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2009-07-21 Economy

Missouri Congressman Jeered by Crowd as He Presents Obama Health Plan

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Posted by Beavis 2009-07-21 12:12|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 We are the "Show Me" state

Posted by Yosemite Sam 2009-07-21 12:57|| 2009-07-21 12:57|| Front Page Top

#2 It's gettin' hard out there for a pimp.

(This clip brings a big smile to my face!)

Posted by eltoroverde 2009-07-21 13:29|| 2009-07-21 13:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Most likely such a presentation in the other 49 states would have a similar reaction. If this health care plan is so good why doesn't Congress have it? was asked by an audience member. Good question. Oh, I forget, Congress is "Special."

Posted by JohnQC 2009-07-21 17:33|| 2009-07-21 17:33|| Front Page Top

#4 The natives in the hinterlands are getting very, very, very restless!

Posted by JohnQC 2009-07-21 18:11|| 2009-07-21 18:11|| Front Page Top

#5 Today the Dems said they could come up with the dollars by taxing the pivate insurance companies. Not a bad method for doing away with gov't insurance competition, ie, free market capitalism, while at the same time passing along the cost to the consumer via indirect taxation.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-07-21 18:40|| 2009-07-21 18:40|| Front Page Top

#6 Give us Congress' helath plan (or simply the govt one). Get to choose from a variety of plans every year. If you don't have a pool that you belong to via your employer, then you get to buy insurance as if you were a government employee.

There, I fixed the whole damned thing. Now get on to important business.

Posted by OldSpook 2009-07-21 19:25|| 2009-07-21 19:25|| Front Page Top

#7 FYI - get to choose from a variety of PRIVATE COMPANY offered plans...

The issue isnt insurance, its the crappy limits govt puts on who can form an insurance group for the purposes of negotiations, and who can sell what benefits (restricted by states, etc).

Get that crap out of the way.

Let people pool together with Govt employees, their credit union, their church, their local D&D club, etc. Let them submit bids from any insurance company anyplace that will cover medical stuff in their areas. Allows for real competition, and real risk spreading.

If they cannot get a good risk-pool level to where the insurance companies don't offer them a deal, then they join the Fed Govt pool like an fed employee from their area, same selection, same price (employer surcharged whatever the Govt pays as a stipend if they don't offer insurance)

Dammit, its that simple, the systems are already in place, Congress/GSA own rules can be used. And it keeps the free market in place, and keeps insurance and medical decisions closer to the patients and doctors.
Problem over.

Posted by OldSpook 2009-07-21 19:31|| 2009-07-21 19:31|| Front Page Top

#8 Let people pool together with Govt employees, their credit union, their church, their local D&D club, etc.

OS It's been tried MET's and MeWa's don't work. Allow people to buy across state lines, get rid of mandates allow tax deductibility of individual plans and have true high risk pools for the 8 million hard core "uninsurables".

Posted by Beavis 2009-07-21 21:00|| 2009-07-21 21:00|| Front Page Top

#9 Well, letting them join the Govt pool should work (as group source of the last resort) -- and eliminating state restrictions was one of my points.

Posted by OldSpook 2009-07-21 21:28|| 2009-07-21 21:28|| Front Page Top

#10 Airman operated on in a government hospital has a routine surgery go wrong. Then the government hospital takes 9 hours to finally get him to a private hospital. By then both legs require amputation...

What should have been a routine medical procedure has turned into a life-threatening ordeal for Airman Colton Read and his family.

The 20-year-old graduate of Arlington's Sam Houston High School was supposed to have laparoscopic gallbladder surgery, but shortly into the procedure a young doctor accidentally nicked the aorta, located in the deepest part of the abdomen, his family said.

The resulting blood loss led to partial amputation of both of Read's legs, and complications have left him in critical condition.

Read's family has rushed from Texas to California, where Read is stationed, and is still trying to comprehend how a previously healthy young man is now fighting for survival.

Posted by Percy Spons4194 2009-07-21 22:08|| 2009-07-21 22:08|| Front Page Top

#11 Government Hospitals Cannot Insure Women's Privacy.

VA hospitals aren't ensuring women's privacy, report says

WASHINGTON Veterans Affairs Department hospitals and clinics aren't always making sure female veterans have privacy when they bathe and receive exams, government auditors said Tuesday.

As thousands of women return from Iraq and Afghanistan and enter the VA's health system, the Government Accountability Office reported that no VA hospital or outpatient clinic under review is complying fully with federal privacy requirements.

GAO investigators found that many VA facilities had gynecological tables that faced the door, including one door that opened to a waiting room. It also found instances where women had to walk through a waiting area to use the restroom, instead of it being next to an exam room as required.

At four hospitals, women were not guaranteed access to a private bathing facility. In two of those cases, there was no door lock.

A majority of the women at VA facilities are between the ages of 20 and 29, and on average are much younger than male veterans, the GAO survey found. Nearly 20 percent have been found to have post-traumatic stress disorder, and many experienced sexual trauma while serving. But a smaller percentage of eligible women than men use VA care.

Posted by Percy Spons4194 2009-07-21 22:16|| 2009-07-21 22:16|| Front Page Top

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