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Glenn McCoy has been long recognized by his peers as a superior cartoonist. Besides his editorial cartoons, he also creates the daily comic strips The Duplex and The Flying McCoys.
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HUMPHRIES said, 6 months ago
Can McCoy read at all ?
ynnek58 said, 6 months ago
Just like the Santa Clause
Kylop said, 6 months ago
Sam clearly needs glasses.
About 8 years ago when he was unable to read the small print when the chart was:
P
AT
RIO
T ACT
and his doctor at the time had the same comment
iamthelorax said, 6 months ago
You know what good is coming of all this? People are finally reading bills!!!!!! LMAO!
People are now complaining “I don’t have the time to read through all this”, “there’s too much small print”….Like as if any of them ever did anything except check to see if their earmarks were in there ok.
lildude77504 said, 6 months ago
Yeah, he’s glad you can’t read the small print. It’s all bad!
WestTex13 said, 6 months ago
Nice one Kylop
The Patriot Act was most certainly as jacked up as our current legislative passes are looking..
GNWachs
said,
6 months ago
Unfortunately for the proponents of ObamaCare as more and more of the fine print is exposed the fatal flaws have become obvious.
In addition, in the face of the Obama $9T deficit we cannot afford a hastily put together grab-bag of goodies.
harleyquinn
said,
6 months ago
Keep reading. So far my favorite has been the new powers it grants the IRS for collection purposes. Nice right? we are to believe this bill is for all those poor pitiful poor who can not do for them self. And in this grand socialist wet dream new and improved ways for the government to get into our wallet.
5639 said, 6 months ago
Put single-payer health care (HR 676) on the table PLEASE!
1.) 1/3-1/2 less cost
2.) Lower infant mortality rate
3.) Higher life expectancy
4.) No more personal bankruptcies from medical bills
5.) No more preexisting condition exclusions from greedy health insurance companies
6.) No more 50+ million uninsured resulting in an estimated 25,000 deaths annually
Health care should be a RIGHT not a price-gouging for-profit commodity where the United Healthcare CEO can make $100,000.00 per hour!
WestTex13 said, 6 months ago
GN and HQ.. You two make surfing through these opinions so much more pleasant..
wbr said, 6 months ago
correction to 5639
Put single-payer health care (HR 676) on the table PLEASE!
1.) 1/3-1/2 more cost
2.) infant mortality rate uneffected
3.) Higher life expectancy which already is if auto accidents factored out
4.) No more personal bankruptcies from medical bills
5.) No more preexisting condition exclusions that are now 1 year wait from greedy health insurance companies
6.) No more 50+ million uninsured resulting in an estimated 25,000 deaths annually - paying for ALL SOUTH AMERICA HEALTH CARE
7 do away with health care developments
Health care should be a RIGHT not a price-gouging for-profit commodity where the United Healthcare CEO can make $100,000.00 per hour!
DrCanuck said, 6 months ago
Atta boy, wbr; never let the facts get in the way of a great conservative fantasy.
GNWachs
said,
6 months ago
Americans have better survival rates than Europeans for common cancers. Breast cancer mortality is 52 percent higher in Germany than in the United States and 88 percent higher in the United Kingdom. Prostate cancer mortality is 604 percent higher in the United Kingdom and 457 percent higher in Norway. The mortality rate for colorectal cancer among British men and women is about 40 percent higher.
Americans have lower cancer mortality rates than Canadians. Breast cancer mortality in Canada is 9 percent higher than in the United States, prostate cancer is 184 percent higher, and colon cancer among men is about 10 percent higher.
Americans have better access to treatment for chronic diseases than patients in other developed countries. Some 56 percent of Americans who could benefit from statin drugs, which reduce cholesterol and protect against heart disease, are taking them. By comparison, of those patients who could benefit from these drugs, only 36 percent of the Dutch, 29 percent of the Swiss, 26 percent of Germans, 23 percent of Britons, and 17 percent of Italians receive them.
Americans have better access to preventive cancer screening than Canadians. Take the proportion of the appropriate-age population groups who have received recommended tests for breast, cervical, prostate, and colon cancer:
Nine out of ten middle-aged American women (89 percent) have had a mammogram, compared to fewer than three-fourths of Canadians (72 percent).
