A community of 30,000 US Transcriptionist serving Medical Transcription Industry

It's time for reconciliation

Posted: Jan 19, 2010

I am very, very disappointed in the "race" Coakley ran. She seemed to be sitting on Kennedy's laurels, and she ended up dropping the ball. This is an opportunity for the dems, though. It's time to pass Health Care Reform by reconciliation.

If I had a magic wand, I'd move Pelosi to Senate majority leader to be sure we'd git 'er done.

;

Long overdue, if you ask me. - sm

[ In Reply To ..]
Better bill, public option, real choice and competition with the health insurance corps. Yes indeed. Looks better than ramming it through before minus-one goes to DC. Senate bill makes it look like he's already arrived.

reconciliation - cj

[ In Reply To ..]
does the fact that the majority do not want it mean nothing to you? Do you think it would be okay for them to push this bill through without the requisite number of votes? The loss of this Dem seat in Massachusetts should send a message loud and clear. The democratic party would do well to listen to it or they will lose far more as reconciliation flies in the face of everything the process SHOULD be. Personally if I had a magic wand I would get rid of Pelosi entirely as she is a disgrace

I am so with you! ...We should do what the majority of - Americans want, and they

[ In Reply To ..]
dont want this reform! If dems are so arrogant to keep pushing this junk through without approval of the majority, they will all lose their jobs soon!.. Get it through your head, dems! --and if Pelosi is who the dems admire, ugghh..

While decipher that message - sm

[ In Reply To ..]
might ought to take into consideration the percentage of those who no longer support it because it does not go far enough. Majority support for public option and real competition for the health insurance companies to deal with was ignored by Blue Dogs, the GOP, conservatives, campaign lobbyist beneficiaries, those who caved to the strong-arm tactics and misinformation and went the way of bipartisan consensus building.

If you extract those who supported these MIA measures from the disapproval ratings, your claims do not hold up. Reconciliation is the only way to get the majority support lost in the shuffle back on the table.

Don't you worry. Pelosi has something up her sleeve - backwards typist

[ In Reply To ..]
She is promising it will get done anyway. What a coniving B. I hope California wakes up.

Just for fun, I put Olbermann on this morning and he was as ignorant as ever. He stated he had an apology to make to Brown and then went into a rant about him.

Already they are throwing Coakley under the bus as they did with VA and NJ dems that didn't win.

I think part of the problem is that, ironically, (sm) - Nikki

[ In Reply To ..]

that the people in Massachusetts already have a healthcare plan that is working for them, and I don't think they wanted to lose that coverage and participate in the badly written healthcare "reform" bill. This is ironic because it may result in the rest of us NEVER having had the opportunity for relief from insurance company costs.

I'm not so sure Pelosi can pull anything out of her sleeve at this point, and I agree that Democrats are throwing her under the bus, but maybe she deserves to be under that bus. To me, she came across as arrogant in assuming she could win this election with both hands tied behind her back.

The House plan is favorable to American citizens. I've checked out that little gadget posted on here to try to estimate how much I would be paying under the Senate bill and the House bill and compare them. This is based on income, and the Senate bill hurts the least of us well before the House bill does. You should play with that link and place different incomes in there, compare House and Senate bills, and you should see what I'm talking about.

I tried using the gadget but since I don't know what - Backwards Typist

[ In Reply To ..]
what our taxable income is, it's hard to do. It always came up more than what I'm paying now with the new plan I have but this new plan is not as good as the old one. Copays are higher, percentages of what they pay are lower, and RX copays are higher.

Let's look at the numbers. - $$

[ In Reply To ..]
"Third, the program is not affordable for many individuals and families. For middle-income people not qualifying for state-subsidized health insurance, costs are too high for even skimpy coverage. For an individual earning $31,213, the cheapest plan can cost $9,872 in premiums and out-of-pocket payments. Low-income residents, previously eligible for free care, have insurance policies requiring unaffordable copayments for office visits and medications.

Fourth, the costs of the reform for the state have been formidable. Spending for the Commonwealth Care subsidized program has doubled, from $630 million in 2007 to an estimated $1.3 billion for 2009, which is not sustainable.

