Posted on 09/13/2009 2:37:16 PM PDT by Sun
Please offer your health care ideas
Editor:
As the congressional representative for New York's 20th District, I am committed to upholding a high standard of openness and transparency as I work to make decisions on key issues. Health insurance reform is one of the most important issues our nation is addressing. Over the past few months, Congress and the American people have embarked on a critical discussion that may shape the future of our health care system.
One is hard-pressed to locate an individual with no opinion on his/her health care options, and Americans are vocalizing these opinions with extraordinary enthusiasm. Some are concerned with the concept of government intervention and the apparent haste of change. Others are concerned that nothing will change and options for health insurance will remain unaffordable.
The spectrum of concerns is wide and vast. A great deal of media attention has been brought to the public discussions happening across the country. At times, these discussions have become argumentative, but that has not happened in the 20th District. Over the past several weeks, I have encouraged open dialogue on health insurance reform as part of my promise to uphold a standard of openness and accountability. I have hosted more than a dozen Congress-on-your-corner meetings this month, and will continue to travel the district for these important forums.
The people of the 20th District are fully engaged in the issues, and the results of our meetings have been undeniably positive. I greatly appreciate those who have voiced their concerns, be it in a public forum, by phone, e-mail or at the grocery store. This impassioned, bipartisan dialogue is the core of democracy and essential to my serving well. I encourage you to share your thoughts by calling my offices in Glens Falls, 743-0964; Saratoga Springs, 581-8247; Hudson, 828-310; or visiting my Web site at www.scottmurphy.house.gov.
SCOTT MURPHY
Congressman
How about: The government gets the hell out of healthcare totally and lets the free market lower costs and increase quality the way it does with every other industry?
Oh wait, it’s not really about healthcare or cost control, is it?
I agree. They need to KILL the health care bill. Obama said he will not consider that idea, but yet he claims he wants to hear ideas from Republicans. Yes, this is about control.
Eliminate the doctor shortage by increasing the number and capacity if medical schools. It’s not a health insurance (demand) problem, it’s a supply proiblem.
My recommendation: The FDA gets out of drug trials and approvals. Congress charges the insurance companies to come up with a drug version of Underwriter’s Labratories within 2 years. The lab is charged with testing all medications; over the counter or prescription - domestic or imported. They must compare the drugs to existing treatments, and rate them as to if they’re more or less effective. UL listed drugs would gain a mandated cap on damages.
Second: drug advertising to the public ends. They can use targeted publications, direct mail, etc to doctors, not patients.
Third: Make a cap on damage awards. Why congress wants to give the courts the authority to seize assets without limit, I don’t get, but that needs to end.
Eliminate the doctor shortage, the health insurance problem and the high cost of health care by sending the illegals back home.
The illegals use our ERs for routine health care, they bring relatives up here to get dialysis and transplants, and we end up paying for it all through our taxes and our high insurance premiums.
First we should get rid of the illegals and then see how much fixing is needed.
“It’s not a health insurance (demand) problem, it’s a supply proiblem.”
I didn’t know that. Wow, that’s awful.
tort reform Why are doctors driven out of the profession by nonsense law suits?
no funding for illegal aliens - citizens first
It is so annoying when the FDA drags it’s feet for decades on some medications that DO work, and SAFELY, but push through other drugs that kill people.
Idea #1 - Exile and deport Congress and the Senate.
Which is why I included this in a letter to the editor:
“After your congressperson and U.S. senators vote for the “health care reform” bill, call their offices to find out how they voted. If they ignored you, you know what to do on their election days.”
I also think an analysis of the actual bureaucratic/administrative costs of health insurance, as opposed to actual costs of medical treatment, would be extremely useful in defining the situation and identifying actual problems. Of course, to be accurate such an analysis would have to include the costs to doctors/hospitals/patients filling out forms, looking for explanations, arguing on the phone about coverage, etc.
Good ideas, and you can copy and paste your post, and send it to your home town newspaper. In fact, short editor’s letters have the best chance of being published.
“James Taranto, for one, keeps poking fun at newspaper stories about someone who died for lack of health insurance!”
I love it!
Shut up and vote no!
Thanks. Unfortunately, I already know how he will be voting. In ‘10 I will actively campaign against them - with door-to-door and make those ‘caught up’ w/life aware who voted for a commie agenda. I don’t care who is running against them - even if they aren’t ‘good enough’; I’m at a point - it doesn’t matter, ‘they’ are out. ALL sell-outs will be out. It will be a preview for the rest of what’s coming in 2012.
Good ideas. We don’t need any more govt. bills. They ruin everything they touch!
You could also copy and paste that post, and send it to your home town newspaper.
In fact, you could send it to your congresscritter, as well.
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