tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1442827238174603755.post1486142522770076230..comments2023-09-11T08:30:08.843-07:00Comments on Life Training Institute Blog: We Are Right to Be Worried [Elizabeth]SKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01905606527143286458noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1442827238174603755.post-62218443617742739292009-08-24T09:45:40.098-07:002009-08-24T09:45:40.098-07:00"The conversation that you claim the townhall..."The conversation that you claim the townhalls are disrupting is that never would have occurred if the administration has its way. I hope you ubderstand that is a problem."<br /><br />So your solution is to disrupt the conversation when it becomes available. Yeah that makes a lot of sense.<br /><br />"Lastly, I also work in health care. Please describe how Obama's plan is going to fix the problems you mentioned."<br /><br />Well its not. Because we aren't even having a conversation to look at all the issues. All we have is a bunch of angry people. The only one's who will win in this is the insurance companies who, by the way, have had 400% increases in their profits in the last 5 years.<br /><br />Now if we approach this from a problem solving mentality and set aside the partisan politics we might come up with some solutions.<br /><br />The problem is that health insurance cannot be fairly done for profit. It needs to be non profit. Don't confuse health insurance with health care. Health care can still be a for profit enterprise. Its health insurance that needs to be non profit.<br /><br />Now how we do this can be through both governmental and non governmental means. But this conversation won't happen because health insurance lobbies are too strong and people are not informed.<br /><br />So disrupting the conversation is really working isn't it.Richard Hartyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01308270901432923724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1442827238174603755.post-28613211113982534292009-08-23T20:22:00.383-07:002009-08-23T20:22:00.383-07:00Hi Richard and thanks for your comment.
Although ...Hi Richard and thanks for your comment.<br /><br />Although we have not our rights to question any plan, our president just tried to "Rahm" this huge plan prior to the August recess in order to avoid public comment. The conversation that you claim the townhalls are disrupting is that never would have occurred if the administration has its way. I hope you ubderstand that is a problem.<br /><br />As far as abortion goes the Congress has voted against every effort to exempt abortion coverage in the bill. Yet the president just yesterday claimed that abortions would not be covered. Heck, factcheck.org even called him on that one. <br /><br />Lastly, I also work in health care. Please describe how Obama's plan is going to fix the problems you mentioned. Do you think the VA makes less medication errors than the private sector? I'd be interested to know. <br /><br />Like Jim on the other thread, simply placing your blind faith in the government genie that is going to give everyone great health coverage without without increasing costs, increasing taxes, or rationing care is a wonderful dream.Serge (Rich Poupard)https://www.blogger.com/profile/06648112986475922045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1442827238174603755.post-59698840136624916072009-08-23T00:45:16.972-07:002009-08-23T00:45:16.972-07:00Elizabeth
"In the meantime, we have every ri...Elizabeth<br /><br />"In the meantime, we have every right as Americans to question it."<br /><br />Who is not allowing you to question it? Isn't this begging the question too?<br /><br />If you don't understand the plan the most honest answer is to say you don't know.<br /><br />What I would like to see is a lot more energy put into analyzing the situation and providing some real solutions.<br /><br />Instead I see a lot of angry people disrupting conversation and spreading a lot of fear.<br /><br />Now a 1000 page document on a plan that is going to be complex is a lot of work. Its a starting point. Its a no brainer that its not going to be perfect. The reason it is so complex is that there are a lot of greedy organizations that have a lot of clout and a lot of clever people that have to be out smarted.<br /><br />I have worked in the health care industry for over 30 years and the system we have is terrible. Healthy people don't have to deal with it and until you need it, you don't really understand how terrible it is.<br /><br />This debate is not just about insurance, but it is really about a culture of health care providers providing health care that doesn't work.<br /><br />Do you know what the number one killer is. It is not a disease. By the medical system's own research it is people being given the wrong medications. To put it bluntly we are paying to be killed.<br /><br />Insurance is partially responsible for creating our current medical care culture, but it is the medical care providers that first dropped the ball. And I say that as a medical care provider.<br /><br />By disrupting the process of change without being informed you are participating in the status quo.<br /><br />If we cannot figure out a way to fix this system, the only way it will change is for it to collapse. And that is inevitable because, for the most part, it is not regulated in favor of the patient. It relies on the ignorance of the populace to survive.<br /><br />If you want to get good health care you have to be educated enough to evaluate if you are getting good care and even then its very complex. The system is so overloaded and wrong-funded that even conscientious health care providers have a very difficult time providing good care, often at the expense of their own health.<br /><br />To summarize it, you are having the wrong conversation.Richard Hartyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01308270901432923724noreply@blogger.com