Schumer: "Real Momentum" For Health Care Reform Now

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What a total and complete schmuck Schumer is... this asshole couldn't last a week having a REAL job. Save our American Republic from Socialism- VOTE REPUBLICAN!

There are republican proposals. Chuck Schumer may not like them but to come out and say they don't even exist is a flat out LIE.

Why anyone would oppose universal health care is beyond me.

Canada and Europe have had it for decades. It works.

Opponents are weak minded non-thinkers who are easily persuaded by propaganda from medical and insurance lobbyists.

Canada and Europe have had it for decades. It works.

They have the same problems with costs growing much faster than overall inflation and government revenue. At least they have the benefit of starting from a lower base of per capita spending. We have to actually try to go backwards and cut spending levels. People want to blame the insurance companies but while they have high profits their profit margins are actually rather narrow. Take away their profits and you still have the problem of high spending per person in this country.

PBS had a program where I believe a doctor traveled to different countries to find out more about their healthcare system.

I was quite impressed with Japan and Taiwan's model.

they mentioned how toshiba made cheaper CT scan machines to help with the costs. It's amazing how they use technology to keep costs down.

it's greed that's messing up with our system, that's not new. plain and simple greed.

i think a lot and i'm opposed to universal healthcare. my silly thinking is more long term though. like, you know, how our government has chronically wasted mass sums of our tax dollars and how medicare today is estimated to waste $500 billion per year. so then, expand the coverage expand the waste.

your criticism is on a third grade level. ie if they don't agree with you they must be stupid.

and europe doesn't have universal healthcare. a few european countries do have it, but not europe. wait, you did know that europe isn't a country, right?

Your logic is impeccable.

Since the Defense Department wastes much more, shall we privatize that, or just downright abolish it?

Awaiting your pedantic reply, professor.

most of it is private you stooge. northrop grumman? raytheon? boeing? lockheed martin? ever wonder why the federal government doesn't make the weapons our boys fight with? the privatization once again isn't the problem. it's the point where the government becomes involved that the problems start. i mean, but i thought that was obvious

"i think a lot"

LMFAO

stunning criticism. i think recess is over so you can go back inside and learn how to do division.

He is too busy learning to parrot the democrat talking points to learn something as practical as math. I give him credit, he's got them down to the syllable.

the results are in. according to rasmussen, just 38% of americans approve of this heinous scheme and 56% flat out oppose it. these scum bag politicians better open their eyes quickly otherwise we're going to have that other scum bag party back in charge in a year.

Rassmussen is a partisan polling operation, working for the right. The latest ABC / Washington Post polling data shows that a whopping 70% of Americans support reform that includes a strong public option, and 60% think the wealthiest americans (those making > $500K) should pay for it in higher taxes.

That poll number is useless unless you define what the public option is in some detail. As Chuck Schumer said "Everyone has their ideas on the public option, for instance."

Also, I can't find that 70 percent number in the Washington Post. I did find this from 10/20/2009:

Overall, 45 percent of Americans favor the broad outlines of the proposals now moving in Congress, while 48 percent are opposed, about the same division that existed in August

Seven in 10 Democrats back the plan, while almost nine in 10 Republicans oppose it. Independents divide 52 percent against, 42 percent in favor of the legislation.

57 percent of all Americans now favor a public insurance option, while 40 percent oppose it. Support has risen since mid-August, when a bare majority, 52 percent, said they favored it.

If a public plan were run by the states and available only to those who lack affordable private options, support for it jumps to 76 percent. Under those circumstances, even a majority of Republicans, 56 percent, would be in favor of it, about double their level of support without such a limitation.

Fifty-six percent of those polled back a provision mandating that all Americans buy insurance, either through their employers or on their own or through Medicare or Medicaid. That number rises to 71 percent if the government were to provide subsidies for many lower-income Americans to help them buy coverage. With those qualifiers, a majority of Republicans say they support the mandate.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/19/AR2009101902451.html

you don't like rasmussen's polling results so you go with the washington post poll!? really?! well then, now there's a bipartisan data gatherer if i ever saw one! 70% of americans!? that's laughable. have you been paying attention at all? or just listening to olbermann?

