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Submitted by lambert on Sat, 06/20/2009 - 7:51pm

Burn!

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Submitted by Card-carrying_B... on

AMA anti-health care propaganda dummies Harry and Louise, of course, died long ago, did they not? T

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Submitted by caseyOR on

The NY Times is reporting on a recent poll that shows that 72% of Americans want a government run program like Medicare, that would be open to everyone. People who like their current insurance support the public option.

And, according to the poll, Americans are more than willing to pay higher taxes in order to provide everyone with good health care.

Did Obama suddenly lose the ability to read polling data? This could be almost a slam-dunk for Democrats. The public is ready and willing. Where are our leaders?

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Submitted by lambert on

See.

(Actually, I guess it's pre-emptive irony.)

Submitted by Anne on

in the last week or so a number of stories about the problems with health care in veterans hospitals. One was about a hospital not properly sterilizing and disinfecting the equipment it uses to do colonoscopies, and another was about problems with prostate cancer treatment.

Now, I don't mean to suggest that these aren't problems, but I think the timing of the publicity about them is more than a little suspicious. It's as if the seed is being planted in people's minds that this is what happens when you let the government handle health care - and if they can't manage the care of veterans - those true patriots who deserve only the best - they certainly could not be trusted to take care of ordinary people like us.

Where are the exposes on private hospital systems? The tell-alls about how insurance companies are killing people while their executives earn multiple-million dollar paychecks?

We're not going to see those kinds of stories, but I will bet my last nickel that we will be seeing more stories about the low-quality care in veterans and public health hospitals.

Submitted by jawbone on

gets run into the ground or close to it, so there are problems with VA healthcare. Clinton made it a very high priority to improve VA care and other veteran's services. BushBoy? Talked good game; screwed the troops as far as he could get away with. (Thank you, Dana.)

A friend, Vietnam vet, in HA told me a horror tale of needing ER care and not being reimbursed by the VA bcz, while the VA has no ER rooms on my friend's island, the option is there had be been where the was an ER...so it wasn't covered.

Get it? Just as bad as regular insurance!

He also told me that it got to be very difficult to get appointments, something about a really awful system which wasn't functioning (and I don't clearly remember what he said).

What I see as a problem with VA care is that the universe is not large enough to keep Congress and some presidents honest. While vets are given great praise and talked up while they're actually in combat --and on national holidays-- they are then supposed to go quietly into civlian life and not bug the powerful they've fought and served for.

But I may be cynical.

If we had universal health care, then more usual types of medical conditions would be covered and available anywhere. The VA system could do the kind of work it must do for a population with terrible and sometimes unique injuries. It could also take on care for civilians who suffered similar injuries and the VA's expertise would be of great benefit.

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