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We fight, they laugh all the to the bank. Cheers
Commented: Friday, December 13th, 2024 @ 6:48 pm
By: Big Bob
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What Obamacare has done, and it was predictable based on what happened with a similar government program in Australia, was a massive consolidation within all aspects of the medical care industry. Instead of lots of independent providers to choose from, we now have big conglomerates for the most part, both in insurance and in actual provision of care. This has made the system more impersonal and less user friendly. The Democrats' hope was that getting to that stage would encourage citizens to say "Aw, heck, just let the government do it all." That would be going from the frying pan into the fire.
Simply repealling Obamacare at this point would accomplish little because it is more the changes Obamacare instigated that are the problem than Obamacare itself. A path forward needs to be found somehow to encourage more insurance companies to get back into medical insurance so we have some competition, and to unwind these medical conglomerates like Vidant, which are now everywhere in the country. That is a tall order, but something needs to be done because the present system is a huge mess and socialized medicine is much worse.
Commented: Saturday, December 14th, 2024 @ 7:44 am
By: Concerned Taxpayer
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What the liberal Democrats were trying to do with both HillaryCare and ObamaCare was to gum up the system so badly that people would accept socialized medicine. They have indeed gummed up the system, and lack of competition in health insurance and health care itself has been a huge problem.
Here is an important comparison between health insurance before Obamacare and now. As Sean Hannity pointed out on his radio show this afternoon, claim denials by all the big health insurers including United Health Insurance were under 2% in 2013 before Obamacare kicked in. Now they are over 15% at most and with United Health Insurance at an astounding 31%. I still do not think people want socialized medicine. Too many are aware of Canada's problems there where people die on waiting lists unable to get timely appointments. Many Canadians come to the US for medical care because they cannot get it at home. The same is true with the UK's National Health Service, where Brits increasingly go to India to get medical care to get around the waiting lists at home. THere was an article recently in a British newspaper about how the NHS would send doctors to make house calls at migrant hotels in areas where it takes many months for a citizen to get an appointment. Yes, we need to cut off the illegal aliens. Send them home for health care. Americans should not have to pay for interlopers who should not even be here.
Commented: Friday, December 13th, 2024 @ 2:18 pm
By: John Steed
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I think what you saw with Obama Care was an attempt at changing an awful system. Most Americans agreed change was needed and said so with their votes.
The money interest have been trying to kill it ever since. They have been unsuccessful, however they have adapted. Now most of us have coverage. So what do they do? They decline to cover the cost of all but the most routine care. You have a plan, but you better be careful how you use it. Better make sure you see the right doc. Better make sure the ambulance takes you to the right hospital. Better hope you dont need expensive treatment for a serious disease. They can't cancel the policy, but they can deny care until you are to weak or too dead to fight them any more. Who to blame? Every politician, right or left, who takes their money and hopes you dont notice. It's insane.
Commented: Friday, December 13th, 2024 @ 1:25 pm
By: Big Bob
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There were two people close to what was going on in the medical field with Obamacare whose comments I heard that bear on how Obamacare changed medicine.
One was my own primary care physcian here in Washington, when I expressed surprise that he and his partners had sold their practice to Vidant. He explained that Obamacare created a bureaucratic nightmare for doctors in its regulations that was going to be costly and timeconsuming for them if they stayed independent but by selling to Vidant, that would be Vidant's headache, not theirs. The other thing they thought about when Vidant approached them with an offer to buy their practice was that right then their practice had a value on the market but where the government was going on healthcare, it might not in the future. So they pocketed the value of their practice and became salaried employees of Vidant with the same annual income as when they were independent. That process seems to have been repeated many times over all around the country. THe other comment had to do with an international organization I was working for. At our annual interenational retreat in Washington, DC. After Obamacare passed, one of the speakers was the organization's health insurance consultant who negotitated our group health insurance provisions with insurance companies. He told us that the changes with Obamacare would mean a choice. If we kept all the coverage we had, it would cost more, and if we kept the rates we had, we would have less coverage. This was because under OBamacare, everyong in all group health plans was put in one big pool, and the health profile of that pool was worse than the health profile of our organization's own employyees. Insurance rates for group plans were based on health profiles of the people to be insured. He also said some insurance companies were getting out of the health care field entirely due to Obamacare, and less competition would also push prices up and coverage down. He did tell us the changes for group health were significant but not as severe as the changes for individual health insurance would be.
Commented: Friday, December 13th, 2024 @ 11:11 am
By: Steven P. Rader
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I guess everything is about race to a race hustler like Bobbie, but our Obamacare mess is NOT. It is about a longterm scheme by leftwing Democrats to capture our health system. Their first big play was HillaryCare during the Clinton regime but that bombed. Those who concocted what later became known in popular culture as "Obamacare" were actually white leftists, many of them retreads from HillaryCare.
