Comments on: Some observations on last night’s health care infomercial.

By: mom2oneson

mom2oneson — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:34:45 +0000

love it!

I think all insurances dictates how much they will pay for procedures, it changes from company to company, they get different rates in contracts. DRGs and the reimbursement process should be looked at it as a reason for losing revenue too not just how much the gov pays. I would be surprised at that 25% figure hospitals are full of elderly people on medicare (they compete for them) and ped floors are full of patients on medicaid. So many children are on medicaid now most peds accept it.

By: Spartan4Life

Spartan4Life — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:23:30 +0000

He keeps citing this as a great example of what a “Public” plan can do. My parents are on Medicare and it seems to me to be just another government run ponzi scheme that is heading for bankruptcy.

The way it works is that the government dictates to providers what they will and won’t pay for and, more importantly, how much they will pay for various procedures. So, it is great for Medicare recipients. Like my parents will say, “We love Medicare!”. Where it kind of comes apart is that Doctors and Hospitals can’t make money based on the reimbursements they get from the government. So they have to limit the number of Medicare patients they can take(typically must be below 25% of their total patients). As a result, if you are on Medicare you can’t find a doctor. Furthermore, the costs of providing Medicare coverage are passed along to private insurers, thereby raising rates for everyone and one of the reasons costs for private insurance are rising so fast.

All it is at the end of the day is price fixing which never works. Who is going to pick up the tab when all the private insurers go out of business?

By: popdaddy

popdaddy — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:12:05 +0000

Bill Clinton

“A pain pill should do”
Barry Obama

Just say NO to any healthcare plan that does not include union management / members, Congress, Executive Branch and Judiciary!

By: Lammo

Lammo — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:33:41 +0000

I certainly hope so.

By: jenest2001

jenest2001 — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:24:29 +0000

Interesting comparison…when they start howling about the Fairness Doctrine again, we can point to this fabulous infomercial!

By: Lammo

Lammo — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:19:57 +0000

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:05:01 +0000

Everytime Obama comes on for whatever switch it over to the western channel. For instance, right now as he’s talking about energy legislation and I’m watching “Buck and the Preacher”.

By: izoneguy

izoneguy — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:03:35 +0000

ABC is owned by Disney…

Disney is a huge corporate entity that employs 150,000 people
more or less….
So Disney would have a huge incentive to let the Feds provide Health Care. So why not use our little broadcaster to help Obummer sell out America for the sake of more corporate profits?

Type Public (NYSE: DIS)
Founded Los Angeles, California, U.S.[1]
(October 16, 1923)
Founder(s) Walt Disney and Roy Disney
Headquarters The Walt Disney Studios
Burbank, California, U.S.
Key people Robert A. “Bob” Iger
President & CEO
John E. Pepper, Jr.
Chairman
Roy E. Disney
Director Emeritus
Steve Jobs
Chief Shareholder
Anne Sweeney
President, Disney-ABC Television Group & Co-Chair, Disney Media Networks
Industry Media and Entertainment
Revenue ? US$ 37.843 billion (2008)[2]
Operating income ? US$ 7.402 billion (2008)[2]
Net income ? US$ 4.427 billion (2008)[2]
Total assets ? US$ 62.497 billion (2008)[2]
Total equity ? US$ 54.878 billion (2008)[2]
Employees 150,000 (2008)[2]
Divisions Walt Disney Studio Entertainment, Disney-ABC Television Group, Disney Interactive Media Group, Walt Disney Consumer Products, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, Disney Interactive Studios
Website Disney.com

By: bk

bk — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:43:26 +0000

We would prefer a polylogue instead.

By: louisiana

louisiana — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:42:07 +0000

I was too much of a coward to watch the “program”. Obama literally turns
my stomach when he speaks. If we had smellavision, I imagine we all
would have smelled sulfur. I did watch several clips of the infomercial on
Fox. Two words come to mind: Sham Wow!

By: Finrod

Finrod — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:22:22 +0000

“You got me monologueing!”

By: NotSoBlueStater

NotSoBlueStater — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:08:32 +0000

I don’t either.

By: youthgrunt

youthgrunt — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:57:41 +0000

By: bobojake

bobojake — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:54:07 +0000

That you are trying to force on me.

obama you know that is a resounding NO so NO WAY HOSEA we don’t want your foney fraudulent Healthcare plan obama. You are a foney LIAR.

By: The_Gadfly

The_Gadfly — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:51:52 +0000

except The Big 0 and his cronies missed that a properly staged farce is supposed to be funny (as in humorous, not the sense of adding ‘money’ to it).

By: bk

bk — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:43:45 +0000

By: bk

bk — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:42:44 +0000

is that Obama repeatedly during the campaign promised people their health care costs would go down $2,500 per year per family under his plan. That NEVER gets mentioned any more. The GOP needs to be all over that, with ads broadcasting that promise and “regular” people asking, “Where’s my $2,500 saving in your plan?” This is NOT some vague thing that the average person won’t get – They WILL understand that he promised them a couple hundred a month in their pockets and has reneged completely on it.

By: Paul_In_Houston

Paul_In_Houston — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:36:09 +0000

… he interprets it as “I speak, you listen”.

By: djemi

djemi — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:21:38 +0000

President Obama’s town hall meeting on health care delivered a sickly rating Wednesday evening.

The one-hour ABC News special “Primetime: Questions for the President: Prescription for America” (4.7 million viewers, 1.1 preliminary adults 18-49 rating) had the fewest viewers in the 10 p.m. hour. The special tied some 8 p.m. comedy repeats as the lowest-rated program on a major broadcast network.

Looks like poeple voted with their fingers, BO must be losing his wow factor

By: texas214

texas214 — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:13:28 +0000

It appears that Obama’s achilles heel is his speaking, not speach making, but speaking. Everytime he is without the teleprompter, “the smartest man in the world!!!” tends to let his guard down and the REAL Obama comes out. We’ve now heard about fairness with Joe the plumber, and now we’ve heard how it’s cheaper to let older Americans just die and that he wouldn’t subject his own family to the plan.

Let’s just give the egotistical narcissist a camera and a microphone, sans teleprompter, and let everyone know what he really thinks.