02.08.10
Hey, guys, I know I spent the last year accusing you of being devoid of ideas on this subject, but now I really want to hear them, so I can say I did before renewing the attempt to ram my socialist approach through
TCM is going to hold a health care “summit” with Pubs on February 25.
UPDATE: This is immensely encouraging. Pubs are chilly to the idea unless it’s predicated on starting completely over. We’re starting to make headway in educating folks on just what a disengenuous term “bipartisan” is. Maybe the day of the Reasonable Gentleman is over.
Mr. Dings said,
February 9, 2010 at 12:42 pm
So then, just who wants to run roughshod over the populace, you who knoweth the truth and nothing but? You might have another thing comin’….
Bentnotesmanhisself said,
February 9, 2010 at 3:04 pm
Well, we certainly have no intention of “running roughshod over the populace.” We want “the populace” – our preferred term is “the free individual citizens of America” – to be able to care for their health however each one of them would like to.
Mr. Dings said,
February 9, 2010 at 4:38 pm
How gracious of you. Stay reasonable then, will ya, purty please?
Mr. Dings said,
February 10, 2010 at 2:10 am
Of course you want Obama to cave and to have your way, but the hospital administrators know the real pinch and the real need for perserverance in the wake of your idiotic opposition which you call freedom loving. And, of course, since this article appears in your detested NYT, you will not believe it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/09/health/policy/09hospital.html?ref=business
And in a CBS interview Sunday afternoon, the president said he planned to convene a bipartisan health care session at the White House to try breaking the political impasse.
Hospital executives hope Ms. Pelosi’s and the president’s perseverance pays off.
“If nothing happens, it’s more of the same, and it will continue to be harder and harder in terms of financial viability,” said Nickolas A. Vitale, the senior vice president for financial operations for Beaumont Hospitals, a hospital system based in Royal Oak, Mich., whose uncompensated care has increased by 20 percent a year since 2005.
And that’s why we ain’t quittin’ bloggie, though you/yours think this a deliberate attempt at socialism and the assassination of the America as we know it it IS NOT, you damn liars! GOD DAMN you liars!!!!
Bentnotesmanhisself said,
February 10, 2010 at 5:07 pm
Well, yes, if by “have our way” you mean a situation in which the government is not inolved in how people care for their health.
Not socialism? What do you suggest we call it, then?
There are other ways to address a rise in uncompensated care besides – well, I’m going to use the accurate term, at least until you can explain why it’s not accurate – socialism.
Mr. Dings said,
February 11, 2010 at 1:40 am
I did examine my conscience last evening, as I am wont to do and I must apologize for damning any human beings on this planet. Not my call. It’s insurance, and insurance is, by its very nature socialistic, but it is not socialism. I just returned from a trip down south and in a small town near the Suwanee River I saw a vacant building with huge signs in its windows declaring “Hands Off Our Health Care.” I doubt whether half the town has any since I saw no major industries but the usual fast food and fast everything joints like WalMart. But, damn, we ain’t gonna have the government involved in our health care. Can you spell Medicaid?
And another thing, this just out about Wellpoint in CA raising their rates to smoke out the unemployed sick who are skewing the balance sheets by hanging on to their exorbitant COBRA plans, even tapping their retirement funds to do so. Oh yeah, I trust Wellpoint. I trust AIG. It’s not insurance, it’s wagering with the goal to win by not paying out claims. But plenty’s paid out to lobby against a universal health care plan like every other country we compete with on this planet.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/wellpoint-faces-firestorm-over-profits-2010-02-10?reflink=MW_news_stmp
“As we continue the health insurance reform debate in Washington, this announcement reminds us that too many Americans can be left with unaffordable insurance each time the rates or rules change in the private market,” Sebelius writes in her letter, adding that “we need health insurance reform that will give American families the secure, affordable coverage they need.”
Bentnotesmanhisself said,
February 12, 2010 at 3:07 am
In a free-market arrangement, if a person’s insurance company raised rates or altered coverage arbitrarily or on short notice, a consumer could just say, “I’m not getting my money’s worth. I’m going down the street to a more competitive insurer.”
In our semi-free market environment, most people don’t seem to feel that their insurance companies are jacking around with them. Polls bear this out. Even fewer would feel so in a completely free market.