tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30648257.post2562985046275011521..comments2024-02-19T04:50:58.170-08:00Comments on Shuck and Jive: Amy Calls Out the ChristiansJohn Shuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00798753206614838161noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30648257.post-21800633338899766962009-09-05T17:34:01.321-07:002009-09-05T17:34:01.321-07:00One of the worst moments for me was at the JC town...One of the worst moments for me was at the JC town hall when Roe interrupted Beth and said 'You're not listening to me.' I wanted to so badly to jump up and scream "You get paid BY US to listen TO US."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30648257.post-90912638433983847622009-08-31T16:01:09.338-07:002009-08-31T16:01:09.338-07:00Nice, Libra. Thanks.Nice, Libra. Thanks.Snadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04055786911610974637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30648257.post-34724325018353461672009-08-31T15:13:34.307-07:002009-08-31T15:13:34.307-07:00How did we allow the health insurance industry to ...How did we allow the health insurance industry to make the rules about how we access the care and advice we need to be healthy and productive? Doesn't it strike you as weird that status in marriage or employment determines health insurance "benefits"?<br /><br />The healthier we all are, the healthier we all become. People carrying disease because they can't get the healthcare to cure them are spreading more disease. People chronically too ill to work leave what they would have done to overworked others, or left undone to all of our detriment. Children too sick to learn do not become our hoped for future. When older people are too sick to care for themselves, the subsequent loss from our lives of what they have to pass on is incalculable and their subsequent depression brings us all down. We find ourselves with a system creating much more pain, hardship, loss, despair, erosion of values, sickness. <br /><br />Itis a whole lot easier to control costs by insuring all and making the process easier and cheaper for everyone through sensible incentives like funding medical educations, standing up to big pharma with big numbers of consumers, keeping electronic records easily shared with all the doctors dealing with the patient, discussing/researching/determining best practices, encouraging lowering of mal or less desirable practice including open access to knowledge of doctors' history, freeing medical personnel from the extra chores and headaches of dealing with cut-throat insurance companies, and encouraging people generally to be more conscious of personal responsibility for their health.<br /><br />If we were to devise a national attitude toward providing healthcare based on the true goals of optimizing the health of the people while assuring their freedoms of choice, the ultimate result could well be far less costly in the bottom line sense, while tremendously value generating in the larger sense.<br /><br />How will having a public option (that's option, not taking away anything anyone likes now) prevent any group from forming their co-op to their liking as yet another alternative? In a real market system the point is to have a great diversity of options from which the consumer can choose. The consumer gets to be the evolutionary architect of what ultimately they will buy. If the consumer prefers the public option, it may go all the way to single payer over time. If the consumer prefers the co-op options, they will eventually dominate the market. Consumers seem to be fairly unhappy with the oligarchic system that has evolved from corporate/government collusion. Why not try a more capitalist/socialist collusion based on what actually keeps us healthy?<br /><br />People seem to be afraid of the word "socialized." The government option is actually based on capitalist theory's idea of competition to create a more broad-based market of choice for the consumer. If the private insurance industry doesn't want government competition, they ought to provide what the consumers actually want, like proper capitalists. But why go through all the trouble of creating business models that serve the consumer when you can pay congressional reps and clever ad agencies to get the consumer to be your foodsource: suck em dry and throw em away.<br /><br />Where are the modern day protest singers/organizers?libramoonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06077072773341726387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30648257.post-32614273870170690112009-08-31T14:58:14.334-07:002009-08-31T14:58:14.334-07:00Yes, Amy calls out, and so has Pope Benedict in hi...Yes, Amy calls out, and so has Pope Benedict in his recent <i>Caritas in Veritate</i> of which makes a case for basic health care as a fundamental human right.David R.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13902714786448599023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30648257.post-24052164769178359422009-08-31T10:04:29.238-07:002009-08-31T10:04:29.238-07:00Meaning the spectacle of the Town Hall meetings, t...Meaning the spectacle of the Town Hall meetings, that is, not Amy's letter.Snadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04055786911610974637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30648257.post-52537794438723698662009-08-31T10:03:59.527-07:002009-08-31T10:03:59.527-07:00I feel like I'm being forced to watch a gladia...I feel like I'm being forced to watch a gladiator event wherein the gladiator is an old fool who thinks he's really fighting a dangerous lion, when the lion is just as old, and not only feeble, but has willfully pulled its own teeth and claws out.Snadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04055786911610974637noreply@blogger.com