Comments on: Can we have REAL health care reform?

By: J M

J M — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 02:29:05 +0000

Before Reagan, all of your insurance and medical expenses were tax deductible. If you do not like that rule, take it up with Republicans. They took that tax break away and although they all talk about giving it back, none of them has ever done it.

The government and insurance companies are allowed to negotiate lower costs for lab work, and so are you. If you aren’t in your state, blame your state. That is not controlled at the federal level.

Your doctor that doesn’t bill insurance is saving 30% of her overhead costs by eliminating that paperwork. However, most insurance companies will not allow their patients to go to someone like that. They will refuse to reimburse for use of an out of network doctor.

Same with the lab. By not billing and not dealing with insurance, they save an immediate 30%.

Your solutions sound easy, but you do not have insurance. If you did, you would not be able to do any of the things you are doing to reduce costs. The insurance company would never cover any of those bills because that doctor and that lab is not in the network.

So maybe your cash deals cost you less, but heck, I have insurance and I only pay a $10 copay. So I am not about to drop my insurance to get your price.

You may be fine with minor stuff, but the minute you have to go into a hospital, your cash only way of operating will send you into bankruptcy in about two days.

The federal government doesn’t prohibit you from buying major medical, that is your state.

Again, before Reagan, all of your medical expenses, including major medical was a tax right off. Ask your Republican representative why they took that away. Who did it benefit?

The answer is simple. The party of no tax had to find a way to raise tax revenue. So they eliminated the tax breaks for medical expenses.

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By: JamesP

JamesP — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:39:57 +0000

I live in So. Arizona, and Kyl is nothing but a war monger idea-log.
Arizona is a state that doctors run from. If Kyl wanted to do smoothing, he should look at the high cost of malpractice ins.
But those are his buddies, so he wont touch that !
Cochise county has 130,000 people. One pulmonologist, and the health care is an embarrassment. Ask anyone that lives there !!
So don’t even suggest that our beloved Kyl could come up with a plan that would be good for the country !!

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By: Sugar

Sugar — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 07:40:27 +0000

Yes, It can happen, There first be a meeting of the minds.

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By: MJ

MJ — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:34:01 +0000

because the INTERESTS THAT BE, namely the health insurance lobby, don’t want it. so republicans are bought off, since they’re against everything anyway. or any new ideas at all… and now they’ve convinced the turncoat Blue Dog Republicans to accept their industry money too, so now democrats don’t even have a majority to get anything done. this *****!

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By: Bobby

Bobby — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 16:46:15 +0000

who needs health care when you have the open arms of the lord. as the bible says kill people who don’t believe the same thing as you and exploit uneducated people.

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By: Change Now

Change Now — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 05:05:33 +0000

I look at this health care thing as one big math problem.

I don’t care if it’s single payer or free market. Hybrid system won’t work.

I understand the government only plan–human health does not follow the same rules of supply and demand—health is not a commodity and there is always constant, unlimited demand.

If the American people are too bone headed to realize this, then if we go totally private EVERYBODY must have access. To leave out the broken humans is downright cruel.

You can have a private system–just has to be worked out by actuaries. We could have a lot of self insurance by having high deductibles, protecting doctors so they are not duplicating procedures out of fear of lawsuits, etc.

There are ways. We are logical thinking creatures. The problem is very complex, but even the most complex problems have solutions.

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By: callenqhranch

callenqhranch — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 08:24:44 +0000

Not as long as there is “Jackpot Justice” and trial lawyers raping corporations, insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies…

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By: GopObstruction

GopObstruction — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:34:00 +0000

Arnold is

the pink slips are in the mail

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By: Fat Scooby Rocks

Fat Scooby Rocks — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:12:13 +0000

yes as long as it isn’t part of a communist take over of the American economy

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By: Petite Salope, Dana the Great

Petite Salope, Dana the Great — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 18:43:15 +0000

Real health care respects life by protecting our unborn children’s lives, providing health to all (regardless of coverage or legal status), and ensures that the elderly and ill will always receive timely treatment.

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