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		<title>By: Deb</title>
		<link>http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/2009/08/16/four-half-truths-on-health-care/#comment-144858</link>
		<dc:creator>Deb</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>But those of us who oppose the plan are &quot;crazy&quot; and imagining things. Right.</description>
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		<title>By: Deb</title>
		<link>http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/2009/08/16/four-half-truths-on-health-care/#comment-193602</link>
		<dc:creator>Deb</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>But those of us who oppose the plan are &quot;crazy&quot; and imagining things. Right.</description>
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		<title>By: Vinny</title>
		<link>http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/2009/08/16/four-half-truths-on-health-care/#comment-144856</link>
		<dc:creator>Vinny</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;a href=&#039;#comment-144727&#039; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;@krizzy&lt;/a&gt; - The only &quot;obvious&quot; thing is that you&#039;ve made a lot of presuppositions about my positions without bothering to figure out if they&#039;re true.  Seeing as you&#039;re either too lazy or too stupid to do some research, here are some posts where I support a universal healthcare plan.

http://bit.ly/4jvZBN
http://bit.ly/135WqF
http://bit.ly/SdZ5A

You know what they say happens when you assume, right?  The problem is I don&#039;t like &lt;strong&gt;this&lt;/strong&gt; plan, but someone as narrowminded as you is unable to draw a distinction.

Secondly, of course the survey doesn&#039;t include the 50 million people who don&#039;t have insurance.  The survey was to determine how happy people are with their plans.  If you don&#039;t have a plan, chances are you aren&#039;t happy with your plan.  Amazing how that works.  The reason the survey was done was because they wanted to gauge how people felt about their insurance company.  They were expecting people to hate them, but ended up finding out people liked them.  Before they could hide the results, they leaked out.

Third, get over your inferiority complex.  I made no such argument about &quot;scrubs.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href='#comment-144727' rel="nofollow">@krizzy</a> &#8211; The only &#8220;obvious&#8221; thing is that you&#8217;ve made a lot of presuppositions about my positions without bothering to figure out if they&#8217;re true.  Seeing as you&#8217;re either too lazy or too stupid to do some research, here are some posts where I support a universal healthcare plan.</p>
<p><a href="http://bit.ly/4jvZBN" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/4jvZBN</a><br />
<a href="http://bit.ly/135WqF" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/135WqF</a><br />
<a href="http://bit.ly/SdZ5A" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/SdZ5A</a></p>
<p>You know what they say happens when you assume, right?  The problem is I don&#8217;t like <strong>this</strong> plan, but someone as narrowminded as you is unable to draw a distinction.</p>
<p>Secondly, of course the survey doesn&#8217;t include the 50 million people who don&#8217;t have insurance.  The survey was to determine how happy people are with their plans.  If you don&#8217;t have a plan, chances are you aren&#8217;t happy with your plan.  Amazing how that works.  The reason the survey was done was because they wanted to gauge how people felt about their insurance company.  They were expecting people to hate them, but ended up finding out people liked them.  Before they could hide the results, they leaked out.</p>
<p>Third, get over your inferiority complex.  I made no such argument about &#8220;scrubs.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Vinny</title>
		<link>http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/2009/08/16/four-half-truths-on-health-care/#comment-193601</link>
		<dc:creator>Vinny</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-144727&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;@krizzy&lt;/a&gt; - The only &quot;obvious&quot; thing is that you&#039;ve made a lot of presuppositions about my positions without bothering to figure out if they&#039;re true.  Seeing as you&#039;re either too lazy or too stupid to do some research, here are some posts where I support a universal healthcare plan.

http://bit.ly/4jvZBN
http://bit.ly/135WqF
http://bit.ly/SdZ5A

You know what they say happens when you assume, right?  The problem is I don&#039;t like &lt;strong&gt;this&lt;/strong&gt; plan, but someone as narrowminded as you is unable to draw a distinction.

