Comments on: Communism comes to California http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/03/14/communism-comes-to-california/ Protect yourself from government gaffes, bureaucratic blunders and incumbent incompetence Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:25:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: albertlongoria http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/03/14/communism-comes-to-california/#comment-6494 albertlongoria Wed, 25 Oct 2006 17:36:38 +0000 http://www.ioerror.us/2006/03/14/communism-comes-to-california/#comment-6494 The government is You and Me! If the government representative you voted for is not doing the job, you need to send a different representative. If a gardener or mechanic does a lousy job you replace them. Why is this representative job any different? Find a person who is knowledgeable and a quick study. Database & spreadsheet analyzers not movie stars & cheerleaders who just want to be popular. The government is You and Me! If the government representative you voted for is not doing the job, you need to send a different representative. If a gardener or mechanic does a lousy job you replace them. Why is this representative job any different? Find a person who is knowledgeable and a quick study. Database & spreadsheet analyzers not movie stars & cheerleaders who just want to be popular.

]]> By: Michael Hampton http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/03/14/communism-comes-to-california/#comment-6493 Michael Hampton Wed, 25 Oct 2006 05:54:11 +0000 http://www.ioerror.us/2006/03/14/communism-comes-to-california/#comment-6493 You've made a critical mistake there: We don't have adequate health care because we do not have a free market. The government has so screwed up health care that it's very difficult for many people to get health insurance, and costs are staggering. How can you expect government to fix the problem it caused in the first place, by making it worse? You’ve made a critical mistake there: We don’t have adequate health care because we do not have a free market. The government has so screwed up health care that it’s very difficult for many people to get health insurance, and costs are staggering. How can you expect government to fix the problem it caused in the first place, by making it worse?

]]> By: albertlongoria http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/03/14/communism-comes-to-california/#comment-6492 albertlongoria Wed, 25 Oct 2006 03:03:28 +0000 http://www.ioerror.us/2006/03/14/communism-comes-to-california/#comment-6492 If we are to truly compete with the rest of the world, we must have the same basic health, housing and educational systems as the rest of the world. Americans workers have every right to task our representatives in government to set up a uniform system insuring that we all have health care. Health care is a little like firefighting “Time is of the essence”. If the free market were providing the quality and quantity of product, you wouldn’t hear a peep. Nevertheless, currently there is a shortage of this product. Most HMOs can’t function in heavy regulated states, for example Texas has rid its self of most HMO type insurance with it’s strict net 90 pay requirement HMOs need at least 120 to 365 days to pay providers for services rendered. Heath care funding is in a transition from a job-subsidized benefit to grouped self-insurance. If you doubt this go to Wall-Mart, your Credit Union or Health Club and ask about their dental and health care plans. Non-Profit groups like Churches, Cities and Social Clubs are now exploring insuring members using group pricing and joining local heath care systems for regular maintenance visits. Would we be buying services directly from your local hospital or pharmacy. Our dollars will go directly to the entity that provided the service not a half dozen middlemen each taking a cut until just a few cents go to the actual provider. I noticed that a procedure will cost you a $1,000 Co-Pay then the insurance company pays $2,000, a total of 3.000 but if your un-insured it’s $9500. Sounds crazy, if we don’t explore and study different options nothing will ever change for the better. However, all this must be monitored for fraud but not by the fox but by third party technical and ethical experts reviewing results in open & well-documented meetings. If we are to truly compete with the rest of the world, we must have the same basic health, housing and educational systems as the rest of the world. Americans workers have every right to task our representatives in government to set up a uniform system insuring that we all have health care. Health care is a little like firefighting “Time is of the essence”. If the free market were providing the quality and quantity of product, you wouldn’t hear a peep. Nevertheless, currently there is a shortage of this product. Most HMOs can’t function in heavy regulated states, for example Texas has rid its self of most HMO type insurance with it’s strict net 90 pay requirement HMOs need at least 120 to 365 days to pay providers for services rendered. Heath care funding is in a transition from a job-subsidized benefit to grouped self-insurance. If you doubt this go to Wall-Mart, your Credit Union or Health Club and ask about their dental and health care plans. Non-Profit groups like Churches, Cities and Social Clubs are now exploring insuring members using group pricing and joining local heath care systems for regular maintenance visits. Would we be buying services directly from your local hospital or pharmacy. Our dollars will go directly to the entity that provided the service not a half dozen middlemen each taking a cut until just a few cents go to the actual provider. I noticed that a procedure will cost you a $1,000 Co-Pay then the insurance company pays $2,000, a total of 3.000 but if your un-insured it’s $9500. Sounds crazy, if we don’t explore and study different options nothing will ever change for the better. However, all this must be monitored for fraud but not by the fox but by third party technical and ethical experts reviewing results in open & well-documented meetings.

