They've Got You Covered?

i am an r.n. in a 12 room operating room.i cannot tell you how much waste i see.every trocar and gadget that is disposable is chosen over perfectly good reusable options.these choices are made by surgeons who have no vested interests in saving the system $.companies selling surgical technology are also making huge profits and are like lobbyists catering to doctors.the insurance companies are culprits,but they are not the only ones-there is an active preditory pyramid in the "system".

For those who keep saying that we need a socialised medical system like in Canada and England:

In England, traffic cameras are now trained on drivers to arrest them for eating in their cars. And in both Britain and Canada, the old Hitler Youth slogan, "Nutrition is not a private matter!" has taken on a new life. One expert this week argued that obesity must now be treated like Global Warming, requiring stern government intervention.

Health experts in Britain and Canada insist that the government has every right to meddle in the private life of its citizens since the state is picking up the tab for their healthcare (never mind that it's not the "state" but the taxpayers themselves). As Tony Harrison, a British health-care expert, explained to the Toronto Sun, "Rationing is a reality when funding is limited." So fat people and others can't get surgeries if bureaucrats or doctors don't think they're worthy of surgery. Now, of course, there's a certain logic here since the taxpayers are picking up the tab and someone has to make the hard choices about priorities. But it never occurs to these people that maybe the fact that the government is slowly being put in charge of many of the most important and personal issues in peoples' lives is in fact an argument against socialized medicine. It doesn't occur to them that refusing to unload seriously ill patients from ambulances, sometimes for hours at a time, just so emergency rooms can meet government quotas, is a sign that something is seriously wrong with the way statists handle medicine.

First of all know one like long comments. secondly I don't want another governmental agency garnishing my wages, finally The republicans so despise Hillary that she would be the most ineffective president to ever hold office to the degree that only what she could do with the sole help of democrats would be accomplished.

This is the new Hillarycare. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is proposing, yes very similar to communist Russia or China. She now wants to slip it past us by dressing it up in drag. Her plan is to use 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. 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

Making sure each and every person has health care is wonderful. When you say you will garnish there wages to pay for if they do not accept is wrong. Do you even have a clue. With the high gas prices, cost of food,living,etc.Many Americans are already having to choose between food & toothpaste,soap,washing detergent, electricity,etc. Many of what used to be middle class are making these choices now also. Cut cost of everything. Give us some real releif.

They both have it wrong...the whole concept to Universal Healthcare is that NO ONE has to pay ANYTHING...there's no forcing people to get health insurance, no mandates, no ifs ands or buts. Universal Healthcare means when you're sick or hurt, you get the care, treatment and meds you need when you need it. It means walking into a doctors office or hospital no questions asked...regardless of sex, age, race, and if you have insurance or not. Hillary and Obama may say they have a plan for Universal Healthcare, but in reality, they don't have a plan for it...in fact, as long as Americans continue to be greedy and we allow our government to feed off the rich and the lobbyists, nothing is going to change...our hard earned dollars will go to the hundreds of thousands of dollars in profits sitting in the rich executives pockets. By the way...Exon Mobile's profits for 2007 were $75,000 per MINUTE. Makes me sick. And as long as American's keep on believeing the crap the media is feeding us, that Universal Healthcare is socialist and will lead to communism, well take a look at corporate America...it defines socialism and uniformity...so does the Police and Fire department in your home town...Universal Healthcare works for Canada, and tons of European Countries...they have longer lifespans...and are happier and less stressed out in general....it's time for a Revolution. American's are afraid of our Government, and our Government needs to be afraid of The People. Read the constitution...listen to what others are saying...look at these issues from more than one perspective..."The Man" is not always right...look at the mess Bush is going to leave us in, that we will be cleaning up for the rest of our lives.

My husband is an orthopedic surgeon and there is typically a six month wait to get in to see him for hip or joint pain. There is nothing under universal "coverage" that would change either the payment mechanism nor the services covered It is just a scare tactic used by the far right. We aren't that naive and things will change soon. Less then 20% of all patients account for 70% of all care those with chornic conditions like diabetes, heart disease and other lifestyle related illnesses. Until you get a system that pays up front for preventive care it won't matter how we pay for it. SImply covering everyone wont help when you also don't look at the cost of care. New drugs, new procedures that don't extend lives, even frankly the income of doctors like my husband.

Just talk with someone from Canada, England or Germany. They have long waits for medical procedures.Even to see a doctor you wait. Don't mess with my insurance. Go after the insurance and drug lobbiests in Washington. Stop the phoney law suits. Once again it's let the goverment take care of me, and thats what Clinton and Obama are pandering to.

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So, the fed is going to provide health insurance for all persons in America, both legally and not. How long until the fed decides what they will and won't cover based upon lifestyle - obese, smoke, drink, drug use, etc.? if you fail to adhere to the 'food pyramid' and Surgeon General guidelines, will it affect your coverage? What about the illegals, will they be covered when they go 'home' for the holidays?

private health care should be provided for those you can afford it and it will give a full coverage, and for the rest who cant afford, they will be covered by a universal health care should recieve a coverage to a certain degree.