Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Democrats backing away from Obama Care!?



Senate Democrats try to dodge responsibility for ObamaCare.

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By JAMES TARANTO

"Powerful Democrats" subjected a top Obama administration health-care official "to withering criticism" last week, notes Walter Russell Mead. When Gary Cohen, head of the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, appeared before the Senate Finance Committee, chairman Max Baucus of Montana and Sens. Ron Wyden (Ore.), Bill Nelson (Fla.) and Maria Cantwell (Wash.) "tore into him."
 The hearing didn't attract much journalistic attention; the only stories we could find about it were from a legislative trade publication (the Hill) and a health-policy one (Kaiser Health News) (Z:  SURPRISE!). Here's a summary of the senators' complaints:
"Baucus questioned how well the online health insurance marketplaces would interact with what he called 'archaic' computer systems at Social Security and the Internal Revenue Service," Kaiser reports.
Cantwell, the Hill reports, "criticized the administration for delaying implementation of the Basic Health Program--an option for states to provide cost-efficient health coverage outside of Medicaid and the law's new insurance exchanges." It was supposed to start next year but the administration is delaying it until 2015. Cantwell asked Cohen: "Are you artificially raising the cost to all taxpayers by trying to lure them onto the exchange?" (Cohen said no, the Basic Health Plan, in the Hill's paraphrase, "simply had to take a backseat to other priorities.")

"Wyden pressed Cohen to help find ways to resolve a glitch in the law which may result in the denial of federal assistance to millions of Americans of modest means who could be priced out of family health coverage at work," according to Kaiser. At issue is an IRS ruling limiting federal subsidies for such plans. Said Wyden: "We've got millions of people--working-class, middle-class people--who are going to be pushed into a regulatory health coverage no man's land." So much for President Obama's promise that if you like your plan, you can keep it.(Z: by the way...Anybody with bat brains knew this was a lie;  if I have Blue Cross and Blue Cross goes out of business because companies find it cheaper to go for Obama Care, will I be able to keep Blue Cross!?  Of course not..and who didn't know this?)
And Nelson "hammered" the Department of Health and Human Services "for inviting Congress to cut funding for a new nonprofit insurance model," as the Hill puts it:
Funding for healthcare co-ops was eliminated in the year-end tax deal, and Nelson said officials offered up the program as a place Congress could cut.
"Why was that negotiated away at the 11th hour?" Nelson asked.
Cohen didn't have an answer.
Nelson noted that the co-ops funding was axed while applications for new co-ops were still in the pipeline. HHS had already approved a few new [sic] of them.
"I want somebody to be accountable for this, and if it was a mistake, for somebody to own up to it," Nelson said.

If we're going to hold people accountable, how about starting with Bill Nelson, who was among the 89 senators voting "yes" on the tax deal? Maybe that's not entirely fair, since Nelson might have been unaware of that provision, and the expiration, less than two hours earlier, of the Bush tax cuts put genuine pressure on lawmakers to act quickly. Still, it's odd for a member of Congress to be faulting the administration for a position it took in negotiating with Congress, rather than faulting himself and his colleagues for enacting a law whose provisions he doesn't like.
The other three senators have no excuse whatever. If the law is impracticable to implement, or if it gives too much discretion to executive-branch agencies like the IRS or the HHS, these problems could have been anticipated if lawmakers had not been so anxious to ram the bill through. Any single Democrat who was a member of the Senate in December 2009--including Baucus, Cantwell, Nelson and Wyden--could have single-handedly halted the process simply by joining the 40 Republicans in declining to approve a vote on the floor. Instead, every last one of them yielded to political pressure and voted "yes."
"Democrats are getting nervous and consequently are trying to put some distance between themselves and the ACA," Mead observes, using the abbreviated formal styling of ObamaCare as the Affordable Care Act. "We don't blame them for trying, but it may be a futile effort. For better or worse, their fates are now tied to that of Obamacare." (Z; and so are ours)
Indeed there isn't much point in blaming them for trying. But they deserve the blame for imposing this monstrosity on the country. To quote Bill Nelson: "I want somebody to be accountable for this, and if it was a mistake, for somebody to own up to it." (Z: so do WE, Mr. Democrat who voted for this nightmare...SO DO WE)
Z's QUESTION: Will it EVER be possible NOT to have OBAMA CARE?   Can ANYTHING be done if even DEMOCRATS are finally getting the smell of the whole thing?

