Comments on: Obama’s Speech – Healthcare Reform

By: Tax Guru

Tax Guru — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:48:18 +0000

I’ve been involved in taxes for longer then I care to acknowledge, both on the individual side (all my employed life history!!) and from a legal point of view since satisfying the bar and pursuing tax law. I’ve provided a lot of advice and corrected a lot of wrongs, and I must say that what you’ve put up makes impeccable sense. Please persist in the good work – the more people know the better they’ll be outfitted to handle with the tax man, and that’s what it’s all about.

By: John Maxfield

John Maxfield — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:40:47 +0000

Actually, as shown in Denmark, smoking lowers health care costs. Presumably they die earlier of less complex diseases. If money is the issue, then the government should subsidize smoking.

By: hashmd

hashmd — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:19:01 +0000

Whatever the government develops, one thing MUST be done…Congress and the President must also live under the same system!

Then they will see what the rest of us get. They will get the same wait times, the same lack of access, whatever. It is only fair.

They should not get the care they currently get, which is far over and above what even the “average” American gets.

By: Don Salva

Don Salva — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:20:16 +0000

Thanks for linking the speech. Great for the hearing impaired readers!

*thumbs up*

By: Rogue Medic

Rogue Medic — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 07:18:19 +0000

PookieMD, As to cigarettes, I say out law tobaacco. RogueMedic, are you listening? Our history of prohibition has not been good. Otherwise law abiding people will break the prohibition laws. How else do we explain people in jail solely for possession of prohibited substances? We need to eliminate the current prohibitions, not add more failures. How many wars on drugs can we afford to lose at a time? Or do we just consider it to be one big failed war on drugs, with unlimited potential for growth? Kind of like the growth potential of the bailout. If we outlaw sins of commission, why not outlaw sins of omission. Maybe we need a law to force people to exercise a minimum amount of hours per week. There is no reason to be unreasonable. We need to allow people some flexibility to organize their own schedules. To do otherwise would lead to too much opposition. This way people will feel they have some control over things. Once people have learned to blindly obey, we can move on to other things. We need to encourage responsibility. Absolutely. Unfortunately, prohibitions may be the worst way to try to accomplish this. We will be constantly depriving people of decisions to make. Eventually there are no decisions left, except Obey and Don't Obey. The idea that you can make it so that a society is wonderful to live in, just by passing the right laws - laws to control the behavior of others - is very unhealthy. If you want to modify behavior, criminalization of self-destructive behaviors we do not like is just going to lead to less respect for the law. Do we really want a society that is less law-abiding than the current society?

By: Rogue Medic

Rogue Medic — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 05:33:24 +0000

Cynic,

Thank you.

By: ADHDCPhT

ADHDCPhT — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:03:27 +0000

I hate the idea of a nationalized healthcare system so I don’t even know why I’m saying this, but why does it have to be all or nothing? Can’t just primary care be nationalized, but specialty care out of pocket? Why is it, when the government gets involved with something, it has to get its freakin’ claws into ALL aspects of it?

By: PookieMD

PookieMD — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:38:41 +0000

White coat, I posted a series similar to this, and especially harped on smoking. We really don’t need high tech EMRS, open acess and the like until Americans takes responsibility and stop smoking, eating fast foods and laying on the couch. The feds should focus on eliminating smoking, and encouraging health food and exercise. As to cigarettes, I say out law tobaacco. RogueMedic, are you listening?

By: cynic

cynic — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:21:57 +0000

“If 8th graders can provide oversight to doctors, nobody really needs to waste all of that time on college, medical school, and residency. This medical school stuff is just elitism gone wild.”

LMAO Rogue, you are on a roll.

By: Steve Parker, M.D.

Steve Parker, M.D. — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:59:06 +0000

Obama said he’s going ot cure cancer, too.

He didn’t say which one of the 400+ types of cancer he’s going to cure, so I assume it’s all of them.

We were so smart to elect him to rule us.