Eye readers spoke loud and clear last week - no way to government run healthcare. A stunning 76% of Eye readers rejected the Obama/Pelosi/Ried takeover of your insurance, your doctor, your life. 20% were for the ill-advised plan, 3% didn't know and 1% didn't care.
Make no mistake, this government takeover of our healthcare system is the biggest threat to your liberty that has ever come out of any party in America. If passed, government will be able to dictate everything from how frequently you have children, to how long you live, to the medications you receive, and the procedures you are eligible for. Not to mention the inevitable shortage of doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals.
In the end, we will all have coverage... but will we want the coverage we have?
This week's Eye Poll features the impending mayoral race. It's hard to believe that voters will be casting votes in just over a month! Who's your choice to be our next mayor? Don't forget to vote!
16 comments:
godd thing you do these polls. We can now send your results to DC to get our voice heard. Good job eye
Yeah, right.
The Germans, the French and the Danes all have health coverage that tells them how frequently they can have children 'cause that's what happens with a government run single-payer system.
NOT!
You live in some sort of alternate reality (along with all the other ditto-heads) where the world is six thousand years old, evolution is a theory in crisis, global warming is a hoax and a single-payer health care system will take away all our liberties.
You really need to get out of Albuquerque once in a while.
Medicine and Money
http://contexts.org/economicsociology/2009/07/25/medicine-and-money/
Don Harris - ethics violations.
What happened to the poll about Marty’s biggest scandals? I want to know the results.
The one country that appears to have gotten it right for good and affordable health care is Singapore - but no one is paying attention. I learned about it several years ago when I read Tim Harford's "The Undercover Economist."
http://rru.worldbank.org/documents/publicpolicyjournal/261Taylo-050803.pdf
I certainly hope we get government run health care. I wish I were eligible for the current government run program, but I'm too young for Medicare. At the rate my private health insurance premiums from Blue Cross were increasing I was looking at about $150,000 for coverage for the nine years until I'm eligible. That's a whole lot of money, and no one would sell me a more reasonable policy except the government through the NMMIP.
What I'd far rather see than keeping the government out of health care is keeping the government out of law enforcement and national defense. That makes at least as much sense. This whole business of socialized law enforcement is a threat to civilization!!! Okay, that last sentence was a joke, to illustrate the silliness of some of the arguments against national health care plan.
Michael H Schneider
Where is the poll about the Mayor's biggest scandal? Why don't you want to post it? Do you only posts stuff that support with your poor analysis?
Whew. I'm so glad that the Republicans are getting the word out about the Obama Health Care Plan. They said (and I believe Boss Limbaugh and Glen Beck) that his plan is a plan to kill old people. As a Senior I am so relieved that Limbaugh and Beck tell the truth - (sarcasm off).
"The Germans, the French and the Danes all have health"
The scare tactics are used for political reasons. Global warming has it's historical patterns. The issue is whether or not humans are speeding up that pattern. It is a problem, because if we in fact are speeding up the process of global warming, there will be mass exodus from areas where people dwell below sea level.
This will again affect your healthcare when population in Albuquerque rises and you're waiting in the ER for 4 hours to be seen for a broken hand.
Insurance companies will be the death of healthcare! Government run healthcare, as with any other government run agency, will be a nightmare!
Reform is needed, but how to go about it, I don't know.
My advice: stay healthy!
Health care in the United States can be first class for those who have insurance or otherwise can afford it. Something needs to be done about health care for the millions of Americans who can't afford it. That is not to say that any of the current proposals is acceptable. But we can't tell a huge portion of Americans to pound sand when their kids get sick.
Did the County Commission approve the proposed contract with Solar Ventures this week? For those of you who did not read the draft contract, Bernalillo County agreed to give Solar Ventures $8 million to purchase land to construct a building - yes, a building, not a solar manufacturing company. Nowhere in this wholly inadequate document did Solar Ventures represent that it was going to construct a solar manufacturing facility or what product is to be manufactured or even that Solar Ventures is in the solar business. Nor did SV represent that it had resources to complete construction of the "building" or that it even has a customer for whatever it plans to do with the building. Whatever promises or representations Solar Ventures has made to the County for the gift of taxpayer money, they are not in the contract. The contract contains no conditions to disbursement of the $8 million gift, such as a demonstration by Solar Ventures that it has all permits, contractual arrangements and funding to complete the project and to ensure its viability. The only suggestion in the contract regarding funding to construct the building was that Solar Ventures would use IRBs provided by the County. What is the skin in the game for Solar Ventures? It's pretty easy to make promises with OPM. And what is the benefit and remedy for the County? The County can collect $4 million in liquidated damages from Solar Ventures to the extent, in 10 years, Solar Ventures (if they still exist) has not created 2000 job years worth of work. On top of this, the contact is not even governed by New Mexico law. If PNM signed such a pathetic agreement, one would expect the corporation commission to be highly critical, and rightly so. The Bernalillo County government needs to do a better job of protecting the interest of the residents and be more prudent about the use of scarce tax revenues. The County could start by hiring financial advisors, engineers and lawyers who know how to put these types of deals together. It's no accident that Solar Ventures is seeking money from the county rather than bank money or even from the Department of Energy under ARRA. No bank or DOE would agree to give away the money like that. The county residents would have been better off if the government just gave them their $8 million back.
Frankly, this is yet another of the numerous half-baked proposals to waste taxpayer money with which the County and City governments seem to be consumed (i.e. street car, merger).
Gotta love the city councillors.
While they complain about their salaries they never tell anyone that they get free health care insurance.
Does the city charter allow for this?
Ouck Fobama...
One of the many problems with subsidized health care is that many health problems are attributable to the choices people make about how they live their lives, such as smoking, obesity, hygiene and diet. I am not interested in funding someone's health care through higher taxes where the problem they face is principally of their own making. Frankly, it is inequitable.
Subject to the foregoing, it makes sense to have public health care for the elderly or truly and innocently disabled because they can no longer provide for themselves. It makes sense to have public health care for the indigent as a social safety net. It makes sense for government to make available a non-subsidized insurance program to allow those persons who are not provided health insurance through employer programs (or maybe even as an alternative) to get the advantage of lower health care costs that can be negotiated by insurance companies with bargaining leverage (assuming this is not currently available). What many want through government-provided health care and health care reform is health care where some one else pays for it.
It doesn't appear that any of health care proposals adequately address lowering health care costs.
One thing is for sure, difficult choices need to be made.
Wow! Just think of the money we as citizens can save by discontinuing Medicare and the VA health care system. If single payer is so terrible, maybe we should also rescue every single other industrialized nation from themselves. Obviously their people have no idea what a horrible choice they've made.
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