Carrie Burdick-Roldan — 10:24AM on Aug 6th 2007

1. Now lets vote in Hillary in order to make Universal Care happen for the nation. In meantime, lets do all we can do to help keep ourselves as healthy as possible the natural way.

http://wellnessworks101.com
http://ccbr.gojiteam.com/go/video
http://ccbr.aboutgojijuice.com

Carrie Burdick-Roldan — 10:26AM on Aug 6th 2007

2. 1. Now lets vote in Hillary in order to make Universal Care happen for the nation. In meantime, lets do all we can do to help keep ourselves as healthy as possible the natural way.

http://wellnessworks101.com
http://ccbr.gojiteam.com/go/video
http://ccbr.aboutgojijuice.com

Carrie Burdick-Roldan — 10:26AM on Aug 6th 2007

3. 1. Now lets vote in Hillary in order to make Universal Care happen for the nation. In meantime, lets do all we can do to help keep ourselves as healthy as possible the natural way.

http://wellnessworks101.com
http://ccbr.gojiteam.com/go/video
http://ccbr.aboutgojijuice.com

kathryn — 11:15AM on Aug 6th 2007

4. The plan allows you to be in charge of you health care. With who you want to go with and how much you would like to pay. Doctors get paid .34 on every dollar, with a insurance. I personally have Ameriplan. I went to the dentist for my wisdom tooth. I spent $68.00 for the visit. I saved $382.00. I the went to Walgreen’s for two prescriptions I only paid $13.00. I thought that was a great savings. When I had a regular insurance, I paid about $459.00 a month. Then when I really needed to use the insurance I still had to pay a large out of pocket $1900.00 to be exact. So i asked my self why did I pay that insurance company $450 again???? With insurance if it is a pre-existing condition, the insurance company will not pay for it. So what about those people whom have diabetes, cancer, leg injury before, ETC.? What are they suppose to do? This is where ameriplan comes in. Texas has highest number of uninsured people. Also were the highest in debit because of unpaid doctor bills. 47 million people in the USA are uninsured! What about them? The highest plan is $59.95 for a month, for a household! You cannot beat that. I have a attached a link for the Consumer driven health alliance. Check it out.


http://consumerhealthalliance.com/site/page/pg3072.html

http://cdhc.ncpa.org/

www.mybenefitplus.com/40390662

RDixon — 12:56PM on Aug 6th 2007

5. Hilary Clinton started out with some great ideas for universal healthcare. If you notice, she has now become one of the individuals receiving one of the largest contributions from the health insurance and pharmaceutical lobbies. I'm hoping that she hasn't "converted" to these corporate ideals, but I'm not sure.

tom — 6:24PM on Aug 6th 2007

6. Good grief, why not a totally socialistic state. The government is messing with every other freedom or right that we have so now the folks that don't have insurance want a tax base to pay for that too. And all of the poor illegal immigrants that receive free health care...what do you want to give them after that? Health care is one area that the Feds have left to free enterprise and I suggest that it be left that way.

shoredune — 12:03AM on Aug 7th 2007

7. Have you all forgotten the clintons promise if elected to the whitehouse?Healthcare for everyone,we know how to do it and you will have it before the term is over.Secondly how can anyone listen to
what moore has to say!

Douglas Markell — 10:30AM on Aug 7th 2007

8. Odd that this should come up right now. It was two days ago that I asked myself about Hillary Clintons health plan. As I recall she got a very substantial salary to create a health plan when her husband was the President. My question is, did she continue to take a salary for the whole time (8 years) her husband was in office. After the first few months we heard little about any health plan. If you manage to hold out until you become of age medicare helps, but there is nothing for dental at any age. I sit here with my teeth decaying out of my mouth because I can not afford to have them taken care of.