Secondly, of course the survey doesn&#039;t include the 50 million people who don&#039;t have insurance.  The survey was to determine how happy people are with their plans.  If you don&#039;t have a plan, chances are you aren&#039;t happy with your plan.  Amazing how that works.  The reason the survey was done was because they wanted to gauge how people felt about their insurance company.  They were expecting people to hate them, but ended up finding out people liked them.  Before they could hide the results, they leaked out.

Third, get over your inferiority complex.  I made no such argument about &quot;scrubs.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="#comment-144727" rel="nofollow">@krizzy</a> &#8211; The only &#8220;obvious&#8221; thing is that you&#8217;ve made a lot of presuppositions about my positions without bothering to figure out if they&#8217;re true.  Seeing as you&#8217;re either too lazy or too stupid to do some research, here are some posts where I support a universal healthcare plan.</p>
<p><a href="http://bit.ly/4jvZBN" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/4jvZBN</a><br />
<a href="http://bit.ly/135WqF" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/135WqF</a><br />
<a href="http://bit.ly/SdZ5A" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/SdZ5A</a></p>
<p>You know what they say happens when you assume, right?  The problem is I don&#8217;t like <strong>this</strong> plan, but someone as narrowminded as you is unable to draw a distinction.</p>
<p>Secondly, of course the survey doesn&#8217;t include the 50 million people who don&#8217;t have insurance.  The survey was to determine how happy people are with their plans.  If you don&#8217;t have a plan, chances are you aren&#8217;t happy with your plan.  Amazing how that works.  The reason the survey was done was because they wanted to gauge how people felt about their insurance company.  They were expecting people to hate them, but ended up finding out people liked them.  Before they could hide the results, they leaked out.</p>
<p>Third, get over your inferiority complex.  I made no such argument about &#8220;scrubs.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Brittancus</title>
		<link>http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/2009/08/16/four-half-truths-on-health-care/#comment-144752</link>
		<dc:creator>Brittancus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 01:48:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The Special Interest lobbyists are spending $millions, spilling their lies to the American people. So many lies that they have likely disrupted any chance of Universal health care. They have lied so much about the Canada system, and paid off so many people to give birth to their lies, that the gullible population believes them. The wealthy insurers want no change, so they can ring every dollar out of a  system.wrought with fraud and corruption  In the long run cost will explode and only the upper class will have the money to buy care. Lose your job and even those people will join the millions out of work unable to pay for medical care for their family.
The Status Quo are selling propaganda and downright lies, across the TV, radio bandwidths. LIES! Lies and more  lies about both Health care and illegal immigration. The facts are that President Obama has an objective of introducing a Canadian and European type single payer system.

In truth it&#039;s like a nationwide--MEDICARE--like all senior citizens receive now. It&#039;s only difference their will be--NO CO-PAYS, DEDUCTIONS, NO PREMIUMS AND NO PRE -EXISTING CONDITIONS. The Special interest lobbyists, who work for the wealthy health care industry, are using every means possible to derail any kind of Universal health care. We must remember the British/English, French, German, Danish and other have been well accepted by their population for decades, with no worries about bankruptcy or Debt collectors calling. My health care in England, was first class when I lived in there, without financial worries and no distractions from profiteering insurance companies.As a child and a young man I choose my doctor and received eye and dentistry visits free of charges.

I NEVER HAD TO WAIT FOR A SURGERY FOR MONTHS, AS THE SPECIAL INTEREST LOBBY TRIES TO IMPLY? EMERGENCY PROCEDURES WERE DEALT WITH IMMEDIATELY. One should remember that there a large majority of nefarious special interest groups, who enjoy the status quo and will fight with propaganda and lies against their profiteering. Another place where I lived was Australia, where the health care system is equally as great as England. One year I was employed by Australian Main Roads as a junior  surveyor  and stepped  into  a fire ants  nest,  ending up in hospital.  Once again my cost was--ZERO--because I paid into the system.  There is something very  calming, without the worry of billing statements pouring through the mailbox demanding money and threatening you with an attorney.

