“Health insurance” does NOT pay for “Health care” Health insurance pays doctors, nurses, administrators,etc.. Health care is when someone actually CARES for your health. You don’t make people “healthy” by pushing pills and butchering them up. Most health problems begin at the mouth. You are what you eat.

And this is a universal truth. Spiritually, you are what you believe. Mentally, you are what you think. Physically, you are what you eat. If you watch trashy stuff, you’ll have a trashy mind. If you eat trashy food, you’ll have a trashy (unhealthy) body. The doctors spend at least what? twelve years in college and still haven’t figured that out. Getting people truely healthy in this society does not pay. Pushing pills and cutting you up does. It really is that simple.

Car dealership will replace your whole front end when only one bolt is loose. Why? Because they can. What do you care? It’s under warranty or extended warranty. What’s that? It’s Car Health Insurance. Manufacture pays, so chalk it up! No, you pay, not the manufacturer. You think they provide a warranty at their expense? Ha! This is done typically in many professions. What makes you think doctors don’t do that? You better believe they do. It’s the same concept. The doctor or the car man doesn’t FEEL like he’s charging you because he’s submitting a claim, but in the short run, you ARE the one who pays; the consumer.

Is politics the only thing that people are getting dooped? Absolutely not.

Regulation of hospitals? I thought you were on the right side of life? Capitalism and free enterprise is great and so is democracy. However, the basic tenants of these philosophies is the pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness, which is biblically derived. I believe it was Adams (?) that said that the constitution is for a moral people, and it was useless without a moral people. When a democratic people drift from morality, then the government has no choice but to step in. And then we have socialism. Righteousness exhalteth a nation.

Not an exact science? Yet people run to them like they’ve got the answer for anything and take whatever pill they give them. I’ve know people taking more pills than food. Kidding. Too much trust in a failing system. For example, how do you know that it’s 1%? Where did you get that? The label? The little folded up paper in the box that the sorcerist gave you? Think about this: Obama’s BC. This man, in the face of thousands and thousands of people questioning him, just wave his hand and say, “You don’t need to see it.” In other words, he can lie and bamboozle with every camera in the world looking at him and every reporter worshipping at his feet. The guy is so filthy, yet he gets away with it. You cannot trust what comes over the air and out of Katie Curic’s mouth, right? Yet you trust some little paper you found in a box? You probably made that number up because you didn’t know the ACTUAL study’s numbers. The people who wrote it are probably the people selling the junk. You don’t know, and they don’t know, the long term affects of that drug.

If they’re doing such a good job, why is cancer on the rise? Why is heart disease on the rise? Why is diabetes on the rise? Why are children getting tumors now? All they do is treat symptoms. It hurts? Here take this pill, call me in the morning. Hey doctor, it still hurts. No problem, we can cut it out. Nevermind what IT is. Nevermind what is causing IT.

The Physician is not helpless. Oh, poor little physician. I don’t think so. Even though it’s a hassle, insurance companies pay physicians. They don’t SLAP you with the bill, they SLIP the bill to the insurance company. Sure they only get a percentage, but that’s why they jack up the price 2 to 3 times more than it’s worth. I think very few people pay out of their pocket. I gaurantee you, if the doctor had to look face to face with the patient and say, “Here, there’s the bill”, they would not get away with outrageous prices. Consumer would say, “WHAT! THAT MUCH!” They don’t have to put up with that most of the time. They just send it on to the insurance company.

I, for one, am not going to pay for Joe Shmoe’s smoking problem, Lisa’s drinking problem, Albert’s habit of eating 3 servings at New China Cafe with 3 glasses of Sweet Tea, Billy’s refusal to get on a diet and take a walk once in awhile. No. If you want to do that, go ahead. Sounds like socialism to me. It is, once the government takes control. And they will.

Those things are about as likely to happen as the Speaker actually inviting the GOP in to negotiate on anything, going forward. Of course, all in the name of “bipartisanship” and “civility.”

-Phil

So, when legislation comes along that helps us spend more time treating patients than we do filling out forms, I get excited. And when special interests try to stop that legislation, I get mad.