RDixon — 11:08AM on Aug 7th 2007

9. Hilary Clinton started out with some great ideas for universal healthcare. If you notice, she has now become one of the individuals receiving one of the largest contributions from the health insurance and pharmaceutical lobbies. I'm hoping that she hasn't "converted" to these corporate ideals, but I'm not sure.

terry m bennett md mph — 7:45PM on Aug 7th 2007

10. Briefly, I have written healthcare policy all over the world, ( see CV),
plus, in 1992, I ran for the US Senate, proposing a very simple Single Payer Healthcare Plan , like Medicare, where we all had baseline insurance ( I can fax/ bring in a copy)

I am appalled that for 50 years or longer ( FDR was trying to get us Universal Health Care when I was a child) there has been a big business sponsored,
completely phoney debate, about "Socialized Medicine".
Countless fictitious " Big Government Bogeymen" have been danced out in front of us , and that cynical scare tactic has worked for 50 years.
The Republican Presidential Wannabees are sticking to this tried and true diversionary tactic, as I write.
Rudy Runs His Mouth has just raised the same (phoney)argument, once again.
"BIG GOVERNMENT, BAD!! BAD!! SCAREY!!BAD!!! No wonder his daughter wants to vote for Obama
(Even though Obama leaves the Insurance Companies in charge of his proposed healthcare plan)
The phoney Socialized Medicine debate has obscured the dismal reality,
namely that we have had foisted upon us the most expensive, least responsive healthcare system in the whole wide world.
We in America enjoy "Corporatized Medicine", a progressing nightmare, ( which is truly bad, bad, bad!) and evil and heartless as well
"Corporatized Medicine", ought to be the bogeyman we all fear..
"Corporatized Medicine" has frozen about 40 percent of us out entirely,while diverting finite healthcare funds away from healthcare, into the pockets of "the few, the proud, the greedy."
If huge profits are allowed, somebody else pays for them, in lost /denied services and treatments

It suffices to say that no other Industrialized contry has allowed big business to take over the rendering of healthcare, only the USA has done this .
All other countries, even poor countries like Cuba, have maintained control of healthcare costs by keeping "profitability" out of the healthcare services equation.
In the USA, enormous wealth has changed hands, while shoddy care has reigned
(See "Sicko" )
While creating Healthcare Billionires, we have become a third world country so far as quality of care goes.
The clear truth?
Give a dollar to Medicare and 97 cents comes out the far end in services rendered.
Give a dollar to the HMO of your choice and about 60 cents comes out the far end, in services truncated and squeezed so as to retain "profitablility".

This 40% "loss ratio" absorbs (steals) precisely the amount of funds, from the finite amount of funds available, that would insure the bottomdwelling 40% of us who are the "Leftouts"

Leave Insurance Companies in charge of Healthcare, as all but Kucinich ( and maybe Richardson??)propose to do, and the 40% are doomed to be left out forever.
Greed is the most relentless,the most pervasive, the most difficult to curtail, of all the Cardinal Sins.
And, contrary to what the character Gordon Gecko said,in the the movie" Wall Street;, "GREED IS (NOT) GOOD"
Certainly greed is not good in the healthcare arena
Clearly,
It is not possible to pay HMO and drug company CEO salaries in 8 figures,
pay 5 to 20 times more for Medications,
finance huge and heartless Bureaucracies,
and then also include the poor, the halt, the lame,
(or even the majority of us) at full benefits, without restrictions, prior authorizations and other obstacles.

so "Fornicate" the poor, the halt ,the lame,(they are used to it)
and, while at it, fornicate everybody, via overpriced drugs and overpriced services.
Pocket the profits, and buy another yacht.

There is no gentler way to describe the process.

This should open the debate, no??
Terry Bennett MD MPH

Melanie — 11:26PM on Aug 7th 2007

11. ANYONE who suggests that our problems will be solved by voting for Hillary Clinton is not our friend. Please don't add insult to injury. No matter where she may have once been, she's now very much a part of the problem. Fool us once, shame on you Hillary. Fool us twice, shame on us. Fool us three times... uh... shame on us again? Fool us four times... five times ... six times... Do we have collective brain damage, or are we just that masochistic???