Z


84 comments:

Ed Bonderenka said...

It will be painful.
State governemnets would have to stay out to the "Exchanges" as a lot of them are. This will put more load on the Fed side, which as the article you quote, can't handle. Collapse.
Then there's the 2014 elections and congressional budgetary withholding if we get enough control.
Without the god-king running, we might be able to make gains:
If it is demonstrated that we are on the wrong path to people who are ignorant of anything but what TMZ, or ET or Snookie tells them.

Always On Watch said...

I call your attention to my recent post Obamacare Fail. How many people are now trapped in this Catch-22? How many WILL be trapped in this Catch-22?

Always On Watch said...

Will it EVER be possible NOT to have OBAMA CARE?

I doubt it. The SCOTUS ruled that Obamacare is a tax, and clearly the government has Constitutional power to tax.

And the government has never found a tax that it didn't like.

Can ANYTHING be done if even DEMOCRATS are finally getting the smell of the whole thing?

Amendments are possible. After all, changes in the tax code happen all the time. But the financial reality is that health care consumes way too much of our citizens' and our nation's resources.

The tsunami of aging and ailing Boomers is flooding our nation.

Obamacare was supposed to keep down the cost of health insurance premiums. Well, that's not happening, is it? My premium just went up 30% -- for catastrophic coverage with no pharmacy coverage whatsoever. The price of medications is also rising.

Always On Watch said...

(Z: by the way...Anybody with bat brains knew this was a lie; if I have Blue Cross and Blue Cross goes out of business because companies find it cheaper to go for Obama Care, will I be able to keep Blue Cross!? Of course not..and who didn't know this?)

Employer-based health insurance -- except for government employees -- is going to vanish within a few years. Remember that I said this.

Private policies don't provide nearly as much coverage as employer-based group policies. This is a reality that I know from personal experience since 2008.

Always On Watch said...

Claudette said:

I still laugh every time I think about how willingly they chugged Obama's piss that ObamaCare would add "not one dime" to the debt. Not one dime.

I laugh on occasion. But usually I just sink into the depths of hopelessness.

Anonymous said...

Elections have consequences, but the voters haven't figured that out yet.

FreeThinke said...

We're done and we might as well be dead. That's it. PERIOD!

Nothing to do but tread water until death mercifully claims us. We have no other option anyway.

I pray a prayer of gratitude every day for never had having committed the unpardonable sin of bringing children into this ghastly farce.


Pray for your soul, as I pray for mine.

If God is truly merciful, however, death will mean the end of feeling, striving, suffering, hoping and dreaming.

I find the thought that someday I shall cease to be very comforting, frankly.

Life, even for the greatest among us, like Beethoven, is nothing but an exercise in futility -- a vicious game no one can ever win.

Fredd said...

The jury is out as to whether Obamacare will flourish as the law of the land, or wither on the vine.

As Ed Bonderenka astutely points out, the news of an impending disaster that is Obamacare has got to reach the low information voters with some credibility, the low info folk who only get their world view from Snookie.

I suggest co-opting Snookie; pay her so much that she can't say no, and then televise her chugging down bottles of 100 proof liquor labled 'Obamacare,' puking her guts out and while she is hugging the commode, cursing the evil substance called Obamacare for all she's worth.

I think that will work.

Z said...

AOW...so there could be an Amendment stopping Obama Care? Or parts of it?

Ducky's here said...

More evidence that this is just that right of center cheap corporate pimp Obummer shoveling more money to the for profit health insurance monopoly.

JonBerg said...

At the risk of being accused of redundancy and given my lack of understanding as to how this monstrosity is [supposed] to work, I re-submit my previous comment on AOW:

"With, a reported, 2,700 pages of statute and 13,000 pages of regulations you can bet that this is but "the tip of the iceberg"! Hey, Nancy Botoxi, [we] are now finding out what's in it; are you happy now?"