The Economic Recovery Act that passed the Senate today includes practical steps to improve health IT nationwide and cut down on paperwork. This one bill would do more to modernize the health care industry in one month than we’ve done in the past decade.

Now, opponents of this legislation – led by Rush Limbaugh – are launching an all-out smear campaign in the media. Will you help us push back? Write a letter to your editor right now: action.seiu.org/recovery

As nurses, our voices are critical in this debate. By explaining the benefits of health IT, we’ll have a seat at the table in deciding how this technology is implemented. Adopting better technology in our hospitals could save about $80 billion nationwide. That’s $80 billion that can be used to fund better staffing and safety.

It also has the potential to cut down on charting & paperwork and reduce errors. Studies show that nurses in hospitals that adopt health IT spend less time documenting patient care and more time delivering it.

People may not understand all the ins and outs of the Economic Recovery Act, but they’ll understand a nurse telling them the benefits it will have for patient care. Take a few minutes to write a letter to your newspaper right now: action.seiu.org/recovery

Thanks,
Cathy Glasson, RN
Value Care, Value Nurses

I say take away their cars, their planes, take away all their tax-payer subsidized expenses and perks, take away their 6-week break at holiday time; then the REAL players who care about We The People and what we have to say will be left. Even kids have more days in school than these 535 are “committed to” in DC.

I can see that I am not going to change your mind. I will say that health INSURERS are companies just like any other, they have shareholders, sell stock, invest their money, and feel they are responsible to their shareholders FIRST; patients come in second. They’re out to make a profit just like Walmart, Microsoft, GM.

HOWEVER; health INSURERS are a separate entity from physicians. Let me give you an example. My mother had terrible back pain. She was on high-dose narcotics. The neurosurgeon wanted to do an MRI. HOWEVER; she had to wait TWO WEEKS to get the approval of her health INSURER FIRST. The INSURER looked over the medical records, and then “made a decision” whether or not the test was “warranted.” It was very frustrating to me and her, she being in pain all this time. And the physician is helpless. The only other alternative to waiting is to pay for the test or treatment yourself. This is what the Feds eventually want to do, take the place of the health insurer and dictate to the physician what treatment is warranted, if any at all.

Yes, physicians are human and make errors in judgment and mistakes. But as I said earlier, it is not an exact science and results are not guaranteed. I tried a drug for a condition I have. It worked for the condition, but unfortunately for me it had the opposite effect and kept me awake when it was supposed to help me sleep. So I am the 1% of ALL people who took this drug that had this problem; so I can’t take it. Not a guaranteed science. Everyone is different. I am a widow and have been getting my health insurance subsidized for 15 years. Now all of a sudden the subsidy is gone and I am paying 100% of the premium. Another big issue is there is no regulation of hospitals. They build willy-nilly and duplicate expensive treatment centers and equipment; which drives up the cost of health care AND health insurance.

I hope the 8 yr old you were speaking of remains healthy and medically controlled. Please try not to discredit the whole medical profession because of your experiences. My mother’s life was saved several months ago when a physician recognized her chest pain was not heart attack but a gall bladder ready to burst. So there are plenty of good doctors out there.

Rationing health care is a political means to decide who lives and who dies, and who pays the bills. Socialized medicine is cheaper because it’s cheaper not to care.

Frankly, I don’t understand the democrats. Why are mice in San Francisco more important than people? Why do non-US citizens have constitutional rights, but US citizens don’t? Why do you say your for the middle and low class yet fill the extreme elite pockets with money with your spending bills on the back of the average taxpayer? Why do you want my children’s records to play soccer, but won’t allow me to the POTUS records? How do you promote the government backing fannie mae/freddy mac poor loan policies and then blame the republicans who tried to stop it?

The above policies aren’t democratic, fascist, socialist, or communist. They are just ‘pet’ projects that have supplemented the good of many for a few influencial peoples whims. This is most similar to a bad monarchy. Phil didn’t the French find an answer to those people?

There is a decided difference between “health insurance” and “health care;” the former typically pays [for most of] the latter.

-Phil