Comments on: Clinton Promises Universal Health Care

Says She "Learned A Lot" During Failed Health Care Effort Of Husband's Presidency

[toolmangler-2009]

jscribe58, I do not know your full circumstance but I belong to UnitedHealthCare's 'Secure horizons' plan and don't pay a cent for premiums. You might check them out, they bill medicare directly.

[bellal-2009]

I want to opt out. I'm not paying for this, I already pay for Medicare. Enough already.

[bellal-2009]

I want to opt out. I'm not paying for this, I already pay for Medicare. Enough already.

[toolmangler-2009]

In 2004 I went to a local hospitals emergency room in central North Carolina with what I thought was severe stomach acid. They took one look at my face and put me on the table right then. I was wired and being monitored within two minutes of walking in and dead as a dooornail 30 seconds later. They worked on me and brought me back after having flatlined twice on the table. My nurse (French studying in the USA) told me later that in most countries the second flatline would have been it for me. I spent $1200.00 out of pocket for four stents and catheteration later at Duke university Hospital. medical care is available if people go get it. They didn't ask me if I had insurance when I came in, they just went to work and saved my life.

[bellal-2009]

Free daycare, free healthcare, free breakfast and lunch, free education and free rent. Wow, sounds like a vast left wing conspiracy. The bigger the govt. the more govt. jobs. How many work for the federal govt., anyway. I'll look it up but I don't know if I can stomach the answer.

[jscribe58]

For many years I had medical coverage at work, and like everybody else went where they told me to go, to doctors they told me to go to, and had only the procedures they told me I could have. Not fun being ruled by the HMO's, but at least I wasn't out in the cold.
Just before my 62nd birthday, I had a heart attack. Left weak, I decided to take social Security - at least I'd have some kind of income and medical coverage, right? Wrong! Someone had changed the law while I wasn't looking and made Medicare not available until age 65! So at 62, you're old enough to retire, but not old enough to get sick. So after paying into Social Security for 45 years or so, I was left with a monthly check and no way to pay my medical bills.
I have found and enrolled in poverty level prescription plans (which I qualify for hands down) through the drug companies, and without that I would be dead, because you do not qualify for medicaid unless you have minor children - no exceptions. I have to chase around with forms and phone calls, which is almost a full time job in itself.
Shame on you, America, for the way you treat your elderly and poor - shame on you! THe only thing I can say to the bleeding hearts who are afraid their taxes may go up a few cents to have the elderly live like human beings, see doctors when they're sick, and not have to rotate their drugs or choose between medicine and food, is that one day you will be in that position.

[coffeehead-2009]

Q: But some people say socialism has failed.

A: Real socialism has never been tried. Or a start has been attempted briefly in places like Chile in the early 1970s and overthrown by the capitalists/armed forces.

Here we get into labeling. For example an accurate description of the former Soviet Union may be bureaucratic centralism, state capitalism, capitalism without capitalists or something else, but it was never socialist (except perhaps at the start) in the great tradition of left humanist radical democratic thinking.

http://socnet.net/faq.html

[coffeehead-2009]

Boy's Death Fuels Drives to Fund Dental Aid to Poor

By Mary Otto
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, March 3, 2007; Page B01

The death of a Prince George's County boy this week from an infection that started with an abscessed tooth has spurred lawmakers to demand better dental care for poor children and has prompted a deluge of calls to local dentists for advice and appointments.

Deamonte Driver, a 12-year-old homeless child, died Sunday in a District hospital after an infection from a molar spread to his brain.

It is outrageous today that in America, a young boy can die because his family can't find a dentist to remove an infected tooth," Cardin said on the Senate floor Thursday. "Anytime we lose a child, it is a tragedy. But Deamonte Driver's death is particularly devastating because it was easily preventable."

[coffeehead-2009]

A paraplegic man wearing a soiled hospital gown and a broken colostomy bag was found crawling in a gutter in skid row in Los Angeles on Thursday after allegedly being dumped in the street by a Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center van, police said.

"I can't think of anything colder than that," said LAPD Det. Russ Long, who called the case the most egregious of its kind that he has seen in his career. "There was no mission around, no services. It's the worst area of skid row."

Los Angeles Police Department detectives said they connected the van to Hollywood Presbyterian after witnesses wrote down a phone number on the van and took down its license-plate number.

Witnesses shouted at the female driver of the van, "Where's his wheelchair, where's his walker?"

Gary Lett, an employee at Gladys Park, near where the incident occurred, said the woman driving the van didn't reply, but proceeded to apply makeup and perfume before driving off.

"She didn't make any attempt to help him," Lett said. "He was in bad shape. He was incoherent."

Kaylor Shemberger, executive vice president for Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, said, "Obviously we are very concerned about the information that has been presented to us. We are continuing to investigate the incident. If some of the facts are correct, it is clearly not in line with our policy of handling these types of patients."

[mcvett]

We need a Communist Revolution in the USA, sparky! Everbudy knows that reel Communism has never been tried, sparky.

We need to round up all republicans, neocons, etc. and send them all to re-educashun camps to teach them how to be politcaly corect. WE CANNOT TOLERATE DESENT, we need to imprison all conservatives until they convert to OUR way of thinking. When everbudy is politicaly corect and thinks like us, then we can all get along

Re-distribute monie from rich and give to the pour, that's what the rich diserve for wurking so hard. It isnt fare that people who wurk hard get payd more.

COMMUNIZE HEALTH CARE FIRST,SPARKY, then energy, then corporations so that everbudy works for the state.

There is no god, only the state, WE know it takes a village, sparky!

Long live the gloreus peeples republic of amerika