Comments on: Eric Massa: The Single Payer Moment

By: akak

akak — Thu, 28 May 2009 22:42:38 +0000

I hope everyone has read Atul Gawande’s piece in the New Yorker about healthcare costs and how more and more doctors are treating patients as profit centers and ordering tests, procedures etc that they might not have otherwise. He in passing mentions that the pioneering groups that put patients first are all non-profits, but sadly doesn’t make that leap in his conclusions.
http://www.newyorker.com/repor.....ande?yrail

By: selise

selise — Thu, 28 May 2009 20:04:41 +0000

thank you eric massa!

By: ohbytheway

ohbytheway — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:58:05 +0000

Good Job — throw out those names and calls us everything you can think of but please don’t engage in a discussion of the facts. Single Payer Health Care changes nothing but the method of payment to the health provider. One entity to submit a health claim to. The Office Administravive costs savings of the health care provider alone whould pay for the changes. And If Insurance Companies go broke — that’s free enterprise. The less efficient don’t survive. Try to discuss the facts instead of “name calling”

By: TomThumb

TomThumb — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:37:02 +0000

At last! Someone with some fire in the belly!

By: WarOnWarOff

WarOnWarOff — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:26:20 +0000

Good on you, Rep. Massa…thanks!

By: justbetty

justbetty — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:25:10 +0000

I heard some expert explain that the Administration wants reform but doesn’t want it to be disruptive. The irony is that you can’t reform anything without disrupting the status quo. Unlike Frederic, I don’t see how the system could get much worse. Single payer is the only thing that will allow effective cost control. You can still have state-administered programs and use existing insurance companies to process claims, but the level of benefits, amount of pay-outs to providers, standards for quality control and utilization review as well as premiums need to be set at the national level- IMHO

By: frederic

frederic — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:14:42 +0000

This is a joke… single payer will destroy health care in the U.S. It is really quite amazing how you liberal elitists don’t have the first damn clue when it comes to health care, economics, defense… pretty much you name it and you got it wrong. But you will continue down this road to try and satisfy your insatiable greed for power… Just think… back in the late 60’s and early 70’s it was you lefties who were against the establishment are now doing your damnedest to take over the establishment…

By: b4open

b4open — Thu, 28 May 2009 18:43:14 +0000

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