Comments on: Obama tells doctors: ‘The public option is not your enemy, it is your friend.’

By: aranansesli

aranansesli — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:42:18 +0000

By: EugeneDebs

EugeneDebs — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:02:04 +0000

RealityPunk you are a sad and worthless piece of human debris. You are a pustulent, seeping herpes sore on the butt of humanity. You are a stupid punkass troll and almost as pathetic as SlappyMoron. We get that your self hatred makes you show everyone how stupid you are day after day but really, stop embarassing yourself and just STFU

By: EugeneDebs

EugeneDebs — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:59:55 +0000

SlappyMoron is back again. Begging us to pity him for being so stupid and pathetic. Dont do it. I know he is pitiful and stupid beyond belief but he is ADDICTED to our pity. Give him some and he will just beg for more and more and never be satisfied. No amount of pity is enough for him he will always beg for more. He has no brain. He has no self respect. He is unhappy, unloved, no one respects him and his bleak, empty life is so dismal and pathetic he cant help but come in to sites like this begging us to pity him.

By: LaurieTX

LaurieTX — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:33:52 +0000

I have worked on both sides of this issue for the insurer and the physician. I worked for an orthopedic surgeon in Iowa. Doctors are stuck with the the lowest medicare reimbursement and also the large aging population. Say you do a hip replacement on a medicare patient. The Dr. charges 6000 for the procedure, this includes all follow up with the patient. Medicare reimbursement on this procedure is perhaps today only 700. The amount of time that the physician spends with the patient and then to arrange the surgery (talking to primary care providers, going over all past medical history and then the surgery and aftercare) Realistically, it’s not worth it for him to do the surgery. Then say in order to keep patients you have to sign up for Blue Cross and others. So you charge 7000 for the procedure, your actual payment might only be 1000. I just think it’s sad and I really think that the Presidents plan has to work.
I have also had the best insurance, where I only have a 10 copay for office visits and 5 for medication. My husband lost his job and we now have a new plan with pre-existing condition clauses. My son and I both have chronic conditions which will not be covered for one year. I picked up just 2 of the medications we take of about 6 today and the price is up to 535.00 for both! So we make to much money for assistance, but the cost of the drugs will put us under. It’s terrible. Something has to give.

By: RealityCheck

RealityCheck — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:22:42 +0000

B.O. is so full of bologna…it runs out his ears!

By: Hoodathunktick

Hoodathunktick — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:41:30 +0000

The trolls are getting scared. And even more silly.

By: SlappyBastinado

SlappyBastinado — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:38:30 +0000

Pam, did you and Patsy ever get married?

By: SlappyBastinado

SlappyBastinado — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:37:32 +0000

Arn….sounds like that government gig you got going is working our fairly well. When Obama and his crew screw everything up and there is no money left to give to you for your survival, I will be one of many with the helping hand your going to need…. I understand your helpless feeling and condition though…………

By: spencers mom

spencers mom — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:36:39 +0000

I appreciate it when trolls write full paragraphs. It makes me feel so superior ignoring something that took a lot of time to write. Of course, time is saved by avoiding facts, grammar and proper spelling, but still..

PEACE

By: had enough

had enough — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:35:03 +0000

NCBlueneck Says:

had enough, I don’t think that Obama can abrogate the rights of free speech with an Executive Order.

Until we can get campaign finance reform, and at this point I don’t care how, we are screwed as the contributors will always have more influence and run the country in law making.

By: had enough

had enough — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:28:43 +0000

sacopenapa @ 30

You and others from ALL other countries must be looking at US as if we were idiots.

We are idiots and will be until we get some kind of campaign finance reform to end the madness of contributors having more influence than voters. Our bought off congress is bought off to keep that from passing also.

Or we can take it to the streets, but I don’t see the passion in American as other countries ex: Iran.

By: MCMetal

MCMetal — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:28:07 +0000

SlappyBastinado Says:
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have you noticed I have started drinking already……

June 15th, 2009 at 3:10 pm

Weren’t you told that drinking intensifies stupidity , and doesn’t cease or hide it ?

Apparently not……..

By: NCBlueneck

NCBlueneck — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:27:42 +0000

had enough, I don’t think that Obama can abrogate the rights of free speech with an Executive Order. In the last Supreme Court decision on this matter, Buckley vs. Valeo, the court pretty much decided that throwing cash at the Congress critters is a protected First Ammendment right. It would take an act of Congress to change it.

Ya think that’ll ever happen?

By: SlappyBastinado

SlappyBastinado — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:20:18 +0000

Zooey, your on the pipe early I see……. Medical “care givers” are covered by insurance which they pay from the money they receive from “giving care” should they make a mistake they give some of it to their lawyers which are “on retainer” and the lawyers take the money they got from the doctors and buy health insurance and the insurance company takes some of the money they make and hire lawyers to protect themselves from everyone and by then most of us are on the government dole or live in the Smokey Mountains like you.

By: SlappyBastinado

SlappyBastinado — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:10:09 +0000

have you noticed I have started drinking already…… steam rolled puppies, North Korea and atomic bombs, Uhigers swimming in the Bahamas straight from Gitmo, Obama wants to mess with my perfectly good heath care provider, Iran is on the brink of disaster and Cheney wants the attacks on America to start…….Job Biden will be making cars, clown mobiles for sure, they tell me to take my Dodge truck to “Fix It At Tonys”. Bush went to Texas and all hell broke loose.

By: hanshiro the antlion

hanshiro the antlion — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:08:45 +0000

22.Purple State Says: Why fear that we’d be shot in the back about this? This is something that needs to be addressed, and I’d like to trust Obama regarding this. If things don’t work out, then he loses that trust. I doubt he’d want to fool us here.

Is this snark?

Have you been following anything along the lines of telecom immunity, Habeas Corpus, State secrets, Bagram…..?

By: had enough

had enough — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:07:52 +0000

Could President Obama write an EO making corporate campaign contributions ILLEGAL and put an end to the best congress money can buy?

I don’t see congress making an effort to do this.

By: hanshiro the antlion

hanshiro the antlion — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:05:09 +0000

The new AMA: Hey…#37 is a great golf score, so what’s the problem?

*slaps forehead*

By: sacopenapa

sacopenapa — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:04:26 +0000

Helth, education and housing are rights of the citzens of a civilized society. They are government duties!

By: hanshiro the antlion

hanshiro the antlion — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:03:10 +0000

24.kasinca Says: We need to ask our representation why they cannot be as forthright as John Edwards was about healthcare.

I dunno if I’d group “forthright” and “John Edwards” in the same sentence. He almost knowingly handed the election to old man McCain and duped his supporters.

A better advocate would be more convincing, however correct his points.