Comments on: Democrats Will Reveal How They Want to ‘Pay’ For Healthcare

By: farstar99

farstar99 — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:18:46 +0000

What form would the revolt take?

I was involved in the tea parties, but even I acknowledge they accomplished very little.

The bottom line is that Democrats don’t fear us.

And they control the press.

They’re tyrants, and tyrants don’t care what the people think.

They don’t feel fear until there’s a mob with pitchforks and rifles bayonetting their fellow cult members, and burning them at the stake.

This is what happens when you don’t safeguard your electoral system. The people are left with only one resort.

By: itdiehard

itdiehard — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:54:19 +0000

SS will issue a tax ID if not in the country legally. Why not apply this to doctors. Letting them keep more of there own money.

By: MSU_Charles

MSU_Charles — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:44:49 +0000

Because many doctors earn around the $250,000 amount each year, they will be faced with a negative incentive to make over $250,000. Therefore, they will treat patients up to the point where the earn $250,000 but not over it. I believe we will see many doctors taking very long vacations at the end of every year, which will be rationing care until the next year.

By: MSU_Charles

MSU_Charles — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:31:20 +0000

TennCare and it is still a mess devouring vast amounts of state resources to insure just over 1 million people.

By: djemi

djemi — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:54:12 +0000

Reah right.
‘It Costs to Much and Kills to Many’ (copyright djemi, but anyone can use it)

Well from all accounts that I’ve read and been told about by my Doctor buddies at least its not “Similar to the VA”

By: dmartin

dmartin — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:07:38 +0000

Public opinion on TARP was as much as 100-1 against, it got pased anyway. Stimulus and cap & trade were both very unpopular, they are talkiing now about stimulus II, and Cap & trade passed the house. Our government treats our rovolts with about as much respect as the Iranian government does its peoples.

By: bk

bk — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:55:16 +0000

According to this article, one of the possibilities is to apply the surtax to AGI, i.e. it hits you before standard and itemized deductions are factored in.

Rangel has been pushing the surtax idea for years and he has the power to make it happen now.

By: USNJIMRET

USNJIMRET — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:42:58 +0000

Any expansion of that wonderful example of inefficiency, waste, fraud and abuse is unconscionable, IMO.
Which makes it the concept with the greatest chance of Democrat approval.

By: Vaughn Harold

Vaughn Harold — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:35:42 +0000

it was a disaster. After years of reworking it because of all the people that shouldn’t have been on it in the first place a local pavilion in my hometown that treats for drug and alcohol abuse has to shut down because TNcare isn’t able to pay its bills.

And this is how Obama is going to fix healthcare, wrong!

By: Next93

Next93 — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:49:45 +0000

The current medicare system is the primary reason that healthcare is “broken”. This is the model of efficiency that’s going to make it possible to pay for the healthcare of every deadbeat in the country?

I saw a news report a couple of weeks ago that claimed that up to 30% of Medicare payments are fraudulent, and that drug lords in Miami had changed occupations because stealing from Medicare as safer, easier, and paid better than running drugs.

The American people might have been stupid enough to put a smooth-talking charlatan in the White House (and even Al Franken in the senate!), but there’s just no way they’re going to fall for the idea of turning the best healthcare system in the world over to the control of the same people who screwed up the cost structure. Right?