Comments on: Socialized Health Care Back From Grave

By: ElGato

ElGato — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:26:30 +0000

“The funding mechanism for Kuehl’s bill would have imposed a 12 percent tax on employers and employees along with another 11.5 percent in unspecified taxes.” That totals 23.5% in new taxes! Time to move my company to Nevada.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:14:59 +0000

yeah cause the existing system works so well! We’re #37 (and you like it that way!)

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By: Pam McDonald

Pam McDonald — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 03:01:36 +0000

Healthcare premiums have been rising drastically since Obamacare was passed. The reason for this rise in premiums is Obamacare has no cap or controls on the insurance industry’s premium rates, just like they fail to address tort reform. After 2016 (full implementation), the insurance company giants who have become participants in the “insurance exchange” will not be able to raise their premiums, while providing healthcare for millions more with no stipulations or adjustments for people coming into the system with costly chronic illness such as diabetes (which is epidemic). So, they raise their premiums now while there are no regulations preventing them from doing so. This is detrimental to the budget of a small business, forcing them to either lay off employees, or stop offering healthcare benefits. The astronomical rise in the cost of healthcare they speak of controlling incorporates the cost of the hundreds of thousands of illegals and people on the entitlement programs. It is strangling the economic viability of hospitals and healthcare providers. Hospitals in California are mandated to treat anyone who walks through their emergency room doors seeking care, and they have been overwhelmed and continue to be so.

Having been employed in the healthcare system in Sacaramento for 42 years, now a medical business administrator/consultant, my information is accurate. Further consequences of universal healthcare of any kind is the loss of physicians and heathcare providers who will be, and are now, forced out of practicing medicine because they all are actually small businesses with costlier overhead and unable to survive economically. We will also begin to see the bankruptcies of hospitals as they are now experiencing in Massachusetts. Our legislature is totally out of control, and the insanity they continue to produce is destroying this State. We absolutely need a part-time legislature, or California will not continue to survive.

By: doug

doug — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:51:07 +0000

Even if stem cell research was able to eliminate all the diseases, the govt would be right there to make sure our premiums were “at market prices”.

By: Barb

Barb — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:14:25 +0000

Aside from the costs, because individuals and employers would be penalized, isnt this the same problem Obamacare has e.g. a mandate and wouldnt this be challenged in the courts?

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 06:09:43 +0000

‘Corruption, waste and fraud destroyed your healthcare system.’

Yup, Mr. Bub. And science has been completely corrupted. Medical research is not about curing disease, reversing the damage done from disease or even preventing disease.

It’s all about getting and keeping the grant money flowing and doing what is politically expedient.

This is one reason why will never see any cures to the major diseases in our lifetimes, or any disease for that matter.

But really, that’s what the elites want. If you consider that they believe the planet’s population should be a tenth or less of what it is then it is highly unlikely that they want to see people living to 150.

By: queeg

queeg — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:53:37 +0000

Relax everyone…the Dems are setting up the social, cultural and economic collapse of California.

There are no ways to prosperity with the bullet train drain or the open quarry pit of socialized horrors/medicine.

By: Beelzebub

Beelzebub — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:04:48 +0000

I challenge you. Go talk to any maternity ward nurse at UCI Med Center, Western Med Center, Garden Grove Med Center, Anaheim Memorial, Fountain Valley Reg Hospital, etc… and ask her what percentage of the new moms are non-english speakers. Don’t be surprised when you are told 50% or more. Other nations simply refuse allow this nonsense. Not only do we provide them with cost-free medical care – after they give birth we allow them to remain in our country – and we provide them with food and shelter on the taxpayer’s dime. And you are surprised when we spend 18% of our GDP on healthcare???

By: Beelzebub

Beelzebub — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:42:00 +0000

Our medical delivery system as it stands today in America is financially insolvent. We spend 18% of our GDP on health care and about 35 million Americans go uninsured. The euros provide health care for their entire populations and spend only 9%-11% of GDP. As our population ages – the percent of GDP will only go higher – until it destroys the entire economy. But that’s what happens when 80 years olds are guaranteed their hip transplants and heart bypasses or when Juanita can come across the border illegally in her 7th month after poor prenatal care – and drop a $2M special needs kid in an American hospital compliments of the California taxpayer. Do any of you know that we pay triple or quadruple the price for American made phramaceuticals than the europeans pay for the same product??? The American pharma companies entered into a pact with their bought-off lawmakers on Capital Hill – that makes it illegal to reimport originally packaged American made pharma products back into the USA. So the American pharma companies force YOU to subsidize the rest of the free world when it comes to prescription medicine. And mandated health insurance is more government-corporate collusion by forcing you to buy medical insurance from private companies – which will provide the insurance companies with an ADDITIONAL $80 billion in revenue annually. Corruption, waste and fraud destroyed your healthcare system.