Let There Be Universal Coverage

Many of us remember when Ronald R. became Governor of California he hated domestic programs and proceded to end as many as it was politically possible . When he and his VP , GHWB , took over the reins of the US Government as a team they began to close many of the US Government programs also . An assault which continued through the GWB Presidency . During the Ronald R. , the GHWB , the WJC , and the GWB eras many health care programs were closed and in some cases putting many institutionized people out on the streets where many remain today and leaving many low income people with no place to go for health care . Prior to Ronald R. the AMA group had competition from the many local , county , State , and US hospitals and clinics and kept their charges low enough for many Americans to afford health care from them . Once the many public clinics and hospitals were closed or shifted to higher income groups the AMA group began to increase the amounts of their charges and to continue to make profit the health insurance companies increased their charges also and both have increased at a rate greater than any wage increases or inflation increases . These rate increases are a burden for medicare and some of it's recipients as the annual Social Security check deductions for medicare insurance increase to cover the AMA increases . Presently a trip to the doctor's office or the hospital is a terrifying experience for any medicare recipient . The bill always exceeds the amount the medicare insurance and the out of pocket supplimental insurance pays . So the AMA is really giving the seniors a mental illness to go along with their other aliments . Bring back the AMA competition . Not the insurance .

Lisa Miller continues to pen some very fascinating articles centered around issues which concern the mases. The issue of universal health care a trademark of the Democratic Party. The Obama\ Biden adiministration is doing an outstanding job by availing their plans to promote universal health care. The transparency associted with new governments is commendale

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Health & Education are foundation of organizing of a nation. And any individual-level and 'national-or international-level' institutional sharing in these sectors is a 'productive-investment' for generations to reap benefits on long-term basis.

In fact; Health, Education & Transport are such three sectors of Economy where highest %age of peoples can be adjusted to work, based on factual analytical studies. So,no doubt, it'll be a remarkable example for other countries especially for developing countries and African countries, what President Barack Obama is navigating, thriving & striving for.

We must have to join hands with foresighted & leadership of President Barack Obama and dynamic Obama administration, also concentrating Health Care development policies to control health care high cost, insufficiency of Health care providers for a quality and affordable care as well.

This problem will never be solved working from the top down. The same goes for every issue we have. Getting to the root of the problem. First of all, our Medical learning institutions claim an extremely high cost in it's selling of education. But obviously these institutions for the high price they require do not teach med students how to do miracles, you would think for the price that they would. So, trying to get them to take lower compensation is nearly pointless.

Sorry, but if the state could deliver a high quality education for the actual cost of the program, we would be able to pump out alot more humble doctors. Thus creating a new paradigm for the future. But, this would be some time off even if we started today.

If you are uninsured and does not have insurance, you should check out the website http://UninsuredAmerica.blogspot.com - sonya cade , California

Certainly, health care coverage is a very significant issue for every American and this transcends race, gender, sexual orientation or political affiliation. Our health and that of our families is important to all of us. My hope is that Obama's health care plan will help to cover every American.

It is time to tax all these churches. When will they understand that politics should not mixed with religion ? It is forbitten by the constitution ! They remind me of these muslim clerics preaching against women, gays and pushing down people's throat their own morality.

Until we have a political culture wherein we live and let live unless there are clear and present dangers presented, we are going to continue to Force and coerce people to act and behave as they otherwise would, which is the very essence of economic misallocation. An economy can only go so long with massive misallocations before collapsing and the brutishness that goes with it.

Simply put, using Force against people who aren't using Force against others will damage society and culture and do more harm than what you are presumably trying to fix in the first place. Using the butt of a gun or threats of an all expense paid trip to Cell Block D in ANY WAY ulitmately shatters society whose root is the economy which represents the clearing house of individual choices. Those choices should be respected even thought they are different than our own, or at least tolerated when life and property at not DIRECTLY at risk.

People have a bad opinion of a truly free market (something we've ultimately never really had). If the market isn't free, then it necessarily must be a coerced market. Whatever the motivating principles behind it, it merely gives license to a minority who can't possibly know all ends of the chaos that surrounds us, but they appoint themselves keepers of the guns so their Word is Law. I can only hope that one day people won't look to Kings or Gods for answers. We have 5,000 years of history which shows that you mostly get swords or guns in return.