Paying attention to what? The Teabaggers' astroturfing?

"Teabagging" is a gay slur. Does this website advocate the use of gay slurs?

no just paying attention to anything in general. maybe in between your saturday morning cartoons and cookies and milk you can slip in a little time to educate yourself.

It's time to plan for ousting this guy! How can he be in favor of a massive entitlement program that creates dozens of new federal agencies and expands Medicaid. Doesn't he know the state pays 1/2 the medicaid tab?

This plan makes it mandatory for everyone to "buy" insurance. For people under 40, they will be paying (either directly or through taxes on you and your employer) anywhere from $5,000-7,000 for a policy with a $2000 deductible.

Young people are essentially being forced to subsidize this scheme, to give a 59 year old person who smokes, drinks and could care less about exercise, the same policy we will be forced to buy. He won't have to worry about paying more cause he doesn't care for himself, he can't be denied for any reason, but if I want to go to the doctor for 2 visits a year, I won't meet the deductible and will have to pay in cash!

The republican plan is looking better by the day, it doesn't reduce womans rights, it doesn't contain payoffs to crooked senators from Louisiana. Chuckie needs to be sent packing!

are you also "chicklet" who posted on the other story on HC reform? see below. I don't know how to put in your html bold fonts but it's there too.

20 pounds of paper, at least 80 new government bureaucracies, and taxes. Taxes on business if you buy insurance, more taxes if you don't. How will businesses create jobs so we can get out of the recession if their taxes go up? The bill gives certain states money in exchange for their senator's vote, I love that.

Should this become law, the debt will skyrocket, and it's unlikely that anyone under 40 will ever see a dime of social security, considering these folks will force younger people (20 and 30-somethings) to subsidize everyone else. Only by forcing everyone into mandated insurance at rates higher than they otherwise would pay can coverage be expanded to older people (40 and 50-somethings) who can't or won't pay for their own health insurance.

All this plus pay cuts to doctors and hospitals, no malpractice reform and a huge expansion to Medicaid, which is paid for 50% by the State, so we'll see state taxes go up as well. 2010 can't come soon enough!

"Should this become law, the debt will skyrocket,"

This is either a lie on your part, or you are a brainwashed idiot. The CBO released it's numbers last week showing that this bill would REDUCE our deficit by $127 billion.

was that for me or "SFgal82/chicklet"?

it was for whoever said "Should this become law, the debt will skyrocket"

the CBO is forced to believe that the government will make cuts where they say they will. we, on the other hand, need not be so gullible.

The entire US Constitution is 12 pages. You don't need to be a friggin lawyer to understand and appreciate it. Therein lies its genius and beauty. It was written for The People. This appalling mess of a 2000 page bill (800 pages more than the Bible) was written for the lawyers, lobbyists, bureaucrats, and politicians. The average person be damned.

Did you read the Patriot Act? Where were you when that bill was passed?

Glad you brought up the Patriot Act. So many people, and with reason, considered it an invasion of privacy. Yet many of these same people have no problem with the federal government having complete knowledge of and control over one of the most personal aspects of our lives, our medical history and treatment. If that's not an invasion of privacy then nothing is.

"the federal government having complete knowledge of and control over [...] our medical history and treatment"

This is a lie. They wouldn't have any more control over our medical history and treatment than private insurance has. The difference is that with private insurance, there is PROFIT MOTIVE, which means thousands of people are denied treatment because it affects their bottom line. I don't want a business making decisions about my health, I want a doctor to make those decisions. My health is not a business opportunity. You talk about tort reform? That's an almost inconsequential drop in the bucket, compared to the ANTI TRUST EXEMPTION that the health insurance industry benefits from. Where is you free market philosophy now, hmmm? You claim the government is unable to run healthcare? FORTY PERCENT of people with health coverage in this country have government run healthcare, and these programs have the HIGHEST client satisfaction ratings. This includes all members of congress, including all the right wing hypocrite liars. They don't want government running their health care? Any and all Senators who vote against a public option should immediately be dropped from their healthcare and be left to buy private insurance.