All of the regulations and rules of Obamacare are what led to the mass centralization of our health care, including health insurance, that destroyed choice for American consumers. Here in Beaufort County, we had two independent hospitals prior to OBamcare, but post Obamacare, Vidant in Greensville bought both and closed one. Vidant also bought up many of what had been independent doctors offices. All of that was driven by Obamacare, and that consolidation is not good for consumer choice. Similarly many of the insurance companies that used to offer health insurance got out of that business after Obamacare, and that also destroyed consumer choice. HillaryCare would have done exactly the same. That was all predictable since that had also been the result of Australia's government medicine program called Medicare, which had also seen massive consolidation and centralization in health care, to the point that a subsequent govenrment that looked into ending Medicare (the Australian equivalent of Obamacare) found that all of the centralization that had occured made it impossible to go back to what had previously worked better for Australians. Oh, and as to those insurance companies, I am sure you will find their stockholders are of all races, and so are their employees. This is NOT a racial issue, dude.
Commented: Friday, December 13th, 2024 @ 9:49 am
By: Concerned Taxpayer
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One of the things that is destroying our health care system is giving free care to hordes of illegal aliens. That needs to stop. We do not need to let these parasites mooch off of our health care system. France's Interior Minister recently proposed eliminating free health care for illegal aliens in France, and it is something that needs to be done here.
When hostpitals have to give free care to illegal aliens, the hospitals make up for it by charging American citizens higher prices. Since insurance has to pay those higher prices for its policy holders, that drives up the cost of health insurance. Right now, hospitals are bound to do that under a federal law that they cannot turn anyone away. That needs to be changed to say that they cannot turn any CITIZEN away. If an illegal alien has an acute emergency, like a car wreck or heart attack, compassion would say that we should give them immediate treatment, but for anything else, we should just offer them a plane ticket home for their medical care. Hospitals, the American taxpayer, and health insurance policy holders should NOT be burdened with medical care for illegal aliens.
Commented: Friday, December 13th, 2024 @ 9:11 am
By: borderhawk
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There is a huge list that needs to be taken care of in our health system.
A major help would be the elimination of CON (Certificate of Need) and then Tort Reform. Texas is a good model. They were successful in killing CON and getting reasonable limits on Tort Reform. Competition always improves service. We do not have sufficient GP’s because the system discourages local practices.
Commented: Friday, December 13th, 2024 @ 8:59 am
By: Buzz Cayton
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Rich white companies act like United Health and you try and blame Obama.
You’re such a racist idiot.
Commented: Friday, December 13th, 2024 @ 5:29 am
By: Big Bob
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Isn't it "funny" how they glorify a serial killer like Dahmer in modern Pop Culture but label Kaczynski as a raging lunatic? These handlers are becoming very predictable.
Did they honestly think anyone would have sympathy towards a greedy "top o' the pyramid" character like Thompson? Again, this is like something out of a comic book. People need to start thinking past the 4th wall here.
Commented: Friday, December 13th, 2024 @ 2:02 am
By: John Valley
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I have always said that Insurance Companies are just like Gambling
Casinos. The House always wins. It's designed that way.
Commented: Thursday, December 12th, 2024 @ 11:04 pm
By: Washingtonian
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What broke our health care system was Obamacare which destroyed competition and forced a massive consolidation in health care. It reduced the number of insurers and raised insurance rates significantly for many while also reducing coverage for many. In many of the Obamacare "makerplaces" there is now only one choice of insurance companies for consumers to "choose" from. These monopolistic or oligopolistic conditions breed poor customer service. At the same time, many medical practices that had been private were pushed by Obamacare to sell to large medical conglomerates, like Vidant in our area. Again, the destruction of competition was devastating for consumer choice.
Can the mess that Obamacare has created be unscrambled? It will be difficult because of all the consolidation that has happened. Some insurance companies that had offered medical insurance got out of the market due to Obamacare, and it would take massive changes to get them back in. There are a few good options out there like the Christian-based Medishare. It could be worse, Many Democrats push "single payer" otherwise known as socialized medicine, where "death by waiting list" is all too common as in Canada and the UK. At least the UK does have a paralel medical system with private hospitals, doctors, and insurance. Most doctors in the socialized National Health System buy private medical insurance becaue they know from first hand experience that the care is better and more timely in the private system.
Commented: Thursday, December 12th, 2024 @ 7:39 pm
By: Concerned Taxpayer
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Maybe the best piece the BO ever published. Violence is not the answer but many consider what health insurance companies do to people as extremely violent.
Commented: Thursday, December 12th, 2024 @ 6:53 pm
By: Big Bob
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