It's funny how religion is bad when it goes against your temporal and secular desires. It works both ways, left to right and vice versa.

As an atheist I don't really care what the particulars are of the collective superstitions people believe in and congregate around. When ANYONE, religious or secular, wants to use the Power and Force of the State to take property from people and endeavor to control their behaviors when they have done nothing but act and behave peacably (i..e. not clearly and presently attacked another person or their property) then I am against them.

The Federal Government is now simply the clearing house of those who want to "mail a fist" to someone else. Theocratic or secular is really just semantics. The end of the road is that we have traditionalists and progressivists so taken with their constructs of the universe that they get to use Force others to act other than they would choose to uncoerced.

Bible thumping Rightists trying to get into everyones' bedroom and medicine cabinet. The Bible carrying Leftists who adore State socialism and Forced transfer payments to pay for enttilements. Secular conservatives who see threats from every corner of the globe and want to send a cruise missile in every direction once a week whether they deserve it or not. The Secular left who thinks that the State can be the cure for every malady that besets mankind even though 100+ years of intervention has merely gotten us five Wars and several economic busts that have lasted a good decade or so, and a $54 Trillion accrual basis debt. And pretty much the same problems we've always had.

Socialist health care will inevitably be inefficient and expensive, with the allocation/rationing of services not based on an ability to pay but based on bureaucratic Pull. The first among us will get to cherry pick the best of the lot and rest of us will live with whatever is left over. And it won't be based on an allocation tied to maximum productivity but some version of Dark Age superstition or its equivalent.

As for our crises being due to capitalism, understand that education was totally socialized in the 1880's-1890-s. Our money was socialzed in 1913. Our labor was de facto socialized in 1913 as well. Retirement was socialized in the 1930's. Health was largely socialized for many in the 1960's. Regulations and oversight of corporations brought industry under the yoke of the Federal Government due to the perversions of the Commerce Clause in the Constitution. Unions, draconian EPA regulations, and the second highest corporate tax structure in the world drove hard production offshore. ALL of these things are INTERVENTIONS by Statists in the free market. And the economy is nearly dead.

Newsweek's Lisa Miller recently posted an article framing health care in terms of "culture wars," quoting (of all people) Missouri's John Danforth--the guy who gave us Clarence Thomas. I would like to suggest that the debate can be described in terms of sociobiology. For the most part, high income pundits with health care are perplexed that the riffraff should be allowed to tap into the system that keeps them alive and healthy. Where Eugenics failed to make their neighborhoods safer, perhaps gold-plated health coverage for the very few will do the trick.

R Miller

First of all, some churches have been too quiet for too on political and social issues. Many christians endorse the spurious belief that church and state are seperate entities, but the church member is still a citizen. At the same time, I do not believe that pastors should be informing church members how to vote and which policies to endorse. That is an idividual decision.

My God!!! Evangelicals acting like Christians. What comes next?

"More recently the George W. Bush administration was frequently accused of shrouding political fights in religious rhetoric???and of manipulating its conservative Christian base to further its own political ends"

The only possible connection the GOP has to christianity is opposing gay marriage and abortion. And frankly, beyond using it as a ticket to the White House, they could care less. These two issues are a smoke screen for a political party hell bent to loot the country with their form of pure capitalism- which is why we are in the mess that we are in.

We have a once proud country taken over by big business and treating the working class like cattle.

We need a third party which is a balance of capitalism and social justice and anti-abortion. Gay marriage, unfortunately, is a lost cause for the conservatives, based on latest surveys of our younger generation.

Does JESUSWEEK do any stories other than mythology anymore?

Author: You can go further with this, because their are those that use religion that got us here. Why should I care, I am a Disable Vet., and have a union insurance. The Mullah's are marching with the protester's in Iran. The leader's of the church's of Iran, has make a profound statedment as if the leader's of our church's, in American could do the same, with those that are suffering, from where some are now.

Health coverage is a significant issue for every American. Let's put politics aside and do what's in the interest of everyone invloved. Personally, I always thought that Hilllary Clinton's plan was a more intelligent one.