February 10, 2010
President Obama's Health Care Quest
Yesterday on Bret Baier's 6 p.m. show on FoxNews, he had a panel discussion that included the regular contributor Charles Krauthammer. I find Charles to be a pretty straight shooter, and his comments were about what President Obama had to say about the shenanigans of the past year concerning the strong-arm tactics of the attempt to pass a health care bill.
They showed on the program some video footage of the President sheepishly trying to acknowledge that We the People might not have been too happy with the way the entire Health Care Bill over the past year was handled. So, now that it failed, maybe it's time for Plan B. That being - get the Republicans involved to try to pass the bill.
WHAT????? Charles Krauthammer was quick to offer his opinion, which I happen to agree with, that portrays the President as a person who is oblivious to what We the People want and is just barging ahead in any way at all to get this primary agenda item passed. You see, he wants Health Care to be his legacy. Our President wants Health Care more than anything in the world.
But here is where, I believe, many of the politicians up on Capitol Hill have it wrong. They are once again just trying to posture to benefit themselves in some way. Are they not paying attention to the polls, to the emails and calls they get, etc.? You and I know the answer to that. It's No.
Each week we get closer to election day November, 2010. I'll tell you now it will be an historic day. The low rumbles of thunder that you can barely hear over the horizon are being produced by the storm of those of us who are resolved to change what's happening.
Like a picnicing group of young teenagers at a beach, many of the politicians in power are ignoring the distant storm's rumble. They continue to frolic and play in the sand. But soon the outflow winds of the storm will rush out and cause them to scatter. Watch the posturing, the change of position, the insincere apologies, etc. continue over the next few months as they try to win us back.
Forget about it. We've filed for divorce. It's over. That's what you and I'll be doing in the voting booth. Our votes will be the final signature on the divorce papers. I've had it with the politicians of old. They got their bite off the juicy apple.
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stan m on February 16, 2010 5:40 PMThanks for your article and I agree 100% change has to happen and hope the American people that vote this coming year vote out these folks and end their free ride in life. We need jobs we need people up on capital hill that is working for the people. We should have people that believe in God and stop taking God off everything. I dont see how that can happen if 86% of the American people believe in God. The health care bill OBAMA wants is just a joke same as the bailout money billions spend and how many jobs have been made very very few but the higher up management have just got richer. thanks stan m
We need more jobs for 2nd and 3rd generation Americans. Not illegals. Stop immigrating to get cheap labor.
ken bradford on February 16, 2010 7:57 PMI have no Insc., but I get VA benefits. The veterans seem to get what we worked for. I guess those who did/could not ""serve"" have to fend for them selves. I also went to a County hospital and paid $20. a month for many years.
The bailouts saved jobs, but gave the real-estate and auto industry no punishments for their lack of scruples. $80 to put a lugnut on a car, also $20 ahour to pound a nail into a piece of wood. This means we pay over a dollar a loaf for regular bread. Makes no sense to any intelligent person..
What does President Obama want more than anything in the world? Universal Health Care is a step toward it but somehow it seems bigger than just that one slice of his dream pie. I think he has a fixation on being loved by the whole world and that he's is embarrassed by regular America. If we could just be more sophisticated...more Euro! Maybe that's it! Then he could begin to fix the whole world.
john parker on February 16, 2010 8:34 PMIt's time to stop the spending, and hemorrhaging money. If we think our country is in financial trouble now, just wait and see what happens if national healthcare reform takes place. There is a severe shortage of doctors right now in the country. We have lost over 60,000 doctors in the past six months.By 2011, we will have over 49% of all the physician force retired, as they are at retirement age.Until now, we had been losing the average of 10,000 doctors per year,(according to the Census Bureau). We need to deal with that crisis before we go for healthcare reform. Only 29% of all doctors belong to the AMA who stood with Obama on healthcare reform. The rest of the doctors belong to the AAPS(American Association of Physicians and Surgeons. That majority voted against the healthcare reform, and were present at the Tea Party in Washington, picketing with other concerned Americans. It is okay if we take time to consider outcomes, and look at the price tag. Let's fix the parts of healthcare that need fixing one step at a time. One big thing we can do is to stop giving special favors behind closed doors to certain states, and putting thousands of unknown ear marks on everything, so the taxpayers can find out about the damage later. Oh, for the truth, the truth, the TRUTH!!!
