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Doonesbury Say What?
Jun. 9th, 2009 11:36 am"Destroying the best health care system the world has ever known."
-- Sen. Richard Shelby, on Obama
Yeah, in what version of reality? I know people who can't get insurance, who pay $600-1000 a month for coverage that has a $10,000 annual deductible, I know someone who flew to Thailand to have her gall bladder removed because it was less expensive than having it done in Phoenix, AND she took a friend with her!
There's a very easy way to fix the health care system. Take all of the Congresscritters and put half of them on Medicare, the other half in an HMO system. It would be reformed within a year.
Elizabeth Edwards was on The Daily Show a few weeks ago shilling her new book. She said that one in every $700 spent on health care (I'm not sure under that HMO or nationwide) was going to the salary of the CEO of the HMO that she was in. I'd really like to see the salary breakdowns of those guys, I can't believe that one was making that amount of money.
There is no way I could afford the tests that we've had done with my spate of illnesses. And the credit card industry and health care industry have gotten the bankruptcy laws changed so you cannot get medical debts discharged, so you can easily get doubly-screwed in that situation. It's definitely a messed-up situation, I don't know that a nationwide health plan is the answer, but something radical has got to be done to change things.
-- Sen. Richard Shelby, on Obama
Yeah, in what version of reality? I know people who can't get insurance, who pay $600-1000 a month for coverage that has a $10,000 annual deductible, I know someone who flew to Thailand to have her gall bladder removed because it was less expensive than having it done in Phoenix, AND she took a friend with her!
There's a very easy way to fix the health care system. Take all of the Congresscritters and put half of them on Medicare, the other half in an HMO system. It would be reformed within a year.
Elizabeth Edwards was on The Daily Show a few weeks ago shilling her new book. She said that one in every $700 spent on health care (I'm not sure under that HMO or nationwide) was going to the salary of the CEO of the HMO that she was in. I'd really like to see the salary breakdowns of those guys, I can't believe that one was making that amount of money.
There is no way I could afford the tests that we've had done with my spate of illnesses. And the credit card industry and health care industry have gotten the bankruptcy laws changed so you cannot get medical debts discharged, so you can easily get doubly-screwed in that situation. It's definitely a messed-up situation, I don't know that a nationwide health plan is the answer, but something radical has got to be done to change things.
