Matthews criticizes Limbaugh for turning his own medical problems into a political statement about health care reform
January 04, 2010 6:14 pm ET
From the January 4 edition of MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews:
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The current bills being reconciled are 1500+ pages of micromanaging that is going to drive cost through the roof. It will take many healthcare decisions out of the hands of doctors and put them in the hands of Healthcare Panels. How can we add millions to health insurance and not drive up the cost? How can we add millions to our current health delivery system with NO new doctors and NOT have rationing?
In addition, what little competitive pricing there is in healthcare will soon be non-existent. Third party payers (employers, low deductibles) and over regulation (benefit requirements, no cross state line purchasing of insurance, etc.) is what is driving health insurance costs up. When you remove individuals from the equation and give them a product whose price is artificially low through subsidies you get over demand relative to supply....and highet costs. It is simple Economics 101 AND it applies to healthcare too! What is even worse is that many of the things that actually empower people to make rational decisions on how they want to spend on healthcare is going to be gone.
How is it that 85% of the people are happy with their current healthcare AND we seem to have a CRISIS???
Why did the democrats cram through a bill with absolutely NO republican support....in fact even McCain, the darling of the moderate/left, said that he was completely shut out of any talks in the Senate.
The current bill being considered in the senate/house conference (again being negotiated in secret) will not be read by those who will vote on it....and is going to "fundamentally change America"....(where have I heard that before)....and not for the better.
This is the same group that keeps holding up Medicare as some success story....a program that some estimate is over $50 TRILLION in the red (i.e., more in future benefits promised than money to pay for it)...and their first inclination was to expand this program to more Americans????
And why did they need this bill to reform Medicare costs? Why not pass the Medicare reform and as costs savings materialized you would have the money to spend on other needs...including healthcare? Reason: everyone with a shred of honesty knows darn well that NONE of theses cost savings will ever materialize. So, what is that going to do to deficits run by the government???
This whole bill and process has been a joke. But hey, Chris, thanks for that simple response to Rush.
Good luck America.....
Health Care fails for all us who are not Rush Limbaugh. We the People, the backbone of America can not receive the same treatment as the rich!
If it wasn't for the health insurance law (which was the basis of 1994's Hillary-care), Queen's would not be a financially viable venture. Few people would be able to afford Queen's, other than the Japanese nationals who fly there for high quality medical treatment.