OT Cheney - Cutting Gas Tax Stupid

Children already have insurance. Why test embryonic stem cells when it
has been fact that older stem cells were capable of the same results.
And the stem cell research was to be done on EMBRYONIC stem cells, not
on unfertilized eggs.

 

What a complete imbecile.

 

That's an understatement.

Bill Putney
(To reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my
address with the letter 'x')

 

There are few programs for the uninsured. The only "programs" in most

Which is by definition "insurance".

 

They are obligated to treat the emergency. My friend just went to the
ER for a stomach ache. They decided he wasn't about to die and
proscribed Maalox and told him that it could be Gall Bladder and told
him to go to his doctor. They do not have to treat anything that is
not urgent.

Having insurance, he went to his doctor and found out that, yes
indeed, the GB must come out. But the ER isn't going to do it.

Taiwan recently instituted national healthcare, based on the best
available model, Medicare.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/oct/07/taiwangetshealthy

If only we were advanced enough to do the same.

 

I'm glad that we're not backward enough to do the same.

 

Did you read the stats? Better care and cheaper.

 

The only thing the gov ever did as good or at least not a giant waste of
money as the private sector is the post office!!!!!!!!!!!! KB

 

Ok. Show me one person in the 15% tax bracket that pays 15%. Just
one.

 

Some sort of program for commercial vehicles to exempt them.
Nope.

Naive. If everyone quit driving today, the Gov't would get it's money
elsewhere.

How about a $5.00 per pound (per week) tax on fat people. That will
keep them from eating, right? If that seems high, one can always lose
30 pounds a month, at least that's what they say on TV.

 

I'd give the credit quarterly to every working adult under a certain

Nope. I can deliver Pizza, consume gas, and not report the income
from tips.

 

Better care bullshit. I'd rather have agreement with my doctor about my
healthcare rather than another lifetime bureaucrat.

 

So the bureaucrat's at the Insurance Company making the decisions are
OK with you then?

 

Cite the programs, smart guy.

 

Apparently you don't have much of a clue Bill. Please cite some of
those programs for the uninsured - aside from the state reimbursing
the hospital for uninsured (and uncollectable) emergency room care.

Aside from a few disjointed state programs, and a totalitarian effort
now underway in MA, there is little out there for the uninsured.

 

Please back that up with any kind of evidence.

See "In vitro fertilization".

 

Medicaid. AFDC.

Bill Putney
(To reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my
address with the letter 'x')

 

Well yes, of course. But that is the problem with HMOs, not medicare.
Medicare doesn't make a profit by denying you service. Plus, why
should I have to change doctors (I've had the same GP for 25 years)
because my new job's healthplan doesn't include him? With single
payer, I can keep my doctor.

I used to work for a company that sold computer systems for clinical
laboratories. Your blood goes there, they analyze it, you get results
and someone gets a bill. I mostly wrote the interfaces between the
system and the laboratory instrumentation, but we also handled the
billing software. The instruments were fun, but the billing was a
nightmare. Each provider had different billing rules, some tests were
billed to one provider, but if you went over a certain number per year
then they were billed somewhere else. There were book after book of
rules like that. We went to conferences all the time just to figure
out how to keep the billing straight. The whole situation is stupid
and a waste of effort. I'd say duplication of services but that
grossly understates the inefficiency.

 

I can change insurance companies. I can't change some lifetime
bureaucrat. They are locked into their job.

 

You seem to be one of the uneducated. So read slowly so you can
understand. I'm not going to repeat this even if you just don't get it....

Medicaid, Medicare. Any hospital MUST take patients even if they can't pay.

And EVERYONE has the right to select and purchase health insurance, or
to convert existing coverage.