Once this boondoggle finally explodes how will the DemocRATS, who have sole responsibility, explain to their 'low information' constituents that it's all the fault of Republicans, who unanimously resisted it?

Well, "low information constituents"; perhaps I answered my own question!

Ducky's here said...

Will it EVER be possible NOT to have OBAMA CARE?

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You betcha.

Well sort of, The Black Messiah will still be on his knees to the insurers but you may not have insurance.

Thersites said...

More evidence that this is just that right of center cheap corporate pimp Obummer shoveling more money to the for profit health insurance monopoly.

Of course, single payer would be MUCH MUCH more "efficient"....

LOL!

cuz the government is always more efficient then industry... just compare service at the Dept. of Motor Vehicles to McDonald's!

Ducky's here said...

It is everywhere it's used.

Anonymous said...

If the leftists want gov healthcare. ask the French how they feel about mandatory private insurance on top of the gov one now?

France is a leftist paradise that is going more and more wrong every day. But that had to be expected.

FrogBurger

Thersites said...

It is everywhere it's used.

Like Greece and Bulgaria... right, duckman?

Evidently, when the single payer system fails and stops paying, evidently the "private" payer is reborn.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

btw - If "single payer" is such a great system, why do 14% of Britain's health care recipients choose to pay privately?

Oh, that's right. They need a way to escape the decisions of the death panels.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

As they say in Britain, "Mind the gap!"

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Britain actually has a two-tier Health Care System. A "public" one for the masses... and a "private" one for the talented tenth.

So much for "single payer"...

Z said...

FJ, thanks. Liberals just don't seem to care about COST.

I felt sick that so much R&D is going to be gone due to Obama Care; America used to be the great inventor...how can we now?$$

Also, Obama's got his minions on the news shows talking about the CDC and National Institutes for Health being slashed of tons of money so people get the impression it's all the Republicans' fault.

Some Democrats are finally waking up to what the WH is doing; let's hope they don't get threatened and clam up like we've seen before.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

liberals just don't seem to care about COST.

Only when it means a benefit cut, which the Democrats refuse to do in the US.... after all... we have a Revenue problem, not a Spending problem...

*rolls eyes*

The reality... looks like trouble in paradise, duckman... from the BBC

Increased demand

Meanwhile, a BBC survey of 1,005 people suggested 60% believed services would have to be cut.

The poll, carried out by ComRes, asked members of the public in England a series of questions about the NHS.

Some 61% agreed that they expected the NHS would have to stop providing some treatments and services in the future due to rising costs and increasing demands.

Nearly three-quarters also said they did not trust the government with the health service.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

All those who would accept the offered Rose of Socialism, had best look sub rosa.

It is only then that the "reality" underlying socialism becomes apparent... that of a "clenched fist".

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Those who would summon Enceladus, do so at their own peril.

Anonymous said...

Good analogy, FT. The rose of socialism is never shown with its thorns either.

FrogBurger

Trekkie4Ever said...

In answer to your question, it might be a possibility if the Dems are serious and really and truly want to amend Obamacare.

Maybe they have finally realized the debacle Obama has created for the people.

One can only hope.....

JonBerg said...

OK, "amend Obamacare" but where do you start? I'd much rather hear about REPEAL!

Pris said...

Interesting isn't it, that all we heard during the campaign was that women have the right to choose, when it comes to their bodies.

However, that won't be true for anyone. If you smoke, are too fat, or don't want to submit to chosen preventive tests, and on and on.

Obamacare is about the government controlling our bodies and doctors will have to answer to the govt. It's about power.

For instance, as my doctor told me, in Britain you can't have a heart bypass if you're over 70 years old. In other words you would be left to die, even though a heart bypass can save your life.

Let's face it, we all will become a cost-effective statistic.

Liberalmann said...

Were the hell do you get this utter crap. Yeah, let's repeal Obamacare. Your mother doesn't need to live.

Let's not forget it was Obama compromising with the GOP which kept the insurance companies making their millions.

