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Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, (D – IL) a congressional colleague of Barack Obama, was caught on tape during a speech, telling a cheering crowd of social activists that the Obama health care plan would eventually terminate every private health insurance plan in America and that supporters of the free market "have every reason to be afraid."
“I know many of you here today are single payer advocates and so am I … and those of us who are pushing for a public health insurance don’t disagree with this goal. This is not a principled fight. This is a fight about strategy for getting there and I believe we will,” Rep. Schakowsky told the group of government-run health care supporters.
Originally posted by Hypntick
reply to post by ImzadiDax
Does your job provide insurance? If not, I would seriously consider switching jobs.
If so, what kind of prices are they looking to charge? Honestly if you can't afford around $30 a paycheck for health insurance, then you really need to consider a second job or find a way to cut costs elsewhere. Maybe your internet or cell phone?
Originally posted by justsomeboreddude
and nobody will want to be a doctor under this system.
The government themselves have a pool they all throw into and no one makes profit off of it, why can't we get that too?
Originally posted by eNumbra
Originally posted by justsomeboreddude
and nobody will want to be a doctor under this system.
Not ALL doctors do it for the money; believe it or not there are some people out there who genuinely want to help others.
What people seem to forget is how these health insurance companies prey on their customers.
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If there is a procedure that could save someones life, who are they to say no, the person don't deserve the funding for it?
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...I actually think that the tougher issue around medical care — it’s a related one — is what you do around things like end-of-life care …
… sort of in the aggregate, society making those decisions to give my grandmother, or everybody else’s aging grandparents or parents, a hip replacement when they’re terminally ill is a sustainable model, is a very difficult question. If somebody told me that my grandmother couldn’t have a hip replacement and she had to lie there in misery in the waning days of her life — that would be pretty upsetting.
… So that’s where I think you just get into some very difficult moral issues. But that’s also a huge driver of cost, right?
I mean, the chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives are accounting for potentially 80 percent of the total health care bill out here.
... you have to have some independent group that can give you guidance.
Originally posted by justsomeboreddude
Yeah because all the doctors I have ever known give away all there extra money every year for the goodness of humanity. None of them buy big houses or expensive cars or have hot wives they couldnt otherwise get