tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589915379939405874.post7380694392205712598..comments2023-07-09T03:48:34.527-04:00Comments on Political Packrat: Medicare Is Socialized MedicineAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09600365870806305125noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589915379939405874.post-22932889893619403062010-03-29T21:51:30.024-04:002010-03-29T21:51:30.024-04:00I have news for Hannity and others at FOX news, Me...I have news for Hannity and others at FOX news, Medicare is SOCIAL MEDICINE, it always has been, from its birth in 1965; so why they insist in MISinforming people about it? They keep their rethoric saying that Presient Obama will socialize medicine in this country.....!!!! Hannity, wake up boy! MEDICARE is a form of SOCIALIZE medicine, idiot!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589915379939405874.post-80406063037951019452009-08-09T08:15:46.836-04:002009-08-09T08:15:46.836-04:00Ahhh Susan, I share your fears:-) and I too am hop...Ahhh Susan, I share your fears:-) and I too am hoping for the best.<br /><br />Al, thanks for chiming in from Australia. Big pharma and insurance lobbies here would have us believe that government run single payer systems don't work-- so thank you bigtime for telling it like it is. Most Americans really don't know.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09600365870806305125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589915379939405874.post-45142210989614346092009-08-09T01:15:37.415-04:002009-08-09T01:15:37.415-04:00Bizarrely we have had a Taxpayer funded system cal...Bizarrely we have had a Taxpayer funded system called Medicare here in Oz since 1983. The world didn't end (at least our bit of it). The Red peril didn't re-materialise and make us all sing the Internationale.<br />Doctors still make obscene amounts of money, specialists make more. Those who choose can privately insure so the can choose their own doctor or go to a "better" private hospital. <br />Public hospitals are free,no matter who you are. Doctors can opt out, but then the Government reimburses you for around 50 - 80% of what you pay for seeing them.<br />Most medications are subsidised and the poor usually pay between nothing an $5.00.<br />DON'T Do it America, it might damage someone's freedom.Alhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15625543235578144620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589915379939405874.post-51554715221423220702009-08-07T08:12:35.978-04:002009-08-07T08:12:35.978-04:00Wahoo, Pink! You said it all.
But let me add tha...Wahoo, Pink! You said it all.<br /><br />But let me add that thanks to our equally broken political process, which is run by the lobbyists, I don't feel very confident about whatever agreement is hammered out.<br />It's going to be distorted and skewed to try to make everyone happy. <br /><br />I am hoping that whatever it is, it's at least a good start.Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07350532214928944088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589915379939405874.post-52681883431678063142009-08-07T07:09:24.147-04:002009-08-07T07:09:24.147-04:00Exactly!!!!Exactly!!!!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09600365870806305125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589915379939405874.post-88597559798374457312009-08-07T06:20:52.092-04:002009-08-07T06:20:52.092-04:00You'd think with most everyone in America conn...You'd think with most everyone in America connected to the internet these days, this wouldn't even be an issue. But then that would require people to THINK, and the health insurance industry is counting on that they WON'T, but get their "facts" from the talking heads on Fox.<br /><br />I'm ever amazed at people who'll argue that Medicare is NOT the dreaded "S" word. What color are the trees in their world?<br /><br />The other head-shaker that cracks me up are people who have health insurance through their employer. The very ones that don't want single-payer because they "don't want to be paying for anybody's health care but [their] own". <br /><br />The flaw in that one is for an employer to offer health insurance to its employees, they're all lumped together *as a group* so that the costs of the care that anyone in the group receives is *shared by all members of that group*. Meaning the weight-conscious secretary who eats nothing but lettuce and works out at the gym every day is still paying for medical treatments of the 300-pound IT guy with bad knees who has donuted himself into Type 2 diabetes. <br /><br />Or the twenty-something mid-level manager who doesn't intend to stay with the company past 30 is in effect paying for the drugs his 55-yr-old boss takes for high blood pressure (no doubt caused by having to stay with that company until retirement - or death from stress.<br /><br />It's no wonder Europeans wonder what's wrong with us that we don't look out for each other.JamaGeniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16973656461323918279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589915379939405874.post-77342494329369549852009-08-07T00:30:58.110-04:002009-08-07T00:30:58.110-04:00ROTFL Andrew-- well, in fairness, I suppose I shou...ROTFL Andrew-- well, in fairness, I suppose I should say that it is not just old folks who are practicing rectal cranial inversion on this one--but they are the ones that shock me the most and they do seem to be disproportionately represented in the screaming disruptive rallies.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09600365870806305125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589915379939405874.post-28480048034422596342009-08-06T21:04:14.594-04:002009-08-06T21:04:14.594-04:00Does Medicare cover head from ass removal surgery?...Does Medicare cover head from ass removal surgery? I ask because that's what most of these people fighting reform need. Well done and well said!andrewt522https://www.blogger.com/profile/00703463365472476623noreply@blogger.com