[Swiftwater Gazette] Health Care Gets Even Worse!

Wed Jul 29 11:11:18 EDT 2009

Rik,

That was certainly what we witnessed after Katrina.  People who were
paying $500 per month rent plus utilities for a small house or
apartment got right cozy, right quick in their FEMA trailer plus a
stipend.  The program ended just a few months ago and they had to drag
the remaining ones out, kicking and screaming, from "their" home.
Those are the ones that didn't sue FEMA for formaldehyde issues. The
biggest sufferers will be the next round of disaster victims.  FEMA is
out of the trailer business for good.

Health insurance is, well, insurance.  What's next, free car
insurance, homeowners? The government is the only entity that can
issue flood insurance.  Now the wailing and 'nashing of teeth' is that
the Army CORP came out with their new flood maps and they pretty much
prove if you build too near the coast, you'll get flooded. So we
taxpayers have to foot the bills for others desires and/or stupidity,
or listen to them bitch because reality doesn't fit their mold of
fantasy.

So we have the brother of the White House Chief of Staff writing a
bill that will be voted on without it being read.  Yea, that ought to
work out well.

Brad

On 7/29/09, Eric Sandberg <sanderico1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Brad,
>
> It all comes down to this: If we're going to put safety nets out there, we
> must understand that people will intentionally fall into them, think it's
> pretty nice and stay. Eventually they come to think of them as a "right".
> Giving people free stuff doesn't work, never has, never will.
>
> Rik
>
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Brad Haslett <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Update and a good article I stumbled across today -
>>
>> We may, I repeat may, have dodged a bullet until after the August
>> recess. About 4pm today the GOP got word from the majority that there
>> would be no vote on Friday. Then Queen Nancy sent word, "not so fast".
>>  Keep your fingers crossed.  The Senate doesn't leave town until a
>> week later so they could pass a watered down bill and then the House
>> comes back and puts everything back in place. The House members did
>> not want to go home and face their constituents on this - let's hope
>> they do.  Keep the pressure on, it's working.
>>
>> I've been saying for years, look at TennCare, look at TennCare! These
>> idiots are trying to re-invent the wheel, a broken wheel. This article
>> explains it all -
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/lk4cvd
>>
>> Bredesen, the TN Guv, is a smart guy and one of the Democrats I voted
>> for.  He's wealthy from the health care business and even he can't
>> figure out how to keep TennCare solvent.  Marsha Blackburn is my
>> congressman - I live about a hundred yards in her district.  Pay
>> special attention to the part about employers dumping employees.
>>
>> Why won't these a*holes study TennCare?  Because it isn't about
>> providing health-care, it's a power grab.
>>
>> Brad
>>
>> On 7/28/09, Brad Haslett <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > First, here's a video -
>> >
>> > http://tinyurl.com/nbz9ny
>> >
>> > The kid is hard to understand so I'm posting a transcript below.
>> > Here's the scary part about what he said -
>> >
>> > "Ezekiel Emanuel, Rahm Emmanuel’s brother, who is involved in the
>> > wording of the House Bill said, “Medical care should be reserved for
>> > the non-disabled, not given to those “who are irreversibly prevented
>> > from being or becoming participating citizens…"
>> >
>> > I did a little homework on that and indeed he said it, here is the
>> > just part of what the doctor said -
>> >
>> > Emanuel, however, believes that “communitarianism” should guide
>> > decisions on who gets care. He says medical care should be reserved
>> > for the non-disabled, not given to those “who are irreversibly
>> > prevented from being or becoming participating citizens . . . An
>> > obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with
>> > dementia” (Hastings Center Report, Nov.-Dec. ‘96). Read the whole
>> > thing - http://tinyurl.com/l3knuk
>> >
>> > It gets worse -
>> >
>> > - Vague promises of savings from cutting waste, enhancing prevention
>> > and wellness, installing electronic medical records and improving
>> > quality are merely ‘lipstick’ cost control, more for show and public
>> > relations than for true change,” he wrote last year (Health Affairs
>> > Feb. 27, 2008).
>> >
>> > - Savings, he writes, will require changing how doctors think about
>> > their patients: Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, “as
>> > an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost
>> > or effects on others” (Journal of the American Medical Association,
>> > June 18, 2008)."
>> >
>> > - Unlike allocation by sex or race, allocation by age is not invidious
>> > discrimination; every person lives through different life stages
>> > rather than being a single age. Even if 25-year-olds receive priority
>> > over 65-year-olds, everyone who is 65 years now was previously 25
>> > years” (Lancet, Jan. 31).
>> >
>> > Now I knew Rahm Emanuel was crazy, but his brother the medical doctor
>> > sounds like Dr. Mengele to me. And what the hell is  communitarianism?
>> > THIS IS THE PERSON WRITING THE HEALTH CARE BILL! What he's saying is
>> > that some government employee, maybe someone from ACORN, will
>> > determine if you're too old, or too crazy to receive treatment.
>> >
>> > Read the whole source article in the New York Post here -
>> >
>> > http://tinyurl.com/lasau2
>> >
>> > Pass the word, share this, is this what you want? PLEASE! Fight this
>> > thing! (don't forget the transcript below)
>> >
>> > Brad
>> >
>> > -------------
>> >
>> > CONCERNS FROM A VOTER WITH A DISABILITY
>> > McCASKILL TOWN HALL MEETING
>> > JULY 27, 2009
>> >
>> > I am a young adult who is profoundly deaf with a cochlear implant,
>> > starting my second year of college in September.
>> >
>> > I would not be able to hear anything without my implant, except maybe
>> > a jet engine.
>> >
>> > With my cochlear implant, I can talk on the telephone, I can carry on
>> > oral conversations, and I can hear music. It has enriched my life
>> > tremendously.
>> >
>> > Cochlear implant surgery is not inexpensive. Currently it costs
>> > between $50,000 and $60,000 per ear.
>> >
>> > After this surgery it is important to receive the correct education
>> > afterward so the child can learn how to talk. It is expensive to
>> > educate a child who is deaf.
>> >
>> > It is also expensive to provide services to a child who is deaf who is
>> > not oral. Interpreters are needed for them to talk to people who are
>> > hearing.
>> >
>> > When my mother told me of the health bills being considered by the
>> > House and Senate, and how they impacted disabled people, I wanted
>> > people to know how that would impact me and how difficult it would be
>> > to succeed in life without the services I have received.
>> >
>> > Ezekiel Emanuel, Rahm Emmanuel’s brother, who is involved in the
>> > wording of the House Bill said, “Medical care should be reserved for
>> > the non-disabled, not given to those “who are irreversibly prevented
>> > from being or becoming participating citizens…” “.
>> >
>> > Does that include me? If medical decisions are being made by the
>> > government; not by my doctors, my parents, or me, I would be
>> > determined to be too expensive to receive the services I need to be
>> > able to navigate my way in the world.
>> >
>> > This is a bad plan for those with special needs. Tell Senator
>> > McCaskill to vote NO.
>> >
>> > Noah Logue
>> > St. Louis, MO
>> >
>>
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