]]> By: California Communists pass single payer health care - Homeland Stupidity http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/03/14/communism-comes-to-california/#comment-6491 California Communists pass single payer health care - Homeland Stupidity Wed, 06 Sep 2006 03:08:11 +0000 http://www.ioerror.us/2006/03/14/communism-comes-to-california/#comment-6491 [...] Back in March I reported that Communists had brought a biological weapon of mass destruction into the state of California and were threatening to deploy it, putting everyone in the state at risk. Now they are closer than ever to killing thousands and potentially injuring everyone in the state. [...] [...] Back in March I reported that Communists had brought a biological weapon of mass destruction into the state of California and were threatening to deploy it, putting everyone in the state at risk. Now they are closer than ever to killing thousands and potentially injuring everyone in the state. [...]

]]> By: Make mine freedom, too - Homeland Stupidity http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/03/14/communism-comes-to-california/#comment-6490 Make mine freedom, too - Homeland Stupidity Tue, 20 Jun 2006 22:44:53 +0000 http://www.ioerror.us/2006/03/14/communism-comes-to-california/#comment-6490 [...] So here’s a blast from the past: “Make Mine Freedom,” a 1948 short film produced by Harding College to raise awareness of the dangers of Communism and Fascism, state control for the “good” of the people (which is bad for the people and good for the state). It features a snake oil salesman, Dr. Utopia, selling bottles of “ISM” which promises to do everything, even make “the weather perfect every day.” All it requires is that you give up “everything I have including my freedom and the freedom of my children, and my children’s children, in return for which, said ISM promises to take care of me forever.” And the Americans almost fall for it. [...] [...] So here’s a blast from the past: “Make Mine Freedom,” a 1948 short film produced by Harding College to raise awareness of the dangers of Communism and Fascism, state control for the “good” of the people (which is bad for the people and good for the state). It features a snake oil salesman, Dr. Utopia, selling bottles of “ISM” which promises to do everything, even make “the weather perfect every day.” All it requires is that you give up “everything I have including my freedom and the freedom of my children, and my children’s children, in return for which, said ISM promises to take care of me forever.” And the Americans almost fall for it. [...]

]]> By: Kevin Fields http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/03/14/communism-comes-to-california/#comment-6488 Kevin Fields Tue, 28 Mar 2006 20:13:49 +0000 http://www.ioerror.us/2006/03/14/communism-comes-to-california/#comment-6488 Well the good thing is that you can be well-assured that this plan will never see the light of day. Why? As much as we may hate them, political lobbyists for the insurance industry will swoop in and pay off enough politicians to ensure that it fails. Well the good thing is that you can be well-assured that this plan will never see the light of day. Why? As much as we may hate them, political lobbyists for the insurance industry will swoop in and pay off enough politicians to ensure that it fails.

]]> By: R http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/03/14/communism-comes-to-california/#comment-6487 R Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:52:15 +0000 http://www.ioerror.us/2006/03/14/communism-comes-to-california/#comment-6487 In Portugal we get what I call "the worst of both worlds". We have a National Health System (were you can wait several months for a vascular intervention) and more and more a private system, that uses National Health Systems infrastructure (hospital facilities rented to clinics owned by the same doctors that parse "customers" according to their way of paying). So, for instance, you don't get a medical interviw in National System for the next 3 months. No problemo. Get the cash, find who is the doctor that operates in that hospital, go to his private office, pay him and he will make the treatment in the National Hospital (if you get lucky you might even not pay for the surgery) and the poor bloke that can't pay the private interview will wait a litle longer 'cause all infrastructure is beeing used this way. Why should private practiccioners build infrastructures that cost millions if they have some there already... Unless you can sell this infrastructure, or the usage of it, to the National System, for helping it declogging the system and eliminate the waiting lists (genereted by the above procedures). These are the new "trends" that are arising... Smart & slick, isn't it.. I forgot to say that in an emergency people turn to public hospitals, where the probabilities of finding adequate treatment is higher and private ones only exists in large cities ... In Portugal we get what I call “the worst of both worlds”.
We have a National Health System (were you can wait several months for a vascular intervention) and more and more a private system, that uses National Health Systems infrastructure (hospital facilities rented to clinics owned by the same doctors that parse “customers” according to their way of paying).

