Comments on: Paging Dr. Obama: Looking Ahead to Government-Run Health Care

By: MegaBob

MegaBob — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 12:46:25 +0000

And #31– Be careful what you wish for- you might get it!
And remember- you get what you pay for. If it’s free, it’s worthless.

By: MegaBob

MegaBob — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:13:29 +0000

As a doctor, all I can say is that we had a system that worked very well- until the government got involved in it. Medicare and Medicaid are over half the patients we see now and that system sucks.Electronic records are horrible- but they allow the government and insurance companies to micrmanage us (and you). Yet all the Illegal aliens have Medicaid now ! We are truely doomed.

By: DaProf

DaProf — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:39:09 +0000

OK,
SO, the same government that can’t run the V.A. effectively without considering having our wounded Vets have to use private insurance to cover their care …… Wants to take over health care for the rest of us?

Let’s see our Veteran’s cared for properly if they want a snowball’s chance of convincing anyone that they can manage nationwide health care!

By: Leatherneck

Leatherneck — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:40:48 +0000

I went to the store today. I had to pay for everything I wanted. Then, I got the oil changed in my Jeep. Again, I had to pay every cent before I got my keys back. The same thing happeneds every month when my home loan payment comes up. Not to mention, the utility bill, phone bill, car loan payment, insurance, fuel costs, gym, life lock, and next month the IRS.

Why I can not get someone, anyone to pay for the things I want is beyond me. Perhaps, they just want me to die, and go away.

Sarc/off

By: jane

jane — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:56:52 +0000

We are already importing many doctors. I doubt we’ll import at a higher rate than we already do once Obama’s system is in place. But I think he’s hoping for a shortage of physicians. It will allow for controlling costs. No doctors, no doctor bills.

By: JackT

JackT — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:53:39 +0000

We need national health care for all citizens, free of charge to those without coverage. Raise taxes on those of us who can afford to pay more so we can provide for those who can’t. Makes perfect sense to me. Unless of course you’re a greedy, selfish, uncaring, unsympathetic, Republican. Then you’d probably rather see them all die.

By: venividivici

venividivici — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:12:40 +0000

ChipD:

From Craig- Post #1
Government run Social Security
Government run FEMA
Government run DMVs
Government run Public Schools
Government run Medicaid
Government run Prison System
Government run….FILL IN THE BLANK
OK, you got it-
Government run….Military
Government run….Police
Government run….Fire Department
Government run….Coast Guard

Ahh, useless lazy Gummint employees, all!

Who’s complaining about the military, police, FD and Coast Guard? If government employment were limited to those spheres, I’d be ecstatic.

By: Maurice

Maurice — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:04:43 +0000

ChipD, the military is only good because we’ve gone to motivated and patriotic Americans, but the Military is still rife with cost and spending abuse, terrible procurement procedures (do you remember that our troops bitched they weren’t getting adequate armored vehicles to go ’round Iraq, and men were buying their OWN bullet-proof vests?)

But most people except anarchists would agree that certain things are necessarily government-run, as it is difficult to have them privatized, and that would be…the Armed Forces, police and the like.

Yes, most fire department people I”ve met (I work in an emergency room) are like our military, very motivated and wonderful people, in spite of crap pay.

The better example is the Post Office, as someone mentioned. Regardless of the season, the number of people waiting in line…they move at one pace, and if there are 6 windows open to take customers…to hell with those customers, one or two bays are open, everyone else is on break. And it’s because (though I have dealt with wonderful P.O. workers too, and not all, to say the least, are deserving of our opprobrium and do not fit the stereotype) the P.O. legally banned competition.

It’s true that Fed Ex et al, and then the Internet, managed to make huge inroads on the P.O.’s turf, thank goodness, but we’re still stuck with the P.O. for various things. Inefficient, often rude, often bad, no one cares.

Why should they?

Nope, sorry Mr. Government lover ChipD, your counterexamples don’t hold water.

By: ChipD

ChipD — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:33:53 +0000

Ahh, useless lazy Gummint employees, all!

By: Doc99

Doc99 — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:02:44 +0000

Craig … you left out one obvious form of Government-run Healthcare, The VA. I seem to remember something about Walter Reade a few years ago. Imagine Walter Reade for 200 million Americans.