Happened to hear her on Fox News......what a heartless, clueless bitch. Seems to think there are no real cases out there of Americans without health care. I can tell you that is quite a misconception she has going on. I am a hard working working American who was laid off and between jobs for 6 months due to the automotive implosion and in my new job I couldn't qualify for health care until I had been there 6 months, which is not for another month. Even if I opted for this plan the cost for the family would be 1100.00 per month on a reduced family budget because my income earnings took quite a hit and our expenses have been increased significantly. My wife had to leave her job in Detroit to join me in Florida and she has now found work in Fla. but we have had to wait until Dec. 1st until her co. health care kicks in which we are going with. In the interim I tried to sign the family up for a catastrophic plan at 700 per month but it turned out to be seriously misrepresented and now I am just hoping to get my initial premium back. Cobra insurance would have cost me 1100.00 per month under my wife's old plan and you have to pay the premium retroactive to her last working day up to the day of receiving the Cobra letter so that would have been 2200.00 before we even used the coverage if we needed it. I don't know where in the hell Ann Coulter gets her sense of every American has a comfy affordable health care plan but she is full of crap. After being laid off and having to endure the expenses of moving ( haven't even sold my Michigan home yet ) paying 1100.00 per month for a Cobra plan is not in the budget so we have been staying away from the doctor and going essentially without coverage. I received a severance package when I was laid off which has made my transition to a new state and new job even possible but for many....most Americans that is not something they can utilize when they become unemployed. The real rate of unemployed.....underemployed.....or people who just aren't looking anymore in Michigan is over 20%. Somehow in spite of the huge unemployment numbers that are a reality Ann Coulter thinks the no health care "sad stories" out there is just a made up ploy by liberals. I really can't believe I heard her say the things she was saying.
With all due respect to your situation, Dave..... Obama wants to add 35,000,000 people to the healthcare insurance rolls. He has already announced that doctors can expect to be paid less, that everyone earning $500K + will be targeted for a 5.4% tax increase, that he will trim Medicare by $400 billion in ten years to help pay for this ( In an aging population ). Now Pelosi adds that she wants all illegals to be covered and all abortions as well. Doctors are in short supply NOW and many are threatening to retire or change professions if this passes. And the government has never run a social program successfully or on budget in its history. Do you really think this is going to work? Oh, and don't forget, less than 50% of all people pay taxes currently.
The Fox News/Ann Coulter approach to finding a health care solution is what? The problem is just our imagination? My answer to them is I'm living it pal..... :x :x :x
Nobody disputes that there is an issue that needs to be addressed....the crime at present is that the majority of people in this country - 2/3rds -believe that the Obama plan will either not help or make things worse, but yet it is being crammed down our throats.....how can that be the right answer. Virginia and New Jersey should have sent a message....it would be in their interest to listen. The opposition in Washington have offered a variety of improvements to "the plan" but the party in power has no interest in listening......there are bipartisan solutions available.....there is nothing bipartisan about the House Bill.
This post is about Ann Coulter BT and she offers up nothing that sounds close to any bi-partisan solution.... the concept of which by the way I fully agree with. If anyone denies there is a problem with our health care system as she did with an upturned nose or they stand in the way of a solution with a strongly partisan agenda that is not geared to the solution only then I hope beyond hope that each and every one of them have to go through the uncertainty of unemployment and unmanageable health care costs for their families. I would relish seeing Ann Coulter types out on the streets one day and down on their luck.
Ann Coulter is not a legislator, she has no authority to enact a legislative solution.....I wouldn't look to her for one..... She is however in the majority of Americans that believe the Obama "solution" will make us worse off and is more of a problem than a solution.....I agree that we have issues to address.....I don't agree that we need to do something even if its wrong. Activity does not equal progress.....
What I see from Coulter is denial of the problem....not just disagreement with the solution. In fact....I see way too much disagreement with finding a solution from politicians and Fox News types like Coulter than I see energy being expended on real solutions. As I said...what irked me to the point of posting on this was her completely cold and inhuman view on what the reality is. @$%& her!
It's what Ann Coulter does, every time she writes a book it outrages democrats and she sells a million copies. Her schtick is being way out there and in your face if you aren't a hardline conservative. She is right though that this whole healthcare solution is going to be a disaster and it will be one for which once implemented will be extremely difficult to undo most likely impossible to undo.
What we have now Terry leaves too many good Americans out in the cold. Millions upon millions of Americans didn't create this mess and didn't profit from this mess as a few crooks did and probably still do but the millions I mention have to deal with the consequences and you have idiots like Coulter out there who have millions of others salivating over her every lying word.....until it happens to them and they get to experience the harsh reality themselves only to find none of their peers with similar beliefs or their heroes like Coulter even gives a crap about their plight. It's ridiculous and it's wrong. It's also wrong for any politician left or right, not to address this critical problem with every sincere intent.....and with no hidden agendas. Maybe it's not fixable and is just a sign of the abyss we are sliding into as the economic power we once were but are not anymore. We seem to be on a slippery slope to nowhere. I hope that's not the case.
