Protesters gather at Richmond offices of Webb, Warner

Blaine-It is Sunday morning and it was a pleasure to read your gracious reply.
All any of us hope is that we get this issue resolved so that health care “reform” is eventually beneficial to everyone now and in the future.

I am 30 and have worked 8 campaigns, hardcore, in my short life. That equals hating America?

What exactly is it YOU do?

bholl accusing me of being a liberal proves you have no idea who I am or what I have posted both here and in the past.  You also prove you have a very socialistic view of this country.

w0w123 and bholl plus several others only answer to this demonstration outside the Webb’s office is to make unfounded accusations or resort to name calling.  They heve not one fact to back any of this up. Now they are using these same tactics to try to intimidate all who don’t follow blindly in their views.  Yes there are many who hate America and these two are just a prime example of this statement.

it is the lateness of the hour that has reduced me to single sentences Will.
And Blaine who would know the correctness of my life story better them me?
The hospital bills and doctor and medicine costs were commensurate with the times as was the money that we made.
And sir another fact you have over looked not that it is any of your business is that thank the gods I am not particularly wealthy i am also very healthy. I have no hospital bills and no prescription bills. In the true spirit of this debate that is not important. The point is made to remind you not to set up false arguments about strangers in newspaper posts.
I am sorry about your friend though.
i am sure that that you are correct in that do not currently pay for my own costs but i DID help to pay for previous recepients of Medicare and SS
with taxes taxen out of a lifetime’s paychecks.
And there is no need to be so huffy. I am sure your math is much better than mine.
Night All

The way the hospital scam works is that the bill shows something outrageous like $10,000 per day.  But the insurance actually pays a very small fraction of this total amount. This is called the negotiated rate. It is not really negotiated - because the insurance dictates what it will pay. There is no way insurance companies can stay in business paying $10,000 per day per patient. This is all a made-up number on the part of the hospital. Why?  So that you, the patient, will be “forced” to pay for insurance. You will be scared stiff not to have it!

So when you hear of people saying their hospital bill was $100,000 for a few days, this is bogus!  The hospital, says, “Hmm, let’s see, I think I will key in $100,000 on this one.“  The insurance company pays $8,000.

My co-worker’s wife was outraged by this scam when she had surgery for breast cancer. Her bill was about $25,000 for one night. The insurance company paid $2,500. She wanted to drop her insurance (which was more than $2,000 per MONTH) and pay what the insurance company paid. She wanted to be able to pay the $2,500. She thought that should be the actual bill, since that is all the hospital could expect to be paid. But the hospital refused to see it that way; they said without insurance, she had to pay the $25,000. See, this is a scam to force all Americans to get insurance.

The answer is for all Americans to drop insurance and go only with catastrophic (which is very inexpensive).

Then Americans will stop going to the doctor for every little scratch and boo-boo, and taking expensive cocktails each day!

Health care costs would plunge!  Guaranteed!  The doctor would charge what the market would bear.