Comments on: Would Managed Care By Any Other Name Smell Any Better?

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:51:43 +0000

Charlie-
I love your response because it can also be said of the republicans and conservatives. They have proposed tax credits and healthcare accounts and after all of it, none of that has made a dent in cost or availability, Conservatives just doing the same old tired, proven failure, policies.
Conservatives have PROVEN they do not want reform, they have proven that they want to INCREASE the strangle hold of insurance and pharma over our lives. If they had their wish come true, there would be no Social Security or medicare/medicaid., and we would all have to pay 15-20 thousand a year for health coverage, assuming of course that the insurance company allows you to be insured which leaves out almost 50% of the present population.

By: Larry C.

Larry C. — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:05:49 +0000

This is truly revealing. Who do they think they are going to fool?

By: Ken

Ken — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:37:29 +0000

Very sneaky.

By: John R. Graham

John R. Graham — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:42:33 +0000

The most curioius (actually bizarre) sentence in the article is: "Governors are deeply concerned about the rising price of Medicaid, the government insurance program for the poor, which makes them natural allies of the president, who has made driving down health costs a centerpiece of his effort." The primary reason for Medicaid's out of control spending is that the federal government funds well over half the costs, motivating states into a race to the bottom of taxpayers' pockets. For every dollar a state increases Medicaid spending, the U.S. government pays the state $1.12 (and this is going up significantly as a result of the February stimulus bill, which includes a massive Medicaid bailout). Governors going to the President for help in controlling health spending is like junkies going to their drug-dealer for a detox program.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:34:52 +0000

Nope, it doesn’t smell any better, and repackaging old policies in new semantics doesn’t exactly seem like the type of change that many Obama supporters were looking for.