Since the inception of the European common market and the directive of open borders for cheap labor pouring into  the  industrialized nations,  they have been overwhelmed  by the impoverished  needing health care. Such conditions didn&#039;t exist  before the  1960&#039;s,  as the their was no mass immigration and waiting periods.  In America today and since the newest waves of legal and illegal immigration, costs to medicate these people have sky rocketed who have never paid one penny into the system. Each previous government never have restricted immigration, but allowed taxpayers to pay for their health care and welfare benefits. Each year approximately 1.5 million new immigrants  are granted work visas and many become public charges.

Now Obama is insisting on yet another AMNESTY, which will be even costlier to the American taxpayers, so says the Heritage foundation. American taxpayers should not have to subsidize US businesses, which has been happening for years? A large majority of pariah corporate executives, do not want any restrictions on foreign national workers, that is why they have tried to kill a mandated E-Verify identity data base, to extract all illegal immigrants from the working environment.

  That SANCTUARY STATES like California must rescind illegal immigrant refuge policies. That President Obama&#039;s health care renewal plan—WILL--attract millions more impoverished people from around the world. That they can join with the 20 plus million already here, to get free medical care under the Democrats law now passing through Congress.

Observe this PETITION to STOP any health care to illegal immigrants at:  http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/nohealthcareforillegals</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Special Interest lobbyists are spending $millions, spilling their lies to the American people. So many lies that they have likely disrupted any chance of Universal health care. They have lied so much about the Canada system, and paid off so many people to give birth to their lies, that the gullible population believes them. The wealthy insurers want no change, so they can ring every dollar out of a  system.wrought with fraud and corruption  In the long run cost will explode and only the upper class will have the money to buy care. Lose your job and even those people will join the millions out of work unable to pay for medical care for their family.<br />
The Status Quo are selling propaganda and downright lies, across the TV, radio bandwidths. LIES! Lies and more  lies about both Health care and illegal immigration. The facts are that President Obama has an objective of introducing a Canadian and European type single payer system.</p>
<p>In truth it&#8217;s like a nationwide&#8211;MEDICARE&#8211;like all senior citizens receive now. It&#8217;s only difference their will be&#8211;NO CO-PAYS, DEDUCTIONS, NO PREMIUMS AND NO PRE -EXISTING CONDITIONS. The Special interest lobbyists, who work for the wealthy health care industry, are using every means possible to derail any kind of Universal health care. We must remember the British/English, French, German, Danish and other have been well accepted by their population for decades, with no worries about bankruptcy or Debt collectors calling. My health care in England, was first class when I lived in there, without financial worries and no distractions from profiteering insurance companies.As a child and a young man I choose my doctor and received eye and dentistry visits free of charges.</p>
<p>I NEVER HAD TO WAIT FOR A SURGERY FOR MONTHS, AS THE SPECIAL INTEREST LOBBY TRIES TO IMPLY? EMERGENCY PROCEDURES WERE DEALT WITH IMMEDIATELY. One should remember that there a large majority of nefarious special interest groups, who enjoy the status quo and will fight with propaganda and lies against their profiteering. Another place where I lived was Australia, where the health care system is equally as great as England. One year I was employed by Australian Main Roads as a junior  surveyor  and stepped  into  a fire ants  nest,  ending up in hospital.  Once again my cost was&#8211;ZERO&#8211;because I paid into the system.  There is something very  calming, without the worry of billing statements pouring through the mailbox demanding money and threatening you with an attorney.</p>
<p>Since the inception of the European common market and the directive of open borders for cheap labor pouring into  the  industrialized nations,  they have been overwhelmed  by the impoverished  needing health care. Such conditions didn&#8217;t exist  before the  1960&#8242;s,  as the their was no mass immigration and waiting periods.  In America today and since the newest waves of legal and illegal immigration, costs to medicate these people have sky rocketed who have never paid one penny into the system. Each previous government never have restricted immigration, but allowed taxpayers to pay for their health care and welfare benefits. Each year approximately 1.5 million new immigrants  are granted work visas and many become public charges.</p>
<p>Now Obama is insisting on yet another AMNESTY, which will be even costlier to the American taxpayers, so says the Heritage foundation. American taxpayers should not have to subsidize US businesses, which has been happening for years? A large majority of pariah corporate executives, do not want any restrictions on foreign national workers, that is why they have tried to kill a mandated E-Verify identity data base, to extract all illegal immigrants from the working environment.</p>
<p>  That SANCTUARY STATES like California must rescind illegal immigrant refuge policies. That President Obama&#8217;s health care renewal plan—WILL&#8211;attract millions more impoverished people from around the world. That they can join with the 20 plus million already here, to get free medical care under the Democrats law now passing through Congress.</p>
<p>Observe this PETITION to STOP any health care to illegal immigrants at:  <a href="http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/nohealthcareforillegals" rel="nofollow">http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/nohealthcareforillegals</a></p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
		<link>http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/2009/08/16/four-half-truths-on-health-care/#comment-193600</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 01:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The Special Interest lobbyists are spending $millions, spilling their lies to the American people. So many lies that they have likely disrupted any chance of Universal health care. They have lied so much about the Canada system, and paid off so many people to give birth to their lies, that the gullible population believes them. The wealthy insurers want no change, so they can ring every dollar out of a  system.wrought with fraud and corruption  In the long run cost will explode and only the upper class will have the money to buy care. Lose your job and even those people will join the millions out of work unable to pay for medical care for their family.
The Status Quo are selling propaganda and downright lies, across the TV, radio bandwidths. LIES! Lies and more  lies about both Health care and illegal immigration. The facts are that President Obama has an objective of introducing a Canadian and European type single payer system.

