Patient care is suffering because 4,000 people a month are dying in this country due to having zero health plan! The emergency room si no way to cover these poor souls!
There are 45 million with zero insurance at all and over 100 million who are underinsured and 650,000, this year will go bankrupt due to only medical bills!
The private insurers ie Blue Cross, Aetna, and others, will drop you like a hot potato if you have cancer or need a liver as they have 100 pages of fine print and will tell you to get lost when you really need them. They have jacked up the co-pays and premiums to where the GAO has stated it will be $22,000 a year for family coverage within 10 years! These bloodsuckers need some competetion and we need the public option for another choice if we so desire! Isn’t that America? It’s about choices!!!
We want a choice besides these rip-off artists who pay their CEO’s an average of 11.5 million a year that they could have used to lower costs! They are SUPER CROOKS!!!!

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Med. Providers are opposed, not because they would make less money, but because patient care would suffer.  All procedures and more expensive test would be delayed longer.  Medicare payments to providers is next lowest to Medicaid, Which is the lowest. Many providers go ahead and care for the patients eventhough they know they won’t get paid what it cost them even for materials!

Perhaps a “Government option” in the nationalized medicine doesn’t make it Socialized medicine. However, nationalized medicine in every nation I’ve seen, studied or discussed with patients & providers does NOT work as well for the health of the people, as our system. Just like HMO’s limit your options of who you can see and what care you can receive. Same is true of Medicaid & Medicare & health Insurance in general.

Frequently Medical providers can’t order the test they need to evaluate a patient unless they can fabricate a diagnostic code the insurance co will accept.  You can’t give a diagnosis to any Insurance co. you have to look through a code book and assign the Insurance co. code to it.  It’s not like they don’t have the same book & could code it for the sake of putting it in their system, but no they make the medical office hire someone to do that for the insurance co. Gov. Insurance is no different & won’t change with this plan.

Most Physicians do NOT support this plan.

Interesting story,Scavenger. I wonder if the professor had any misgivings when he deposited his “Socialist” paycheck? You did not mention where you went to school but I am sure that the school in question,if not a public institution,is at least partially funded by the taxpayers. As a retired person,with no children in school,I would like to see my property taxes reduced by the amount that is apppropriated to the funding of schools. After all I have no actual “dog in this hunt”,therefore I shouldn’t be required to pay for someone else’s education. This argument could also be extended to cover military,police,firefighters,judges,and roads/sewer,as they are all part of our “Social” structure. These systems were established to provide our citizens with an orderly society. I am not advocating an end to these programs,just merely making another observation of the “facts”. Just because a person is a professor does not indicate the he/she has all the answers. Have a nice day!!!

Trouble is Obama’s an a capitalist not a socialist or communist.
You listen to too much FOX NEWS! Just because he would like a public option in the upcoming health bill, does not make him a socialist. If you beleive that then you must think JFK and LBJ were socialists when they tried and succeeded to get government medicare mandatory? Or Roosevelts plan to start government social security? 
At least Obama’s initiative is an OPTION not mandatory and I beleive it’s long overdue as it will bring prices down to affordability and keep the country from going broke and Medicare from going broke due to skyrocketing prices of private insurance which is projected to hit 22,000 a year for a family, within 10 years!
Your argument about socialism is good and I beleive it true, but I do not believe our President is a Socialist just because of this plan and I support him 100% like I did Bush.
He is our President and I was taught to respect the President of the US. I might disagree but respectem

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The scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed.

Could not be any simpler than that.

An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before,but had once failed an entire class. That class had insisted that Obama’s socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.
The professor then said, “OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama’s plan”.
All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A. After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B.??The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free
ride too so they studied little. The second test average was a D! No one was happy. When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F. (continued next letter)

All we can really do is vote out all incumbents, every time, every election, for 4 or 5 cycles until they get the message they are not entitled to make elected office a career but are to serve the interests of the people and majority that elected them and not self interests, special interests,lobbyists, big oil, or big insurance!
Their campaign war chests are all stuffed with money from these sources so once they are elected, they no longer serve the majority but are bought and sold by these special interest groups who have the money and we are left out.
You can really see this in this health care debate as the insurance and pharmacutical lobby are pumping a million per day into campaign coffers of republican members of congress and democratic blue dog coffers. It’s really sickening to see this along with their 460 million spent on adds so far to defeat the public option as they know they would have to take pay cuts and reduce premiums which in the end, will break Americans!

retired one, I think you’ll find that congress will never do anything about these outrageous overpaid CEO’s because if they did then they would also have to look into their own crooked ways.  That’s never going to happen. And as long as these companies keep spending millions like they do to own and control congress, we are going to stay at their mercy…and mercy they don’t have as far as knifing the people in the back they are supposed to serve.

I think we all are repeating the same old stuff and just have to wait and see what happens as I personally won’t be happy with any bill unless there is competetion introduced to compete with private insurers as they are ALL crooks,all of them. When you can pay CEO’s 11.5 million,average a year and can spend billions on advertisements we don’t need, I figure that money should have been spent on the $106.00 bottle of morophine for my relative who was denied coverage by ALL private insurers after he was dropped for having terminal cancer at age 29!
I’m sick of their non-payments when you REALLY need them, they are not there. Until you have it happen to someone you know and love you will never understand they only care about the bottom line and ALL the rules are in THEIR favor,right now. Just ask the Mississippians(20,000+) who are still fighting State Farm, in court for the next 20 years, as they delay until you die, before your case comes up.
Do you think it’s right? If so, goodluck!

It doesn’t matter how good or honest someone is before they get elected.  Once that happens they instantly seem to turn into zombies of their party and totally forget who sent them there and who they should be working for.  Boyd is no exception.  He talks a good act but like every one of those in congress he looks out for his own benefits first and if there is anything left over then maybe it will come down to the people he supposedly represents. I’m not singling Boyd out but just saying he’s no different than all the rest of those jerks that are in Washington.  They line their pockets at the taxpayer’s expense with their high salaries and perks and we foot the bill.  Since when do they do what they were elected to do….represent US?  If a congressman opens his or her mouth you automatically know they are lying throught heir teeth!

i think ive figured it out… retired one you must either be married to(opps thats too traditional) life partners with dee or you are dee? you just keep repeating the same old crap??

The public option is the only way to truly reform private insurers and get priced lowered. Without it, you might as well not change anything and just leave it the way it is and in 10 years,private insurance for a family plan will average $22,000 a year. Then, no one will be able to afford it and Medicare will be broke.
Private insurers have gouged everyone the last 20 years, every year. Their CEO’s average 11.5 million in salary a year which we are all paying for. They are crooks,just like State Farm who isn’t even allowed to sell insurance in Miss, because they don’t pay when you really need them.
I will be voting Boyd out if he doesn’t support reform of this crooked industry with their 1 billion spent just on lobbyists and 26 billion in advertising that could have went for claims.
You all better wake up because the government isn’t all that bad. They run the military and I would say we have the best military in the world by far. VA runs good also!

It’s good that people are telling him, face to face, but let see how he going to vote when he gets back up in DC. We need someone in office that is going to work for the people not the government.

hold this guys feet to the fire! he got into office and forgot whom he is there for, us the people!! not nancy, not harry, and def not obama! ive not heard anyone tell these crooks, if you dont vote the way the people your are there for want you to vote, then your fired! if i have a chance i will when he comes here to PC. how about a national referendum. but they know if they did that it would go down in flames!!