The most stunning and least reported news about President Obama’s press conference with health industry executives last week wasn’t those executives’ willingness to negotiate with a Democrat. It was that Democrat’s eagerness to involve those executives in a discussion about health care reform even as they revealed their previous plans to pilfer $2 trillion from […]
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A real partner would endorse a public option
If the health care industry is serious about working with the president, it would support public insurance. Representatives of the insurance, hospital, and the pharmaceutical industries pledged recently to work with President Barack Obama to reduce skyrocketing health care costs by $2 trillion over the next 10 years. The acknowledgment that simple reforms can add […]
Situation is outrageous
I am writing to voice my surprise at how lax payment from the state has been to hospitals. They don’t ask for payment before treating anyone, unlike the dental profession. Everyone is treated regardless of payment source. If a business was run like this, it would exist no more. The health care industry should not […]
A must for Americans
President Barack Obama’s affordable health care plan is a must, and part of our freedom as American citizens! The United States is the only country in the industralized world that still lives without universal healthcare, and the time has come. Citizens have to stand behind the president and move forward with this program. Howard Dean […]