In truth it&#039;s like a nationwide--MEDICARE--like all senior citizens receive now. It&#039;s only difference their will be--NO CO-PAYS, DEDUCTIONS, NO PREMIUMS AND NO PRE -EXISTING CONDITIONS. The Special interest lobbyists, who work for the wealthy health care industry, are using every means possible to derail any kind of Universal health care. We must remember the British/English, French, German, Danish and other have been well accepted by their population for decades, with no worries about bankruptcy or Debt collectors calling. My health care in England, was first class when I lived in there, without financial worries and no distractions from profiteering insurance companies.As a child and a young man I choose my doctor and received eye and dentistry visits free of charges.

I NEVER HAD TO WAIT FOR A SURGERY FOR MONTHS, AS THE SPECIAL INTEREST LOBBY TRIES TO IMPLY? EMERGENCY PROCEDURES WERE DEALT WITH IMMEDIATELY. One should remember that there a large majority of nefarious special interest groups, who enjoy the status quo and will fight with propaganda and lies against their profiteering. Another place where I lived was Australia, where the health care system is equally as great as England. One year I was employed by Australian Main Roads as a junior  surveyor  and stepped  into  a fire ants  nest,  ending up in hospital.  Once again my cost was--ZERO--because I paid into the system.  There is something very  calming, without the worry of billing statements pouring through the mailbox demanding money and threatening you with an attorney.

Since the inception of the European common market and the directive of open borders for cheap labor pouring into  the  industrialized nations,  they have been overwhelmed  by the impoverished  needing health care. Such conditions didn&#039;t exist  before the  1960&#039;s,  as the their was no mass immigration and waiting periods.  In America today and since the newest waves of legal and illegal immigration, costs to medicate these people have sky rocketed who have never paid one penny into the system. Each previous government never have restricted immigration, but allowed taxpayers to pay for their health care and welfare benefits. Each year approximately 1.5 million new immigrants  are granted work visas and many become public charges.