Anonymous said...

Your mother doesn't need to live.

Looks like my mom needs 2 complementary insurance on top of the gov one in France to live, jackass.

Let's not forget it was Obama compromising with the GOP which kept the insurance companies making their millions.

Oh, is that why we're forced to buy insurance now? Because that's what the GOP wanted?

Let's say Obama compromised because he wanted nationalized healthcare a bit like the UK or a system like in France, how do you explain the French government can't pay for it anymore?

Stop being an imbecile who hasn't seen and read much, Liberallittleboy.

FrogBurger

Z said...

Pris, with liberals, the only right to choose anymore is the right to choose to kill one's child before it's born, right?

Liberalmann, GEE! We all want our elderly parents dead, so let's get rid of the messiah's GREAT PLAN that is going to break our country in its misguided stupidity!
That's the ticket!

If they had ONLY not had that huge plan all ready to go before he was elected. I've always wonder who wrote it and who paid for that because there was NO WAY they had time to do that as they did.

Ya, and if they'd only done this in increments...seeing how things worked; making sure we could afford it, figuring out how to cover people without our country going broke under the weight.
But NO...libs had their big fat hands out for their freebies and Obama was only too happy to oblige.

FrogBurger "Stop being an imbecile"..that's a VERY tall order for him.

Liberalmann said...

Funny, even ultra right criminals like Rick Scott are embracing it. Maybe he can milk Florida seniors and get away with it again. After all, the morons in that state voted him Governor after he ripped them off before.


Rick Scott Agrees To Expand Medicaid Program In Florida:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/20/rick-scott-medicaid_n_2728187.html

Liberalmann said...

They are doing it in increments, it has already save the US billions and my plan went down with more coverage and I get a rebate check form my insurance company as part of the pan to reimburse the excesses in advertising.

Get real facts before you speak with your paper arse.

Anonymous said...

I get a rebate check form my insurance company as part of the pan to reimburse the excesses in advertising.

Oh yeah? I got a 25% increase in premium on my self-employed insurance a couple of months after it passed.
My shrink who was for it complained about the same issue.

Glad you got a check so you can go get yourself some candies and bubble gum.

FrogBurger

Anonymous said...

it has already save the US billions

Could you explain how it's saved billions? I'd love to understand the math because I honestly have no idea and facts about it. So please enlighten me with specifics instead of just typing words. I need the specifics and maybe you'll convince me. Does that include unemployment related costs as a consequence of burdening businesses with new healthcare insurance costs?

FrogBurger

Sam Huntington said...

By the time Obama & Company are finished working their magic, we will all be looking at Stalinism as an easier pill to swallow.

Anonymous said...

Sam, I wouldn't compare the two. We haven't had million of people sent to Siberian camps.

FrogBurger

Anonymous said...

@FB

"We haven't had million of people sent to Siberian camps."

Of course not...after the AWB takes affect and millions defy it...FEMA's all ready with their camps in Texas and JAX, Fl.

Might as well make the internment and roundup in a warm place...right?

Kid said...

Z, it's starting kick in. Still much more evil to implement, and the cost estimates are low by a factor of 10 imo.

Personally, I'd say this is just step-1 in the dems distancing themselves from this ***** and blaming it on the repubs.

And it might be accomplished even though not a single repub voted for it, not even the certifiably evil and insane john mcLame.

Anonymous said...

"I get a rebate check form my insurance company"...


Cause you're not worth saving...

Kid said...

libgirl is living in a different universe because everyone else's health insurance went up in cost and down in coverage last year.

libgirl, you're a democrat tool aren't you. working for bob beckal maybe. You doing it for free as well?
You got your ears on? come on back now ya hea?

Ducky's here said...

@Imp --- Of course not...after the AWB takes affect and millions defy it...FEMA's all ready with their camps in Texas and JAX, Fl.

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Get hold of yourself, man.

How does the fringe right manage to shift the topic of the value of for profit insurers to the Gulag, the fall of a completely corrupt Bulgarian government and the use of FEMA camps after the revolt of the gun loons?

