Obama and Healthcare reform

Re: Pelosi, Democrats Descend Into Full-Fledged Insanity With Reconciliation Bill

i do. i didn't know sara palin was the new spokeswoman for spam either.

 

Re: Pelosi, Democrats Descend Into Full-Fledged Insanity With Reconciliation Bill

yes, and it has temporarily been removed from the stove.

if the smell gets too pungent, it will just have to be thrown out all together.

 

Re: Pelosi, Democrats Descend Into Full-Fledged Insanity With Reconciliation Bill

thehill.com is a valid site. No clue what that guy's post was about though.

 

Well then you have no reason to vote republican do you?

 

Let me help you out then. The ones that favor this bill are the Democrats and the ones against it are the Republicans. I mean come on. We're talking about a bill that will control 1/6 of the economy. There's a staunch contrast between the two parties approach to health care reform and among many other issues.

 

Yeah, one team opposes bad policy the other team proposes. Where is the difference?

 

You just stated it. If they had the same philosophies then they wouldn't oppose each other. Now if your argument is that one is not very good and the other is really bad then I would tend to agree but there's definitely major differences in areas such as cap and trade and repealing the Bush tax cuts along with health care.

 

According to the Harvard study that gathered data from 4000 hospitals in the US the saving are not clear cut. There's not just the expensive upfront cost but there's also the cost of hiring a staff to run the system. According to the studies author this could be a "couple-dozen to a thousand people." Also, much of the software written for use in clinics is aimed at administrators and not available to help doctors, nurses, and lab workers. Even in those hospitals and clinics that custom built their systems, using computer system architects conducting months of research, only modest savings and increased efficiency were evident.

Harvard study: Computers don't save hospitals money

 

It's not just the republicans that don't like it. A lot of Democrats don't like and most of the public don't like it. There is so much wrong with this bill in tems of both substance and procedure. Few people are against health care; they are just against this version of it.