Bush SOTU: America - you're over insured

[LiberalPartisan]

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/29/politics/29health.html


In his State of the Union Address this coming Tuesday the President will argue Americans are hurting our economy and our global competitiveness, as well as the insurance companies, under the current employer provided healtch insurance system so he's going to propose the burden of paying for healtchcare and treatment be shifted to you and me - while we continue to pay premiums to our insurers. So basically the little toad will be blaming Americans:

1. Getting sick
   
2. Seeking treatment
   
3. Filing insurance claims for said treatment
   
4. Overburdening the benevloent insurance companies with the cost fulfilling their contractual obligations
   

I wonder how much the insurance lobby had to fork over in cash in gifts to get the admin. to jump through this hoop. I'm thinking about $2.75

[madaboutharry]

1. This is part of the plan to destroy the middle class and

impoverish the poor even further. NO PENSIONS, A STAGNANT MINIMIUM WAGE, NO HEALTH COVERAGE. Can you see what is going on here, Truthseekers?

[malaise]

2. Bearing in mind how many thousands are

hurting from the treatment meted out to them by home insurers, this is great news. Let Bush anger more people. Bring em on.

[xchrom]

3. in republican think -- the middle class

is the enemy.

[Epiphany4z]

4. I don't see how

Doing away with employer Provided Health insurance is going to help the economy. More people will simply not have it. More lost time at work. Sicker people who cost more to help when they finally do land in the hospital. Diabetics untreated and all the complications from that, Mental health meds not taken and all that comes with that, High bp untreated...ahh well the funeral business will be rock solid anyway.

I swear the world is upside down right now...black is white ..day is night..up is down. Are people crazy? Drudged? how do you deprogram them?

[WinkyDink]

9. Not "more lost time at work." Rather, "more lost jobs due to missed work."

[no_hypocrisy]

5. Won't some of the tax cuts have to be applied to health insurance

if employers have the option not to provide it, even to their executives?

[annabanana]

6. This is pretty damn stupid... with people like Trent Lott

and millions of others already pissed of at Big Insurance on the Gulf Coast.

Is Karl out of commission, or what?

[newportdadde]

7. This idea will flop worse then SS. Americans aren't complete fools.

1). The poor won't like it because they don't think they will get care(and they are right).

2). Those with preexisting conditions or women thinking about having a child won't want it because they won't get covered or it will to expensive.

3). The barely hanging on middle class who has seen its premiums skyrocket while getting jack for raises just wants its healthcare to stabalize for awhile, ie not change, not get higher.

4). The solid well to do middle class(still need a job for it) won't like it because they don't want 'crappy insurance' the same as others could buy.

A complete and total flop is my prediction.

[kiki]

8. DAMN YOU ORDINARY AMERICANS!!!

You're what's wrong with the country. Always spoiling everything with your need to eat, have a roof over your head and enjoy basic liberty and comfort. It's high time you realized that the US will be much better off if you just let us super-rich folks decide everything and get back to what you're good at - hauling our trash and dying in our wars.