Comments on: Obama Health Care Plan Faces Doctors' Exam

President To Take His Case For Reform To American Medical Association

[marie2233]

Good comment!

[marie2233]

Governor Sanford and General Patraes!

[marie2233]

Agree!

[marie2233]

Agree!

[marie2233]

It would be great to know exactly what is in the Health Care Plan! Is it going to be signed without being read, just like the Stimulus Bill?

[kennyrodgers]

I agree that we can study them but Fearless Leader seems to be in a bit of a rush to get things done. Rather like the stimulus package that they rushed through without giving anyone a chance to read.

[kennyrodgers]

I have no problem with fixing health care but when a president hires a 31-year old college law school drop-out with no experience, no engineering background, no economics background to run the rebuilding of a major corporation I shudder to think what he'd get to run the health care plan.

[kennyrodgers]

Look at it this way, if the govenment controls health care they can solve the problem of social security by just not giving older people medical care. For those of you who think they wouldn't do that, wanna bet? We're not talking about THEIR (politicians & bureaucrats) health care

[CitizenMikeM]

Good comments, bad comments, ridiculous ranting comments that make no sense whatsoever. People hear some politician spout the same old tired, worn-out demogogery and right away, that's fact. Learn to think for yourselves, take everything you hear with a LARGE grain of salt. Remember your parents telling you "Don't believe anything you hear and only half of what you see"? The poison that spews from Republicans and Democrats alike is overwhelming and spreading to the Public. The people of this country (other than lobbyists and their cronies) are no longer served by either house of Congress. The way the hatred, sarcasm, and obstructionism is spreading, we may soon revisit the era of McCarthyism of the 50's and German Facism of the 30's. When does this end? When the shooting in the streets begins?

[kathy11112]

I'm glad that Obama has addressed this issue. It would be actually nice if he had a single bit of truth in his rant. For instance Obama has said, in his campaign promises, to repeal the heinous FDA preemption which makes it IMPOSSIBLE to get redress at all from the medical industry. That is not in line with the comments that are being reported, is it? The comments that doctors are terrified of being sued is absolutely NONSENSE.
To cave to the whining of the doctors that they had to pay for their "schooling", is also pretty much nonsense. MOST of the doctors went to school with scholarships or it was paid by their trust funds.
I've written to Obama on his various websites and numerous times of the solution of this ugly situation (which has permanently and deeply harmed me):
1) Stop all advertising for drugs on the TV. We have a pathetic society that sits and whines for free drugs. But what do expect, when we are pelleted over and over about "ask your doctor if you can get this drug" "see you doctor to get more drugs". Have you been to the doctor lately when he doesn't greet you with his prescription pad in the ready? This would save trillions.
2) REPEAL the FDA preemption. Yes, this has stopped all of any redress for the harm done by the medical industry. Have we seen any savings? NO! NO! NO! The medical industry is still taking in record profits, while the nation is being foreclosed on. The malpractice "insurance" is a definite misnomer - most doctors make a profit on this "expense". Priceless for safety.
3) Many medical complaints can be taken care of with better nutrition and sometimes even herbs. Yet we are allowed the FDA to persecute "alternative" medicine practioners. Trillions of savings.
4) Stop the MANDATED harmful "preventative" medicine. Even the UK has recognized that this is a waste of money and has stopped this brainwashing of the public to think that we need harmful "tests" to imagine that every tiny bump is a cancer or "pre" cancer. Millions of savings.
5) Everyone needs to pay something. But, and this is important, everyone should have control on what type of medical "care" they need and what type of care. Millions of savings.
6) Fire the insurance companies. Trillions of savings.