10 responses so far ↓

• 1 gumper // Aug 31, 2009 at 6:40 pm

  Wow another empty shirt !

• 2 Steve Magruder (I, not D or R) // Aug 31, 2009 at 6:44 pm

  That guy wants to deny health insurance to millions. Great guy!

• 3 bigdaddy // Aug 31, 2009 at 7:30 pm

  I don’t think he wants to deny insurance to millions, he just doesn’t want to pay for both his and theirs

• 4 Steve Magruder (I, not D or R) // Aug 31, 2009 at 8:08 pm

  bigdaddy, he’s *already* paying for his and theirs.

  He’ll be paying *less* for his and theirs if reform passes.

  And nobody is arguing for free health insurance anyway — we are arguing for AFFORDABLE health insurance.

• 5 Sirico // Aug 31, 2009 at 10:33 pm

  “Or maybe an after birthed t-shirt.”

  -LOL!!!!

  -Magruder, well said as usual.

• 6 Carter Burger // Sep 1, 2009 at 8:25 am

  “He’ll be paying *less* for his and theirs if reform passes.”

  How?

• 7 Ray Re // Sep 1, 2009 at 9:21 am

  Another photo caption..Oh lookie, Barack, a white boy sandwich.

• 8 James R. // Sep 1, 2009 at 11:03 am

  I would love for every employer in the Country to stop providing Health Insurance to their workers and just pay the workers the difference in wages. In other words, pay the workers more salary, so they can buy their own Health Insurance, but not provide it.
  Then there would be Health Care reform in 6 months, when the selfish people of America see what the true cost of health insurance is. When they found out that they couldnt get health insurance because their wife has breast cancer or their son was born with a handicap.
  Ask any small businessman or woman who operates their own place what helath insurance runs, not what YOUR portion is.
  The labor unions and the people who work for large companies taht are presently so smug about this issue would suddenly wake up and smell the coffee.
  Why would anyone want to work their butts off, do the right thing everday, save money for retirement, buy a house, scrimp save all the time being denied the right to buy Health Insurance to protect themselves and their family from financial ruin simply because they have a preexisting condition and cant get insurance?
  And I really love the old people who are against Health reform calling it socialist. Ha that is the biggest joke I ever heard of. I assume all of these people who are on MEDICARE, want to stop accepting medicare and be denied health insurance because of preexisting conditions. Give me a break. The ignorance is so sad.
  Only the arrogant amoung us would deny others from protecting what they are damn sure to protect themselves. Thank God I am not that F_ _ _ _ _ g selfish toward others.

• 9 Happy With Employer Benefits // Sep 1, 2009 at 7:18 pm

  We need Health Care reform. Absolutely. What we do not need is a government run plan. The government doesn’t have it’s own automobile insurance agency. It doesn’t have it’s own pharmacy or it’s own doctors. It doesn’t have its own IT people to build the systems required to process medical claims, enrollments, or premium billing. Heck, it doesn’t even have people to process medical claims, enrollments, and premium billing. In addition to all of that the government doesn’t have the facilities to house the people and the systems that it doesn’t have to do all of that work. How would the government get such necessary items? My employer benefits are given to me by my employer. They are part of my salary. Since the government has not issued a mandate that all Americans obtain coverage an insurance company would not cover me as I have pre-existing conditions. A government plan, however, is not the solution to this. I go back to this mandate. Anyone work in fast food? Anyone work for Wal-Mart? Anyone work in the service industry where you work for a huge company and your employer either doesn’t offer you benefits as, what it really comes down to, a token of their care for you as a member of their large corporate family? Do the companies that you may work for who do offer insurance offer it at such high rates that the low wages that they pay you aren’t enough to cover it? Do they CEO’s take home 10 figure salaries?

  What the government needs to do is mandate that everyone have insurance and that the companies who meet the over $250,000 per year criteria that was previously set supply it at a rate to the employee that is acceptable to the local cost of living based on what they make per year. The more people in the risk pool (because that is what insurance is), the less it will cost everyone.
  For the rest of the people who are not covered the government will need to raise taxes, but only slightly. Expand the Medicaid programs and offer these people, those without employment and those who work for small businesses, a plan that will provide them with coverage for a small rate based on what they earn, if anything.

  This way the entire population can be covered. The million plus people who work for the private health industry will still have jobs which means unemployment will not spike, especially in areas like Louisville where 6% of the population works for a private insurer (and a pretty good one as they administer my health insurance). Also, in addition to the million plus people who work for private insurers, don’t forget their families who are covered under their health plans. There could be up to 4 million additional people who do not have health insurance if there is a public plan.

  We need reform, but we do not need government control of a private system. Doctors charge a lot because they have to make up costs for the uninsured. If there is a mandate like I mentioned doctors will require less money. They don’t have to cover the cost of anyone.

  But a public plan available to all? Say goodbye to your pay check.

• 10 CRINKY // Sep 3, 2009 at 12:35 pm

  A few comments about item #9.

  I really like this part. “The million plus people who work for the private health industry will still have jobs”.

  You’re saying essentially that the health insurance industry is a Jobs Program. For those who work in it, it certainly is. The problem is that the work they do does no benefit to society and in fact hurts society.

  The insurance industry is just a bloated middle man between you and your doctor. They suck 30% of the money in the system out for overhead (big buildings on Main Street, exorbitant salaries).

  Most of the people who work at Humana are there to do one thing and that is simply to NOT PAY DOCTORS.

  Humana is first and foremost committed to its shareholders. Nothing else matters. Quality health care means absolutely nothing compared to shareholder value.

  Anyone who believes otherwise is completely naive. The public is being played for fools.

  All we want is to go to the doctor and not besieged with paperwork about bills and payments. Send my payroll deductions to Medicare instead of Humana.

  Suck it up dude. Go see “Sicko” and ask yourself why we can’t do it like every other country.
  Here’s my favorite part
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37wkX2gklzo

  And this explains how the public is a tool of the insurance lobby…
  http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07102009/watch2.html

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