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In response to many of the intelligent, well thought out points by Blaze........
"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Obama presidency."
Get used to it!!!!!
And before all the Bush basher, Obama tree huggers chime in, let's remember that for 6 1/2 of Bush's presidency, the economy was doing great (other than the 9/11 small negative downturn, which turned out to be much less drastic than was predicted). Record highs in the stock market, record lows in unemployment. He also won re-election in a landslide. So let's please stay away from the "8 years of this, 8 years of that blah blah blah in your rebuttles. Thank you
sincerely,
Robert R Reger
Yes I totally agree, I can't beleive all of the problems that have suddenly appeared out of thin air since Obama has taken office.
Everything was great until he came along. There were no problems. Banks were fair, credit companies always had the best interest of their customers, we had no deficit, foregin relations were top notch, we were always at the top of the education and health care lists and troops were only used in responsible and concise missions.
Wow, it only took him 6 months to totally destroy this country. I would think it would take more like 8 years or so to pull something like that off. This guy is the devil.
The DEVIL I tell you!!!!
Oh yes I agree once again. Please, let's not mention anything bad about the past 8 years. It's irrelavant. Just pretend it didn't happen. Like the huge area where the World Trade Center used to be. There will be a new set of buildings there pretty soon, so who needs to remember the past? It never comes back you know.
Everything bad in the country happened in the past 6 months. This is obvious.
On a side note, I'd like to officially call out Blake Griffin for his abominable performace with the Clippers so far. That team is a joke and he has done nothing to change anything on that team. Actually I think it's his fault that they've been such an awful team for the past 30 plus years. Can anyone say "BUST"!!!
It's not his fault. He seems like a nice enough guy and a good family man (unlike the last democrat voted in). He just was not ready to lead the country.
And my complaints stem more from what he is talking about doing, rather than what he has done (even though I have problems with that too). Every single hospital that I have talked to recently (approx. 6-8 per day, including all the major ones in central FLA) say that if Obama's health care reform passes that they will not be able to spend a dime on new equipment until it is reversed. Basically the hospitals will be so broke that they will be using outdated and in some cases broken and unsanitary equipment to treat patients.
It also means that I will not have a job anymore, which I have worked harder than most to achieve. With another child on the way, this does not sit well with me. How people choose to live is their business, but when their choices affect my ability to support my family, I have a major fucking problem.
46 million people are uninsured for health care in this country. A new plan is needed, to argue that is insanity.
Will the new plan be perfect? Not a chance. No plan can ever be perfect with so many people getting a chance to shoot it down. But it will be a better plan than what we have now.
Walk-in clinics are popping up all over the place because so many people can not afford insurance. Of course the best possible choice is for us to make the entire medical industry non-profit, like Britain does. But this country needs a lot more growing up before we ever evolve from the all-mighty buck.
Until then, we have a responsibility to make sure every citizen is able to afford medical insurance. Hospitals are pissing away millions each year trying to provide charity care and handling bad debt.
The only thing that most of the health care industry does not like about Obama's plan is that it still does not cap the mal-practice claims. This can be a very tricky debate. I can see it very clearly from both sides. On one hand, some hospitals are currently paying hundreds of thousands per doctor for mal-practice insurance. On the other hand, a doctor will try to leave no page unturned in diagnosing someone for the fear they will get sued. I don't want a scared doctor, but I also don't want a lazy one. So if the fear of getting sued makes doctors try everything possible to help someone, I'm for that. Then on the other side, you don't want hospitals spending so much on mal-practice insurance that they charge you $1000 for a simple test. We'll have to find some kind of balance eventually. Right now, the important thing is to get everyone insurance that needs it, then start to tweak and perfect the system. Because right now it is broken.
I love how the far right calls Obama a Socialist, but when he tries to inject capitalism into the health care system so that private companies will actually have to compete with a national plan and provide better care, well then he's still an asshole. You can't have it both ways.
Also, his plan will spend money on preventative health care, because when you get down to it, the main cause of the all the health problems in this country are people who are clueless or just don't care about what they put in their bodies. That and the FDA, but that's a whole other box of Griswold family Christmas lights.
Oh yeah, also I just wanted to comment on what New York has done regarding the restaurant industry. Just about every single place, even fast food like McDonalds, now has the calorie amount next to every item on the menu. It was shocking to say the least. Especially when I went into White Castle.
MMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmm, White Castle.
But really, it does make you think way more. It had a big effect on me even though I already know that shit is full of fat and empty calories. But seeing it in print is way more jarring. I really hope it's something every state passes.