Now Obama is insisting on yet another AMNESTY, which will be even costlier to the American taxpayers, so says the Heritage foundation. American taxpayers should not have to subsidize US businesses, which has been happening for years? A large majority of pariah corporate executives, do not want any restrictions on foreign national workers, that is why they have tried to kill a mandated E-Verify identity data base, to extract all illegal immigrants from the working environment.

  That SANCTUARY STATES like California must rescind illegal immigrant refuge policies. That President Obama&#039;s health care renewal plan—WILL--attract millions more impoverished people from around the world. That they can join with the 20 plus million already here, to get free medical care under the Democrats law now passing through Congress.

Observe this PETITION to STOP any health care to illegal immigrants at:  http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/nohealthcareforillegals</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Special Interest lobbyists are spending $millions, spilling their lies to the American people. So many lies that they have likely disrupted any chance of Universal health care. They have lied so much about the Canada system, and paid off so many people to give birth to their lies, that the gullible population believes them. The wealthy insurers want no change, so they can ring every dollar out of a  system.wrought with fraud and corruption  In the long run cost will explode and only the upper class will have the money to buy care. Lose your job and even those people will join the millions out of work unable to pay for medical care for their family.<br />
The Status Quo are selling propaganda and downright lies, across the TV, radio bandwidths. LIES! Lies and more  lies about both Health care and illegal immigration. The facts are that President Obama has an objective of introducing a Canadian and European type single payer system.</p>
<p>In truth it&#8217;s like a nationwide&#8211;MEDICARE&#8211;like all senior citizens receive now. It&#8217;s only difference their will be&#8211;NO CO-PAYS, DEDUCTIONS, NO PREMIUMS AND NO PRE -EXISTING CONDITIONS. The Special interest lobbyists, who work for the wealthy health care industry, are using every means possible to derail any kind of Universal health care. We must remember the British/English, French, German, Danish and other have been well accepted by their population for decades, with no worries about bankruptcy or Debt collectors calling. My health care in England, was first class when I lived in there, without financial worries and no distractions from profiteering insurance companies.As a child and a young man I choose my doctor and received eye and dentistry visits free of charges.</p>
<p>I NEVER HAD TO WAIT FOR A SURGERY FOR MONTHS, AS THE SPECIAL INTEREST LOBBY TRIES TO IMPLY? EMERGENCY PROCEDURES WERE DEALT WITH IMMEDIATELY. One should remember that there a large majority of nefarious special interest groups, who enjoy the status quo and will fight with propaganda and lies against their profiteering. Another place where I lived was Australia, where the health care system is equally as great as England. One year I was employed by Australian Main Roads as a junior  surveyor  and stepped  into  a fire ants  nest,  ending up in hospital.  Once again my cost was&#8211;ZERO&#8211;because I paid into the system.  There is something very  calming, without the worry of billing statements pouring through the mailbox demanding money and threatening you with an attorney.</p>
<p>Since the inception of the European common market and the directive of open borders for cheap labor pouring into  the  industrialized nations,  they have been overwhelmed  by the impoverished  needing health care. Such conditions didn&#8217;t exist  before the  1960&#8242;s,  as the their was no mass immigration and waiting periods.  In America today and since the newest waves of legal and illegal immigration, costs to medicate these people have sky rocketed who have never paid one penny into the system. Each previous government never have restricted immigration, but allowed taxpayers to pay for their health care and welfare benefits. Each year approximately 1.5 million new immigrants  are granted work visas and many become public charges.</p>
<p>Now Obama is insisting on yet another AMNESTY, which will be even costlier to the American taxpayers, so says the Heritage foundation. American taxpayers should not have to subsidize US businesses, which has been happening for years? A large majority of pariah corporate executives, do not want any restrictions on foreign national workers, that is why they have tried to kill a mandated E-Verify identity data base, to extract all illegal immigrants from the working environment.</p>
<p>  That SANCTUARY STATES like California must rescind illegal immigrant refuge policies. That President Obama&#8217;s health care renewal plan—WILL&#8211;attract millions more impoverished people from around the world. That they can join with the 20 plus million already here, to get free medical care under the Democrats law now passing through Congress.</p>
<p>Observe this PETITION to STOP any health care to illegal immigrants at:  <a href="http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/nohealthcareforillegals" rel="nofollow">http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/nohealthcareforillegals</a></p>
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		<title>By: Jeff Egnaczyk</title>
		<link>http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/2009/08/16/four-half-truths-on-health-care/#comment-144732</link>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Egnaczyk</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:58:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>One of the advantages Medicare and Medicaid have over private insurance is that they has lower overhead costs. Private insurers are in double digit percentiles of overhead. I&#039;ve heard anywhere from 15% to 30%. From what I&#039;ve read many health care experts think those two programs should be spending more. So what Obama&#039;s saying makes no sense. He should be pointing out that government programs are more efficient than the private sector. 

