Comments on: The New York Times Reviews Obama’s Health Care Plan

By: splashy

splashy — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:47:26 +0000

I wonder about the parents also. Since the children come from the parents, the parents being healthy is the first step toward healthy children. Unhealthy parents=unhealthy children. It’s not rocket science!

It’s amazing how so many people don’t get that basic idea. Farmers get it. The want the parents of their stock to be as healthy as possible before reproducing. After all, we are animals too!

By: Ann On

Ann On — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:31:16 +0000

I’m not much of a communist, but I do know that the crucial problem in the US’s health care system, is that it is privately owned and largely for-profit. Any workable solution will have to address that, and ultimately it probably means making health care workers government employees, and nationalizing the infrastructure. Ultimately, that is. Not tomorrow. In any case, tinkering with details such as the means of storing medical records is NOT going to cut it.

Also, I’d like to point out once again that one of the members of the precious Democratic Rules and Bylaws Committee, James Roosevelt, is president and CEO of the for-profit Tufts Health Care Plan. I believe that he’s promoted his company as a partner in the Massachusetts health care plan. However, I haven’t followed this, so you’d have to ask Deval Patrick or other residents of Massachusetts how it’s working out for their state government to shovel money at a for-profit health insurance group.

By: AnninCa

AnninCa — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:41:46 +0000

The press ignored the negative campaigning Obama did, for sure, when he consistently lied to the public about Hillary’s plan. He got by with that over and over.

It was hard to watch as Hillary was accused of negative campaigning when Obama was pulling that crap.

By: AnninCa

AnninCa — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:39:22 +0000

That’s how I see him, too. He’s not even really a stateman, nevermind interested in being president for people.

It’s about being the first black president. And that’s all it’s about.

By: Perry Logan

Perry Logan — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:29:13 +0000

The cognitive dissonance must be deafening for the Obamots–”Psst! Your candidate SUCKS!”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP3q8dHA4Hk

By: Hope Floats

Hope Floats — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:46:32 +0000

God bless Karl Rove’s black heart for being unable to recognize the sheer, vast, natural beauty of ANWR. He just sees oil fields.

By: elise

elise — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:25:59 +0000

Thank you Hope. You are right on every point. I have never believed he actually intended to initiate a universal health care plan to begin with. This was the problem Elizabeth Edwards had with his cantidacy. I wonder now, if she knows she should have spoken out for Hillary?

By: elise

elise — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:15:55 +0000

Uppity. There is no chance he ever intended to actually pass a health care bill. His plan is a result of trying to take any advantage Hillary had. His mandate is for children only so maybe he is counting on adults to opt out.

But, this country needs universal health care. I have posted this article from the BBC before with the hope people would understand what is really happening to people who have no health care and simply cannot afford it. Hillary has a health care plan that would work. She has spent years refinning it and trying to get her colleagues to listen. I can’t imagine anything worse than having a sick child and having no resourses to pay for care, but adults are suffering too.

He started a charity - Remote Area Medical (RAM) - more than 20 years ago to bring relief to those cut off from healthcare.

Originally it was to help poor tribes in the former British colony of Guyana, South America.

That is where he lived after leaving Preston, Lancashire, more than half a century ago - he still is a British citizen.

But now Stan spends most of his time bringing relief to the richest country in the world.

Production line

Some 60% of RAM’s work is now carried out in the United States.

Here in this country if you’re poor - you don’t have much of a shot

Stan Brock
Founder, RAM

On a wet, spring weekend he lands his vintage World War II aircraft - once used to drop American troops on D-Day - in Lafayette, Tennessee.

He bought the plane to parachute medics into the jungle.

Today he is unloading dentists’ chairs from the plane into a pickup truck.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7420744.stm

By: Hope

Hope — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:56:02 +0000

You do understand that not all illnesses are a result of an imaginary arbitrary punishment, right? How do you explain children with cancer or infants born with diabetes? Your compassion and depth of knowledge of the human experience is heartwarming.

By: justme

justme — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:55:40 +0000

He’s much to do about nothing…