They've Got You Covered?

I can name a few reasons why American health care costs are so high...

1. People with no insurance using ER as primary care offices.
2. Malpratice insurance
3. High salaries
4. Expensive education
5. Pharmacueticals Companies.

Pick one...

Both Clinton and Obama, make good and bad points. Right now I'm leaning towards Obama, just for the simple fact that Hillary can't seem to keep her house in order. Now Bill is working on a trade agreement with Columbia?? That is the most half-@zz backwards thing I have ever heard. It makes me feel like they don't have the American people best interests at heart.

Oh and for those of you that say if your person doesnt get into office you're going to vote for a McCain... that is just plain petty and immature. I'm wondering with attitudes like that... should you be voting at all?

have some questions about Obama......Are the comments below True or False??
Upon being sworn into Senate Office Obama REFUSED the Bible and instead was sworn in with the Coran.
Is he a Muslim?
He claims to have nothing to do with his father.....WHY?? What is his father doing these days?? Is he Muslim?

THE DEVIL IS NOT SO BLACK AS IS PAINTED ! A LOT OF "PHILOSOPHY" AND CRITICS ABOUT THIS SUBJECT, BUT NO ONE ACCEPTED TO TAKE ACTION...OVER AND OVER AGAIN ... 200 YEARS PLUS !!! BUT HILLARY WILL PROVE THE CONTRARY !!! ...EXACTLY AS F.D. ROOSEVELT DID IT....WITH SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM !! AND WE HAVE IT !!!...FOR ALL AMERICANS !!!

First of all,no incumbent can promise us anything, their ideas must go through Congress and they more or less decide what is going to be. Americans need to wake up and face the fact that having the Government in our daily lives is not the answer to any of our problems. All people need to be responsible! Not depend on the taxpayers and governing bodies out there to float them through life because they are too lazy or stupid to take care of themselves. Has no one heard of survival of the fittest? By taking care of the PPP we are perpetuating a decline in the gene pool.
I like to know where in the constitution of the USA it says all people are entitled! and believe it or not, we are not all created equal. Think about it. I work in health care,I see the problems,it's a mess and getting worse,but we can't lead the unwilling to take better care of themselves, and the help available to those who are willing isn't at its best. There is no quick fix and if there is one I'd bet my life it will kill you before you get the care you need.

Health Care should be available to everyone only if they want it. It should not be FORCED onto people. Health care should not be provided to anyone who is not a US. Citizen.

No, she sounds realistic and not full of false inspiration. Hillary has substance.

The tides are turnig in her favor - checkl your latest polls against McCain - I will vote fopr McCain if she doesn't get Dem nomination.

Dumbama is a joke. Go Clinton!

Clinton '08

I don't know what Clinton will do, but I know what Bill did and he done more for the american people than any other one that we have in the white house in a long time. He should not have ever been put out. He did no more than others that has been in the white house has done/

You can't do anything without the house and senate agrees. You sound like Bush, It is my white house and I will run it like I wnat to.

Part of the reason our healthcare costs are sky rocketing is the fact that soooo many uninsured people come to the hospital, not only for emergent care, but for basic care that is offered at clinics. Unfortunately, if they do not have insurance they still have to pay at a clinic, but if they are treated at the hospital, the hospital pretty much has to write off the expense, because you can't get "blood from a turnip" . So the cost of all the individuals treated at the hospital for emergent care, or basic care are passed on to insurance holders--therefore prices go up.
We all have to have car insurance to drive, I think requiring health insurance is a responsible mandate--but it has to be affordable. And companies who now offer insurance to workers, can't be allowed to stop w/ the excuse that the employees can get Federal assistance.

Comment: We need to be very careful and become better informed, After researching further into Hillary's healthcare plan I found that it is to be implemented by a federal government mandate to force every American to buy health insurance. She claims it won't violate our freedom because if you already have a private plan that's OK. But a government alternative plan will be made available. The government will regulate health care, define acceptable health insurance and force every American to buy a plan based on the government-established standard. This last point does not intimidate Clinton's Soviet-style affinities. When asked how purchase can be enforced, she told interviewer George Stephanopoulos, "We will have an "enforcement mechanism." ... you know, going after people's wages." Incredibly, Clinton calls her concept of government-mandated universal health coverage "a core Democratic value."
Indeed, we have a problem in the delivery of health care in our country. I think you would agree that Costs are going up at twice the overall rate of inflation, with increasing burdens on working families. Why have health-care costs gone out the roof when the prices of just about everything else have gone down? Because health care already has become a highly regulated, highly bureaucratized industry.
If we want cheaper and more creatively delivered health care, we need less, not more, government.
According to Dr. David Gratzer of the Manhattan Institute, in 1960 about half of health-care expenditures were directly controlled by consumers. Today, it is about 15 percent. Over the same period in which consumers have relinquished control, per-capita health-care spending has quintupled and costs have skyrocketed.
Our health-care ills are symptomatic of our social ills. And our social ills reflect a society where the link between personal responsibilities and costs and personal rights and benefits has been largely severed.
Soviet-style mandates like what Clinton wants will simply dig the hole into which we are sinking deeper. The approach is morally repugnant, the antithesis of everything that a free society is about, and, like the former Soviet Union, does not work. More individual freedom, choice and responsibility in both the delivery and purchase of health care is our only hope. --Star Parker

There is a concern that no one is talking about. Let's say we all get the new insurance. Who says the insurance companies will pay for the proceedures. I know many people who have gotten sick and the insurance companies refuse to pay for various nonsense reasons. Just because we have insurance doesn't mean we will get treated at the hospital.

There is a concern that no one is talking about. Let's say we all get the new insurance. Who says the insurance company will pay for the proceedure. I know folks how have gotten sick and the insurance companies refuse to pay for various nonsense reasons. Just because we have insurance doesn't mean we will get treated at the hospital.

It's amazing how no one has yet to mention that Clinton's CHIP program she "created" covers children only if their Mother makes less than $12 per hour, yet if a single Mother makes $12.50 per hour, they do not qualify...interesting how .50 per hour all of a sudden enables a single Mother to afford healthcare coverage.