Comments on: RNC Chair Attacks Obama on Health Care

Michael Steele Says the President is Conducting "Risky Experimentation" With Proposals

[cydygitt1]

"Being guided by partisanship and hate is never a good idea."
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Exactly! And this idiotic fight by moronic republiCONS is nothing more than ugly partisanship B.S. -- as the party of NO -- NO SOLUTIONS -- NO NEW IDEAS -- JUST MORE OF THE SAME -- is fighting for POWER and CONTROL, hardly supporting the American people over GREED and MONEY!

[cydygitt1]

Mortarman29 in his usual CONStipated CONServitard rant says:
"Hey, Obama didn't want McCain to succeed."
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Luckily, mcpain was thoroughly trounced in the 2008 election, so his suceeding of anything was not linked to our country as a whole, but Obama is currently President of the U.S., and his success is completely linked to our great nation's success or failure as a whole.

The druggie limbaw and YOU seem to be one in the same as moronic selfish republiCONS pushing for the status quo for the many problems America faces today after 30 years of failed CONServitard policies and ideology, just like our for-profit health care debacle!

[cydygitt1]

Yep....another GREEDY company that has a vested financial interest in keeping the United States health care status quo, working in conjunction with the for-profit insurance industry and their lobbyists!

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Rick Baker And Timely Medical Alternatives, Profiting From The Current U.S. Health Care System
May 27, 2009
Canadian medical broker Rick Baker has made his documentary debut in a new CPR video about the perils of a Canadian-style health care system. CPR failed to mention that Mr. Baker has vested financial interest in keeping the United States health care status quo.

Conservatives For Patients Rights Documentary Includes Canadian Medical Broker's Testimony
One of the featured videos on Conservatives for Patients Rights website, FacesOfGovernmentHealthCare.com, includes the following interview excerpt:

Rick Baker, Medical Broker: "The Canadian health care system is unique in that there's only one other country in the world, that's North Korea, that follows our pattern. It is against the law for a medical provider to accept payment to render medical services to the population. I recognize that people who are desperate are quite happy to pay, notwithstanding anything government might tell you to the contrary, quite happy to pay for relief from their pain and suffering. And people have said to me, 'Rick, you're taking advantage of sick people.' I'm not taking advantage of sick people anymore than doctors are...pharmaceutical companies are, insurance companies are, I am helping people get prompt delivery of health care. Worst case scenario, our client who was given a week to live was put on an indefinite waiting list for treatment for a blocked artery to her bowel. She had one week to live and had no idea when she was going to get her surgery. Now how bad can that be? She came to us, we got her down to the U.S. the next day where she had life saving surgery. If the public health care system were working at a high level of efficiency, there would be no need for someone like me. Why would there? It's only because they are failing the public that people wind up coming to me." [FacesOfGovernmentHealthCare.com, accessed 5/27/09]

Baker Supplied His Clients For CPR's Patient Interviews. Canada's National Post reported: "Mr. Baker said his customers have included six people who were told by their Canadian doctors they could die before their number came up on the waiting list for various treatments. The broker has agreed to do similar interviews with another free-market health lobby group, and is scheduled to address U.S. congressmen in Washington next month at CPR's request. He said he will also be featured in a 30-minute advocacy infomercial that the organization is negotiating to run on U.S. television. When CPR sent Gene Randall, a former CNN and NBC correspondent, to Canada to conduct interviews, Mr. Baker linked him up with some of his clients. They included Don Neufeldt, a Bradner, B.C., poultry farmer who related how he faced a wait of more than two years for surgery to fix a potentially fatal heart arrhythmia, then decided to pay to have the operation in Oklahoma City almost immediately. 'It was worth paying the money,' he says in one CPR video posted on YouTube. 'I'd pay it in an instant again.'" [National Post (Canada), 5/8/09]

Rick Baker: Profiting Off The U.S. Status Quo
Baker: "If The U.S. Adopts Our System, Where Else Can I Send My Dying Canadians?" According to the Toronto Star: "Vancouver-based Rick Baker of Timely Medical Alternatives...specializes in helping Canadians unwilling to accept waiting times in the country. Baker arranges private care in Canada or, more likely, arranges for care south of the border. 'It would be hypocritical of me to say I don't care about health care in the U.S.,' he said. 'I strongly believe in the right of people to take control of their own health care. Besides, if the U.S. adopts our system, where else can I send my dying Canadians?'" [Toronto Star, 2/22/08]

National Post: Baker's Motivation For Fighting U.S. Health Care Reform Is Selfish. According to Canada's National Post: "Mr. Baker, whose Timely Medical Alternatives helps Canadians obtain speedier treatment in the United States, said his own motivation for co-operating with [Conservatives for Patients Rights] was in a way selfish. If America adopts health care similar to Canada's, he will have nowhere to send his clients, he said. 'We refer to America as Canada's 'other' health care system,' he said. 'It's like the release valve on a pressure cooker -- the U. S. availability. So if the U. S. were to adopt our dysfunctional system, where would I send my Canadian patients who are dying?'" [National Post (Canada), 5/8/09]

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[cydygitt1]

quidam56 states:
"$ 1. 4 million is being spent per day in DC by the health care lobbyists........America's health care system is a disgraceful sham!"
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Thank you for such honest insight into our current health care debacle that the usual foxnewsus propagandus homosapien subspecies still wrongly support.

The U.S. has 100,000 dying in hospitals each and every year due to MISTAKES, with many more requiring longer stays due to infections or other problems you pointed out.

America's health care is worse than 'a disgraceful sham' by the for-profit insurance industry -- it's a WAR on middle class Americans by the wealthy and corporate elite of the oligarchic plutocracy!

[cydygitt1]

"Why are you people so worried about protecting 'insurance companies' that make their money by denying benefits to their paying customers?"
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The moronic republiCONS have always supported the blood-sucking for-profit insurance companies, since they funnel campaign dollars to the RNC and people like steele.

[smoknmirrors]

Democratic cabal or Republican babble?? Choices, choices, choices.

[smoknmirrors]

"Republicans want and support an open health care system where patients and doctors make the decisions."
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When are these Republicans going to start that program? It doesn't exist right now. They really need to get specific on how they propose eliminating insurance companies and hmos from the decision making process.

[cydygitt1]

Exactly! This lying statement by RNC steele, only proves how our congresscritters continue to reap the benefits of the $1.4 Million spent per day now on lobbying against health care reform, since the current cesspool of waste and abuse called American 'health care,' has lawyers posing as insurance claim's supervisors making the decisions that should be reserved for physicians and patients!

[abbe91]

And the CIA is so unreliable ....

[abbe91]

Show us other ones than ...

[erasmus111]

by Mortarman29 July 20, 2009 6:38 PM EDT
Who paid for her insurance ? It wasn't free. The "rich" paid for it thru taxes.


You're pretty stupid, aren't ya? You better brush up on your reading skills.

EVERYBODY pays it through taxes. Not just the rich. Everyone pays the same.