Really, you folks are absolutely delirious.

Ducky's here said...

kid, Bob Beckal(sic) is your idea of a leftist?

Z said...

Liberalwhatever...I keep you here for comic relief and you NEVER cease to provide. Thanks!

I had an increase in my premium, too. Keep dreamin'...glad you got YOUR CHECK. Got that big fat palm out there waitin' to get rewarded for your ridiculous presidential choice, right? Do you get a free cell phone, too?

And no, this whole plan PASSED...increments are only that because of practicality. NOBODY tried any of this on for size to make sure it wouldn't break our country.

man, do some learning, huh?

Z said...

Ducky, think Bob Beckel's a conservative? :-)

What conservative do YOU know who'd brag on television nearly nightly about his alcohol addiction and bragging about how many women he's been with? (you know what they say about men who have to brag...)

Beckel, I believe, has been involved with something like 119 campaigns; think they weren't all Democrats?

Gee, sorry your definition of LEFTIST is STALIN and you won't settle for anything less.

Anonymous said...

@Dk

"Really, you folks are absolutely delirious."

Don't include them in any statements I might make. They are all mine..OK

And I was responding to FB in case you missed it....

Kid said...

Fredd! Your creative juices are flowing. You haven't actually watched jersey shore have you?

Anyway, here is what will happen with oblammycare if nothing changes:

- companies will opt to pay the fine and kick their employees into the gubmint plan. This was the main goal all along. They want to re-routed all that money thru DC.
- good doctors will quit, retire, certainly not accept a 50% cut in medicare. Some docs majority of business is with medicare patients. Would you take a 50% cut?
-poor quality people will be mass injected into the HC system because of this and because oblammycare requires an affirmative action quota type system of populating the system.
You'll be seeing docta Lucretia or Jose before long and neither will be a genius.
-obama aid, people might have to get by on pain pills. Take that as gospel. You get cancer, you're a liability not an asset. You'll be give pain pills and maybe put on a waiting list until you die or go terminal like they do in Canadia. Personally, I think democrat America will be much more rude about it than canadia ever was and they'll just tell you "No HC for you". This is what is referred to as "Death Squads".
-Taxes up the wazoo to pay for a rapidly declining quality of HC.
-No quality care. New Knee" Pfffffft! Forget that!
- fat taxes, smokers taxes, taxes for anything that "they" deem as unhealthy behavior. (England refused to work on a man's broken leg because he is a smoker) Even Canadia's government people came to the US for health care. I've seen stories in the news.
-This will further divide people- People with any physical attribute deemed 'unhealthy' will be viewed by the beautiful people as costing them money.
-life in the US will be a **&*hole.
-you won't have anywhere to go to get healthcare. Cuba maybe. That forbidden utopia on Earth.
-congratulations libtards, you're this far away form your goal of turning life on Earth into hell on Earth.

Oh - and rest assured those politicians you so adore Will have the very best healthcare. oblammycare does not apply to them.
- Finally, I'm sure I left out a whole lot of evil yet to be discovered.


Anonymous said...

@Z

"I had an increase in my premium, too..."

I know of no one who hasn't. Mine went from a threshold of 5K per year to 7K...I met the 5K last year in late October...to get the "benefits" of my policy..and it went from 1500 p/mo to 2500.

Kid said...

duck, bob beckil is my idea of a democrat propaganda tool who makes up everything he says on the spot to suit he and his evil masters.

Kid said...

Z, ;-). yes ma'am, you're either doing it or talking about it.

Kid said...

Oh, Here's something I left out.

After you're paying taxes up the wazoo for being denied healthcare, like canadia, they'll finally succumb to the masses not getting any healthcare and allow private insurance companies to re-enter the market, and you'll have the privilege of paying for HC insurance like you are today, and still pay all the other taxes that were supposed to provide HC.

Or you can stay on the government program, wait 12+ hours anytime you need to see someone, and when you finally do, they'll be incompetent. And you won't be able to sue them because the government won't allow themselves to be sued.

this is what insane people like beamish thrust upon us because he didn't want to vote for romney should would allow gay marriage, even though obama will surely implement that and hundreds of other leftard things. Lol.

