Posted on 10/05/2009 8:14:55 PM PDT by MissesBush
Since the debate over the government takeover of medical care exploded onto the national stage, advocates of market-based, patient-centered reforms have pointed to the failed government health care systems of Canada and the U.K. as examples of what America should not replicate.
And rightfully so. Democrat proposals have duplicated many components of these systems, creating frighteningly similar base lines here to these unsuccessful foreign models of "universal" coverage.
Yet we don't need to peer over borders and across oceans to find government health care that does not work; indeed, we have examples here in our United States.
Hawaii, Oregon, Massachusetts, Tennessee and Maine have all created some version of government takeover or administration of health care, and all are a mess.
Hawaii's Prepaid Healthcare Act and its coverage mandates have left Hawaiians with fewer coverage choices, higher costs and nearly double the number of uninsured. Recent budget cuts resulted in discontinuation of its coverage for children.
Oregon's state-controlled care includes an official list that dictates what treatments will be covered based on annual budget constraints. If your disease is above the treatment line, you are covered. Below the line — you're not.
However, patients being denied treatment often receive an additional note in their denial letters — the system telling them it will pay for "physician aid in dying." Oregon won't help you live, but it will help you die.
In the three years since the Massachusetts "universal" coverage plan was launched, the state still has thousands of uninsured, costs have exploded to unsustainable levels, and waiting lists for treatments have appeared.
Tennessee's "TennCare" program, an attempt to expand coverage to low-income uninsured, included dead people, escaped felons and NBA stars. It drove doctors and insurers out of the state, and has been on the brink of insolvency several times.
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And doing just a tiny bit more research shows us that Nancy Ann Min De Parle, Obama’s White House Health Czar, created and presided over the wreck that was TennCare, and that every single state listed in this article was GIVEN GRANT MONEY by private foundations to CHANGE its health systems, with the grants being in direct violation of state constitutional and statutory laws, and that the citizens of these states did absolutely diddly-squat about their state sovereignty being undermined by a national grant programs out of leftist non-profits!!
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It doesnt matter at all ,even if the democrats Stipulate that this Govt Health Care is a Disaster, which it is, they are going to Pass it with all the Garbage in it .
When it comes down to it you cant argue with them as Tom Harkin told the Des Moines Register yesterday the American People elected Obama and a Democrat Congress and want Change . A completely True Statement.
We Had an election ,the People have Spoken and Now we all Must Suffer,as Ed Koch once said
I don’t think the American people voted for this. These healthcare plans were not outlined in the campaign. Harkin and whomever else can delude themselves using a rigged New York Times poll and an election where people voted out of anger and not thought that Americans want their healthcare which 82% say they’re happy with up-ended just to serve the Change Cult. I think Americans are speaking in real polls that show real unease with these plans and in the townhall meetings we saw in the summer. But hey, let these delusional Dems. convince themselves this is what Americas want. See them next November.
the problem is next november will be too late. There is an actual story today that Pelosi would sacrifice all the moderate democrats in the house next year if they can pass health care with abortion funding ,care for illegals and rationing for seniors
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