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The Spectacle Blog
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon) is upset that a political strategist wants to prevent the health care rationing that is part and parcel of socialist medicine from coming to America.
If the freshman senator is so worried about the words that Frank Luntz is urging universal health care opponents to use, then maybe Luntz is on to something.
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Real American| 5.8.09 @ 4:46PM
what's really hysterical is that this moron keeps calling it health care "reform" as if that word isn't propaganda designed to push the program and distract from what the program really is: government bureaucrat-run health care. If he'd call it that, Luntz wouldn't have needed to come with his own apt description.
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Ellis Wyatt| 5.8.09 @ 5:32PM
Apparently Obama was right when he said words mean something. How anyone could support rationed healthcare is beyond me and how anyone can choose to ignore that there will be rationed healthcare is just irresponsible. Rationing is the key word everyone should be talking about. There is a reason that people from britain, Canada, and other failed government run healthcare systems come to America for treatment.
Americans simply won't accept being denied, told to wait, or asked to pay higher taxes for substandard healthcare. If anything the "reform" being discussed is just going to further divide the country into those who can afford private healthcare from doctors and those that have to rely on the rationed government care. Frankly, if I were a doctor I would not participate and go to a strictly private practice.
tom| 5.8.09 @ 5:51PM
Medicare pays physicians 10 cents on the dollar charged and the government wants to reduce this to 7 cents on the dollar. They want to lower the eligible age to 55 . The baby boomers are entering retirement age and represent the wealthiest generation of individuals in the history of our country. These facts make it unsustainable for physicians to participate in the Medicare program. The country is in for a very rude awakening when it comes to the issue of health care reform.
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Old Texican| 5.8.09 @ 10:20PM
Government health-care is splendid...UNTIL YOU GET SICK OR HURT.
Please die quickly without raising a fuss in that event.
END
Kat| 5.9.09 @ 12:55AM
Medical care for all--until you get sick, unless you're one of the lucky elites. No thanks.
momordica | 5.9.09 @ 3:14AM
Enjoy Fat free Health and stay happy.
Spicy Joker| 5.10.09 @ 1:52PM
Obama's health care "reform" is a plot to create new Democratic voters by making people dependent on government.
Daisy| 5.10.09 @ 7:39PM
Obama's strategy is to kill as many as possible before they're born and kill the survivors before they get too old. Keeps costs down don't ya know.
Michael Dooley| 5.11.09 @ 9:36AM
Eventually, every spendthrift government realizes it has to contain its socialized medicine costs or the entire system will bleed state revenues dry. Like it is for health insurance companies, there are two major ways to limit costs. 1.) Effectively raise the price of services. Any program which requires patients to fork over 20-50% of their own money for some or all services will dramatically cut down demand. [This is both good and bad. It will discourage "hypochondriacs" of all sorts from using services needlessly. But it also discourages those who are truly ill.] 2.) Restrict the availability of services. Not for nothing do Canada and the United Kingdom have far fewer MRI's and limited openings for surgery. You can't get medical treatment if it isn't there. 3.) The government tells your physician how he can and can't practice medicine. This is a common complaint against our present healthcare insurance providers. But, with insurance companies, all they do is tell you what they will not pay for--at least you are free to buy those services yourself. With government-run healthcare, you will be told what you can and can't get--period.
With most contemporary health insurance policies, what insurance will pay for and how much is negotiated between the insurance company and one’s employer. It is a process of give and take renewed every year or two. In other words, insurance and employer may strike a deal which offers fewer mental health benefits in order to include dental care. The deal may be to include vision care instead of full prescription benefits. (Ideally, the individual should be able to pick his own health insurance mix. But that is another subject.) The point is contemporary health insurance policies are flexible to negotiations.
Government health benefits in contrast are determined by other factors: medical necessity determined by faceless (probably non-medical) professionals. Cost/benefit calculations. Political lobbying and congressional favors trading. All factors removed from actual medical incidence and personal choice.
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