What a place.

Who ever came up with RIP knew what they were talking about! heheh.

Liberalmann said...

Or you can watch Fox News and just make shit up like Kid. Lol.

Ducky's here said...

@z --- What conservative do YOU know who'd brag on television nearly nightly about his alcohol addiction and bragging about how many women he's been with? (you know what they say about men who have to brag...)

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What does that have to do with his political orientation?
I swear, you folks have a tough time concentrating.


Liberalmann said...

FrogBugger said: Could you explain how it's saved billions? I'd love to understand the math because I honestly have no idea and facts about it. So please enlighten me with specifics instead of just typing words. I need the specifics and maybe you'll convince me. Does that include unemployment related costs as a consequence of burdening businesses with new healthcare insurance costs?

Here ya go.

https://www.google.com/search?q=obamamcare+already+saved+millions&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

Ducky's here said...

Let's see, the private health insurance monopoly is raising rates so let's get on our knees to them.

These useless entities are taking 20% off the top and you want more? Insane.

Liberalmann said...

Zzzzz said: And no, this whole plan PASSED...increments are only that because of practicality. NOBODY tried any of this on for size to make sure it wouldn't break our country.

man, do some learning, huh?

...

YOU'RE the one who needs some learning:

http://www.healthcare.gov/law/timeline/

It will be fully implemented in 2014

Nice try.

Liberalmann said...

Coming in 2013: The Health Insurance Marketplace
Individuals and small businesses can buy affordable and qualified health benefit plans in this new transparent and competitive insurance marketplace. Open enrollment begins October 1, 2013.

Coming in 2014: Tax Credits for Families
Tax credits to help the middle class afford insurance will become available for those with income between 100% and 400% of the poverty line who are not eligible for other affordable coverage.

http://www.healthcare.gov/law/timeline/

Kid said...

PSS - Trial Lawyers have destroyed HC in America. They've sued it into a coma.

And not a single politician has ever mentioned this. I've never heard it in the public square.

As to the libtards, come on back every year or so and tell us how thrilled you are with the 100% democrat dictator HC plan.

K? ;-)

Mark this Post! heheh

Kid said...

Guess how many times I go to a .gov site for information?

Good God.

Ducky's here said...

@kid --- PSS - Trial Lawyers have destroyed HC in America. They've sued it into a coma.

And not a single politician has ever mentioned this. I've never heard it in the public square.
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Never heard it? Charles Krautzenjammer Kid harps on it all the time.
Estimates put the cost at about 4% of the total health bill.

Now the malpractice insurance business is controlled by three firms who have an antitrust exemption. So your task is to explain to the class how malpractice premiums fall in a monopoly environment.

Go to it.

JonBerg said...

While I hate to even acknowledge anything from this shallow dolt (Liberalmann), I quote: "Yeah, let's repeal Obamacare. Your mother doesn't need to live."

My mother lived to be nearly 90 years, having never heard of "Obamacare". I'm also sure that she is resting, quite well, in that she NEVER had to endure Obama!

Anonymous said...

@Jon

"My mother lived to be nearly 90 years..."

Mazeltov....my Mom and Dad too. Mom at 85 June of 12...Dad November of 2010 at 89.

My Mother-in-Law...now 92.

Kid said...

A single hospital in Texas was paying 100 million in legal costs per year just defending themselves against frivolous lawsuits. Not payouts.

Texas passed a law prohibiting frivolous lawsuits. The hospital's legal costs went to 2 million. 98% reduction in legal costs.

Not long ago, Pfizer has a 8 billion judgement against them because one person on a anti-depressant drug committed suicide. Result? millions of people who Were being helped by the drug were now screwed since it had to be taken off the market and 2-every drub manufacturer had to squirrel multi-billion dollar sums away in case they were sued - who pays that bill? You.

duck, you are one incredible moron. I'm done with you idiots. bleat away. Not like there is any shortage of you and the federal education system and communist indoctrination centers you refer to as 'universities' churn more of you out every day.