....and there will be millions more - including our children and grandchildren - who have to deal with the consequences of the solutions being crammed down our throats......not to mention the threat to our national standard of living and future opportunity. Change does not always equal progress.......a full 2/3rds of Us citizens believe this bill will not improve or make things worse than they are today.......how can that possibly the right answer? I know this your mantra and you repeat it nightly during your evening rituals, but the notion that the issues we are grappling with today were created by a "few" just does not square with the facts and is a figment of the socialist imagination and dogma.....
Part of my jobs is getting to know clients across a variety of fields and industries and market the **** out of them. One of them gave me this little nugget that absolutely floored me.. I really can't divulge too much about the client directly but I can tell you that the Federal Government would rather pay between $5000 and $12000 in procedure as opposed to a $5 generic prescription which is actually the best medical treatment for the condition. Now this is actually GOOD for their business, but they politically oppose everything about Obamacare and a public option. They will make more money in the end, but they will be providing poorer and more expensive care to their clients. That's from a Dr's mouth... Not Ann Coulter.. Not mine or Dave or anyone of us who all have our own political agendas here... A Dr who finds himself torn between his oath and the dollar... and its the govt waiving that dollar in front of him as an incentive... Makes ya think.. at least, it should.
The debate on healthcare has NOTHING to do with Ann Coulter. It has to do with the hypocrital ******** that this administration always throws out. By that I mean the Cap and Trade bill that is supposed to "reduce or dependence on foreign oil." This from an administration that in one of it's very first moves was to reinstate the ban on offshore drilling. Which brings us to this healthcare bill that is supposed to "reduce healthcare costs and provide health insurance to all Americans." Where are the provisions on tort reform which adds to healthcare costs? (Nowhere to be found. Remember the promise to end the influence of "special interests.") In fact, where is the coverage for all Americans? The bill provides for a 10% cut in medicare at a time when Americans on medicare will increase by 30%. No way that this is possible without those who on medicare will not get required medical treatment because of cost or age. So what we have is Americans who for decades paid into medicare for healthcare in their retirement and these Democratic bastards are going to take from them to give to the "have nots." Quite frankly I don't care what Ann Coulter says. I care about the government's reneging on its obligations. Under the plan, if you have health insurance through your employment, than if you make more than 120,000 you have to pay a 40% on your benefits. Anyone recall a lying bastard saying that those making less than 250,000 will not see their taxes raised?
Me neither......except that the trash that comes out her mouth influences people when it is so anti-human it's unbelievable. I don't have an agenda here in this topic I posted.....I am just pissed and frustrated and full of shock at how we have a news network that panders to someone like Coulter.
Dave, The media panders to anyone that stirs up controversy no matter which side of the fence they lean on. Controversy sells... it's just that simple.
Just so I'm clear Dave, while you couldn't afford to pay medical insurance premiums, we're you unable to pay a doctor if you needed one?
It's a possibility Gipper depending on th extent of what services could be needed. The problem with the insurance I paid 775.00 for was that it was represented as taking care of those more expensive needs like surgeries and then when the policy came it was apparent it was misrepresented. Therefore none of us have visited a doctor thankfully in the last 3 months. Hopefully we make the next two weeks OK.
Why not allowing competing insurance across state lines. NJ always has had one of the highest car insurance plans. Once they opened it up, my insurance dropped $400. Coverage for all legal is what I would like to see but I just believe this new bill will hurt companies that do all the hiring.
As I see it, you guys HAD insurance, but CHOSE to have her quit her job, thus ending your coverage. You guys made a DECISION to go without insurance, along with the risks that entails. Now, you're arguing that all the other taxpayers in this nation should be held responsible for a decision they had no decision in. It was your responsibility to make that decision. It should be your responsibility to live up to the results. Regardless of the fact that the choices you had (your wife stays up in Michigan until your health insurance kicks in, or she moves down to Florida leaving your family uncovered) sucked ass, you still had a choice. I know I would have made the same choice you did. The difference is, I wouldn't be bitching at the rest of the country to cover my ass based on a personal decision they had no part in. There is no guarantee in life that things are going to be easy. The continuing problem with the way government is going is that accountability and consequences are being separated from the choices individuals make. When you insulate individuals from the results of the decisions, you reward bad decisions.
Kes, In 1994, Cindy and I were hit with a similar decision. I had an opportunity to further my career and take a job with Intel. That required an 8 month stint in California in the bay area. Cindy couldn't get her reciprocity for her nursing license within that time frame. The decision was made for her to stay in Dallas to help sell the house. I went to California. When the house sold in three months, she moved to Albuquerque and monitored the building of our house while she started her new nursing job. We were apart for 8 months seeing each other about once each month. Maybe that is the secret to a long marriage. Maybe it's time for us to be apart another 8 months... yeah, that's the ticket... 8)