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Matheson gets no thanks from GOP for health vote
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Republicans....you just sent out the best message you could to my childrens generation. They don't matter....
Many people without health insurance do not want it. Why take away their freedom of choice and force it on them?
Others ARE cover3ed at hospital emergency rooms. If they cannot pay, their bills are forgiven.
You want to fix something which is not broken. How about allowing health insurance to cross state lines? How about getting the trial lawyers out of the equation-that alone would greatly reduce costs.
What about truly checkeing the credentials of foriegn degreed doctors, instead of rubber stamping or approving their qualifications without real questioning?
There are another of good options which do NOT give us government controlled healthcare.
Why fine or imprison someone for not agreeing with YOU? Just because you want them to have health insurance??? You are willing to put people in JAIL for that??? Are you the freedom loving types.
Just goes to show,
There is no moderation in all things in Utah.
Seems it is All or nothing, extremeism at it's worst.
Bottom line: Its all politics all the time. Nothing to do with patriotism and the American way.
"Why does there need to be a solution to a problem which does not exist?"
I can't tell if this is serious or parody. A problem that doesn't exist? I've heard a lot of nutty stuff about the health care problem, but that kinda takes the cake.
"Others ARE cover3ed at hospital emergency rooms. If they cannot pay, their bills are forgiven."
Exactly. They wait until a minor problem, which could be resolved inexpensively if they had insurance, becomes serious enough to warrant going to a very expensive emergency room. And even if their bills are "forgiven," that doesn't mean that someone else magically pays them. That treatment incurs expenses that are passed on to ALL of us in the form of higher hospital costs and higher insurance premiums.
If you don't understand that basic facet of the healthcare problem, you should probably go do some reading before holding forth with your opinions.
That's the kind of mediocrity you get when you have a guy who is basically in conflict with his constituents and really should never have been elected in Utah.
Instead of voting for a fake conservative like Matheson, let's get a real one. Let's get someone who won't vote for Nancy Pelosi for speaker and then try to claim he's a conservative. IF HE WAS A CONSERVATIVE, HE WOULDN'T BE A DEMOCRAT.
Get Matheson out in 2010!
I applaud Matheson for not supporting either bill. Neither presented a workable and just solution. Both were just political pandering to gain power, which is precisely what one would expect from the two major parties.
The only major recent blemish on Matheson's record in my mind is his vote for the government bailouts last year. I don't know if I can forgive him for that, but he has done a good job since then. Maybe enough people cussed him out for that that he wised up.
I'm not in his district.
Or, better yet, take responsibility upon yourself to get the necessary coverage for your kids to cover said operation. I don't want to pay for your insurance so get off your butt and do it yourself. The government does not owe you a living and neither do I.
By the way your beloved bill will cut Medicare by 500 BILLION dollars. Gee, that means that my 78 year old father will get his medical care cut and he worked his whole life to be forced into Medicare now that he's retired. I hope he doesn't ever get any major malady, because under your bill, he'll be screwed.
Government, by definition, doesn't do things well. This has been proved over and over throughout history. Let's not destroy to best healthcare in the world by letting the government destroy it.
Again, don't be fooled by Matheson. He is just riding the fence to get re-elected.
The Republican bill did address the root causes and would make health insurance much less expensive. It did not increase the welfare state providing giveaways.
We need tort reform. The Democrat party is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Trial Layers Association. The Polosi plan included language that would punish any state that capped medical malpractice awards. (The Trial Lawyer Preservation Act.)
We need some well financed doctors to run for congress. They would know how to fix this problem.
Here is my tort reform:
1. The doctor shall be held harmless if they followed established and documented best practices. (This means they did the right thing and they should not be punished for that.)
2. Cap non financial awards at $250,000.
3. Include disability insurance in the health insurance policy. If you are disabled by a medical procedure, whether the doctor is at fault or not, you can get up to 100% of your salary depending upon the degree of disability.
Nobody loses but the lawyers. What could be better?
Universal healthcare for all (at a fair price) and the same healthcare as our representatives/senators get will Bring Down the costs eating away at our country's budget. Plus we will all be better off and so will our country.
It's the RIGHT THING TO DO. Without good health what good are WE?
Many states already have tort reform. For example, CA caps noneconomic damages at $250,000. Question: what "damages" would be awarded in case of a child killed by negligent medical practices?
US government agencies typically use a figure around $7 million to represent the lost economic output from each death. If we conservatively use only half of the government figure, or $3.5 million, it suggests that the annual cost to the US economy of 40,000 deaths is about $140 billion. That adds up to a cost of more than a trillion dollars over a 10-year period - even taking future inflation into account - well above the cost of enacting a health care package.
The stats and growth prognostications from tout television, New York banksters, our Federal Reserve, U.S. Treasury, and various U.S. Government fiscally incestuous cabal members are replete with liars, exaggerators, and crooked politicians. The U.S. Government and several others are economically dead; they just haven't admitted it yet.
The United States' financial affairs are an empty burning hulk of disaster.
There is not enough taxing power, stealing power, money and bond-printing power on this globe for these dudes to worm their way out of a major collapse. It may take some time, but its coming for sure. There is no way out except to inflate. And, we know how that one ends. Read about Germany's hyper-inflation of 1921-1922.
We are not yelling fire in this theatre of the absurd but rather giving an untenable situation the cold, blank, fishy-eyed stare of an auditor. Two and two isn’t 20 and never will be. Most everyone is broke and going broker. Even those with no debt and holding supposedly strong assets in government paper and real estate reside in quicksand.
VOTE GOP ALL out in 2010 Utah.
GOP blasts Bush for 9/11
GOP blasts Regan for Reganomics.
GOP blasts...
see a pattern?
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