Nearly all American women (96 percent) have had a Pap smear, compared to fewer than 90 percent of Canadians.
More than half of American men (54 percent) have had a prostatespecific antigen (PSA) test, compared to fewer than one in six Canadians (16 percent).
Nearly one-third of Americans (30 percent) have had a colonoscopy, compared with fewer than one in twenty Canadians (5 percent). 5. Lower-income Americans are in better health than comparable Canadians. Twice as many American seniors with below-median incomes self-report “excellent” health (11.7 percent) compared to Canadian seniors (5.8 percent). Conversely, white, young Canadian adults with below-median incomes are 20 percent more likely than lower-income Americans to describe their health as “fair or poor.”
Americans spend less time waiting for care than patients in Canada and the United Kingdom. Canadian and British patients wait about twice as long—sometimes more than a year—to see a specialist, have elective surgery such as hip replacements, or get radiation treatment for cancer. All told, 827,429 people are waiting for some type of procedure in Canada. In Britain, nearly 1.8 million people are waiting for a hospital admission or outpatient treatment.
People in countries with more government control of health care are highly dissatisfied and believe reform is needed. More than 70 percent of German, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, and British adults say their health system needs either “fundamental change” or “complete rebuilding.”
Americans are more satisfied with the care they receive than Canadians. When asked about their own health care instead of the “health care system,” more than half of Americans (51.3 percent) are very satisfied with their health care services, compared with only 41.5 percent of Canadians; a lower proportion of Americans are dissatisfied (6.8 percent) than Canadians (8.5 percent).
Americans have better access to important new technologies such as medical imaging than do patients in Canada or Britain. An overwhelming majority of leading American physicians identify computerized tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as the most important medical innovations for improving patient care during the previous decade—even as economists and policy makers unfamiliar with actual medical practice decry these techniques as wasteful. The United States has thirty-four CT scanners per million Americans, compared to twelve in Canada and eight in Britain. The United States has almost twenty-seven MRI machines per million people compared to about six per million in Canada and Britain.
Americans are responsible for the vast majority of all health care innovations. The top five U.S. hospitals conduct more clinical trials than all the hospitals in any other developed country. Since the mid- 1970s, the Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology has gone to U.S. residents more often than recipients from all other countries combined. In only five of the past thirty-four years did a scientist living in the United States not win or share in the prize. Most important recent medical innovations were developed in the United States.
Despite serious challenges, such as escalating costs and care for the uninsured, the U.S. health care system compares favorably to those in other developed countries.
WestTex13 said, 6 months ago
Hey Dr T
I wouldn’t call it all a fantasy.. Information is skewed both ways but there are facts that support both points of view.. I wouldn’t be so quick to dismiss others just because they don’t fit into the spectrum you’ve decided the matter shall be viewed within..
harleyquinn
said,
6 months ago
“Health care should be a RIGHT not a price-gouging for-profit ”
Ya how dare Doctors make money from their hard work and talent. Don’t they know the change is in the air! Our glorious leader has never run a for profit enterprise in his life! we need to stick to his Marxist dreams!
HUMPHRIES said, 6 months ago
Thanks for the days chuckle hq, hard day reading all the “facts”.
5639 said, 6 months ago
GNWachs:
Single-payer may not be perfect in every country. But for-profit health care in USA always costs more and sometimes twice as much as the least expensive universal single-payer systems world-wide.
If the Corporate Health Insurance campaign contribution bribes to the house, senate and presidential candidates of the GOP and DFL didn’t have us by the balls and we could put single payer health care on the table against the will of the Corporate Health Insurance industry and against their disinformative media blitz we could learn from the successes and mistakes of other countries and improve on their programs for our own use.
The profit motive produces drugs and procedures that will maximize profits and discourage common non-patentable alternatives or buy-and-bury the less profitable or competitive technologies to the more profitable.