So, for instance, you don’t get a medical interviw in National System for the next 3 months. No problemo. Get the cash, find who is the doctor that operates in that hospital, go to his private office, pay him and he will make the treatment in the National Hospital (if you get lucky you might even not pay for the surgery) and the poor bloke that can’t pay the private interview will wait a litle longer ’cause all infrastructure is beeing used this way.

Why should private practiccioners build infrastructures that cost millions if they have some there already…

Unless you can sell this infrastructure, or the usage of it, to the National System, for helping it declogging the system and eliminate the waiting lists (genereted by the above procedures). These are the new “trends” that are arising…

Smart & slick, isn’t it..

I forgot to say that in an emergency people turn to public hospitals, where the probabilities of finding adequate treatment is higher and private ones only exists in large cities …

]]> By: No One Important http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/03/14/communism-comes-to-california/#comment-6486 No One Important Wed, 15 Mar 2006 01:47:58 +0000 http://www.ioerror.us/2006/03/14/communism-comes-to-california/#comment-6486 Would not a free market work for health care as it has for every other consumable? Look at Lasik eye surgery and plastic surgery. These procedures have dropped in price dramatically since their introduction. The safety concerns were worked out shortly after introduction. The continuing competition amongst providers hasn't driven the risk factors sky high, nor has it caused a meltdown of the doctors performing the procedures. This insurance company and government racketeering of health care is harming us all. If people want to lower their health care costs, let them see the real pricing involved. They can then make informed decisions and direct the market with their dollars. Would not a free market work for health care as it has for every other consumable? Look at Lasik eye surgery and plastic surgery. These procedures have dropped in price dramatically since their introduction. The safety concerns were worked out shortly after introduction. The continuing competition amongst providers hasn’t driven the risk factors sky high, nor has it caused a meltdown of the doctors performing the procedures. This insurance company and government racketeering of health care is harming us all. If people want to lower their health care costs, let them see the real pricing involved. They can then make informed decisions and direct the market with their dollars.

]]> By: Michael Hampton http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/03/14/communism-comes-to-california/#comment-6485 Michael Hampton Tue, 14 Mar 2006 18:43:09 +0000 http://www.ioerror.us/2006/03/14/communism-comes-to-california/#comment-6485 Paul, unless someone manages to inject some reason into the debate over there, you'll wind up with a national health plan with no private companies, where everyone pays exactly the same. Paul, unless someone manages to inject some reason into the debate over there, you’ll wind up with a national health plan with no private companies, where everyone pays exactly the same.

]]> By: Paul http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/03/14/communism-comes-to-california/#comment-6484 Paul Tue, 14 Mar 2006 18:34:11 +0000 http://www.ioerror.us/2006/03/14/communism-comes-to-california/#comment-6484 Thanks for your inspiring article. We in Germany are also discussing health care. One big party favors a national health plan with no private companies. The other big party wants everyone to pay exactly the same. Regardless of age, gender, income, treatment prefereces...you pay exactly the same premium. But poor people can then qualify for subsidies because the "one size fits all premium" is too expensive for housholds with low income. That's just crazy. What I meant with inspiring: I really need to cover this topic too. Thanks for your inspiring article. We in Germany are also discussing health care. One big party favors a national health plan with no private companies. The other big party wants everyone to pay exactly the same. Regardless of age, gender, income, treatment prefereces…you pay exactly the same premium. But poor people can then qualify for subsidies because the “one size fits all premium” is too expensive for housholds with low income. That’s just crazy.

What I meant with inspiring: I really need to cover this topic too.

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