What this plan means if you travel outer state, even within your state this means that if you have an accident the Doctor that is treating you knows of any conditions that may affect treatment. If you need to be provided with certain drugs, the Doctor and hospital knows what others were charged. It puts downward pressure on medical prices, which if you may have noticed are going up massively.

This allows the Agency that President Bush set up the IT equipment to realize its aim. It is in the Recovery Act because it provides a much needed boost to an ailing IT industry and improves health access.

As for being proud of our Health Care and not wanting change, only the most extreme Republican would say that. Even John McCain was suggesting this. We have the highest costs and lowest outcomes for that. Our health care is #37 in the World. That is a national disgrace.

I have yet to figure out how they are getting all the different systems to work together in some efficient manner, but we will see. It does help treatment in the VA facilities. It also helps identify narcotic abusers who go from doctor to doctor to get narcotic prescriptions.

However, after witnessing the collapse of the banking industry, the housing industry, fannie mae/freddie mac, and the crap the Dems pulled this primary, I am totally rethinking the idea.

I used to believe the Dems cared. Now I see they are just as crooked and geedy and pathetic as the rest of them.

I really worry about turning the healthcare system over to the government anymore. Universal healthcare is only as good as the people working for the system. If you have dedicated, responsible, honest caregivers, clerical workers, managers and vendors, the system works great. But, throw in a few bad fish and the whole system will rot. And I no longer have faith in the Dems to not rot the pot.

I definitely think something needs to be done. Insurance companies denying treatment must not continue. But, I seriously worry about handing over the health care industry to the government.

I can see the benefit of computerized health records, but I can also see the downfall. That was my objection to this in the stimulus bill. I believe it should be handled in a seperate bill, with all kinds of controls, and laws put in place, and part of a broader plan. I don’t trust those sitting in DC to do the right thing. They lost my trust.

Great article though! Very informative.

Ruin Your Health With the Obama Stimulus Plan.

I just can’t believe people are buying into this crap that we should just “accept negative diagnoses” that mean the end and not try to treat them with “expensive” treatments. This is reprehensible. I wonder if he gets sick what he will do? Take a few aspirin and call us in the morning?

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&refer=columnist_mccaughey&sid=aLzfDxfbwhzs

I’ve read this whole thread, and while the argument rages back and forth over the merits of the health care provisions in the Swindle-us bill, no one has yet questioned just what the hell they’re doing in the bill in the first place! Don’t you think that such issues should be adressed separately? The fact that such important, but unrelated issues were quietly slipped into one of the most ponderous and hastilly written pieces of legistrative robbery, should cause all kinds of alarm bells to go off.

The real and substantive debate at this point isn’t the form of socialized medical care our government could supply, but whether or not government should be involved in the first place damn-it.

The saddist thing our last election demonstrates is the unrecognized loss of personal freedom and responsibility that a majority of our people have eschewed in favor of kleptoparasitic government solutions. Every new power our government assumes, represents another aspect of our lives with which we will no longer be free to exercise our own judgement. We may have reached the tipping point that Ayn Rand wrote about.

I have said this many times here; I kept my father alive with every ounce of time, love and care I had in me, for as long as I could. If anyone tried to pull this crap on my mother or father, that they should be left to die because of their advanced age, well it wouldn’t be pretty. How dare these people pull this stuff?

Our elderly are our gifts to treasure, those who preserve our history and memories, and the people who most importantly gave us our own lives. So the socialist nuts can just turn around and take their lives?

MEchelle was paid to screw over poor and under/uninsured people trying to use Chicago U.

The Government and Insurance Companies are not going to make things better.

You may have noticed that credit cards are still loan sharking with no relief in sight.

Credit Card Joe Biden is in bed with the banks.

PBO and MEchelle are entwined with the Bad Hands People.

This Administration could demand affordable health care and Rxs today, but …

it won’t.

No, bailing out banks and GM is what’s on the agenda.