450,000 Doctors Can't Be Wrong

While I personally want you and your family to be able to get health care when you need it, I know that your plea is falling on deaf ears to many on this site. Unless you make enough to afford private insurance, they see you as undeserving of medical care. I truly hope that you can find peace of mind in the next few months when the reform takes place. Until then, I sincerely wish you and your family the best of luck.

I would not support this if what you say is true. Luckily, very little truth (if any) comes from you.

This is not a govt takeover of hospitals. This is an option for those who do not have an option under the status quo. I can guarantee you that anything the govt offers in the way of a public option insurance will be better than having none.

So you would rather trust the big insurance industry? Kind of foolish. It's not going to be Clinton and Obama standing over you with a scalpel. It is going to be the same Dr. that it is now. I just can't understand why some people are so happy to prop up a multi billion dollar insurance industry on top of their own health care costs. Maybe you can enlighten me on that?

The conservative MSM has convinced him that the US govt, namely Obama, is out to kill him.

i guess one day you guys call it facist and one day you trust it enough to run your medical affairs..

are you guys agreeing because obama is a liberal or you guys are agreeing because you had placed some thought on this?????????????

you know i am sensing no difference here between a liberal and a conservative...both has its own gospel and its own Jesus

if Obama is a liberal
why isn't pot Legal
and why do we still
have don't ask don't
he's not having any regulation
on guns and week regulation on the Banks
wiretapping is still going
on he's hiding photos from abu-grab.

about New Orleans
they messed up because Bush got rid of an experienced FEMA director with
one of his campaign manager
for the 2000 campaign and he quit when't to
halaburten so he gave his friend
the horse lower a job A.K.A Michelle
Brown you know you the guy Bush said was doing a heck of job well Obama didn't put a horse lower in charge of FEMA. you Consevative don't make sense
you trust the government to fight
war's with every country in the world
but you don't trust a government healthcare plan.

im sorrey but your not
doctor these doctors are in the health
care system how could they wrong
it's there opinion it's there experience
you can think for yourself but what about
facts and there are people that earn plenty
of money and still cant afford health care
they do every thing for them self and
still cant pay for health care it's stupid
to say people can't afford some thing because
there lazy there are people that work hard
and are still poor.

Do you honestly think that you are the first person to bring up the issue of the tax penalty? I heard about it from Obama himself months ago. What a self-inflated ego you must have. Perhaps I should school you on this issue

If you make below $43,000 and you choose to go with the public option, there is a sliding scale of credits on your monthly premiums going from $1 - $43,000 so everyone who has an income can afford health care. If you choose not to participate in the public option, and you do not have private insurance, you will be fined $1,000. These are the same people who would come to an emergency room if they were injured or sick, and they would cost the taxpayers for their medical treatment.

When it comes to rights on how you spend your money, you overestimate your current abilities. You pay for public schools, police, fire dept, and a host of other socialized programs deemed important for all Americans. I pay my taxes, and therefore I pay for nuclear warheads, although I do not approve of it.

So save your rhetoric, and next time, really read the bill. Don't just paraphrase a paragraph and act like an expert.

then sir your pious faithful and devout..obama should take care of you..is he taking care of you???

Obama doesn't have to take care
of any body he just needs to make
healthcare affordable a i'am
not devote to Obama i can
criticize Obama what
i don't like about Obama
is the wiretapping and he has
not kept his promise when
comes to transparntcy.

WELL SAID!

I agree. That's like ignoring a mechanic's opinion on how to best run the vehicle insurance industry. Ludicrous.

Your comparison of health insurance to car insurance is beyond weak. Find a better argument. When is the last time you had to fight with your car insurance company to pay for your a $100,000 alternator replacement?

I value medical doctors opinions much more than politicians or the average troll online. These are the people dealing with the current health care system on a daily basis.