Fifth, reform does not assure access to care. High-deductible plans that have additional out-of-pocket expenses can result in many people not using their insurance when they are sick. In my practice of child and adolescent psychiatry, a parent told me last week that she had a decrease in her job hours, could not afford the $30 copayment for treatment sessions for her adolescent, and decided to meet much less frequently.

In another case, a divorced mother stopped treatment for her son because the father had changed insurance, leaving them with an unaffordable deductible. And at Cambridge Health Alliance, doctors and nurses have cared for patients who, unable to afford the new copayments, were forced to interrupt care for HIV and even cancers that could be treated with chemotherapy.

Access to care is also affected by the uneven distribution of healthcare dollars between primary and specialty care, and between community hospitals and tertiary care hospitals. Partners HealthCare, which includes two major tertiary care hospitals in Boston, was able to negotiate a secret agreement with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts to be paid 30 percent more for their services than other providers in the state, contributing to an increase in healthcare costs for Massachusetts, which are already the highest per person in the world. Agreements that tilt spending toward tertiary care threaten the viability of community hospitals and health centers that provide a safety net for the uninsured and underinsured."

Similar Messages:

Oct 16, 2009
I work my butt off for practically pennies and our congress plays hooky? Basically they work 2-1/2 days a week? FIRE THEM ALL, DANG IT!!!!! THEY SUCK AT THEIR JOBS!!!! If you call it a job. Shows a picture of inside congress and guess what? NOT ONE PERSON AT WORK! Congress building empty and usually on Thursdays too. How much do they get paid to work 2-1/2 days a week. They do not even listen to the PEOPLE. Congress Plays Hooky on Fridays Despite ...

Jun 22, 2012
Good ol' United Corporations of America!! ...

Feb 16, 2016
Every one of them has serious flaws, either of character, personality, world view, experience, or philosophy - and in most cases more than one of these - that I simply cannot stomach. In my experience, it's always a choice between the lesser of two evils, but this election cycle seems to have brought out a spectacularly miserable collection of candidates. And yes, Sanders and Trump supporters, I mean them too - or perhaps especially them too. It looks like I'll be sitting on my ...

Jul 19, 2016
If we haven't learned yet not to be drawn into the power struggl in which the parties seek to make us their political pawns, we must learn it now before it's too late. It's a more perilous world than we have ever known before, and perverts and liars cannot save this nation. #NEVER_PERVERTS_NEVER_LIARS ...

Oct 11, 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INRV9Jvlkn8&feature=player_detailpage#t=2 ...

Jan 03, 2012
...

Jan 17, 2013
What is the longest amount of time you will spend researching a blank before sending to QA?? ...

Sep 12, 2014
We will never win this game. Russian hackers publish nearly 5 million Gmail passwords Nearly 5 million Gmail passwords were published on a Russian-language bitcoin security forum on Tuesday, according to a report from The Daily Dot. The publisher, known as “tvskit,” claimed 60 percent of the 4,930,000 leaked usernames and passwords are valid. Spanish-, English-, and Russian-language Gmail and Google Plus accounts were targeted, along with user credentials for Russian search en ...

Jul 30, 2017
http://abcnews.go.com/International/us-bombers-fly-korean-peninsula-north-koreas-icbm/story?id=48931633 ...

Feb 13, 2012
This is the cutest video I've seen in a long time. http://www.wimp.com/index.php?page=video&video_id=lioncubs& ...

Jun 02, 2011
I literally can eat a decent meal, and within 5 minutes I am hungry again. This is getting to be ridiculous, and the weight gain is not funny either. Any suggestions on a natural or over-the-counter appetite suppressant that works? ...

Nov 16, 2009
In a rush to get back to the keyboard and keep banging away for my daily bread I ran to the kitchen to make my lunch. I saw left over chicken tettrazini and tortillas... I had a chicken tettrazini burrito! not bad topped off with apple juice and a cup of old morning coffee! Who else had a strange lunch?? ...

Jan 27, 2011
My first Hubby I saw washing a car with his then girl friend lol! My second was a picture of him eating an ice cream cone. What about you? ...

