how is obama going to fix health care , when his wife is a VP a hospital that charges 350% more to patients.
November 28th, 2008 | by Rick |
djominous20 asked:
that are uninsured, and also is one of theonly non profit hospitals that doesnt have a charitable price reduction on those who are no insured ?
no=not sorry typo
a vp at sorry another typo
GUSTAVO
that are uninsured, and also is one of theonly non profit hospitals that doesnt have a charitable price reduction on those who are no insured ?
no=not sorry typo
a vp at sorry another typo
GUSTAVO
9 Responses to “how is obama going to fix health care , when his wife is a VP a hospital that charges 350% more to patients.”
By MARCELINO on Nov 30, 2008 | Reply
ANTON
By raising the taxes through the roof on the those that already have health insurance.
By ANDY on Dec 1, 2008 | Reply
VERN
Great point.
He want do anything if elected. He will fail miserably as a president.
(i.e. Jimmy Carter)
By ELLIOTT on Dec 1, 2008 | Reply
KELLY
Yes and they raised Michelle’s salary by about $200,000. That means they must be using fraud to collect more Medicaid for these people.
By CURTIS on Dec 2, 2008 | Reply
KEITH
For the first time in her life, she can be proud of the hospital she works for.
By BRYAN on Dec 2, 2008 | Reply
ALLAN
He can’t . It won’t be fixed until all the hospitals go bankrupt and most of the people are sick or dying.
He is proposing mandatory health insurance for CHILDREN ONLY with FINES if you don’t buy it. No one can afford health insurance that is uninsured or they would buy it. It is estimated this will cost 40% to 50% of the average worker’s pay (if they are employed at all). All these mandatory health insurance plans will only benefit the health insurance companies that contribute to Hillary’s and Obama’s campaigns.
Meanwhile he wants to send gazillions of our tax dollars overseas instead of spending them here on health care…
Here are Obama’s church tenets..
Read 8-1 about rounding up the middle class into concentration camps and killing them off or encouraging them to kill themselves… (barack church principles)
The start of middle class concentration camps..overtaxation…then charge the middle class of healthcare of children with fines if you don’t buy it… (sending gazillions of tax dollars to foreign countries) (sending tax money to Mexico) (where will all this foreign money go? He has socialist/communist friends)
And he wants to DISARM America.. (plan to disarm america)
911, Disarming America, and Wright (the Disarming quote is near the end)
By REX on Dec 3, 2008 | Reply
NOLAN
good question!!! no he isnt
By STEVIE on Dec 3, 2008 | Reply
FELIX
He can’t and does his wife feel proud when families are forced into bankruptcy due to the hospital bill? All hospitals do it but it does not make sense to charge more to patients who have no means to pay. I suspect that hospitals, unlike doctors, get to write that bad debt off.
By JAMIE on Dec 4, 2008 | Reply
TAYLOR
You think you know all the answers so maybe you should
run…..
By TY on Dec 7, 2008 | Reply
JEFFRY
You raise a valid point about the FACT that the uninsured SUBSIDIZE the insured. People say that’s not true because they automatically think of illegals who skip out on paying and nothing happens to them. However, for citizens, there is NO skipping out:
and
When 75% of the people who declare bankruptcy over medical bills ARE INSURED, then insurance is CLEARLY not the answer.
“Aldrich’s situation is “asinine” but increasingly common, said Dr. Deborah Thorne of Ohio University. Thorne, co-author of a widely quoted 2005 study that found medical bills contributed to nearly half of the 1.5 million personal bankruptcies filed in the U.S. each year, said that ratio has likely worsened since the data was gathered.
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Like Aldrich, Thorne said, three-quarters of the individuals in the study who declared bankruptcy because of health problems were insured. ”
Linda Peeno, MD testified that SHE had often denied treatment JUST to save the insurance company money
Furthermore:
“the vast majority of health insurance policies are through for-profit stock companies. They are in the process of “shedding lives” as some term it when “undesirable” customers are lost through various means, including raising premiums and co-pays and decreasing benefits (Britt, “Health insurers getting bigger cut of medical dollars,” 15 October 2004, investors.com). That same Investors Business Daily article from 2004 noted the example of Anthem, another insurance company. They said the top five executives (not just the CEO) received an average of an 817 percent increase in compensation between 2000 and 2003. The CEO, for example, had his compensation go from $2.5 million to $25 million during that time period. About $21 million of that was in stock payouts, the article noted.
A 2006 article, “U.S. Health Insurance: More Market Domination, More CEO Compensation”
(hcrenewal.blogspot.com) notes that in 56 percent of 294 metropolitan areas one insurer “controls more than half the business in health maintenance organization and preferred provider networks underwriting.” In addition to having the most enrollees, they also are the biggest purchasers of health care and set the price and coverage terms. “’The results is double-digit premium increases from 2001 and 2004—peaking with a 13.9 percent jump in 2003—soaring well above inflation and wages increases.’” Where is all that money going? The article quotes a Wall Street Journal article looking at the compensation of the CEO of UnitedHealth Group. His salary and bonus is $8 million annually. He has benefits such as the use of a private jet. He has stock-option fortunes worth $1.6 billion.”
–Save America, Save the World by Cassandra Nathan pp. 127-128
“Insurance Companies Robbing Patients
Robbing patients to pay CEOs leads to unprecedented medical insurance corporation greed.
Thursday, January 3, 2008 8:52 AM
By: Michael Arnold Glueck & Robert J. Cihak, The Medicine Men”
So we see even having insurance is not enough to save you under the current CORRUPT system.
That Obama can’t get his wife to get her hospital to do the right thing is a sign of just where the games he and Hillary want to play lead.
Hillarycare exists in Taxachusetts, courtesy of Romney:
“Massachusetts announced that spending on its health care plan would increase by $400 million in 2008, a cost expected to be borne largely by taxpayers.”
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The ONLY plan I’ve seen that deals with the ACTUAL causes of high costs and has resolutions for them is here:
QUALITY, ACCESSIBLE, AFFORDABLE health care for all.
That means preventative care (physical with follow up). Real medication (no Medicare “donut holes” the really ill are ripped off again.) No bogus ridiculously low “caps” on needed medical procedures. No abuse of the ER. No paying for the silly with the sniffles to go to the doc for free. No more bankruptcies over medical bills. I want THIS plan that ends abuse of the taxpayer, takes the burden off employers, provides price transparency, and ends the rip-off of the US taxpayer at the hands of greedy insurance CEOs (which has been repeatedly documented).
Read the PDF, not the blurb, for the bulk of the plan. Book is searchable on Amazon.com
Cassandra Nathan’s Save America, Save the World