A prime example of the suppression of less profitable competitors was when Johnson & Johnson, who sells Tylenol for pain, bought the “Tens” technology that cancels pain electronically with an inexpensive electronic device. They bought and buried Tens technology for many years. The inventors lost their rightful expected profits from unrealized sales. Inventors had to sue for damages and unrealized profits. And millions of people suffered needlessly or were treated with more dangerous but profitable pain med alternatives. Who knows how many other less expensive and less deadly solutions have been sacrificed for corporate and shareholder profits.
Greed is not ALWAYS good.
danTheForth said, 6 months ago
5639 said,
Put single-payer health care (HR 676) on the table PLEASE!
…
2.) Lower infant mortality rate
3.) Higher life expectancy
…
Those are in the bill?! Why did we wait until now to make a law requiring infants to live and people to wait longer before dying?!
5639 said, 6 months ago
harleyquinn:
Obama-care is not single-payer and merely tweaks the for-profit health care we already have. He likes the status quo.
I’m not opposed to Doctor profit. The majority of doctors and nurses welcome single-payer. It’s the health insurance profit that needlessly jacks up our costs and lowers service that most people oppose.
iamthelorax said, 6 months ago
“The majority of doctors and nurses welcome single payer”?
Hold on there. If the majority of them love the idea, I’m very curious to know why we (Canada) bleed doctors + nurses to the US so much. Recruitment companies come to attract them to the States and believe me, it’s not a hard sell.
I would say if they welcome the idea, it’s because they don’t yet know what day-to-day work environment is in a single payer system.
harleyquinn
said,
6 months ago
5639 left out a part of what is true “The majority of doctors and nurses welcome single-payer.” Let me add to that, they would welcome a single payer system that leaves out the government. I mean come on when was the last time you heard of a Doctor happy filling out the paper work to try to get money from the government. Please the car dealerships have a better chance of getting their money in 10 days then a Doctors getting all the money they should from the governments broken bankrupt systems that are in place now!
churchillwasright said, 6 months ago
KYLOP: Once again I need to point out something to those who insist on comparing bad legisltation to (what some say is) other bad legislation ie the Patriot act:
1) The Patriot act was approved OVERWEALMINGLY by both dem and reps in the shadow of 9/11
2) MORE IMPORTANTLY, the Patriot Act has a built in SUNSET PROVISION. It expires, and needs to be debated, revised and re-approved or it simply goes away. This has been done once already. Does Obamacare have a SUNSET PROVISION?
5639 said, 6 months ago
harleyquinn:
The current American private health insurance for-profit system is about as paperwork intensive as any system can possibly get and is one of the many big problems with it. Universal single-payer reduces paperwork. Administration costs are one of the many big advantages of universal single-payer over private for-profit.
iamthelorax:
Perhaps some day if single-payer comes to America Canadian doctors will not be recruited here but I doubt it. The AMA restricts the number of doctors we can train to keep the number of available doctors low to keep compensation high. America has a lower number of medical doctors per 1,000 in our population than any of the industrialized countries who have universal or single-payer.
churchillwasright said, 6 months ago
5639: According to Dr. Brian Day, former president of the Canadian Medical Assoc. “[Canada] rank[s] 26 out of 28 for the number of drs per population in developed countries…”
5639 said, 6 months ago
churchillwasright:
And USA is 28 out of 28? Perhaps Canada is right down there with us because we recruit their doctors away from them faster than they can replace them.
harleyquinn
said,
6 months ago
Don’t worry 56 if Obama gets his way we will be importing our docs like Brittan has to do.
4uk4ata said, 6 months ago
“Don’t worry 56 if Obama gets his way we will be importing our docs like Brittan has to do.”
Maybe. Then again, maybe it wouldn’t be a bad idea anyway.
harleyquinn
said,
6 months ago
“Republicans = Party of Fail” interesting.. If that were true Democratizes = piling it on. You need help here is this and this and this and this until you depend on them to keep your head just above water. Let go and you can not do for yourself and sink all the way into total failure.
harleyquinn
said,
6 months ago
4u how do you say bend over and take it in Spanish or German or Indian.
churchillwasright said, 6 months ago
5639: According to all research I can find, Australia, England, Canada, and Japan (the largest countries on this map) all have a worse dr/patient ratio. Where in the world did you get your info?
http://tinyurl.com/yt2zp6