As to the fourth point, if you want to require insurance companies to stop discriminating against people with pre-existing conditions then you have to have universal health care. If you require insurance companies to take all the chronically ill they will go under. You have to require everyone to have insurance so that those companies can recoup their costs with healthy customers. 

(Vinny, I commented on &quot;Obama&#039;s Terrible Plan and Terrible Timing&quot; but I haven&#039;t seen it show up.)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the advantages Medicare and Medicaid have over private insurance is that they has lower overhead costs. Private insurers are in double digit percentiles of overhead. I&#8217;ve heard anywhere from 15% to 30%. From what I&#8217;ve read many health care experts think those two programs should be spending more. So what Obama&#8217;s saying makes no sense. He should be pointing out that government programs are more efficient than the private sector. </p>
<p>As to the fourth point, if you want to require insurance companies to stop discriminating against people with pre-existing conditions then you have to have universal health care. If you require insurance companies to take all the chronically ill they will go under. You have to require everyone to have insurance so that those companies can recoup their costs with healthy customers. </p>
<p>(Vinny, I commented on &#8220;Obama&#8217;s Terrible Plan and Terrible Timing&#8221; but I haven&#8217;t seen it show up.)</p>
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		<title>By: Jeff Egnaczyk</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jeff Egnaczyk</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>One of the advantages Medicare and Medicaid have over private insurance is that they has lower overhead costs. Private insurers are in double digit percentiles of overhead. I&#039;ve heard anywhere from 15% to 30%. From what I&#039;ve read many health care experts think those two programs should be spending more. So what Obama&#039;s saying makes no sense. He should be pointing out that government programs are more efficient than the private sector. 

As to the fourth point, if you want to require insurance companies to stop discriminating against people with pre-existing conditions then you have to have universal health care. If you require insurance companies to take all the chronically ill they will go under. You have to require everyone to have insurance so that those companies can recoup their costs with healthy customers. 

