Comments on: The Faster Congress And The Administration Go, The Behinder We All Get (Updated) http://jscafenette.com/2009/07/16/the-faster-congress-and-the-administration-go-the-behinder-we-all-get-financially-that-is/ Pull up a chair and sit a spell... Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:43:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Sue http://jscafenette.com/2009/07/16/the-faster-congress-and-the-administration-go-the-behinder-we-all-get-financially-that-is/comment-page-1/#comment-13524 Sue Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:27:30 +0000 http://jscafenette.com/?p=8570#comment-13524 Karen, thanks for taking the time to leave such a detailed comment on this issue. Your situation, as you present it is a perfect case in point of why this government controlled health care system should be dead in the water. I read another article yesterday in which Obama has requested Governors not use the words "rationed health care" when addressing his plan. He supposedly is concerned that the American people will not buy into a plan if it is framed in such a way. Really? Does he believe we are all blithering idiots who cannot fathom what his ideas will do to our quality of life? All the talk (and action) of changing, reshaping and remaking America has gone too far. America, with all her faults, is just fine, thank you. Karen, thanks for taking the time to leave such a detailed comment on this issue.

Your situation, as you present it is a perfect case in point of why this government controlled health care system should be dead in the water.

I read another article yesterday in which Obama has requested Governors not use the words “rationed health care” when addressing his plan. He supposedly is concerned that the American people will not buy into a plan if it is framed in such a way. Really? Does he believe we are all blithering idiots who cannot fathom what his ideas will do to our quality of life?

All the talk (and action) of changing, reshaping and remaking America has gone too far. America, with all her faults, is just fine, thank you.

]]> By: Jeanette http://jscafenette.com/2009/07/16/the-faster-congress-and-the-administration-go-the-behinder-we-all-get-financially-that-is/comment-page-1/#comment-13523 Jeanette Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:51:48 +0000 http://jscafenette.com/?p=8570#comment-13523 Thank you for your very interesting and informative comment, Karen, and welcome to our site. We hope you will continue to visit us often. Thank you for your very interesting and informative comment, Karen, and welcome to our site. We hope you will continue to visit us often.

]]> By: Karen http://jscafenette.com/2009/07/16/the-faster-congress-and-the-administration-go-the-behinder-we-all-get-financially-that-is/comment-page-1/#comment-13522 Karen Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:55:27 +0000 http://jscafenette.com/?p=8570#comment-13522 Another aspect of the rationing that I don't see pointed out is that in countries with single payer the docs don't just decide when old people should die, they decide when sick newborns should die as well. While most people will never have a baby that sick it is a situation that happens enough in Great Britain that howls of protests are making it to the mainstream press there. I will never understand how those who want a public option believe themselves to be compasionate for the sick and yet in every thread I see there is always someone lecturing us how "you will die one day, get over it" and that some lives are worth more than others. This is not really about health care, this is about class warfare and greed. By the way, I am a chronically ill person with a very expensive disease. The other day one of my extremely liberal healthy middle class friends was complaining to me that her annual pap smear is just "too expensive" and that she can't afford it, thus we should have single-payer. There are millions of chronically ill Americans who will be paying more taxes and give up life improving drugs so that abled-bodied people can have a few hundred dollars of health care "for free". The punchline is that _I_ am the selfish one for wanting to keep my private insurance and stay alive while they are the "compassionate" ones for giving out free pap smears and well baby check ups at the expense of the elderly and chronically ill. Another aspect of the rationing that I don’t see pointed out is that in countries with single payer the docs don’t just decide when old people should die, they decide when sick newborns should die as well. While most people will never have a baby that sick it is a situation that happens enough in Great Britain that howls of protests are making it to the mainstream press there.

I will never understand how those who want a public option believe themselves to be compasionate for the sick and yet in every thread I see there is always someone lecturing us how “you will die one day, get over it” and that some lives are worth more than others. This is not really about health care, this is about class warfare and greed.

By the way, I am a chronically ill person with a very expensive disease. The other day one of my extremely liberal healthy middle class friends was complaining to me that her annual pap smear is just “too expensive” and that she can’t afford it, thus we should have single-payer. There are millions of chronically ill Americans who will be paying more taxes and give up life improving drugs so that abled-bodied people can have a few hundred dollars of health care “for free”. The punchline is that _I_ am the selfish one for wanting to keep my private insurance and stay alive while they are the “compassionate” ones for giving out free pap smears and well baby check ups at the expense of the elderly and chronically ill.

]]> By: Jeanette http://jscafenette.com/2009/07/16/the-faster-congress-and-the-administration-go-the-behinder-we-all-get-financially-that-is/comment-page-1/#comment-13521 Jeanette Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:32:47 +0000 http://jscafenette.com/?p=8570#comment-13521 Everything with this man with the golden TOTUS is always to be done in a hurry from the stimulus bill to cap and trade to now health care. We just yesterday signed up with a medi-gap insurance plan for my husband, who became medicare eligible July 1. What is this going to do to him now since they will only pay the difference between what Medicare pays and if Medicare decides it's not a covered expense we're in heap big trouble. By the way, after seeing these shoe boxes of cars how many older people do you think are nimble enough to get into one? How safe are they? This is all poppycock and the masses seem to be just sitting there taking it. Congress is not just bent on passing this stuff; they are <b>hell</b> bent on passing it. Right now all we can do is pray the Republicans hold and the Blue Dogs go along with them. Once we hit next year they won't dare touch this legislation because they'll want to be re-elected. It's time for Obama, Pelosi, Reid and associates to go. Past time, IMO. Republicans had better not cave on this one and I'm thinking of Snowe and Collins. Everything with this man with the golden TOTUS is always to be done in a hurry from the stimulus bill to cap and trade to now health care.

We just yesterday signed up with a medi-gap insurance plan for my husband, who became medicare eligible July 1. What is this going to do to him now since they will only pay the difference between what Medicare pays and if Medicare decides it’s not a covered expense we’re in heap big trouble.

By the way, after seeing these shoe boxes of cars how many older people do you think are nimble enough to get into one? How safe are they? This is all poppycock and the masses seem to be just sitting there taking it.

Congress is not just bent on passing this stuff; they are hell bent on passing it.

Right now all we can do is pray the Republicans hold and the Blue Dogs go along with them. Once we hit next year they won’t dare touch this legislation because they’ll want to be re-elected. It’s time for Obama, Pelosi, Reid and associates to go. Past time, IMO. Republicans had better not cave on this one and I’m thinking of Snowe and Collins.

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