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The government has done such a great job of handling Medicare, Social Security and Welfare - why wouldn't we be just thrilled to pieces to have them invent and manage a healthcare plan for the masses??
Social Security and Medicare are specific programs and you inclusion of welfare includes a number of programs some successful and others not as. The issue is not always the government implementation of but the legal cases that follow and establish new procedure. Not sure why you include Medicare and SS as being poorly run as surveys show satisfaction with. In fact most demonstrators say they like it the way it is. Not sure what issues you are referring to with SS perhaps you could elaborate. Satisfaction surveys would suggest just the opposite about Medicare and Social Security. They get higher marks than private sector operations. Perhaps I misread you and you are advocating for a national health care program and are using Medicare and Social Security as high water marks to support your advocacy of.
Consider some results obtained by the same Kaiser tracking poll. When asked how much they trust various health care players "to put your interests above their own," respondents rank doctors (78 percent trust "a lot" or "some") and nurses (74 percent) at the top of the list.
Among those insured through Medicare, however, "the Medicare program" (68 percent) scores nearly as high. Among those with private insurance, "your health insurance company" earns much less trust (48 percent).
The University of Michigan announced today that the Social Security Administration (SSA) received an 82 in the most recent American Customer Satisfaction Index Survey (ACSI). This score is one of the highest earned by participating Federal government agencies and 10 points higher than the comparable private sector index
I do have some concern with the way they are keeping this latest version of the bill very quiet, not allowing anyone to read it and threatening to push it through. I just wished they would listen to people and offer a simple plan and cut the pork they are piling on to it as we write.
Good grief, the entire healh care bill before congress is available online. If you only get your infomration from fox news and Rush Limbaugh you are bound to be misinformed and uneducated about what is really happening.
Good grief, the entire healh care bill before congress is available online. If you only get your infomration from fox news and Rush Limbaugh you are bound to be misinformed and uneducated about what is really happening.
I doubt if that process suddenly begins with watching them. That is probably part of the attraction. Otherwise they would know what really is truthful and accurate from any source.
Social Security and Medicare are specific programs and you inclusion of welfare includes a number of programs some successful and others not as. The issue is not always the government implementation of but the legal cases that follow and establish new procedure. Not sure why you include Medicare and SS as being poorly run as surveys show satisfaction with. In fact most demonstrators say they like it the way it is. Not sure what issues you are referring to with SS perhaps you could elaborate. Satisfaction surveys would suggest just the opposite about Medicare and Social Security. They get higher marks than private sector operations. Perhaps I misread you and you are advocating for a national health care program and are using Medicare and Social Security as high water marks to support your advocacy of.
Good grief, the entire healh care bill before congress is available online. If you only get your infomration from fox news and Rush Limbaugh you are bound to be misinformed and uneducated about what is really happening.
Npo its not;it is being change in each committee it goes threu. Their are now four demcratic proposala. In the senate finance committee for example they are noiw going to actually go back to look at the CBOI's actaul cost estimates on each part because many76 are not scored yet by CBO. One amendamnt the other day CBO found that they estiamted no score thehn found a mistake that scroes it 500 milion . That is mostly because CBO has to score every prop-aosl before finace will consider it.Because CBPO is rushed so much many could even get considered becasue they did not get scored ;so ruled out of order. Each bill will change alot by the time it leaves the house or the senate and then has top be reconciled with the other boidy.IMO this is a very comlplex bill and is being rush. All four bills are skelton's of what they will become once gone over because of the rules.Its ike medicare savings'you never really know how they are going to save the mnaey they claim until they change the rules.I doubt its fraud because that can not be estimate in savings and of course everytime the congress has scored savings it had never come to the amount they scored. You have to rememebr that the democrats have promised to eliminate the so called donuts hole in medicare prescrition drugs which won't be cheap.
Good grief, the entire healh care bill before congress is available online. If you only get your infomration from fox news and Rush Limbaugh you are bound to be misinformed and uneducated about what is really happening.
You make some broad assumptions that if one has a question or concern regarding overhauling our healthcare we must all listen to Limbaugh. I have not heard his show for over 7 years. So then should I make an assumption that you dear poster sit behind a computer collecting whatever welfare check you collect to keep it running to prod people and chide people into accepting whatever the congress shoves at us? I think not.
No I can read, research and be objective with the data. It is informational and not emotional. It is cerebral and not visceral. It you object to the use of data ok.
Please to help lurkers evaluate your response, what about my post suggests I am a government employee?
Npo its not;it is being change in each committee it goes threu. Their are now four demcratic proposala. In the senate finance committee for example they are noiw going to actually go back to look at the CBOI's actaul cost estimates on each part because many76 are not scored yet by CBO. One amendamnt the other day CBO found that they estiamted no score thehn found a mistake that scroes it 500 milion . That is mostly because CBO has to score every prop-aosl before finace will consider it.Because CBPO is rushed so much many could even get considered becasue they did not get scored ;so ruled out of order. Each bill will change alot by the time it leaves the house or the senate and then has top be reconciled with the other boidy.IMO this is a very comlplex bill and is being rush. All four bills are skelton's of what they will become once gone over because of the rules.Its ike medicare savings'you never really know how they are going to save the mnaey they claim until they change the rules.I doubt its fraud because that can not be estimate in savings and of course everytime the congress has scored savings it had never come to the amount they scored. You have to rememebr that the democrats have promised to eliminate the so called donuts hole in medicare prescrition drugs which won't be cheap.
There is no one bill to be referred to as being the bill. The Baucus bill has already been changed and as you say is in committee etc etc etc.
No I can read, research and be objective with the data. It is informational and not emotional. It is cerebral and not visceral. It you object to the use of data ok.
Please to help lurkers evaluate your response, what about my post suggests I am a government employee?
I can answer that - it's faux news type prejudice.
And don't confuse me with the facts!
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