DENNIS PRAGER said on his radio show today: The American healthcare system works. The president talks about how we spend the most and we have the least effective results. We don’t. We have the best healthcare in the world. If you want to know why we don’t live as long as people in other countries, it is not because of healthcare. It’s because of the staggering amount of violent crime in the US and the large number of people hurt on highways. America’s obesity problem has nothing to do with healthcare.
Seventy percent of drug innovation comes from the US.
Most Americans are happy with their healthcare.
This notion that you should get insurance despite any pre-existing condition.Do you understand what that means? That would be like buying life insurance as you lay dying? Why don’t we have life insurance available despite any pre-existing condition? Why not with auto insurance? The day you have your crash, you buy your insurance. Health insurance only works if people buy it when they are healthy. Otherwise the health insurance system goes bankrupt. Otherwise you would only buy health insurance when you got sick. Health insurance only works if healthy people buy it and pay for care for the sick.
A world-renowned clinic that President Obama held up as an example of good medicine said Monday that the American people would be "losers" under the House’s health care proposal, joining the growing chorus of critics the Obama administration is trying to fend off as the debate intensifies from Capitol Hill to Main Street.
Minnesota’s not-for-profit Mayo Clinic, which Mr. Obama has repeatedly hailed as offering top quality care at affordable costs, blasted the House Democrats’ version of the health care plan as lawmakers continue to grapple with several bills from each chamber and multiple committees.
The Mayo Clinic said there are some positive elements of the bill, but overall "the proposed legislation misses the opportunity to help create higher quality, more affordable health care for patients."
"In fact, it will do the opposite," clinic officials said, because the proposals aren’t [R]patient-focused or results-oriented. "The real losers will be the citizens of the United States."
All day, Republicans took aim at Mr. Obama’s weak spot as surveys showed that his poll numbers were slipping on the issue. Republican National Committee Chairman Michael S. Steele charged that the president’s plan amounts to a "reckless experiment," dubbing it "socialism."
"He’s conducting a dangerous experiment with our health care," Mr. Steele said at the National Press Club as the RNC started an ad campaign, which will run in Arkansas, Nevada and North Dakota using similar language.
Jeff emails: “Just out of curiosity, Luke- do you have health care coverage? Its always these rich guy republicans who say health care works, but everyday I have to turn away young patients with cancer because they don�t have insurance, or good enough insurance. Overseas we were able to treat even migrant gastarbeiters, poor au pairs from Ghana or Moldova, but in the US, way too many average American citizens can�t get proper care.”
I’ve had Kaiser Permanente for eight years. I pay $300 a month. I am very happy with Kaiser.
