tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3820377390281203107.post6586090124382193066..comments2024-03-07T02:17:34.434-08:00Comments on Tom In Paine: For Democratic candidates, it may be time for the sinking ship to desert the rat.Marc Rubinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10746456438052849715noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3820377390281203107.post-55315203203335133382014-11-05T07:23:47.547-08:002014-11-05T07:23:47.547-08:00Well, they left.
Any suggestion as to how to make...Well, they left.<br /><br />Any suggestion as to how to make that corrupt rotten party realize ex-Dems were voting against the slow-acting Republicans and not for the fast-acting kind? IOW, against Repubican-lite and not for Republicans?<br /><br />PDXPatAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3820377390281203107.post-71199496312870932232014-11-02T08:06:08.060-08:002014-11-02T08:06:08.060-08:00I'm not sure Medicare for all would be any dif...I'm not sure Medicare for all would be any different than private health insurance. I've had Medicare because of disability for 12years now, and am still forced to buy private insurance to supplement it. Medicare covers 80% of medical blls for a very good premium price (about #100/month), but if you're elderly or disabled, the kind of people who are eligible for Medicare, you tend to be ill, and have a lot of medical bills, and 20% of many thousands of dollars per year has bankrupted a lot of people who have Medicare as their primary insurance. Therefore, to cover the 20%, I pay $500/month for private supplement insurance. Not all states allow disabled people to buy supplement insurance-the people who need it the most. If you are 65, all states require that you be allowed to buy Medicare Supplement for whatever price the private insurance companies wish to charge, naturally. Of course, you can sometimes keep your insurance from work, thanks to HIPPA, but you have to pay for the entire premium, which most people who are totally disabled can not afford. So, I pay 5 times the Medicare premium, which provides 80% coverage, for private supplement insurance, which covers only 20%. Plus, the private supplement insurance often doesn't cover things Medicare says it's supposed to, and the complaint process via Medicare is a joke. They don't investigate, themselves, just send the complaint to the private insurer, who lies, and them Medicare closes the complaint without even notifying the complainant that there was a response or asking the complainant whether the response from the insurance company was true. Clearly, Medicare, itself, has been corrupted, no doubt by MONEY from the private insurance company to the Medicare administrators.And that's not even addressing drug coverage, where, again, the private insurance companies who run Plan D often take necessary prescription medicine out of their formulary right after the enrollment date ends. So, you're stuck without your seizure medication, unless you can eek the money out of your disability pension. Obamacare includes no improvements to Medicare under the guise of us being well-covered. The best thing for everyone would be to eliminate the private health insurance industry, completely. They can find new jobs some place where they can't do as much harm as in health care, like K-mart. I was hoping that Dennis Kucinich would be elected because of HR 676, and only voted for him in 2008. Unfortunately, when asked about angle-payer health insurance. I recall that Hillary Clinton laughed and said, "This is America." I was disappointed. I'm encouraging my kids to try to find employment in Canada as long as this is what America is all about.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3820377390281203107.post-50171310695667492572014-11-02T06:41:39.017-08:002014-11-02T06:41:39.017-08:00New York Times Nov. 2, 2014
Braced for Shift in C...New York Times Nov. 2, 2014<br /><br />Braced for Shift in Congress, Obama Sets a New Agenda <br />By PETER BAKER and MICHAEL D. SHEAR<br />Expecting a less friendly Congress after the election, President Obama’s aides are mapping out compromises with Republicans to expand trade and overhaul taxes.<br />89 Comments<br />It's because of these "compromises when there was no need, that this is now happening.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3820377390281203107.post-90818349058176885642014-10-27T11:30:26.923-07:002014-10-27T11:30:26.923-07:00"my point about the Public Option: it was not... "my point about the Public Option: it was not about whether a real PO would be a good thing, it is that Obama only used the PO to shut down any talk about Single Payer."<br /><br />The only reason Id disagree is that the House had already passed the healthcare reform bill with the public option. Pelosi is the biggest Obama sycophant in Congress but I dont think even she would have wasted everyone's time with open debate on the bill and forcing members to vote on it if she knew Obama was going to ditch it anyway.<br /><br />The smartest solution was Howard Dean's who advovated a Medicare for All bill because the infrastructure was there and, some instances of doctors committing fraud aside, its been administered very well for decades unlike Obama's web site fiasco. But the public option was supposed to be the stop gap measure as a gateway to that. Obama just caved into the insurance companies who knew it would wreck their business.Marc Rubinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10746456438052849715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3820377390281203107.post-17863510511096065112014-10-27T09:44:39.353-07:002014-10-27T09:44:39.353-07:00tdraicer: I recall you posting the "must vote...tdraicer: I recall you posting the "must vote for him as the lesser evil" argument in 2012. But if you didn't vote for him, good.<br /><br />In any case, you are missing my point about the Public Option: it was not about whether a real PO would be a good thing, it is that Obama only used the PO to shut down any talk about Single Payer. You may have taken it seriously, but I suggest the backroom sellout was intended by Obama from the start.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3820377390281203107.post-85614358421150073052014-10-25T06:14:49.517-07:002014-10-25T06:14:49.517-07:00"Of course, I agree with every bad thing you&..."Of course, I agree with every bad thing you've said about Obama. Which is why I'll never understand your voting for him. "<br /><br />I didnt vote for him. As for the public option as a ruse to shut down single payer, it was the first and most effective step on the road to a single payer system. And it would have accomplished everything healthcare reform was supposed to do. Obamacare has nothing to do with healhtcare reform. Which is why after Obama cut his backroom deal with the insurance companies he changed the banner behind him at town hall meeting from "Healthcare Reform" to "Health Insurance Reform". Naturally the news media never noticed the change. And Obama never said a word, pretending nothing had changed but giving himself the out with the new banner that he was being "upfront".Marc Rubinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10746456438052849715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3820377390281203107.post-70270314384520520762014-10-25T06:10:39.228-07:002014-10-25T06:10:39.228-07:00"Obama will probably get a job working for Ka..."Obama will probably get a job working for Karen Ignani."<br /><br />Selling health insurance would suit him.Marc Rubinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10746456438052849715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3820377390281203107.post-64462826725570080422014-10-24T22:54:17.436-07:002014-10-24T22:54:17.436-07:00Ted Raicer: Well I would argue the Public Option w...Ted Raicer: Well I would argue the Public Option was never anything but a ruse to shut down Single Payer. Once that goal was achieved, Obama abandoned it.<br /><br />Of course, I agree with every bad thing you've said about Obama. Which is why I'll never understand your voting for him. He was not "the lesser evil" because unlike a failed GOP President (and McCain or Romney would have failed) he moved the country to the Right. Obama didn't save us from the Right-he revived it. Which, I suggest, was what his monied backers always intended.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3820377390281203107.post-58087256893633646122014-10-23T09:28:18.123-07:002014-10-23T09:28:18.123-07:00Obama will probably get a job working for Karen Ig...Obama will probably get a job working for Karen Ignani.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com