A government run health system will have the same power to scour your medical history the same way the IRS can go through your finances. It's no coincidence that the IRS is given increased powers in this bill. Put down the bong and pay attention.

Nice ad hominem attack there. I guess you have nothing of value to say.

I wrote the Schumer about Stupak-Pitts, & the form letter I got back was plenty nice. I want someone to sink their teeth into this thing, but instead it is being cobbled together from frankenstein pieces in an attempt to "reach across the aisle"--to an unfriendly minority who are going to nix it no matter how much bullcrap gets added or taken away from it.

they're all republi-crats.

It's about time, the system is broken and rife with greed and people are dying. Unless you're rich.

there's no advantage to Medicare Advantage and if the olds and poors has noticed there programs has been run by private insurance for quite a while and it's time for a change.

The rich can afford the taxes that this plan will require to get off the ground. The business owners will simply cut staff or not hire any new people to pay the taxes and/or fines that the bill will impose on them. The young will be forced to 'buy' insurance that will essentially subsidize everyone else to help pay the cost of this thing. They will also pay later, when they don't get social security money when they are 65, as the country will be broke (http://www.usdebtclock.org/).

There's nothing to stop malpractice lawyers (huge contributors to democrats) so docs will still order 14 tests when you have a cold, and still pay $75,000/yr for malpractice. This drives up the cost of everyones insurance, while lawyers and patients play the injury lottery. Elderly people are very satisfied with medicare advantage, regular medicare doesn't pay for eyeglasses, hearing aids, and a lot of prescriptions. The benefit outweighs the cost, and considering AARP supports this reform bill, they must be getting some deal from Washington, too. Until fraud and waste are controlled, young people and employers will be ripped off to pay for all this, and not even all of the uninsured will get coverage.

the tort reform/malpractice argument is a red herring.

you're being fooled by the republicans and their lobbyists.

let the doctors do their jobs and not the insurance company bureaucrats do the gatekeeping for medical care.

Medicare Advantage is managed care by the insurance companies, everything you need done will need to go through the private insurance company before getting approval. How long will that be?

pre-authorizations, pre-certs, pre-existing conditions, utilization reviews etc etc all so the insurance company would not need to pay a dime.

Really, Chuck? The Republican healthcare bill is right here, in its entirety:

http://rules-republicans.house.gov/Media/PDF/RepublicanAlternative3962_9.pdf

Enough bullshit, Chuck.

Now that the Senate voted to debate the bill, there is plenty of time for them to read it, so why are you bitching?

We need TORT reform Chuckie but I wouldn't expect some sleazeball Brooklyn ambulance chaser like you to understand that. Anyone who believes the over bloated bureaucracy known as the federal government can do something more efficiently and less expensively is living in the bizarro world.

Has Chuckie read this 2000 page bill from beginning to end? Of course not. It's criminal that any elected official can vote on a bill they haven't read. Even if in principle I agreed with government health care, there is so much garbage in this bill that is simply ridiculous such as the IRS becoming the system's enforcement mechanism.

"Anyone who believes the over bloated bureaucracy known as the federal government can do something more efficiently and less expensively is living in the bizarro world."

Why do you think the insurance industry is fighting this so hard? When you pay your CEOs tens of millions of dollars a year, all while denying coverage to people and letting them die without treatment, you're damn straight the Federal Govt can do a better job for much cheaper. That's why they're fighting it. Because they know they can't compete.

of course they can't compete! its impossible to compete with an organization who 1. writes the rules and laws and 2. has the ability to print money. that's not competition, its thuggery.

Right on-- I've been saying for years, privatize the Military, Police, Fire Department, & Transportation. I mean, look at what a bang up job corporations are doing! I'm always raving about how great ConEd is, & how Goldman Sachs is really a bunch of geniuses. The government can't do ANYTHING, & I can't wait for the anarchist Mad Max future where private monopolies are the only "law." Right on!

Unfortunately, Goldman Sachs is a de facto branch of the government these days. Both private and public sectors are merging. While the bankers hijack the Treasury, the federal government is taking over one industry at a time under the guise of bail-outs. You are now watching a totalitarian state being knit together.