The fact that Angle can’t think of a single thing medical insurance companies should be mandated - forced - to provide to you the insured is so very telling.
As Reid said during the debate, the insurance companies are their to provide necessary and lifesaving things like colonoscopies and mammograms out of the goodness of their hearts.
“Insurance companies … don’t do things out of the goodness of their hearts. They do it out of a profit motive and they have almost destroyed our economy,” Reid fired back.
Too true. As a breast cancer survivor and advocate, I can tell you that I’ve seen women denied. I’ve seen women torn apart with worry about the ‘maybe’ of that ‘odd’ thing they feel in their breast.
That isn’t right. That’s cruel.
That’s not what civilized societies do to their citizens.
The Right would have you believe that ‘mandates’ are just the most horrible thing since Joe Stalin when it comes to insurance. The fact that most of us are required to carry homeowners insurance to obtain a mortgage (that’s the lender calling the shots, not the government) or car insurance (that’s the state, but I don’t hear too many folks complaining that they got hit by an uninsured motorist) seems to escape them.
Mandates are what government does. The government insists that things be done according to rules that are debated and then mutually agreed upon.
Would you really want market forces to decide whether or not the meat you buy in the supermarket was safe? Get rid of government interference and mandates on clean drinking water?
If you are totally against mandates then to fly without a parachute on a lot of things that have kept you and your family safe and healthy.
Nevada Senator Harry Reid will be hosting a tele-conference for everybody - including the media - interested in making their voices heard on health care reform.
The online registration for this tele-town hall on health insurance reform is now available at http://reid.senate.gov/. This call will be toll-free and open to any Nevadan who would like to participate in the September 24 discussion.
Nevadans from all parts of the state and all political affiliations will receive a phone call inviting them to join Senator Reid’s live tele-town hall meeting, including those who register online. After clicking the town hall button on Reid’s website, users will then be asked to provide their name, number, and email. Only those with Nevada numbers will receive calls to participate in the tele-town hall. The deadline to register is Wednesday, September 23, 2009, at 3:00 p.m. PT.
This is your opportunity to express your support, objections and concerns, while getting sound, accurate information on what the Obama administration and Congress hope to achieve.
“Our work to reform America’s broken health care system has been many months in the making and has involved input from thousands of people in Nevada and millions around the country,” Reid said. “As Congress gets closer to passing health insurance reform, it is important for me to continue getting input from Nevadans to ensure the final product represents their needs.” said Reid.
It’s also an opportunity to shed the mis-information, rumors and lies so we can move forward toward real action.
I would like to suggest a couple of things: if you are opposed to the current reform measures being floated, try to - just for a few minutes - reframe the debate vis a vis how ‘broken’ the current ‘system’ really is …. we can’t go on like this as individuals or as an economically strong nation. Secondly, please remember that this debate is about health INSURANCE reform, and NOT about how you and your doctor address or carry out your or your families health care needs.
The tele-conference is scheduled for Thursday, September 24th at 1:00 p.m.
The time for health insurance reformis now. Why are Senate Republicans putting insurance company profits over people? http://democrats.senate.gov…
BTW: on a late breaking, sort of, note. Sen. Max Baucus went back to the drawing board on the health insurance reform proposal from the Senate Finance Committee, and came back with some more sensible language in regard to Medicaid … courtesy of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
Following efforts by NevadaSen. Harry Reid,Senator Max Baucus revealed his updated health insurance reform proposal with major improvements for Nevada. The state will receive a full 100 percent match for those added pursuant to the Medicaid expansions for five years. Furthermore, federal funding for Medicaid increases by 30 percent while Nevada will only have to increase funding 1.6 by percent.
As I say, it’s not perfect but it’s better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.
There have always been those folks that resist the truth: men really did land on the moon, there really was a holocaust, Obama is a native born American … and no, the pope did not have John Lennon killed. Oh, and trial attorneys are not the only thing wrong with the health care system.
For every event there will be a cadre of loonies and an oversupply of fanciful interpretations of history. I think some people just have a need for fairy tale and drama. They lead boring lives without enough gumption or imagination to do anything constructive about it. Religion proves this.
But then there are those - and they may all belong to the cold, wet Tea Bag coalition - who are just going to be stupidly stubborn. They’re gonna resist all evidence to the contrary in a dogged determination to show everybody that they’re right!
What a week. I thought we’d never get home last night, getting stuck in Salt Lake City from about 4ish to well after nine-ish, when the flight pushed back from the gate. The good news: liquor is now available in the Salt Lake airport. I never would have guessed it could happen. No more of that old sneaking around, paying $5 for a ‘private club fee’.
I’d been down to Houston, Texas and the University of Texas, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center for my annual cancer check up. Everything seems to be good, but under the heading of “be careful what you say” when the the worlds best cancer doctorsask “do you have any other issues?”, I have to go back down there next month for an MRI or CT of my brain.
We just want to make sure that my brain - such as it is - doesn’t have cancer colored brain cells. Silly putty colored brain cells are acceptable, as are Martini colored brain cells.
But first, I need to call the insurance company to see whether or not I’ll get stuck - like the last time - with a very expensive test that they refuse to pay for. Hmmmm. Does that sound like health care rationing to you? It does to me.
And, on that note …
There’s another deceptive, fear mongering ad by The League of American Voters to derail health care reform. Watch ‘Leading the Fight to Stop Obama Care.’
If you’re not sure where you stand on the health care plans being debated in Congress, then watch this and ask yourself this: “what percentage of my insurance premiums do I want going to CEO bonuses and stock options?”
Then you might ask: “what percentage of my prescription medicine dollars should go to Big Pharma so they can advertise drugs to me?” Shouldn’t that be a decision made between you and your doctor?
Well, it’s been a hectic week between working a few more hours than I anticipated, having the entire outside of our house painted and then having to nip over to San Francisco to put in a Visa application at the Indian Counsulate bright and early on Friday morning. It’s a long story. I’ll explain another time.
I knew this visit wouldn’t be pleasant or easy, in fact, my husband asked me “do you really want to go see that women - won’t it be hard?” I told him I knew it would be hard, but I didn’t realize how hard. As I left LifeCare Center in southwest Reno on my bicycle, instead of going directly home, I took a longer ride to help ease my anger and dismay over another person dying for lack of adaquate healthcare. Right here in America.
Friday, October 15, 2010 at 18:14 