The significance of hundreds of thousands of medical doctors urging reform of our health care system cannot be denied.

well we all cant be as educated as those who arent old enough to legally drink yet

i agree. i feel like it's too good to be done the way the government says it's going to work out...

there are always darker, hidden and secret motives and intentions when it comes to the government, and that's fact.

im too afraid of them to be able to support the government controlling my health/existance in such a total way...

i don't know federal government
seems to be doing okay running the military and
just fine running the school system
i guess we should get rid of public school
they are socialist programs that hurt
the free market privates schools
right and fire men and police are socialist because
they work for government and those horrible
oppressive public library's and there socialist
agenda and we have Communist national parks
oh make it stop LOL :D maybe you should think some more

The reason you can't get that $2 pill over here is because of the monopolist regulation that lobbyist have so effectively persuaded the FDA and other government agencies to put into place.

These are the same agencies that are supposedly going to run a universal health care program? No thanks!

if people would raise their awareness of what is really healthy for them, lifestyle wise, then there would be a huge drop in visits to the doctor in the first case. I don't think it is fair for some people to have better health care than others just because they have more money... once again humanity is trying to fix a problem on the surface when the truth lies at the roots.

My friends, if you look closely you will see a beautiful specimen of an ideologue. You can tell by his colorful rhetorical flourishes and his complete detachment from reality. See his blinders? Be careful not to let him know that you see through his unfounded, reactionary, overheated fear mongering or he may become angry as his world view is threatened.

Best to leave him alone and not remind him that the American health care system is far and away the most expensive system in the world. He'd be sure to reply that it is due to the quality, and that we should pay that much. He probably wouldn't take the time to read a very informative article that addresses some of the perverse incentives in the system as it is: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/06/01/090601fa_fact_gawande. Nor would he be willing to consider that 47 million uninsured Americans is an affront to what America stands for, not to mention evidence of a market failure.

He would reply that surely the CEO's of the big health insurance firms deserve their multi-million dollar salaries even as they chose to end the lives and livelihoods of thousands by arbitrarily changing doctors and systematically fighting to deny coverage. It is just the cold calculus of capitalism, and the free market must not be impeded.

Don't even try reminding him that the father of free market economics Adam Smith actually prescribed a robust role for government in a free market economy. Even though Smith said such a role was necessary to keep capitalism within the bounds of human decency, it will do no good to mention it. For the ideologue accepts only what supports what he is already sure of, and disregards the rest.

Now you and I know that we don't have all of the answers. We are interested in looking into the issue and are open to learning something new and compromising on what we believe will work. After all, the point in this video is that 450,000 doctors are calling for reform. Can anyone argue that the system is not broken? If we can agree on that, maybe we can have a rational exchange of ideas about how best to fix it.

The problem is; you're treating healthcare like another way to make money. Lifesaving surgeries shouldn't be priced to where the company giving the surgery can maximize profits. At some point you have to realize that the prices demanded are too high and many people are going to die because of it.

Striveforpeace - you sound like a marxist. We do not live in a socialist, Soviet style country (yet). We live in a free market, capitalistic society. There are rich and poor. It is completely fair that people that have worked hard, and have some more money be able to have better coverage if they decide they want to spend THEIR money that THEY have earned. THEIR money is not everyones money. Even under Universal Healthcare congressman, and presidents, etc. will have an elite coverage system that will be much better than what the average person will be under.

I'm sure you're gonna catch hell for this comment. But, i want to let you know I'm with ya bro.

maybe we should un do
government take over
of the school system yeah
those kids and parents
should pic theme self's by there
boot straps and stop depending
on government to teach there kid's.

You have to work for healthcare
there are a lot people that work and still can't afford
health care should be humen right.

and who is going to run this 'system'..?

No matter what, we the people need to pay medical bills. No matter what. We're all going to get sick eventually and most of us will have accidents that will require expensive medical care.

Why not divide the cost up between all of us?

change from bad to worse

COOL now under obama they will die a SLOWER DEATH in some hallway..

you are too jaded

and Conservative say Obama is being
a fearmonger.