Melanie — 11:31PM on Aug 7th 2007

12. Oh, and if you want more documented information about why I am not happy with the Clinton support of the mess we are in right now, check out Michael Moore's book "Stupid White Men." That should be required reading for anyone who thinks there is ANY difference between corporate-paid Republicans and corporate-paid Democrats. Absolutely disgusting, bordering on pornographic (not Moore's book, but what he reports in it).

terry m bennett md mph — 3:00AM on Aug 8th 2007

13. Briefly, I have an MD and an MPH from Harvard, and have written healthcare policy all over the world, ( see CV),
Plus, in 1992, I ran for the New Hampshire US Senate seat, proposing a very simple Single Payer Healthcare Plan , like Medicare, where we all had baseline insurance ( I can fax a copy)

I am appalled that for 50 years or longer ( FDR was trying to get us Universal Health Care when I was a child) there has been a big business sponsored,
completely phoney debate, about "Socialized Medicine".
Countless fictitious " Big Government Bogeymen" have been danced out in front of us , and that cynical scare tactic has worked for 50 years.
The Republican Presidential Wannabees are sticking to this tried and true diversionary tactic, as I write.
Rudy Runs His Mouth has just raised the same (phoney)argument, once again.
"BIG GOVERNMENT, BAD!! BAD!! SCAREY!!BAD!!! No wonder his daughter wants to vote for Obama
(Even though Obama leaves the Insurance Companies in charge of his proposed healthcare plan)
The phoney Socialized Medicine debate has obscured the dismal reality,
namely that we have had foisted upon us the most expensive, least responsive healthcare system in the whole wide world.
We in America enjoy "Corporatized Medicine", a progressing nightmare, ( which is truly bad, bad, bad!) and evil and heartless as well
"Corporatized Medicine", ought to be the bogeyman we all fear..
"Corporatized Medicine" has frozen about 40 percent of us out entirely,while diverting finite healthcare funds away from healthcare, into the pockets of "the few, the proud, the greedy."
If huge profits are allowed, somebody else pays for them, in lost /denied services and treatments

It suffices to say that no other Industrialized contry has allowed big business to take over the rendering of healthcare, only the USA has done this .
All other countries, even poor countries like Cuba, have maintained control of healthcare costs by keeping "profitability" out of the healthcare services equation.
In the USA, enormous wealth has changed hands, while shoddy care has reigned
(See "Sicko" )
While creating Healthcare Billionires, we have become a third world country so far as quality of care goes.
The clear truth?
Give a dollar to Medicare and 97 cents comes out the far end in services rendered.
Give a dollar to the HMO of your choice and about 60 cents comes out the far end, in services truncated and squeezed so as to retain "profitablility".

This 40% "loss ratio" absorbs (steals) precisely the amount of funds, from the finite amount of funds available, that would insure the bottomdwelling 40% of us who are the "Leftouts"

Leave Insurance Companies in charge of Healthcare, as all but Kucinich ( and maybe Richardson??)propose to do, and the 40% are doomed to be left out forever.
Greed is the most relentless,the most pervasive, the most difficult to curtail, of all the Cardinal Sins.
And, contrary to what the character Gordon Gecko said,in the the movie" Wall Street;, "GREED IS (NOT) GOOD"
Certainly greed is not good in the healthcare arena
Clearly,
It is not possible to pay HMO and drug company CEO salaries in 8 figures,
pay 5 to 20 times more for Medications,
finance huge and heartless Bureaucracies,
and then also include the poor, the halt, the lame,
(or even the majority of us) at full benefits, without restrictions, prior authorizations and other obstacles.

so "Fornicate" the poor, the halt ,the lame,(they are used to it)
and, while at it, fornicate everybody, via overpriced drugs and overpriced services.
Pocket the profits, and buy another yacht.

There is no gentler way to describe the process.

This should open the debate, no??
Terry Bennett MD MPH

lscjr2 — 10:05AM on Aug 9th 2007

14. just remenber 9-11, are you sure you whont the gov. to run healthcare? be very carefull what you ask for.

bill — 7:30PM on Sep 17th 2007

15. The "universal health care" plans are an infringement of States Rights as defined by the U.S. Constitution. If States, voted on by the residents of said state, want health care provided by the taxpayers of said state, then so be it. Federaly mandated systems never work and anyone should know why.

Most everyone of the age of thirty remembers L.B.J's "Great Society", it's been so productive and cost only Federal taxpayers thoughout the years. Wait, that was a failure!

The Federal Government has no Constitutional right or authority other than those granted by said Constitution. If the citizens of this country wish to amend the Constitution there is a method to do so. Please vote to stop Congress from trampling on States Rights!!!