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Why did complaint calls to the insurance company and to the very doctors' offices go unheeded? Why did no one care? Were they ahead of their times? Or, is 1976 about the time when these inflated charges began to appear on patients' hospital bills?
Our President and politicians are pulling the wool over our eyes when it comes to healthcare.
I was stunned listening to Obama blame Medicare for the floundering situation in which our current economy finds itself. Obama said, "Let me be clear, the biggest driving force behind our Federal deficit is the skyrocketing cost of Medicare and Medicaid."
Why would he not place blame squarely where it needs to be? Why would he not blame the GREAT FEDERAL DEFICIT OUR ECONOMY IS SUFFERING TODAY on the immoral invasion and occupation of Iraq, which didn't need to happen, but did because the previous president, the war president, wanted it to happen?
As the Spanish say, me quedé parpadeando, or me quedé perpleja! I was perplexed!
Why was there, no mention of Timothy Geithner? No mention of Larry Summers? Not of the Wall street Rescue Plan? Not of the Bush invasion and occupation of Iraq? No mention of how our national coffers are being ransacked by poor stewardship in favor of bail-outs, invasions, occupations, stuff that have nothing to do with Medicare and Medicaid? " Has none of that anything to do with our Federal deficit? I think it does. A whole lot so, much more than our Medicare and Medicaid Systems on which Obama and others cast blame.
We, the Medicare crowd paid our way into Medicare, the government run healthcare system which our taxes bought for us, and which, now, the insurance companies, and the war and greedy politicians want to dismantle. Are we, the silver-haired crowd, so old and feeble that we can be scapegoated upon and no one take notice?
And what is this idea offered up to him by Chip Reid, Chief Whitehouse Correspondent for CBS News, to let an independent group study the problem of healthcare reform and make suggestions as to how our healthcare should be mended.
Who will trust any study group, like the MedPac mentioned by Obama in his response to Reid, to present an unbiased view of healthcare?
I mean, after the 9/11 commission, which was supposed to be such an unbiased, non-partisan group on a fact-finding mission, turned out to be such a "pro-Bush-hide-the-truth" commission? Who, in their right minds can trust any study groups, advisory committees, or fact-finding missions, crawling with government people, who give us only slanted views and findings? Who can trust them to turn around and give us a factual and truthful finding of how our health care can and should be reformed? Not I.
And if the president wants to listen to the truth of any studies on healthcare reform and how to cut cost and save needless dollars spent on healthcare, why does he not listen to the studies and reports of Physicians for a National Health Program. They have quite a few things to say, and they know what they are saying, based on facts. Non-political ones.
Then again, Obama, in defending individual mandates, had his own twisted fact about Single Payer-Universal Healthcare, when he told Chuck Todd of MSNBC that, "unless you have a Single Payer system where everyone is covered you are probably not going to reach everyone because there is probably someone out there who thinks they are indestructible and don't want insurance until they are hit by a bus and end up in the Emergency Room and we end up paying for it."
Obama must have just had a plate load of beer pretzels right before that conference. He is not going to give Americans valuable healthcare reform because someone out there doesn't want health insurance? I think Obama's reason for not wanting to give us Single-Payer Universal Healthcare has more to do with what he said on July 1st at that town hall meeting, when he said, to repeat, Mr. Obama said, in response to a question about Single-Payer Universal Healthcare,
In a lot of other countries, a single-payer plan works pretty well, and has eliminated private insurers and the associated administrative costs. Here's the problem, he says: The way our health-care system has evolved, it's based on employer-provided insurance, which requires the insurance companies to stay in place.
He made it very clear that standing by the insurance companies and their stranglehold on our pockets is his goal in healthcare reform.
This quote from Wendell, Potter, former CIGNA HEALTHCARE CEO, affirms the real push against Single Payer, Universal Healthcare.
WENDELL POTTER: The industry has always tried to make Americans think that government-run systems are the worst thing that could possibly happen to them, that if you even consider that, you're heading down on the slippery slope towards socialism. So they have used scare tactics for years and years and years, to keep that from happening. If there were a broader program like our Medicare program, it could potentially reduce the profits of these big companies. So that is their biggest concern.
Señor Presidente, if your excuse for not putting Single-Payer Universal Healthcare on the table is based on fear of criticism that taxed based, government run healthcare is, "a slippery road towards socialism" it is rather a poor excuse. It is not, and you know it, "a slippery road towards socialism."
