Comments on: Howard Dean’s “teachable moment” on ObamaCare

By: Carlos

Carlos — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:42:33 +0000

And eventually, when the law is changed to what Canada has, that if the guvmint doesn’t pay you can’t have it, there will be exceptions for the unions and congresscritters, and then, truly, only the wealthy can get real care because they will be able to afford to go wherever it is whatever care they need is available.

By: Brontefan

Brontefan — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:49:38 +0000

Democrats in Congress did not include tort reform in the health care bill because they were fearful of “taking on” the trial lawyers.

AND it isn’t because most politicians are actually lawyers? At this juncture, I wouldn’t believe anything they say. First, there was no “death panel.” Then, the Senate removed the non-existent “death panel” from their form of the bill. Who comes up with this stuff? Politicians have really got nerve to try to sell a bill that none of them plan to use.

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Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:22:45 +0000

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By: twistedmuser

twistedmuser — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:09:01 +0000

Well remember we have to spend more money so that we don’t go bankrupt. With that kind of mentality, we should not be suprised with anything that is said.

By: Kate

Kate — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:42:46 +0000

How refreshing..almost a moment of transparency from the former head of the DNC. Now we know what we already knew!

Excuses, Excuses…oh it would be too hard to include tort reform. Another admission…the bill is too big to add this…wow, do ya think so Howie? Pinning down all the little details in the bill are way more important. The 20 ton elephant is the room sitting on the bill will just be ignored. But, it’s not too hard to defend something you haven’t read completely and really don’t know how you are going to manage…leave that to their panel of experts who wrote the bill. Any clue what they may be????

By: Steve Skubinna

Steve Skubinna — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:45:08 +0000

So I don’t know what to take away from Dean’s explanation. That he’s a coward? That he’s being honest? Or that there’s no way in Hell he’d go against one of the DNC’s biggest blocs of supporters?

Oh wait – it’s possible that he’s a cowardly opportunist who is actually being truthful in this one instance, isn’t it?

But still, if the driving goal of health care ref- oops, I mean health insurance reform – is to cut costs, then why isn’t doing something about sky high malpractice premiums on the table?

By: Dave B

Dave B — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:51:07 +0000

So if we took on “crime”, for example, the writers of a bill might not to take on “violent criminals” for fear of offending that one group of people, so by not taking on the lawyers and tort, responsible for the skyrocketing costs from everything from the cost of a single pill you buy at Walmart to the droves of doctors refusing patients and actually leaving several states because they can’t affor the government imposed insurances shouldn’t be addressed in the INITIAL BILL? I can only ask the question; do they actually think the American people are that stupid?

By: Carlos

Carlos — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:18:35 +0000

It’s refreshing to see some truth come out of Dean’s mouth for once. I’ll bet he had to go home and throw up and he’ll have diarrhea for a week because of it.

And Markey? She just added to the “death panel” debate in triplicate. She says exactly what Palin did but with different words, now she’s a hero for telling the truth and Sarah is a lying fear-monger?

“There’s going to be some people who are going to have to give up some things, honestly, for all of this to work,” she says, so tell me how, exactly, is this different from what Sarah says? Except that Sarah pointed out it was the elderly who would be targeted.

By: DaveinPhoenix

DaveinPhoenix — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:05:51 +0000

“But we have to do this because we’re Americans.”

– No, we need to lead scum like this out of the Congress IN HANDCUFFS (because we’re Americans.)

By: James

James — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 01:46:42 +0000

The trial lawyers don’t make big money from the health insurers. they get it from malpractice insurance. Obstetricians are the main target which is why the cost of delivering a baby has increased 5 fold in the past 20 years. Doctors have been begging for malpractice insurance reform, caps on prices and payouts but Obama refused.
I applaud Dean’s honesty I wish he could have joined with some republicans to fix this problem though.

By: Ron Russell

Ron Russell — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 01:23:03 +0000

Its remains a mystery to me why trial lawyers would support Obamacare—when the government drives private insurance companies from the field who will the lawyers sue–not the government.