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antigop (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-13-06 04:11 PM Original message |
Oregon senator [Wyden] prepares universal health coverage plan |
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Gormy Cuss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-13-06 04:18 PM Response to Original message |
1. Follow the money |
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ForPeace (122 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-13-06 04:20 PM Response to Original message |
2. We don't need health insurance |
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buddysmellgood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-13-06 04:53 PM Response to Reply #2 |
7. I agree. If everyone has it, we are basically, self insured. Welcome to DU. |
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burythehatchet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-13-06 05:57 PM Response to Reply #2 |
11. Precisley |
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theophilus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-13-06 07:10 PM Response to Reply #2 |
13. Exactly right imo. All of that money tied up in the "middle man" |
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pokercat999 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-14-06 05:44 AM Response to Reply #2 |
25. Exactly, we need a system with a National Health Service |
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Shakespeare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-13-06 04:20 PM Response to Original message |
3. Meh. Universal coverage will not work until we get rid of private insurance companies. |
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annabanana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-13-06 04:21 PM Response to Original message |
4. Sorry. . If it's being arranged through a "pool of private |
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antigop (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-13-06 04:46 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. I agree -- doesn't sound like a big improvement |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-13-06 04:47 PM Response to Original message |
6. I'm not one of the millions of Americans without insurance |
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Katzenjammer (541 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-13-06 05:00 PM Response to Original message |
8. Another example of how the MSM rooks us: this is NOT about health CARE |
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brentspeak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-13-06 05:23 PM Response to Original message |
9. Nixon wanted the USA to have a national health care system |
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hughee99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-13-06 05:42 PM Response to Original message |
10. We've been making health care a campaign issue |
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acmejack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-13-06 06:00 PM Response to Original message |
12. I was at a company rated among America's very best places to work |
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brentspeak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-13-06 07:58 PM Response to Reply #12 |
15. How are you doing now? |
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acmejack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-13-06 09:15 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. We're recovering, thanks. |
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karichisholm (1 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-13-06 07:50 PM Response to Original message |
14. Be sure to check out StandTallForAmerica.com |
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Viva_La_Revolution (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-13-06 08:28 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. will the insurance Co's all change to non-profit? |
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Divernan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-13-06 11:20 PM Response to Reply #16 |
21. "Non-profit" simply means the top execs keep the profit instead of stockholders. |
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Viva_La_Revolution (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-14-06 01:12 AM Response to Reply #21 |
24. wow. so how do we tell a real non-profit from a fake? |
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antigop (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-13-06 09:35 PM Response to Reply #14 |
19. psst...don't tell anybody |
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antigop (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-13-06 09:36 PM Response to Reply #14 |
20. There is no need to be complex == there is a simple answer really |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-14-06 12:07 AM Response to Reply #20 |
23. Medicare does not pay for drugs or nursing homes. That is a |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-14-06 12:02 AM Response to Reply #14 |
22. I am one of the people who has to deal with plan D and the |
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newyawker99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-14-06 02:34 PM Response to Reply #14 |
27. Hi karichisholm!! |
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cosmicdot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-13-06 09:04 PM Response to Original message |
17. Wyden voted for the Medicare Rx mess |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-14-06 07:38 AM Response to Original message |
26. Warmed over Clinton 1993 n/t |
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