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POPS And Tonight’s Winner of the Sputtering Idiotic Partisan Hyperbole Award Is… The Republicans and FOX News are not the enemies of health care. They are opposed to a massive government expansion that can only be brought about through prohibitive costs maintained by a confiscatory tax scheme, and that by its very nature will restrict individual liberties, and restrict freedom of choice in ways that the government simply has no authority to assert. The Republicans and FOX News are not the enemies of education. They simply realize that despite the fact that the federal government has over time usurped power over the field of education that rightly belongs to the states and their subject governments, there is no Constitutional authority for the federal government to continually interfere in education and foist a politically correct agenda onto the American Peoples’ children, nor is there any legal justification to supplant the parents’ rightful opinions for their own. H/T Nice Deb
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POPSGood Intentions with Disastrous Effects
But fraud and corruption are only part of the failed system that is Medicare – the other is basic accounting. In this morning’s Washington Post, Robert J. Samuelson compares the troubles with Medicare to the “public option,” which he calls a “mirage,” that is gaining strength in Congress. While Medicare is a monopoly, the proposed government-run health insurance plan seeks to attract investment capital to subsidize the enormous costs that it will incur (such as marketing campaigns). If this fails, which it undoubtedly would, Congress would step in to bail it out. When asked why it has taken Medicare so long to figure out they were being scammed, Attorney General Eric Holder told CBS’s Steve Kroft, "I think lack of resources probably. And then I think people I don't think necessarily thought that something as well intentioned as Medicare and Medicaid would necessarily attract fraudsters. But I think we have to understand that it certainly has." Good Intentions maybe but...
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POPSNBC Anchor Brian Williams Highlights 'Incendiary' Attack REP. ALLEN GRAYSON (D-FL): Do you want the Democratic plan or do you want the Republican plan? Remember, the Republican plan: Don't get sick " and if you do get sick, die quickly. WILLIAMS: Grayson said today the only people who deserve an apology are those who have no health insurance, and he compared America's health care situation to the Holocaust. "Brad Wilmouth is a news analyst at the Media Research Center.
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POPSHealth Insurance Bankrupts Americans
A Harvard study found that 50 percent of all bankruptcy filings were partly the result of medical expenses. Every 30 seconds in the United States someone files for bankruptcy in the aftermath of a serious health problem. Consider the plight of David: David had to stop working as a truck driver after he was diagnosed with kidney cancer and has since been struggling to pay for COBRA during the two-year Medicare waiting period. His wife, Gloria, is his full-time caregiver and cannot work outside the home, and the couple has had to use much of their savings and borrow from friends and family to pay for their COBRA premiums. David cashed in his 401K at a 24 percent loss so that they will be able to continue to pay the COBRA premium until he is eligible for Medicare. Gloria tried to apply for Medicaid, but she learned that their income is too high. "There is not any help for people like us. We are not considered poor enough, but we don't have the money to pay it on our own," Gloria sa
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POPSAARP busts myths about Healthcare
“Some Floridians 50+ are concerned, or even frightened, about health reform. The trouble is, their fears are largely based on falsehoods – wild, scary myths about things that aren’t even in the legislation now before Congress,” said Lori Parham, AARP Florida’s state director. “A big part of AARP’s job is to provide facts to older Floridians. We will be a source of accurate information on health reform, as we have been for 50 years on a wide range of issues important to Floridians 50+. If you want the truth on health reform, we’ll provide it.” “Here’s one truth we all agree on: Our health system costs too much, delivers too little and is unsustainable,” Parham said. “Today’s health system absolutely must be fixed if we’re to ensure that Americans can get what they’re already paying for – the ability to choose their doctor and their treatment and get high-quality care when they need it.” One of AARP’s new print ads reads: “Special interest groups are trying to block progres
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POPSUnconstitutional: Obama Seizes Private Businesses (Update) Think of this for a moment, your private dentist, or doctor, has been treating you for way ten years, along comes that warm fuzzy sounding “”Health Insurance for everyone”, where the Government comes into your dentist’s office, or your Doctor, and tells them, you must now practice out of this facility under this agency or you must stop practicing medicine/Dentistry, thereby forcing the closure of their private business. Its coming folks. The Federal Government is acting in a blatantly unconstitutional manner, and no one seems to be talking about it. The silence in the mainstream Media is nothing short of thundering. The Government is seizing private businesses, and this is just the start. Is this the hope and change you voted for? Government seizing private business? This is not hope. It’s the wanton destruction of the very thing that makes us a free people, the Constitution of the United States. 10th Amendment, 5th Amendment
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POPSDrug Rehabs in Florida Finding the right drug rehabs in Florida that accept major insurance policies such as Aetna, Anthem, Empire, Blue Cross, Tricare and United Health is simple and free with this easy to use list of treatment centers in Florida.
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POPSThere are More Health Insurance Choices;People Need to Investigate Of course, the very poor do not have many (if any) choices. But there are many people who choose cable television, x boxes, and second cars over insuring their kids. A lot of this has to do with the rampant lie that there is simply no such thing as affordable health insurance. Unfortunately, an uneducated public thinks that if they cannot afford the Cadillac of health plans then they should have nothing. Many people who view themselves as being unable to afford health insurance would in fact be able to afford a plan that would take care of catastrophic illness. Accident plans are highly affordable too and so are hospital indemnity plans. Of course, this does not excuse Florida's hardened heart. My comments are intended to be a message to those who are vulnerable; do your homework and you most likely will be able to find something in the mean time.
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POPSHospitals deporting immigrants This just reminds of a video they have in LA of a hospital dropping off a woman at the homeless shelter because she did not have health insure. She was still in her hospital gown & they just dropped her off on the corner in downtown LA. Something is really wrong with our health care system. Seriously seriously wrong.
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POPS New Web And Radio Ads By The Arizona Senator Lack Context The Commonwealth Connector, an independent entity that was established to implement the state health plan, estimates that "over half" of those who were uninsured before the state plan was launched have gained coverage. That works out to be about 200,000 people, since the Massachusetts Division of Health Care Finance Policy said that 395,000 were uninsured before the plan was put into place. (A more concrete estimate from that state agency should be released in late summer.) So while McCain is entitled to his opinion when he says the Romney plan is "not very good," we suspect a lot of newly covered residents disagree.
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