I have blogged in the past about the cigar store where I smoke and the varied opinions among the patrons. I found these two items relating to healthcare reform interesting:
1. A doctor, whose total practice is in hospital internal medicine, told us he orders a million dollars worth of unnecessary tests each year for protection against malpractice claims. One doctor, a million dollars of protection from suits and still many think we do not need tort reform.
2. A retired union organizer, UAW, worries that a change in healthcare legislation will ruin the unions great health insurance plan. He currently has $10 co-pay and $2 prescriptions. By the way it is a private insurance company not the government that runs his program.
Question? If there is so much Medicare and Medicaid fraud (billions of dollars) that eliminating the fraud will allow no reduction in services without increased costs then why is a new healthcare law necessary to control the fraud? Why not just stop the fraud now since the current law, if passed, will not go into effect until 2013? Not stopping the fraud now means 4 more years of billions of dollars of waste.
How many citizens attended the march on Washington yesterday? Was it tens of thousands as described by MSM or over a million as described by the Daily telegraph? Is it possible that it really was the largest gathering of citizens in the history of Washington DC?
Will the march yesterday have any effect on the Congress and the President or are our elected officials (from both parties) so out of touch with the citizens that it will make no difference?
Do President Obama, and his speech writers, not understand that calling out opponents for using “scare tactics” while using them himself hurts his position? What happened to the “uniter” that he was going to be? Re-reading the text of his Wednesday address I was struck by how partisan his speech really was.
Do Obama and the Democrats really think it is a good idea to ram healthcare reform through the congress?
If healthcare reform, in the current bill we have had access to read, is so good for the country will the congress put themselves and government employees on the plan?
If healthcare reform, in the current bill we have had access to read, is so good for the country why don’t they just pass it now? After all they have a veto proof majority in Congress and control the White House.
The cigar store will be packed this afternoon. Are you ready for some football?
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