CORRESPONDENT OF THE DAY

thetruth you are one sick puppy.  It is OK for you to use any words and name calleing to delay answering direct questions but when someone else corners you and calls you a liberal it is lilke sticking a knife into you. I gave you a way to save health care costs and lower the actual cost of health insurance but you want to get this country into a Socialist program wher you and Chairman Obama control all manner of life for the “common people” I give up because you will take this country down your liberal road and then complain because the Republicans will tell the citizens that there was a better way but you were to focused on the German Socialist way of doing things. I hope you can live with what you want because I will fight it every step of the way once it is passed. Good luck and I hope you do well under your socialist ways.  Don’t try to deny this observation because it is all you push.

There is hope for Jer’s interest in higher and higher health care cost. His GOP is trying their best to support him, at least support their financial interests. Last night, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Obama has a “radical agenda.“ Republicans have “watched them take over banks, insurance companies, auto companies,“ he said, “and now they want to take over your health care.”
Well, ole Mitch twisted it a bit, as Obama’s proposal is not to take over heatlh insurers. People like Jer who are most pleased with their insurer, even if UnitedHealth who gave $1.1 billion in 2006 to their CEO for leaving, can keep what he enjoys. Be happy. What the GOP fights is the option of a public insurance pool; non-profit, pro-patient insurance. See. the GOP fears such lower-cost option would “pain” UnitedHealth, BCBS, others profits. They might not be able to compete with lower cost option. See. Higher costs (greed) is GOOD, per GOP, per Jer.

A fella just plum closed-minded as to need for improving our health care system relative to cost and availability to all citizens. Its little “help you and not very many others”, as though tens of millions of Americans are not paying far too much for prescription meds, available to all other countries are pricing less than to us. Too high cost meds, too high cost insurers, too high cost everything that is our sick medical care system; yet, a guy is hung-up on Democrats. His party of “NO” did nothing for past 8 yrs, except let the insurers and pharmaceuticals write a profit-centered Medicare Plan D plan that is “non-negotitionable”, 100% controlled by the writers to charge greedily what they desire for premiums, charge what they desire for meds.

Way to go jer and your kind of blind loyalists to the party of “NO”, except to its “base” of unregulated robbers of our citizens financial pockets. You did a heck of a job against fellow Americans, including your kind.

Some favor keeping all current private and/or public stock-traded, for-profit entities, as are now (insurers, hospitals, physicians, etc.), while adding a non-profit health care-focused government insurance option without any denials for pre-existing conditions, such as for sick people who need health care denied by the current insurers.  Most of those advocates also support price-negotiation ability for Medicare for meds, so that the same Micardis (blood pressure) med I order for my Mother from Canada that ships to her U.S. mailbox from Germany, where it is made, will no longer be 75% higher in cost if bought under her Medicare coverage through her U.S. insurer at her local Walmart pharmacy.  And no.  The German government does not pay with German taxes any subsidy to Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals of Ingleheim, Germany for a pharmacy shipping the med to my Mother, and both Boehringer and pharmacy making profit.

Others favor continued escalation of medicine and all other costs, including insurers’ premiums, while they scale back coverage and limit doctor selections, procedure options, and new drugs covered.  They are in same camp as R-Mitch McConnell, who fears a non-profit pro-patient insurance option would not allow private insurers enough profit to compete. In other words, insurers should be “subsidized” by citizens, rather than we have affordable coverage.  Why?

Regardless of taxes or what, AlL other nations pay, directly or indirectly, much less for quality health care than the USA.  Gross Domestic Product.  Output of a nation (all its people) production of goods & services.  When it is reported Germany spends 10.7% of its GDP for total cost of health care, while America spends 17.3%, it is what it tis. We as a nation spend toooo much; and whether a nation, a society, or a tribe of people together because they want to be a nation, society, or tribe; they adhere to support basic reasons for “being together”.  Thus, we have a single, very expensive national defense and many other systems.

What more is a basic need for a tribe, society, or nation, as a whole than basic life-saving of such?  Health care should be, as with other civilized peoples, a “shared” life support system.  Does anyone care so little for so many as to not care at all?