Letters: Ted Kennedy And Healthcare

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTh-Yu9RfF0&feature=player_embedded

This Guy Kicked A!!

Democrat Anthony Weiner...

He challenged all the Republicans Complaining about [Government Run Health Care] to sign an Amendment to Wipe Out Medi-Care [Forever]


The Republicans Voted [No] after Weiner called them out on their Scare Tactics of...

Socialized Medicine, Government Run Health Care, Government coming between, You and Your Doctors....Propaganda.

Essentially Fear Mongering, Knowing their Lying, all the while.

Government Run Health Care: US Federal Employees, VA Hospitals,Senate-Congress, Medi-Caid-Medi-Care, US Postal Service, Amtrak, FBI,CIA and the President Of the USA

The insurance companies are investing billions of dollars to tell us that government run insurance is "Bad". However, ask yourself when was the last time anybody heard on the news that a patient with Medicare died because they were denied treatment. Insurance companies do NOT care about patients. Their primary responsibility is to their share holders. Government run insurance may not be perfect, but it cn be changed through legislation. However, private insurance is "Take it or leave it". Medicare currently runs on 7% overhead. Private insurances run on between 25-40% overhead. That means that on average less than 70% of every dollar paid into "universal health insurance" will actually be used for that purpose the rest goes to executive pays and bonuses. With Medicare, everybody knows what is covered and what is not covered. There is no prior authorization and no referrals needed for treatment. However, almost every private insurance company requires prior authorization for most procedures including MRI, medications, surgeries, ect. YES even the so called PPO plans. Many private plans also require prior authorization before you can see an specialist. And they will NEVER tell you what is covered and what is not covered. You always find out the hard way when a doctor bill or hospital bill was denied. Also ask yourself, when was the last time a Medicare patient received a bill from their doctor because a particular treatment was not a "covered" benefit. Or that their contract was voided because they did not disclose that they had yeast infection 10 years ago (for which it is a ground for them to deny coverage). There is no true perfect solution, but don't allow the big insurance companies muddy the waters and your judgement on this issue. Know the facts know the consequnces. This universal health care can be the best thing to happen to us or the worse. Make sure that our leaders do what is right for us not what is right for the companies that are pumping billions of dollars into their pockets.

Senator Kennedy's article, The Cause of My Life, aptly related his long career quest to enact health care legislation to the political, and medical triumphs and tragedies in his life. It was most interesting, however, that the timeline predominately placed on the article's header failed to mention the medical care he received after Chappaquiddick and the death of his friend Mary Jo Kopechne. Once again the media turns a blind eye to one whom they revere.
Steve Presley Fort Collins, Colorado

Senator Kennedy's article, The Cause of My Life, aptly related his long career quest to enact health care legislation to the political, and medical triumphs and tragedies in his life. It was most interesting, however, that the timeline predominately placed on the article's header failed to mention the medical care he received after Chappaquiddick and the death of his friend Mary Jo Kopechne. Once again the media turns a blind eye to one whom they revere.