Comments on: Health Care and Politics I – The Republicans

By: Shela Dennett

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Rich Life Carnival #16 | Rich Life Equals Better Life — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:14:04 +0000

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By: sam

sam — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:31:50 +0000

Your health is a commodity…
Police, fire-safety, roads, education (rudimentary),…. these are all OUR responsibility… but your health is the elitist’s profit. Disgusting… how do the republicans associate themselves with religion (pro-life), when they condone the most unchristian industry since slavery?

Just another facet of the unrestrained greed which is causing our economy’s legs to buckle under it’s own bloated belly.

It’s all down to greed, and it makes me sick… where’s a doctor when you need one?

By: Health Care and Politics II: The Democrats | Brain Blogger

Health Care and Politics II: The Democrats | Brain Blogger — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:09:35 +0000

[…] like McCain’s plan, Obama’s plan may not cover all of the uninsured Americans today. The Republican’s plan offers […]

By: Mary Bagwell

Mary Bagwell — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:47:37 +0000

Let’s think about John McCain’s plan from the prospective of a lower income individual. If your take home pay after taxes is between$300-$500 a week and you have rent or a mortgage, transportation costs, food and perhaps child care to pay where do you get the $1000 or more a month to buy private insurance? A tax credit is very nice if you have a high income but it will not help you afford payments like this. He has also not addressed those with preexisting conditions who cannot get coverage at any costs.

Case in point. My granddaughter lost her insurance during a pregnancy and could not even get a doctor to see her even though she could have paid. Thus she received no pre natal care and her baby was born with pneumonia and spent many days in NICU. The taxpayers paid this bill as in the meantime her husband had lost his job and the hospital had to put her on emergency medicaid. The current health care system in the country makes no sense at all and the McCain plan would only make matters worse.

By: Alois Ballweber

Alois Ballweber — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:57:32 +0000

.Who is really paying health insurance aka desease care in America.
Folks lets check the facts and do the math and you will find it is us the taxpayer paying 100% of it all.
1. The “Private Sector” as the republicans so fondly call it is “Providing” health insurance but it is us the taxpayer after paying taxes on our wages and purchase the goods and services from those businesses who “Provide” health insurance. Providing employees with health insurance is a business expense and it is build into the price of those goods and services we buy and is also tax deductable and it gives those companies who refuse providing health insurance an unfare advantage because they charge somewhat lower prices and yet reap a higher profit margin.
2. There are about 14 million federal employees with health insurance paid for by ,yes you guessed right,the taxpayer and the same goes for our city, county and state employees of about 45 million people.
3.Those unfortunate people who have no health insurance due to unemployment or who have jobs with companies that use predatory employment practices and other factors cannot afford seeing doctors as needed and will and do end up in the emergency rooms of our hospitals that are again paid for by the taxpayer.
4. Medicaid paid for by the taxpayer.
Well, having said all that i think a redistribution of this existing wealth should suffice to include every man, woman and child.