Connie Mahany on February 16, 2010 10:04 PMI watched the President's "state of the union" address the other night, and I was appalled at what I saw and heard or not heard.
Alvin Sample on February 16, 2010 11:45 PMI heard the President say clearly, "If anyone has a better plan, please bring it to me, and we WILL do everything to put that plan into place"!
What I DID see was certain members of the Senate, sitting there, all smug, able to take their families to the doctor at no cost to them as if to be saying that they don't have to do a dog-gone thing to help this president to make it a little better for the working men and women on whose backs the goverment now rides. In short, when it comes to healthcare, I WANT THE SAME PLAN PROVIDED THE LAWMAKERS AT THE EXPENSE OF MY TAXES!!!!
In regards to Obama's Healhcare reform, I'm against it. I do agree that there are areas that need to be changed...such as the pre-existing condition clause. That clause alone keeps so many people from getting health insurance. My son and I are included in that group. I have an autistic son, who seems to be shunned by every insurance company I've contacted. This isn't a life threatening disease...he's not going to die from autism..yet insurance companies rate autism right up there with cancer and AIDS. This is and has been a discrimination that has gone on for what seems to be forever. Ever since Autism was discovered, ever since they couldn't figure out what it was caused by, they just lumped all the autistic in a group and more or less forgot about them, insurance-wise.
The government needs to be educated about autism. They need to know about how important it is to try to break through to these kids while they are young. To spend, what would be considered a little bit of money, compared to the millions they will have to pay if and when these autistic children become a government problem where they, the government, will have to absorb all the cost.
I guess what I'm saying is, I'm tired of all the talk..its time for some action. For the autistic children, for the autistic adults who need the help that can make them citizens who can provide for themselves and not citizens who have to be provided for...for the rest of their lives.
We need to WAKE UP the government before its too late.
Here are some up-to-date stats that I think will interest you:
Autism Facts & Statistics
1 in 91 children (formally 1 in 150 up until 2009 and 1 in 10,000 in the early 1990s)
4:1 ratio of boys to girls
1 in 58 boys
Fastest growing developmental disability
More than 100 billion in estimated annual costs
In ten years the annual costs are projected at 200-400 billion.
Cost of lifelong care can be reduced by 2/3rds with early intervention
A family with a child with autism will fund 3 to 5 million dollars of services throughout the lifetime of the child.
More children will be diagnosed with autism this year than cancer, diabetes, Downs Syndrome and AIDS combined.
Autism receives less than 5% of the research funding of most of the more prevalent childhood disorders.
Approximately 1 million individuals in the US have autism
Incidence vs. Private Funding (2007)
In the order they are listed:
Condition
Incidence
Private Funding
Pediatric AIDS
1 in 8,000
394 Million
Leukemia
1 in 25,000
310 Million
Muscular Dystrophy
1 in 20,000
175 Million
Juvenile Diabetes
1 in 500
130 Million
Autism
1 in 150
42 Million
Studies have shown that environmental toxins like mercury and pesticides can trigger autism.
There has been no study that has directly linked a pure genetics basis for autism.
The fastest growing genetic disorders increase at anapproximate rate of 1% per 100 years. Autism is growing at a much greater rate.
Generation Rescue has helped to recover thousands of children from autism and continues to prove that.......
AUTISM IS REVERSABLE!!!!!.///all these facts can be found at http://www.generationrescue.org/autism-facts-statistics.html ///
As you can see, I am very passionate about this and will bang the drum along side anyone who wants to see change...anyone who is tired of seeing the autistic treated like their unimportant and unworthy of treatment that is needed. We are paying for these treatments out of our pockets for now..and I've seen it put countless families in the poor house or on the street. IT is time for the insurance companies to do away with their exclusions and treat "everyone"..not just those whom the insurance companies feel are worthy of coverage.
Please realize that the rate that autism is growing, don't be surprised if your child or grandchild is autistic..the time is now to do something..and to stop pushing this off to the next generation to try and cure..THE TIME IS NOW!!!
Eric Croker
Eric Croker on February 17, 2010 2:13 PM