When life continues to suck more and more, and knowing the dems have been in control since 2006, don't ever whine about your life sucking in front of me. I'll deck ya. Seriously.

Anonymous said...

@Kid

"millions of people who Were being helped by the drug were now screwed since it had to be taken off the market"

Kid...weep not...it could only have been the creepiest unhappy depressed people on the planet...the sick angry libs and their "E" list celebs. Like that sick asshole Alec Baldwin...

It's a blessing if they all jump off their roofs tomorrow.....either that or they'll always abort their kids!

So who gives a rats ass if the "chosen" ones like the Lohans can't get their meds anymore. They'll all switch to Vodka...

(((Thought Criminal))) said...

Dems pandering to the Tea Party?

There's a shocker.

Not.

(((Thought Criminal))) said...

Dems pandering to the Tea Party?

There's a shocker.

Not.

Ducky's here said...

@kid --- Not long ago, Pfizer has a 8 billion judgement against them because one person on a anti-depressant drug committed suicide.
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Wrong ! Pfizer was fined for falsifying drug trial data. Get it straight.

Some supporting evidence on that ludicrous claim that the hospital is spending hundreds of millions of dollars (LMAO). Probably as well researched as your claim about Pfizer.

Oh, and you ducked the question on malpractice premiums. Come on, take a stab at it.

Anonymous said...

Here ya go.

https://www.google.com/search?q=obamamcare+already+saved+millions&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a


Ah that was a good one. Search results from Google using your own query.

Don't you feel embarrassed for your small intellect and your inability to think by yourself?

I guess you're from the Y-generation. Entitled, clueless, without any critical thinking.

Pathetic.

FrogBurger

Ducky's here said...

Froggy, is that link in response to he ridiculous contention that a Texas hospital was paying about 12% of its GROSS revenue to settle malpractice claims(just take the hundreds of millions as a percentage of the highest grossing Texas hospital, ball park it's still ridiculous)?

Your link doesn't address the question at all. Maybe kid knows what hospital it was.

Anyway, you're making a fool of yourself.

Ducky's here said...

From Wiki Froggy (Medical Malpractice) --- The study notes that about 1.14 million patient-safety incidents occurred among the 37 million hospitalizations in the Medicare population over the years 2000-2002. Hospital costs associated with such medical errors were estimated at $324 million in October 2008 alone
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So kid is claiming that a single Texas hospital was approaching the costs of all Medicare incidents.

This seems a little suspect to me. Maybe you can help make sense of this.

JonBerg said...

Kid said......

"Trial Lawyers have destroyed HC in America. They've sued it into a coma."

Duckling: "Estimates put the cost at about 4% of the total health bill."

OK, I'd like to know how much in $ are wasted in unnecessary tests, etc, just because of Doctor's CYA fear?

Anonymous said...

Ducky, again, you're an idiot. I can provide you a link to a google search. So it is not a direct response.

I could provide you proof of my own research by linking to the following, and I'd be a fool myself

Example: Obamacare a distaster for the economy

Really, just you and Liberalman need to grow up and start thinking for yourself. You guys are great at reading but terrible at really asking the right questions and looking at the big picture.

There are direct costs and indirect costs.
Plus if Obamacare works like the French "securite sociale" works, there won't be any savings. Because the indirect cost on the economy is so terrible that it ends up leading to less tax revenue, hence the inability to finance the system. Only time will tell.

In the meantime, you guys need to grow some brain cells.

FrogBurger

Anonymous said...

Your link doesn't address the question at all. Maybe kid knows what hospital it was.

What link? Did I post a link before the idiotic Google search example?

Shows how much you don't read well.

Wow, it's tough to coach you, Ducky. Not the sharpest tool in the shed.

FrogBurger

Anonymous said...

So kid is claiming that a single Texas hospital was approaching the costs of all Medicare incidents.

This seems a little suspect to me. Maybe you can help make sense of this.


No I can't. If you guys want to be nit picky about details, go for it. I am seeing the bigger picture of the system.

And I'd rather have higher costs if medical quality is higher than lower costs and shit medicine.

