If you wanna do that, okay…we’ll take ‘em…

After 8 years of Bush appointments, this is going to take some getting used to.

Another BullsEye shot for the Obama Transition Team!

December 11th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
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Absolutely!

“As Tom put it in his farewell address to the Senate, “The politics of common ground will not be found on the far right or the far left. That’s not where most Americans live. We will only find it in the firm middle ground of common sense and shared values.” I could not agree more.”

Barack Obama

This means that measured steps must be taken to reach the goals he has set forth. Obama needs to re-direct emphasis on the delivery of health care and help de-claw the power of insurance companies. He can’t reasonably expect to walk in and simply shut them out of the health care market – it just would not fly politically or practically.

It is so stupid of people to not recognize that Obama is navigating a minefield to reach the goals he has put forth. Sprinting across that minefield would most likely lead to death or dismemberment, while cautious a purposeful navigation may require a step sideways here or there.

After all that we have been through with an administration that did not even bother to hide its anti-American, pro-corporate ideology I am willing to give Obama some time to actually have the power to start implementing some of the things he wants to do before getting up in arms about it. That isn’t giving him carte blanche either, but it also isn’t throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

Gawd I love this!

Real universal health care (i.e. a not-for-profit single-payer system) could actually happen, but only if we stick to our guns and don’t compromise on half-assed measures that don’t really solve the problem.

Bushie Says:
Change you can believe in, but not get.

I suspect that in the end it will look more like universal health care than insurance.

I think the money will be mostly taken out of it although some will still be allowed to make some money they will not be running the system anymore as they have in the past.

Regulations will be put in place to keep them from gouging and denying……..

It will be a change you can believe in.

As my pharmasist said…..”We need socialized medicine but in this political enviornment, we can’t call it that, we have to use a different word”.

How absurd to consider such a compromise. Only your last paragraph addresses what is to come for the people during the coming depression, and that in an allusion to the future. An allusion admitting failure of purpose.

Am I on the right site?

December 11th, 2008 at 11:32 am
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And it’s a change that could actually happen, as opposed to a politically unfeasible universal health care system.

Why should health care dollars be ‘funneled’ through an insurance pipeline?

My health insurance is going up 26% Jan. 1st. Along with that, we’ll see higher deductibles, lower prescription coverage and the non-formulary list growing to include well known, safe drugs.

Keep insurance predators out of healthcare!

(Goes back and reviews article, carefully)

Um, no I didn’t miss anything there.

It’s all about insurance.

Which is what’s wrong with the current system to begin with.

Yeah,I’m excited…