Apr 28, 2011
Better things: Oprah and 3 fundraisers. 'Nuff said about his priorities. ...

Jul 13, 2011
http://www.glennbeck.com/2011/07/13/obama-caught-in-a-massive-lie/ ...

Mar 13, 2012
Thought this out carefully. Liberals will live in northeast states and midwest. Conservatives can have california and the south. They will have the warm climate but it is worth it to be free of them. Conservatives can ban all birth control but they wont need it because unless they are married they wont have sex. They will dress in long print dresses and sensible shoes. The womenfolk will spend their time tending their multiple children. For a hobby, the women will ma ...

Jul 30, 2010
Today I caught my man "doing things" to a porn site. This was the first time and I thought he didn't do this, kind of because he told me he didn't at the beginning of our relationship. I WORK AT HOME.... I LIVE AT HOME... I barely go anywhere! So this whole thing became a discussion about privacy and lack of it on his part. He said I need to go places and that relationships are healthier if we spend time apart. He thinks I need to find something to do, but ...

Jun 22, 2011
This link to the Roseanne show is still so relevant today. Funny too. (Just a clip, so it doesn't take long.) ...

Sep 20, 2012
...

Oct 01, 2012
link ...

Nov 07, 2012
The Republican ticket may hail from Massachusetts and Wisconsin, butMitt Romney and Paul Ryan head the most Southernized major U.S. political party since Jefferson Davis’s day. In its hostility toward minorities, exploitation of racism, antipathy toward government and suspicion of science, today’s Republican Party represents the worst traditions of the South’s dankest backwaters. No other party in U.S. history has done such a 180. Founded as the party of t ...

Nov 08, 2012
“After we win this election, it’s our turn. Payback time. Everyone not with us is against us and they better be ready because we don’t forget. The ones who helped us will be rewarded, the ones who opposed us will get what they deserve. There is going to be hell to pay. Congress won’t be a problem for us this time. No election to worry about after this is over and we have two judges ready to go.” She was talking directly to a ...

Nov 28, 2012
Get your tickets out people!!!! ...

May 15, 2013
Okay, I think we all know how the human brain works. If you don't, there's a brilliant free online textbook written by J. Richards Heuer describing all of the ways our minds can be hijacked. Other sources, too, of course. "Cognitive dissonance" is a very important concept, in its most simple terms referring to the tricky ways that the mind has of side-stepping evidence that doesn't conform to our preconceived ideas, or evidence that contradicts decisions that we' ...

Jul 15, 2013
There was this stranger in my neighborhood. He was pausing and looking around. He had something in his hand. So I did what any righteous American would do. I called out: "Hi. Need some help?" ...

Nov 15, 2013
I have a friend (no, it's not me) who is time-challenged. She has just become a new mother and it is now much more pronounced. She almost lost her job in the past because she couldn't get to work on time. Her husband is almost at wit's end. They have never been on time for anything - meals, church, funerals, movies, etc. She is devastated by this and often ends up in tears. Does anyone identify with this and if so, any suggestions? She is an otherwise beautiful, articulate, ...

Jul 28, 2014
The next time someone tells you that Liberals are "mean and nasty," here's something you can have them to ponder. But then again, they will probably tell you that you are "mean and nasty" for pointing this out. http://www.forwardprogressives.com/indiana-republican-one-guts-let-poor-wither-die/ ...

Oct 03, 2014
Wait, I'll get it, yeah.. that's it....President Obama was elected. ...

Feb 26, 2015
Sitting here at my desk crying. Can't believe how in the last 3-4 years my income has dropped. Barely making it. Wondering how I will come up with money to pay rent the first of the month. Have medical bills (not even totalling $500). Called hospital to work out financiall help. Went to the expense of copying and mailing them required paperwork. Then, they tell me they don't give help for bills under $500. Why not tell me that BEFO ...

Dec 30, 2016
We have only one president at a time and past presidents-elect have respected that. It would be nice if this current, classless narcissist would keep his trap shut, particularly on foreign policy, until he is inaugurated. ...