My mom had shit medicine in France and better doctors in the US when she uses them here. She can't go to a private clinic of her choice despite two complementary private insurance on top of the government one.

So I really don't care about those tiny details you want to focus on.

Really GROW the hell up, Ducky. You're in your fifties or sixties and you still think like a teenager.

FrogBurger

Anonymous said...

Oh, and when she comes, since she has no insurance, she pays cash and negotiates rates. She went to a night clinic for some infection and ran some test for only 90 dollars. Whereas I go see my doctor with my high insurance deductible, and I pay 100 dollars.

It shows one thing: you want to decrease costs: stop insuring booboos and let people pay cash.

But no Obamacare forces to insure all the booboos, and the pill.

And when you think about it, it's pure logic and common sense.

But that must escape you. Because common sense isn't sexy enough. You can't glorify your ego and mask your ineptitude with common sense.

FrogBurger

JonBerg said...

Kid,
"Not like there is any shortage of you and the federal education system and communist indoctrination centers you refer to as 'universities' churn more of you out every day."

My Friend: sadly, this is the only thing that passes for [Education] that they have ever had. Just wait until they go through the "College Of Hard Knocks"; it will happen! I hope I'm gone when it does.

Ducky's here said...

Froggy, thanks for avoiding the question. Another admission you got your butt kicked.

Where's kid?

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Mitt Romney to address CPAC???


There's a shocker.

Not.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

So, how much money have you donated to the Conservative Victory Project, beamish?

lol!

Anonymous said...

Froggy, thanks for avoiding the question. Another admission you got your butt kicked.

What question? You pointed to me something I didn't mention aka some Texas hospital story. I think I answered the question about cost many times by providing personal example and point of view.

Plus how many times didn't you understand my questions? You got your butt kicked a hundred times therefore.

"C'est l'hopital qui se moque de la charite" with you .

Loser

FrogBurger

Kid said...

Jonberg, Yea, exactly right. I thought about that later.

1st the multi-billion suit against the drug maker and now tens of thousands without a medicine to take, then you've got
-all drug companies now have to start and fund a reserve and call it "for lottery ticket lawsuits". Who pays for that?

You've got 6 figure malpractice insurance for doctors, and much higher for hospitals because of blood sucking lawyers. Who pays for that?

Then you've got doctors taking extra measures, sometimes overkill surgeries and such because of fear of being sued. PBS ran a special on that and many doctors testified. So, that's extra cost.

Finally, I think of it this way, Airline have a maximum liability if they run you into the ground at 500 mpg, because the airline industry is crucial to the country so lawyers aren't allowed to sue them out of existence. I'd think HC is just as essential as air travel eh?

Maximum payout on medical mal-practice? Do a better job of eliminating bad doctors rather then just let them move to another state?

Take the choking regulations off of insurers.

IBM offed obama free hardware and software to eliminate the 50% of fraud that the gov says is in medicare. obama said buzz off.

Lots of sensical answers here.

HC would be tremendously less.

and 4% ? Can't believe everything you read now can you. Ask the gov what the inflation rate is.

Kid said...

Duck, I'm getting links for anything for you. I kind of like it that you're in the dark actually. I certainly don't care what you believe.

Kid said...

that'd be Not getting links.

Kid said...

One last one duck. I didn't say hundreds of millions. I said a hundred million, went to 2 million, a 98% reduction. That sounds pretty darn specific to me dig? Yea, I know, you have to spin to get back to your fantasy world. Sucks to be you I guess.

Kid said...

IMP, Depressed people. You make a point.

We've taken evolution out of the mix as much as we can in America eh?

Some high school kid with 3 girls in the car in San Antonio wrecked, killing him and 2 of the girls.

They sent an army of 'grief counselors' to the high school to hold all the young men and women's hands.

We're creating a generation(s) of whimpy, untalented, expect to get something for nothing and have your boss acct like you mommy when they graduate and get a job. IF.

Generally speaking as always.

I never heard the term grief counselor until I was around 40.

Things happened, we dealt with it. It wasn't hard. It actually did us good to have to deal with those things that we needed to.