Health-Care Reform: It's Not Over Yet

• Report this Comment On January 20, 2010, at 3:48 PM, mrmytzlplk wrote:

  In a state that has near-universal coverage from mandated health insurance, where post-election polling of voters yesterday shows a 55-62% approval rating (depending on whose poll you look at) for President Obama, how was this mostly a statement against Obama's push for health-care reform? I don't doubt there was a small factor in this, but I think a lot more had to do with the 10% unemployment rate nationwide and the fact that Coakley was a lazy candidate who ran a crappy campaign and called Curt Schilling a Yankee fan -- people in Mass. take their baseball SERIOUS, folks. You'd better believe it.

• Report this Comment On January 20, 2010, at 4:07 PM, spawn44 wrote:

  You socialist fools have two good eyes but you still can't see. The fact Mass. has universal health coverage is one of the reasons they voted for Brown, they know from experience, it doesn't work.

• Report this Comment On January 20, 2010, at 4:56 PM, Fool wrote:

  http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2010/01/20/health-care...

• Report this Comment On January 20, 2010, at 5:19 PM, Oldfool65 wrote:

  The "Healthcare Reform" debate was never about healthcare reform; that's why it's failing.

  The "debate" was about "Death Panels", Abortion Rights, Socalism, Drug company profits, Insurance industry profits, domestic political partisanship, trying to insure that Obama's presidency is a failure, income tax reform, the deficit, and numerous other non-health agendas.

  No where was the out of pocket cost to patients addressed. No where was increasing the supply of doctors and nurses discussed. No where, other than electronic medical records, was a streamlining of the health delivery system addressed.

  Insurance premiums will go up 25% for the average consumer this year - WHY! My doctors say they aren't making money, the hospitals say they aren't making money, the insurance companies and drug companies cry they aren't making enough money - WHERE is all the money going?

• Report this Comment On January 20, 2010, at 6:09 PM, stockmenot wrote:

  Do you want to know where the money's going??? To the drug companies and Insurance Companies. We take on the highest drug prices in the World, just so Countries like Canada can get theirs cheaper...we pay for theirs. Now why isn't that being addressed???

  The most obvious and common sense reason is that we pay the highest "end of life" costs of anyone in the World. Medi Cal offered my 94 year old dying grandmother an intestinal blockage surgery that would of required hundreds of thousands of dollars and she surely would of died anyway...I had that surgery at 45, and wished I had died. We are the most religious, but so unwilling to let our loved ones go to heaven...come on folks is it really that difficult to connect the dots???

• Report this Comment On January 20, 2010, at 7:38 PM, xetn wrote:

  Stockmenot: What you are describing is the result of government intervention, that "allows" the US drug companies to discount drugs in foreign countries while the US citizens subsidize the cost by paying more.

  Have you tried to go to Canada and purchase drugs cheaper? Or how about Mexico?

  As for one reason the Dems lost is:

  It seems that an ABC/Washington Post poll found that, when asked, "Generally speaking, would you say you favor smaller government with fewer services or larger government with more services?" 58 percent of Americans favored smaller government with fewer services to 38 percent who favor more government and more services.

• Report this Comment On January 20, 2010, at 7:48 PM, knoconnor wrote:

  "Democrats no longer have a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate."

  Because Joe Lieberman is no longer really a Democrat, they never had one.

• Report this Comment On January 20, 2010, at 7:57 PM, mrmytzlplk wrote:

  @spawn44 You mean the universal health care legislation that was forced on an unsuspecting Mass. public by that rabid socialist Mitt Romney? Good point -- pity my pinko eyes don't work, else I'd have seen that.

• Report this Comment On January 21, 2010, at 1:51 AM, pkluck wrote:

  Joe Lieberman was bought off just like Lousiana and Nebraska so they DID have a filibuster-proof majority.

  Thank Gawd Brown got elected, it will probably save me tens if not hundreds of thousands of tax dollars in the future. Boon doogle health care down the drain, boon doogle energy tax down the drain, etc. I haven't been this happy since Clinton was impeached.

• Report this Comment On January 21, 2010, at 2:01 AM, ChannelDunlap wrote:

  I really wish the Dem's had just taken the Republican position of flipping the bird to anybody who disagrees and pushed the bill through. At least we'd have gotten something accomplished. Instead it's looking like the last few months of debate have all been for nothing.

• Report this Comment On January 21, 2010, at 8:14 AM, meenyoo wrote:

  The way I see it, Republicans were never interested in any kind of healthcare reform, and Democrats had the majority, wasted months fighting among themselves and failed to do anything useful. They're all pretty worthless.

  So-

  I propose that the Congress' cadillac healthcare plan be suspended until they pass a bill that makes affordable healthcare available to every citizen of this country. Don't care who takes the credit as long as it gets done. And if you need more healthcare workers, well there's lotsa people out there who need jobs.

• Report this Comment On January 21, 2010, at 5:16 PM, clydejazz wrote:

  The Supreme Court just threw out the restriction on corporations giving money directly to political campaigns. Now they don't have to even pretend to funnel the money in from elsewhere.

  Insurance companies can now buy everyone in Congress, not just the Joe Liebermans of the world.

  Think our premiums will go up 10-20% next year again?

  And the year after that? and the year after that? and......................and.............and..........

• Report this Comment On January 21, 2010, at 5:20 PM, clydejazz wrote:

  The Supreme Court just threw out the restriction on corporations giving money directly to politicians. Now they don't even have to find hundreds of "donors" to funnel the money through--they can buy every member of Congress, not just the Joe Liebermans of the world.

  Think our health insurance premiums will go up another 10-20% next year? and the year after that? and the year after that? and.. and...and......

• Report this Comment On January 22, 2010, at 6:47 PM, footej wrote:

  Let's get real. Obama's healcare plan closely resembles the Mass. State plan. And the people of Mass. have elected the ONE person who can stop Obamacare in its tracks.

  The people of Mass. have realized that the problem with our healthcare system is too much government control. More government control wont solve the problem - this is a classic example of Govenment failure, not Market failure.

  And if the "liberal" people of Mass. dont like Obamacare, the rest of the country doesnt like it either.

• Report this Comment On January 22, 2010, at 7:44 PM, footej wrote:

  mrmytzlplk, and your point is? Mitt Romney is a slippery, wishy washy socialist/conservative RepubliCrat (well dressed, though I must admit). Does it really surprise anyone that a career politician - regardless of stripes - would force ill- concieved legistlation on the people of Mass (or the rest of the country) for polictical gain?

  Most Repulicans and Democrats are flip-sides of the same political coin. Let's hope Brown and the ensuing influx of new elected representitives are different and bring the real change that Obama promised but - because of his career political instincts/obligations - can't deliver on.

  Full disclosure - I was anti-Obama before it was cool...

• Report this Comment On January 22, 2010, at 7:59 PM, topsecret10 wrote:

  Healthcare reform Is D.O.A, just like the Democrats In 2010. Our congress Is a joke............ TS

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