(Vinny, I commented on &quot;Obama&#039;s Terrible Plan and Terrible Timing&quot; but I haven&#039;t seen it show up.)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the advantages Medicare and Medicaid have over private insurance is that they has lower overhead costs. Private insurers are in double digit percentiles of overhead. I&#8217;ve heard anywhere from 15% to 30%. From what I&#8217;ve read many health care experts think those two programs should be spending more. So what Obama&#8217;s saying makes no sense. He should be pointing out that government programs are more efficient than the private sector. </p>
<p>As to the fourth point, if you want to require insurance companies to stop discriminating against people with pre-existing conditions then you have to have universal health care. If you require insurance companies to take all the chronically ill they will go under. You have to require everyone to have insurance so that those companies can recoup their costs with healthy customers. </p>
<p>(Vinny, I commented on &#8220;Obama&#8217;s Terrible Plan and Terrible Timing&#8221; but I haven&#8217;t seen it show up.)</p>
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		<title>By: krizzy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Also, you say 85% percent of people are happy with their coverage, and they can keep it. Clearly, however, that survey does not include the 50 million uninsured (roughly 1/6 of the pop) that have no coverage whatsoever. I suppose they don&#039;t deserve it, they&#039;re just lower class scrubs that &quot;chose&quot; to work for minimum (aka subsistence) wages</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Also, you say 85% percent of people are happy with their coverage, and they can keep it. Clearly, however, that survey does not include the 50 million uninsured (roughly 1/6 of the pop) that have no coverage whatsoever. I suppose they don&#8217;t deserve it, they&#8217;re just lower class scrubs that &#8220;chose&#8221; to work for minimum (aka subsistence) wages</p>
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		<title>By: krizzy</title>
		<link>http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/2009/08/16/four-half-truths-on-health-care/#comment-193598</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Also, you say 85% percent of people are happy with their coverage, and they can keep it. Clearly, however, that survey does not include the 50 million uninsured (roughly 1/6 of the pop) that have no coverage whatsoever. I suppose they don&#039;t deserve it, they&#039;re just lower class scrubs that &quot;chose&quot; to work for minimum (aka subsistence) wages</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Also, you say 85% percent of people are happy with their coverage, and they can keep it. Clearly, however, that survey does not include the 50 million uninsured (roughly 1/6 of the pop) that have no coverage whatsoever. I suppose they don&#8217;t deserve it, they&#8217;re just lower class scrubs that &#8220;chose&#8221; to work for minimum (aka subsistence) wages</p>
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		<title>By: krizzy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You&#039;re obviously opposed to any health care reform, but explain to me how free enterprise in the health care system works. If their goal is to turn a profit,pay dividends to stockholders, pay a gaggle of individuals in the industry much much more than their publicly employed counterparts that&#039;s going to end up costing much much more than the operating overhead of medicare and medicaid. When the CEO of bluecross blue shield gets 2 billion in stock options, where is that money coming from? Does the insurance industry itself perform operations? No. It&#039;s a much bigger more entrenched bureaucracy than washington could ever dream up.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You&#8217;re obviously opposed to any health care reform, but explain to me how free enterprise in the health care system works. If their goal is to turn a profit,pay dividends to stockholders, pay a gaggle of individuals in the industry much much more than their publicly employed counterparts that&#8217;s going to end up costing much much more than the operating overhead of medicare and medicaid. When the CEO of bluecross blue shield gets 2 billion in stock options, where is that money coming from? Does the insurance industry itself perform operations? No. It&#8217;s a much bigger more entrenched bureaucracy than washington could ever dream up.</p>
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		<title>By: krizzy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You&#039;re obviously opposed to any health care reform, but explain to me how free enterprise in the health care system works. If their goal is to turn a profit,pay dividends to stockholders, pay a gaggle of individuals in the industry much much more than their publicly employed counterparts that&#039;s going to end up costing much much more than the operating overhead of medicare and medicaid. When the CEO of bluecross blue shield gets 2 billion in stock options, where is that money coming from? Does the insurance industry itself perform operations? No. It&#039;s a much bigger more entrenched bureaucracy than washington could ever dream up.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You&#8217;re obviously opposed to any health care reform, but explain to me how free enterprise in the health care system works. If their goal is to turn a profit,pay dividends to stockholders, pay a gaggle of individuals in the industry much much more than their publicly employed counterparts that&#8217;s going to end up costing much much more than the operating overhead of medicare and medicaid. When the CEO of bluecross blue shield gets 2 billion in stock options, where is that money coming from? Does the insurance industry itself perform operations? No. It&#8217;s a much bigger more entrenched bureaucracy than washington could ever dream up.</p>
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		<title>By: Deb</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:26:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>More brilliance, dude you are on FIRE this week!!!!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>More brilliance, dude you are on FIRE this week!!!!!!</p>
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		<title>By: Deb</title>
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		<dc:creator>Deb</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>More brilliance, dude you are on FIRE this week!!!!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>More brilliance, dude you are on FIRE this week!!!!!!</p>
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