Comments on: So a Funny Thing Happened While I Was Watching the Health Care Summit

By: Al_Pal

Al_Pal — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 08:18:08 +0000

Wonderful post. Sorry that he was unwell, and glad things seem to be better. So scary.
Very glad that you are continuing to showcase this epidemic.
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By: JohnP

JohnP — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:42:46 +0000

Are we back to the dark ages with Lords and Serfs?
Every day this becomes more perfectly clear of a Society of the Rich vs the rest of us. No party illustrates this better than the Republican Party.

They vote for TAX cuts for the rich, but want to deny the rest of us our day in court if we go in for a sore throat and the doctor cuts off one of our feet.
They want to privitize Social Security and Medicare so that it will go into the Stock Market and raises the value of their stocks, but also call it a dreaded entitlement, as if that is a bad thing. People work their whole lives for these benefits and the rich want to enhance their greed and subtract our rights.
You can go through the entire Republican Party line and realize they only help those that are already fortunate such as big corporations, insurance companies, and anyone that can afford their $5000 a plate fundraisers… They look at the rest of us as parasites and an unfortunate inconvenience.
This is why they have outsourced all of the remaining manufacturering jobs in this country and the only jobs that are left are paper shuffles.
We cannot survive as a nation if we no longer build anything or cannot treat our employees with dignity as an asset to our businesses, but instead treat employees as liabilities and tax deductions.
I say we institute a 10% GROSS payroll tax immediately. Then everyone will pay their fair share… No bias or discrimination! Also institute a 3% payroll tax for Healthcare, which would more than cover everyone in America. Do we really need a middle man that keeps 35% in profits?

There is one Word that strikes Fear and Anger into the Hearts and Minds of all Hardcore Republicans… And that word is?

EQUALITY

By: Lucretia M Pruitt

Lucretia M Pruitt — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:34:20 +0000

So very glad your son is okay.
Even if I disagree with you on this issue, I didn’t feel right not saying that I hope he’s feeling better. Along with everyone else who was there at the same time you were.
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By: Sara Lacey

Sara Lacey — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:41:16 +0000

I think this is my favorite blog post in the whole world. Ever.
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By: Daily Cup of Jo

Daily Cup of Jo — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:57:06 +0000

Hey, sorry about the whole scary nosebleed thing. Yikes. And yet it led to you writing this post and making your point – which needs to be made, more and more, by our own personal experiences, on our own personal blogs, until we steer the focus back to the ISSUE AT HAND. My site was never meant to be about healthcare reform, but again and again, that’s where it goes. I hope you had a chance to read the NY Times article yesterday (Week in Review) – “The Cost of Doing Nothing on Healthcare”. I posted it on DailyCupofJo. Think about doing the same.

Great job on this post. Important.
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By: Daisy

Daisy — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:48:33 +0000

It feels wonderful to be one of the privileged few. That privilege carries with it a responsibility: to work toward getting that security in place for others.
Thank you for your post.
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By: LSM

LSM — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:34:57 +0000

This week a friend of mine, an active duty army officer and the father of an 18-year-old and a 6-year-old will go in to find out if he’s eligible for any clinical trials for his Stage 4 liver cancer. If he is, his family will have to weigh whether they should take the risk of participating in a trial that might save his life but that the army medical insurance won’t pay for or if he should just go home and die and avoid risking bankrupting his family. Is this a choice anyone in America, much less someone who has risked his life for his country, should have to face?
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By: AsKatKnits

AsKatKnits — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:15:34 +0000

Excuse me while I give you a standing ovation for this excellent synopsis of the disaster that is our health care system!!

As a former worker in said system, it was tragic to see so many patients wait far too long for any treatment because they do not have health care….waiting with catastrophic health care issues like cerebral vascular events (i.e. strokes) or chest pain. Things that if treated soon have a much greater incidence of successful treatment, but instead came far too late with horrible outcomes.

Something needs to be done and soon, and I thank you for being one more voice for change!
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By: Doctorkate

Doctorkate — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:07:36 +0000

Thanks for saying this in such an eloquent and approachable way (I’m going to link this post on my own blog). Managed care and access to care in the US are truly a nightmare. And the scenario you described is rosy compared to the current state of mental health care….

By: Kaz

Kaz — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:23:13 +0000

i know the horror of the phone call from the school and feel for you, glad your boy is okay. i am australian and just cannot imagine the added pressure in the er of having to wonder how you are going to pay! everything is free here (unless you have private health cover in which case you pay for elective surgeries and more for other ops, go figure). but in an emergency, everyone is free. americans must band together and DEMAND free health care…most of the rest of the western world has it and america likes to be number one don’t they?

anyway, i love your blog, you have a very funny way with words.