Anthem protest leader taken into custody

In the “#1” country for health care (according to the agenda driven W.H.O.) 14,802 people—mostly elderly—died from heat during a heatwave of American proportions in 2003. Many hospitals in France did not even have air conditioning.
The heat wave occurred in August, a month in which many French people, including government ministers and physicians, are on vacation.  Holiday schedules are mandated by the government. 
Many died unattended in emergency rooms from dehydration.
When it gets over 85 degrees here in Richmond, I don’t want to have to worry about grandma croaking in some government run facility here in ObamaLand.

I am well aware that government services are paid for by our tax dollars and I strongly support using my tax dollars to insure that everyone in this country has health care.  Thank you for responding and sharing your ideas….I only wish it could be without the sarcasm and slurs.

DOOVE…police protection is not free, fire protection is not free, public school education is not free. all of these services are bought and paid for by taxpayers who have significant portions of their incomes forcibly confiscated by local, state and federal governments…you must have been absent the day they were teaching that at your free school. on the other hand, maybe that wasn’t taught at all.

doove you think it’s great because somebody else is paying for it. I wonder how we acquired so many socialist in the very country that is founded on constitutional freedoms that nowhere state that it’s legal to extort money from citizens to give to other citizens nor does it state that health insurance is a right.

Also where does it say those who are successful should have the fruits of their labor stripped from them to give to the less able? Income redistribution is pure socialism.

This old saying should be revived:

If it’s not worth working for then it’s not worthy in the first place.

Posted by ( equality ) on July 24, 2009 at 3:46 pm

FACT CHECK: Today’s rally was real people who are affected by the very real health care crisis in this country, just like Debbie Smith is a real person who had real cancer and no insurance.

I think before anyone posts about those without health insurance they should research the circumstances of each person. Did they gamble and take a chance they wouldn’t get sick? Are the payments on their too large house and vehicles taking the money needed to purchase insurance? Are their multiple cell phone contracts, cable tv and other non-essentials taking priority? Just to say someone doesn’t have health insurance is only part of the story. Most responsible people I know have insurance. A lot of them don’t have the non-essentials. A matter of priorities in a lot of cases or are they just waiting for someone else to pay for it for them?

I don’t understand how we are changing into a nation that want’s someone else or government to do everything for them. There once was personal responsibility principles that people embraced. Now it’s gimme.

I would bet the vast majority of posters don’t have a clue as to how insurance works.

Let’s say I have a company with 10 employees that I purchase health insurance for. We estimate these 10 employees will use $100,000 in claims for the year. The insurance company will get 15 percent for administering the plan. So that makes the cost $115,000 for the year. Divide that by 10 and it’s $11,500 per employee. Now if the employees don’t use that much it will be cheaper next year but if the employees use double that then the price next year will double. Simple economics.

This is not conjecture. I did this very function for 25 years negotiating union contracts. We knew how much each employee cost us and how much we had to decrease or increase our contribution. Insurance benefits do not appear out of thin air. Somebody must pay for them. I pay for mine and I resent people thinking I should pay for theirs also.