“The White House emphasized the human benefits over the technical details, returning repeatedly to a letter Obama received from an Ohio cancer patient who wrote that she gave up her health insurance after the cost rose to $8,500 a year.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100316/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_care_overhaul
So wait a second…this woman, who has cancer, gave up her health insurance which undoubtedly paid tens of thousands (if not much, much more) of dollars in medical bills because her portion rose to $8500 a year? And this is viewed (by her and the White House apparently) as too high of a cost for a person to pay for their health care? No – it’s actually not.
And guess what – those “technical details” are billions and billions of dollars. What money tree has been found to pay for that? Who exactly will be covering her $8500 portion now? But no – people don’t want to think about that. They’ll think about that tomorrow…when it’s too late.
WTH is wrong with people? Why shouldn’t you have to pay a portion of your own health care costs?? It is ridiculous, and frankly disgusting, that the House is trying to sneak such a huge piece of legislation through. And the reason they want to sneak it through is because they know they can’t get it done any other way.
Disgusting. Worst Congress in recent history.
1:57 pm on March 16th, 2010
not the worst – but as close as can be. I still don’t get why a $1 trillion program – to be run by the government – needs to get passed for 30 million people?
They will find all the sadsack losers they can trot out for the best sob story – it will be like Queen for a Day. The no pay for care mentality is classic union/collective bargaining. You know – you run a business or pay property taxes to fund the school system.
We are doomed.
8:06 am on March 17th, 2010
As you know in Canada we pay for healthcare through our taxes – because we have universal healthcare. Well it ain’t so universal actually – it’s become two-tier and our system has many problems on so many levels.
Regarding the US health care debacle – I can’t understand why they had to propose such a huge bill – why couldn’t they make smaller changes along the way that most people could live with and agree with? That would be logical I suppose.