In the (well my math is off, it should have been 7+ years, as Nov will be 8 years, sorry) 7+ years we have paid very little for a catastrophic medical event – I know that we have been extremely fortunate for that fact. And we are extremely grateful to the millions of people who keep Shriners going. [Btw, they are caring for children from all over the World, not just America]

I also know that hospitals/charities like this stand to be eradicated (i.e. controlled) under Obamacare – as government does not like competition at all. And that is what scares me most.

It is not regulation that keeps any entity honest – it is their business conduct. People will not go to rude, overcharging, shoddy or thug businesses – at all.

Government sees it self (well politicians, since government is an institution) as the be all, end all. But it is people and their goodness or badness that drives the world, keeps us fed, healthy, dressed, hopeful, protected, and alive. And I really don’t think that self-absorbed people who have corrupted a system – should be in charge of even more systems – most especially healthcare.

Is that photo really Obama watching himself on TV.

But there’s definitely millions of them, and every one of them draining citizens of thousands of dollars in services every year per head.

304 million citizens. 47 million uninsured, but that includes illegal aliens (about 15 million people).

Therefore, 89.4% of American citizens are insured. Of those that are not, about 20 million are estimated to be people who can afford insurance but chose to not pay it (mostly young people in good health). That leaves about 4% of American citizens who actually cannot afford health insurance. Almost all of them can be covered under existing government health insurance programs.

Whatever the problems with health care are……..lack ofhealth insurance is NOT one of them.

(Disclaimer, the numbers were from before the Obama-induces financial catastrophe that has thrown about 10 million Americans out of work).

It makes the general point that medical advances have increased logrythmically since free market businesses saw opportunities for profits in medicine……and that those advances will slow to a crawl, and possible go in reverse, if any version of the Democrats dangerous universal health care is implemented. Simply because our smartest citizens will be more strongly encouraged to become beaurocrats than they will be encouraged to dedicate their careers to a demonized, price-squeezed, overworked profession with no better financial rewards than driving a truck.

And yes, I’m also aware that there are other factors contributing to medical advances and that there are idealistic doctors and researchers who would dedicate their lives to medicine even if they had to eat dirt.

And yes, it is a form of indoctrination – to constantly drum into the heads of people who don’t think, don’t do research, don’t investigate, don’t care, aren’t patriotic, don’t have a clue about how and why our form of government came about – to believe the most inane, destructive and simplistic bunch of sos ever peddle in this, the greatest Nation in the World – by a fake, empty suited arrogant moroon.

And sadly in this American Idol worshipping World – they buy into to it.

The gift of life! That would be truly amazing, Amber.

ooting out waste and overpayment to medicare and medicaid? They already get discounts. Replace “more” health care with the “best” health care by cutting out more tests treatments, and hospital stays?
First of all, hospitals stays are shorter than ever do to insurance not paying as well on inpatient care. Reducing tests and treatment would mean more deaths. Quite a turn around from his campaigning promising more tests for prevention, and better treatment, using his mother that he did not visit while dying, as an example of how better health care would have helped her, instead of her socialistic, healthcare.

My health insurance has co-pays and deductables and that’s enough incentive
for me not to get “more” health care than I need. And no one likes being in a hosptial any longer than necessary, and neither do the hospitals.

What is sooo bizarre is his spinning the leaving debt to our children’s future, after that’s already done.

That could be because the elderly––who make up the vast majority of patients––tend to be unhealthy and sedentary almost by definition. Fortunately the elderly will no longer be a problem under the new regime. This is for the simple reason that, under rationed health care, the American lifespan will plummet. Ergo fewer and fewer elderly patients will be around to drain the precious, dwindling resources of America’s nationalized medical industry.

The British National Health System implanted a 40 year-old woman’s last IVF embryo into a different woman by mistake. Since the woman who got the embryo didn’t want it, she asked to have it aborted, and of course the NHS was happy to oblige. (The NHS gets a lot of abortion business, as you might imagine.) Tragically for the intended mother, she has lost her last opportunity for another child.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,526165,00.html

Adjutorium nostrum, Domine.