The difference between you and I Koko is that you get your opinions about healthcare reform mostly from some sort of media outlet and I get my information from the source. What is said publically is very different from what is being said privately.
On Wednesday of this week, I had a meeting with upper level management (CNO, CFO, Director of in-patient services) at 1 of the Florida Hospitals (the biggest chain of Hospitals in the state and the current employer of several players/significant others on this blog). I was shown an internal memo that I probably was not supposed to see, instructing each Hospital that all equipment requests had to be in by the end of August. This part of it was pretty standard as their fiscal year ends in December and they usually plan for the upcoming year in July/August. The difference between this memo and previous ones was that this one not only asked for their requests for 2010, but also for 2011,2012,2013 as well. In the memo it made mention that this was because of "pending health care reform litigation" or something like that. Florida Hospital currently has 19 Hospitals in the state of Florida and they all will not be buying any new equipment for the next 4 years.
Let's face facts here. The insurance companies are the crooks. If the government tried to run healthcare, it would be run with the same inefficiencies that every other government organization is run with.
I want everyone to have health insurance and I wish everyone had an employer who paid for it. That 46 million figure sounds impressive but it represents less than 15 % of the population. That means that 85% currently have insurance. The negative ramifications to this industry would greatly outweigh the benefits that it would produce.
First of all, you can't say "only 15%." You just can't say it. That's a lot of people, case closed. There's about $300 million in this country and %15 percent of that is about 45 million people. That's also a lot of people with kids. That's also a lot of hard workers. That's also a lot of people who matter. When does the percentage get high enough to matter? 20%, 30%? 15% of uninsured people is already way too high, defending that as an acceptable amount is unjustifiable.
Now that being said, I'm not going to claim to know more about the inner working of the hospitals than you, since you deal with directly with them. I'm not sure I understand why the hospitals will not be able to buy any new equipment. Is this an overreaction that the state is having to pending changes? Because that's what it sounds like. Florida is nortorious for bad government. That's why all of the educational money from the stimulus is held back until we can prove that it will go to the proper outlets. Florida's goverment has been bad for a long time. It's just now starting to get better with education. We recently just moved up from 31st to 14th. But we dropped from 41st to 45th in health care. Do you think part of the problem is with Forida's system? No one is forcing them to ask for all the equipment needs for the next 4 years except the state, right? I'm actually asking the question, not trying to be sarcastic.
Also, Obama is not trying to have health care run by the government. Why can't anyone understand this simple concept? All he wants is for there to be a national plan for those who NEED IT!!! I won't need it, you may not need it, but a shitload of people do. Plus it give competition to those insurance companies with territorial monopolies in many towns across this country. Forcing them to provide better care and plans.
Wow.....Blaze is burning is back and it kicks off a contentious debate. Nice Job Blaze....and very in depth insight from Johnny......Kudos.
I agree with both arguments but there are a lot more elements to the hospitals not being able to afford new equipment. You have to realize even if they are state funded many hospitals have endowment funds etc.....that pay for their expenses. And....these endowment funds, and the money they used is usually extremely large amounts and thus it doesn't just sit in a saving account......
Guess what... it sits in mutual funds, and the market.....and I think we know what has happened there.....and thus many hospitals are strapped as well.
Anyway, Just a side note I am writing this on an airplane flying to Orlando just in time to make our game to kick off the next championship season. Amazing......wifi in flight.
See You guys tonight!
Also.....the Goonies????
Sounds like a team that was truly inspired by the Cobra Kai's.......
Yeah, were not just playing a softball game against these guys. This is a battle for 80's movie supremacy. While both classics, I will always take the Karate Kid over the Goonies.
No Mercy tonight! If it doesn't rain.
I take The Goonies as its one of my favorite movies of all time.
Fuck'in trader!
I hate our field. Red Bug sucks.
It's obvious that Koko and I will never agree on anything. So we will leave it at that. That's ok. My mom and I are the same way. In fact, if you google -
healthcare, "Kristine Reger" you will see page after page of her liberal agenda. We just talk about other things. At the end of the day, none of us are decision makers in the process and it either will happen or it won't, regardless of our opinions.
About time you lazy bum. It took you 6 months to post another column. Anyway, good job. I hope the anesthesia machine doesn't break down when someone is on the table.
Goodluck tonight guys. We are the champions!!!!!!!
Thank god we don't agree Regs, arguing with you gets me through boring days at work.
Hey, isnt "we are the champions" from my favorite 80's movie, Revenge of the Nerds???? I LOVE the pep rally scene!!!!!!!
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