Boy, can he give one hell of a campaign speech. He says, “Now, it would be nice if we were just kind of examining the substance, we were walking through the details of the plan, what it means for you. But that’s not what the cable stations like to talk about.”

What’s unfortunate about this statement is it’s completely FALSE. The cables are talking specifics and the POTUS can’t talk specifics. Instead of specifics, he evokes stories of little Jonny who was denied coverage. He says things like, “Do you want to vote no and see people like Jonny die?” No one disagrees with eliminating pre-existing conditions; it’s the other garbage in the other 2,000 pages which America disagrees.

Speak for yourself! Those of us in the 69 million who voted for Obama and Democrats did so to get healthcare reform passed. And there’s nothing you, the teabaggers or the inpotent GOP can do to stop it. Oh, and those stories are the reason why we need reform. Another loss coming for the GOP. I love it when a plan comes together!

Hopefully we move on other real reforms once this lukewarm bowl of corporate capitulation is passed, where for some reason insurance companies get to keep the job of passing money from patients to doctors via Wall Street.

We’ll take it, though, for now. Republicans and Conservadems once more come down on the wrong side of history and the middle class.

Health reform is coming and we are all better off as a result!

i’ll summarize this article by drew:

OBAMA OBAMA YES WE CAN!

The wrong side of history? You’re kidding yourself.
1.)The Democrats have made a mockery of our system. They have taken Republican CORRUPTION and multiplied by 2. The terrible thing is, once the Republicans get back to power (and they will), they’ll use the same tactics. What’s the point in having a congress, if you can simply put a terrible unpopular bill up for discussion, then break the will of people who oppose it (with lies, corruption, buyoffs, and backroom deals) while America stands by and watches? The wrong side of history? Think again! This is FAR, FAR, FAR, from over.

2.) Oh and FYI, the private sector should and will always be able to provide a better product than the government. END OF DISCUSSION. Unless, might you want to discuss the topic of efficient government programs??? Try me

Ram it through. Republicans sicken me with their insincerity and it is time to tell them to F off.

Thanks patsy!

Hear, hear SAME2U! Vote yes to unmerciful pressure and threats and vote no to reason and logic! FOOL

Young people are always so amusing. President Obama’s audience obviously doesn’t realize that the joke is on them. THEY are the ones who are going to be paying for the health care entitlement, along with many other government programs, for the rest of their lives.

The 17,000 new IRS agents that are being hired are meant for Them. In fact, as those students graduate, build a career, increase their earnings, the IRS will be right beside them, step by step, getting an ever-increasing cut.

What is the expression for young people–”useful idiots”? Indeed.

Oh goody, someone wants to claim private insurance’s 30% administrative costs and Medicare Advantage’s 14.3% corporate rip off is more efficient than Medicare’s 3% or the VA’s 1.7% overhead.

Next they’ll be claiming Haliburton’s and Blackwater’s no-bid contracts were more efficient than the government performance building the Interstate Highway System, Hoover Dam, and the REA.

This will be fun!

The far left loons have been brainwashed into thinking they’re getting something for free in the healthcrae “reform” deal. I can’t wait for this thing to pass so the backlash can begin.

Medicare calculates administrative costs as a ratio of identified administrative costs divided by claims. In 2003, the average medical cost for Medicare was estimated to be about $6,600 per person per year (because of the nature of Medicare’s beneficiary pool of older and disabled people), while the average medical cost for private health insurance, excluding out-of-pocket cost, was $2,700 per person per year. Because of the higher cost per beneficiary, Medicare’s method of calculation makes administrative costs, albeit unintentionally, appear to be lower than they really are. Indeed, if the numbers were adequately “handicapped,” they [Medicare] would be in the 6 to 8 percent range.
From the Council for Affordable Health Insurance

To illustrate this, let’s assume that both Medicare and private insurers have a fixed per patient administrative overhead of $132 per patient, exactly the same. If we express this as a percentage of patient costs, that makes it appear to be a 2% administrative overhead for Medicare (based on $6600 spent per patient), and a 4.9% overhead for private insurers (based on $2700 spent per patient), 2 1/2 times as much. This would make Medicare appear to be more efficient from an administrative standpoint even if their administrative costs were identical to those of private insurers. That’s the first way administrative costs are skewed.

More from the CAHI:

Company Policies — Executives and boards of directors consider, debate and decide company policy; in Medicare that function is often handled by Congress and its legislative staff. Setting program policy requires time and money not reflected in Medicare’s official administrative cost estimates. Just imagine all of the congressional and administrative staff time and effort devoted to creating, debating, promoting, opposing and ultimately passing the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003. One might compare it to a huge new corporate venture or restructuring. Yet not a dime of the money and time spent on that months-long public debate appear in Medicare’s administrative costs.

Management — Businesses must include management costs in their administrative costs: Medicare doesn’t. The salaries of those professionals at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), from Dr. Mark McClellan down, are excluded from Medicare’s administrative cost estimates, as are the building costs to house that part of the leadership team. Private insurers don’t have that luxury.

Jim R: Failure!!! What a terrible attempt to put words in my mouth. Who’s talking about Haliburton and Blackwater??? What does this have to do with anything? Let me attempt to put you back on track and attempt to make sense of your incoherent argument. Is your assertion this? Because the GOVERNMENT has a smaller overhead percentage it’s more EFFICIENT and furthermore offers more QUALITY than a PRIVATE company? Oh sir, you’re sorely mistaken. This will be fun, indeed.

Jim R: Please, I encourage you to save time. Give me the name of the website or book you derive your half truth, propaganda, manipulative, misinformation. I can simply disprove the book or website DIRECTLY rather than having you INDIRECTLY rip it off all day. Sound ok? Thanks

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