and if the goverment was on the same ssi and ssa that we are on we would be addinf a lot of extra money into itand they wouldn’t be in a bind. Most of the goverment people make 10 to 20 times what i make and when they retire the still get that same pay for there retirment. They alredy got more money than they know what to do with anyway.
The country needs to be innoculated with a good dose of TERM LIMITS. It’s time to break up the monopoly of power for the sake of power. Washington is Chicago corruption on a larger basis. Out with the old, their cronies and “circles of power”.
When Obama said he would change this country he didn’t tell anyone what kind of changes it was. Our country needs to get out of the mind set that the goverment owes them something. We need to get off our couches, stop waiting for the goverment to bail out our mortgages, pay our credit card bills, pay for our food, and provide us with healthcare. The more we allow them to do the more they will gladly control our lifes. This country was survives on blue collar workers, and manufacturing jobs all of which are being shipped overseas. When what few are left being threaten of being shut down because of cap and trade and healthcare cost if the two bills pass. And then you have the special interest groups! The president wineing and dining them. God help us, get out and vote these bunch of spend happy bureaucracies out of Washington and get this country headed in to the right direction.
I agree with most of the comments. I have a question. Are any of you calling or writing or emailing your senators and representatives on a regular basis? You will get the same answers I get, but at least they know where I stand.
If you think health care is expensive now…….just wait until it’s free!!!!!!!!
Oh….my achin’ wallet!