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   believecommonsense said, 5 months ago

   LOVE IT!

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   DianeKovacs said, 5 months ago

   Perfect.

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   Robert Peters said, 5 months ago

   Right on target. Direct hit.

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   NOTGEORGE said, 5 months ago

   it’s right on the point.

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   tpenna said, 5 months ago

   Cartoon of the Year!

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   Simon_Jester said, 5 months ago

   Except that guy denying the coverage should be sitting in a PLUSH office and wearing a $25,000.00 suit.

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   dtroutma said, 5 months ago

   Actually, it would be a student nurse (literally true) instead of your doctor making the determination! At least the one I talked to on the phone wasn’t Hindu.

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   believecommonsense said, 5 months ago

   I just noticed the french fries on the lap and the stamp he’s holding “ON” — NO backwards.

   double love it; putting this one on facebook!

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   Str8Arrow said, 5 months ago

   This chap is a shoo-in GS-13 qualified claims adjuster for the New National Health Care Administration.

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    M Kitt said, 5 months ago

    Don’t even usually bother to comment on the toons, nice job Ben.

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    cdward said, 5 months ago

    Our reality in a nutshell.

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    motivemagus said, 5 months ago

    Ah, St8Arrow, not so. After all, a government healthcare administration – which is NOT what Obama is proposing – wouldn’t require a profit, and would probably pay the guy a lot less. Thanks for the argument in favor of national healthcare!

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    M Kitt said, 5 months ago

    The W slackard suggested shifting social security over to the investment market, fannie and freddie, think where those funds would be now and what it would mean to the pensioners who rely on it…the point of privatizing that program is the same as keeping health care in that status, the corporations and the politicians they fund into office smell profit and want their hands on it. An efficient and well maintained health care system with minimal overhead (goverment run) would deprive the health care industry of the opportunity to turn down as many claims as possible and pocket the difference, along with bumping up the price in the 25% range for overhead/administrative costs, these parasites have no conscience.

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    dtroutma said, 5 months ago

    Arrow needs to know this would be a GS 9-11 job at most, unless with DOD. TV scripts often cite folks at least 2-5 grade levels above what they’d really be in Civil Service. Now, in private practice the screener would be minimum wage, and the guy at the door would be padding his bonus and options. (just think AIG)

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    Right_On said, 5 months ago

    This is pretty funny … I just think it is once again naieve of this administration to think they can do it better. Not that the system is great now, but there are certainly alternatives than the ones this administration is proposing.

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    oldlegodad said, 5 months ago

    The worst part is Oboy wants congress(WTF?) to write and have it on his desk before adjournment….Talk about a disaster waiting to happen. At least Bubba had Hilary had a committee and some (poor) research and thinking.. This subject is too important and expensive and potentiality disasterious to rush into. I know its coming. I’m resigned to that but we need to take our time in the next session. How many ear marks could be slipped into this pork barrel?

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    believecommonsense said, 5 months ago

    oldlego, healthcare reform is not an idea that just popped up … it’s been batted around for years … certainly since Clinton’s attempt in 1993/94. There’s been tons of research … and plans and proposals. Delaying it again will kill it again.

    The opponents of reform (insurance lobby) has already started their TV ad campaign. Remember how successful they were with their Harry & Louise ads.

    I believe, as Obama does, that our current healthcare situation is an integral piece of our economic health. Costs are soaring, hurting businesses and individuals and our health statistics are actually declining. Now is the time to reform it, and fix it.

    And write-off, the administration has not yet proposed any plan, so what are you referring to, or, as I suspect, is that besides the point with you? Do you know StewieZ?

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    acellist said, 5 months ago

    Maybe, just maybe, government health care is all it will take to foster the need to better care for our own health…
    Naaah!

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    cdward said, 5 months ago

    righton, there are better alternatives than the one the administration is proposing – but you’d hate them more. It is utterly naive to put the nation’s health care in the hands of corporations whose primary interest is in the health of their bottom line, not the health of their customers. It’s the foxes guarding the hen house. They will never put the health of their customers above their own profit.

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    jcmckain said, 5 months ago

    If those of us with good insurance (read: employer provided with minimal monthly premiums) truly understood the real cost of insurance (e.g., I work for large company, actual cost is $1600 per month, I pay about $150 of that) – and had to pay that full amount, THEN we would see a real demand for change. As long as it remains a “hidden” cost, then why would I (with my decent BCBS employer plan) feel the need to sympathize with those who have no or very poor insurance?

    All of the other industrialized countries seem to have figured this one out already & we are lagging way behind in all health care measures – longevity, infant mortality, obesity, etc –

    Oh wait, but the insurance lobby has us convinced that we can’t do it without them – In the words of Col Potter, “HORSE HOCKEY!”

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    believecommonsense said, 5 months ago

    ^ your point is very well taken

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    motivemagus said, 5 months ago

    I’ve said this any number of times, and everyone seems to ignore it: The Wall Street Journal has come out categorically in favor of universal health care, to remove this crippling burden from businesses. Not exactly the left-wingers speaking here – just business people.

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    cdward said, 5 months ago

    Good point motive!

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    DrCanuck said, 5 months ago

    I really don’t know why we are debating the pros and cons of health care reform in these blogs. The insurance industry (and other Big Business) has such control over the congress that the American people will never get the reform they need or deserve.

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    oldlegodad said, 5 months ago

    Y’all take note: This will fuel the debate but maybe some will see some truth in it.
    http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=329526225186193

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    DrCanuck said, 4 months ago

    to oldlegodad: And the lies continue as the insurance companies get more desperate. There is NO rationing and NO decisions made by government officials as to who gets treatment. EVERYONE has the treatment they need.

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    believecommonsense said, 4 months ago

    OLDLEGO Phyllis Schlafly isn’t an expert on anything of any consequence. She has no credibility on anything!

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    cdward said, 4 months ago

    I’d like to ask all Canadians and Europeans out there if they would like to swap health care systems with us. Any takers?

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    DrCanuck said, 4 months ago

    cd’, the rest of the world is far more cognizant of the American system than Americans are of the world’s, so you’ll get very few takers. On the other hand, I have met Canadian medical doctors who would rather work in the American system where they could make the same obscene profits for themselves, since the Canadian system caps them to keep consumer costs down.