Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Good News For Seniors

SeniorCare is extended until 2012.

SeniorCare is of course, yet another example showing that government run health coverage does work and works very well at that.

24 comments:

  1. Oh yes, Government run healthcare works SO WELL, thats why Canadians flock down here to America when they need some serious healthcare and dont want to wait 6 months for it. Plus you know how well all the other government run programs work, right? I challenge anyone to name one government program that works well, and exactly the way it was intended, AND without costing the tax payers rediculous amounts of money. No such animal.
    The point: Theres ALOT of things we can do to fix healthcare, that dont involve taxes going up, or the corrupt govt. putting their dirty paws in the middle of it and screwing it up like everything else they touch. Common sense dictates you try these things FIRST, which of course Obama doesnt want to do, b/c this is about a power grab, not about healthcare.

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  2. You're confusing coverage with actual provision. Canada pays for their people to come here due to a shortage of hospitals, etc.

    Americans just don't get any service, anywhere, if they don't have the right insurance.

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  3. capper, that's crap, and you know it!

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  4. Youre smoking crack, me thinks. I dont currently have any insurance and I can walk right into any hospital and get treatment. Ive done it many times.

    Does it matter WHY Canadians are coming here for treatment? The end result is the same. Government run healthcare sucks a fat one, and you shouldnt have to go to another country for HEALTHCARE when your taxes are paying for yours. Besides that, again youre wrong. Ive seen cases where Canadians had to come here because they couldnt wait 6 months or so for treatment, because they were on a waiting list. NOBODY in these countries with govt run healthcare LIKES IT. Brits are begging us not to do it, telling us to look at the mistake they made.

    You need to really learn whats going on before talking out of your ass with misinformation. You just did it twice in your comment here, let alone the other 3000 times in this blog in general.
    I again beg you to go read the constitution,and the writings of: Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin for starters. Theyre not "right wing kooks". Theyre the people that gave you the country youre in that allows you the right to say the incorrect things you do.

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  5. I dont currently have any insurance and I can walk right into any hospital and get treatment. Ive done it many times.

    You're the type of person that has made health care cost soar so high that this measure is even necessary.

    You may want to get your head out of your ass, turn off the Faux News and Douche Limpballs and actually find out what the Brits and the Canooks are saying about their health care.

    Although it has been my experience that the right is very afraid of the truth. Probably because they can't shoot it.

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  6. Actually, I'd say just the opposite it true. The LEFT has issue with the truth. As much as we try to point you to where you can actually find the truth, y'all still get lost. Do you really want to be on a waiting list to have a simple procedure done? The survival rate of breast cancer is a LOT higher in the U.S. as compared to both Canada and the UK. Even if you believe that's ok, ask your wife if she is willing to wait months for a mammogram, only to be denied life saving procedures.

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  7. Again, Kate, you're confusing coverage with provision. We have a great system of providers and some of the best hospitals and the doctors in the world, without exception.

    However, that only helps if you have coverage. Perhaps you would care to explain that to my mother, who had to fight the private insurance company for months to get a basic treatment for her cancer covered.

    She's buried at Wisconsin Memorial Park.

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  8. I could turn that around. My dad had government run health care. I visit him every time I go to Dallas, at Hillcrest Mausoleum and Memorial Park.

    The first step to fixing the problem is getting government OUT of the whole system. Problems have increased thanks to Teddy Kennedy and his HMO scam.

    Sorry capper, government is not the answer to the problem...it IS the problem.

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  9. Well, let's really compare notes. My mother died at the young age of 55 years, due to cancer. The cancer was allowed to grow while she was trying to get authorization to be treated. Even though the treatment had been around for years, and proven successful, the insurance company said it was "experimental," or in English, too expensive.

    Meanwhile, by Grandfather lived to be 92 while one Medicare, supplemented with Senior Care.

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  10. Yes capper, my dad died of cancer as well. Perhaps his government run insurance didn't believe he was worth saving, or perhaps they thought he was too old.

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  11. Well, that was less than convincing. I laid out the exact age and reason for denial regarding my mother's premature death.

    How old was your father? Did he seek medical treatment and turned down? You didn't say he was.

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  12. I wasn't living in the city at the time, so I don't know all the details. According to my mother, she was battling with all kinds of people on a daily basis.

    The issue isn't one upmanship, capper. It's whether or not you believe the government can take care of you better than you can. If you believe that to be the case, then I guess we shall agree to disagree. Again. But I will say, once again....the government had no business poking it's nose into the health care industry back in the 70s, and they have even less now.

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  13. Something tells me that you didn't feel that way a few years ago when Bush and the Republicans tried to prevent Schiavo's wishes to be granted.

    Besides, you are only arguing against price controls. The gov't actually contracts out the administration of the health care coverage provides. So much for worrying about us keeping our money in our pockets.

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  14. If you want to talk price controls, get the dadburn lawyers out of the way too.

    As for Terry Schievo, if it was her decision not to live in such a state, that is her choice. If not, then that sleeze ball will get his due Justice. Everyone in my family knows that I have a DNR, my lawyer knows, my doctors know. Simple. It is not up to anyone else to decide. Especially not some GED toting yahoo at an insurance company, or some high powered lawyer.

    We agree something needs to be done. We disagree how to go about it.

    Got those gators in the moat??

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  15. So then you are a death panel. Good. My wife and I filed the papers for that just after we got married.

    Gators are in the moat, dragons are in the sky, the knights are riding patrol, and the wizards are on the parapets. And I'm sleeping in my armor, which gets damn uncomfortable.

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  16. Hey, the way I see it, there's only One who actually decides when it's time for me to punch my clock. :)

    Oh, so you are well prepared then. Glad to here it....cuz I am here! Heh.

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  17. I know. One of your pet trolls heralded your coming.

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  18. HUMPH. You're my only 'pet troll'. :P

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  19. I was referring to your Rocky Mountain troll, Shadowblitz70. (To be honest, with that handle, I thought it was a spammer. I wasn't too far off.)

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  20. Well, we're all entitled to opinions, right?

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  21. Then why do you have so many? :P

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  22. Because I'm always trying to straighten out your head. I've always liked taking on the impossible. :P

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