Comments on: Dems should use health care reform mandate

By: Michael Swickard, Ph.D.

Michael Swickard, Ph.D. — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 06:07:37 +0000

As I responded to Carter’s Column, “Brother can you spare…” also on this blog, the core issue not being addressed about healthcare reform is the question: is the healthcare reform a continuation of our nation’s previous healthcare strategy of extending life and the quality of that extended life or at the core is there an unspoken change to a European healthcare model that does not have a priority for extend life?

I do not know that answer and I have not seen any debate of that question. Also, since we have plenty of nations who have changed their healthcare, we should research what was said by political leaders before the change and how the change has changed over the years for both better and worse. The bills in Congress really tell us nothing of how healthcare might change be five or ten years from today.

To me the debate right now seems like the deals on Comcast that say, change now to Comcast and for three months the cost will only be five dollars a month… but we do not know what the costs will be after the three months.

I am uninsured and uninsurable – cancer 13 years ago. I would like a better system, but I am quite aware we can make things worse. I would not like us, the US, to do so. Thanks Marjorie for the thoughts.

By: Dr. J

Dr. J — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 02:56:22 +0000

I would totally agree that health care needs reform, so I am part of the 77%. But I am also part of the 74% who rate their current private health care as good or excellent and want to keep it. Since HR 3200 and the Democrats want to totally dismantle the existing private health care plans and void 90% of them in 5 years (as they have caps, exclusions, etc.), I do not support that kind of reform. Supporting reform does not mean supporting what HR 3200 and the Democrats want to do, you need to quit misleading people and spreading misinformation, otherwise we will have to report you to flag@whitehouse.gov, the ObamaCare snitch site.

By: jbaca16

jbaca16 — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:51:54 +0000

Leave the GOP in the dust. They just don’t count for much anymore. When they bring thoughtful conservatism back into their ranks then they can participate and debate gallantly as they should. Right now they seem to be a bunch of pathetic pols who only try to outdo each other in paranoid meanderings.

By: stever

stever — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:00:37 +0000

I’m all in favor of pushing something through on a party line vote. I mean that’s what’s happened in everything so far in this administration although not really the change candidate Obama talked about. But who really believed that anyway.

Along the same line, why bother to even read the bill, because if the majority of Americans want “reform” than specifics don’t matter. Just reform it, or just call it that. I feel better already, now I don’t even need to go to the doctor.