Comments on: Obama To AMA: ‘The Public Option Is Not Your Enemy, It Is Your Friend’ http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/06/15/obama-support-public-option/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:42:01 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: elohsaa http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/06/15/obama-support-public-option/comment-page-1/#comment-153949 elohsaa Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:31:24 +0000 http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/?p=14737#comment-153949 The best way to describe our current health care system is this: 1. The Health Insurance Industry is a horse. 2. Politicians need to ride the horse in order to get to their next destination, re-lection. 3. People needing health care are just sparrows. 4. The sparrows get some benefit from the horse by finding nutrition in the horse droppings. Some don’t have access to the droppings so they die of starvation, in the richest country in the world. CONCLUSION: Our system of health insurance for profit maintains that feeding the horse is necessary in order to feed the sparrows. We should get rid of the horse and feed the sparrows directly. The majority of the industrialized world has proven that it is more efficient and just that way! The best way to describe our current health care system is this:

1. The Health Insurance Industry is a horse.
2. Politicians need to ride the horse in order to
get to their next destination, re-lection.
3. People needing health care are just
sparrows.
4. The sparrows get some benefit from the horse by finding nutrition in the horse droppings. Some don’t have access to the droppings so they die of starvation, in the richest country in the world.

CONCLUSION: Our system of health insurance for profit maintains that feeding the horse is necessary in order to feed the sparrows. We should get rid of the horse and feed the sparrows directly. The majority of the industrialized world has proven that it is more efficient and just that way!

]]> By: Anon http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/06/15/obama-support-public-option/comment-page-1/#comment-153944 Anon Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:47:00 +0000 http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/?p=14737#comment-153944 Obama needs to kick the AMA in the balls. Obama needs to kick the AMA in the balls.

]]> By: FOIA Gras http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/06/15/obama-support-public-option/comment-page-1/#comment-153941 FOIA Gras Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:36:15 +0000 http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/?p=14737#comment-153941 The AMA is correct to be concerned about current Medicare reimbursement rates to health service providers, which is why increasing those rates to be on par with private insurance is a component of any credible single payer proposal. Meaningful health care reform will also seek to reverse the trend toward profit-centric hospitals. The AMA is correct to be concerned about current Medicare reimbursement rates to health service providers, which is why increasing those rates to be on par with private insurance is a component of any credible single payer proposal. Meaningful health care reform will also seek to reverse the trend toward profit-centric hospitals.

]]> By: chris http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/06/15/obama-support-public-option/comment-page-1/#comment-153932 chris Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:31:20 +0000 http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/?p=14737#comment-153932 I'd really like to see more about "With reform, we will ensure that you are being reimbursed in a thoughtful way tied to patient outcomes instead of relying on yearly negotiations about the Sustainable Growth Rate formula that’s based on politics and the state of the federal budget in any given year." I think this is key to overcoming the opposition of physicians and hospitals. I’d really like to see more about “With reform, we will ensure that you are being reimbursed in a thoughtful way tied to patient outcomes instead of relying on yearly negotiations about the Sustainable Growth Rate formula that’s based on politics and the state of the federal budget in any given year.”

I think this is key to overcoming the opposition of physicians and hospitals.

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