Comments on: We had to pass the health care bill to find out what’s in it https://thenewneo.com/2011/06/22/we-had-to-pass-the-health-care-bill-to-find-out-whats-in-it/ A blog about political change, among other things Thu, 23 Jun 2011 04:34:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: bon homme richard https://thenewneo.com/2011/06/22/we-had-to-pass-the-health-care-bill-to-find-out-whats-in-it/#comment-252552 Thu, 23 Jun 2011 04:34:17 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=7410#comment-252552 On the nose, Mr. Frank! Now, let’s all join in a chorus of “In the East, the sun is rising!”

]]> By: rickl https://thenewneo.com/2011/06/22/we-had-to-pass-the-health-care-bill-to-find-out-whats-in-it/#comment-252528 Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:22:41 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=7410#comment-252528 expat:
Maybe he was thinking about Mao’s steel making project.

]]> By: Paul in Boston https://thenewneo.com/2011/06/22/we-had-to-pass-the-health-care-bill-to-find-out-whats-in-it/#comment-252509 Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:53:59 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=7410#comment-252509 Mr. Frank @ 1:41 pm

I take care of my elderly mother who has Alzheimer’s. From personal experience, many doctors don’t take Medicare either.

]]> By: Mr. Frank https://thenewneo.com/2011/06/22/we-had-to-pass-the-health-care-bill-to-find-out-whats-in-it/#comment-252488 Wed, 22 Jun 2011 18:51:48 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=7410#comment-252488 I should have pointed out that problems caused by greatly expanding Medicaid are a feature, not a bug. From the view of Obama, the objective is to crash the system (Cloward-Piven). When things get really bad, the federal government will ride to the rescue with a single payer system. Doctors will work for the state and will be told who and how to treat.

]]> By: expat https://thenewneo.com/2011/06/22/we-had-to-pass-the-health-care-bill-to-find-out-whats-in-it/#comment-252481 Wed, 22 Jun 2011 18:30:06 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=7410#comment-252481 This law is starting to look like Mao’s steel making project.

Obama, what were you thinking? or more to the point, were you thinking?

]]> By: Mr. Frank https://thenewneo.com/2011/06/22/we-had-to-pass-the-health-care-bill-to-find-out-whats-in-it/#comment-252476 Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:41:21 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=7410#comment-252476 It is important to differentiate between Medicare (for elderly) and Medicaid (for the poor). The reimbursement rate for Medicaid is so low that many doctors do not accept patients under the program. Dumping millions of middle class people into the Medicaid program would make it even more difficult for the poor to find a doctor.

]]> By: Tesh https://thenewneo.com/2011/06/22/we-had-to-pass-the-health-care-bill-to-find-out-whats-in-it/#comment-252472 Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:14:07 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=7410#comment-252472 That’s not a “glitch”, it’s a feature. Wasn’t it Krugman fairly recently arguing that Medicare should be more widely used?

Bleh.

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