回复ryy2的评论:
Even illegal immigrants or short term visitors here can go to emergency room and get treated. I personally know two friends whose mother/father came here for a visit and had stroke and was rushed to emergency room and had their lives saved, and we the tax payers are paying the cost.
回复bornin1968的评论:
如果这种医改通过,将来有钱也买不到更好的保险,因为Public Option will gradually eliminate private insurancers, and their ultimate goal is to implement Single Payers system, like UK.
As for 年级大了很多手术就不给你做了,please read section 1401 of the House bill HR3200: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?c111:1:./temp/~c111amvt0P:e604006:
Here's an article titled "Health care reform means rationing":
http://www.examiner.com/x-12465-Washington-County-Independent-Examiner~y2009m7d27-Health-care-reform-means-rationing
Obama谈起他外婆接受hip replacement时说他愿意自己掏腰包支付,但他说"there ought to be a "conversation" over whether "sort of in the aggregate, society making those decisions to give my grandmother, or everybody else's aging grandparents or parents, a hip replacement when they're terminally ill is a sustainable model." Obama suggested that such decisions be made not by patients or their relatives but by a "group" of "doctors, scientists, ethicists" who are not part of "normal political channels."
回复bornin1968的评论:
衰老生病丢工作,在现有体制下,有medicare,medicaid,employee insurance,individual insurance,accidental insurance,pension,personal savings,unemployment benefits. seems like a pretty big safety net to me.
Even illegal immigrants or short term visitors here can go to emergency room and get treated. I personally know two friends whose mother/father came here for a visit and had stroke and was rushed to emergency room and had their lives saved, and we the tax payers are paying the cost.
Why is President Barack Obama in such a hurry to get his socialized medicine bill passed?
Because he and his cunning circle realize some basic truths:
The American people in their unimaginable kindness and trust voted for a pig in a poke in 2008. They wanted so much to believe Barack Obama was somehow better and different from other ultra-leftists that they simply took him on faith.
They ignored his anti-white writings in his books. They ignored his quiet acceptance of hysterical anti-American diatribes by his minister, Jeremiah Wright.
They ignored his refusal to explain years at a time of his life as a student. They ignored his ultra-left record as a "community organizer," Illinois state legislator, and Senator.
The American people ignored his total zero of an academic record as a student and teacher, his complete lack of scholarship when he was being touted as a scholar.
Now, the American people are starting to wake up to the truth. Barack Obama is a super likeable super leftist, not a fan of this country, way, way too cozy with the terrorist leaders in the Middle East, way beyond naïveté, all the way into active destruction of our interests and our allies and our future.
The American people have already awakened to the truth that the stimulus bill -- a great idea in theory -- was really an immense bribe to Democrat interest groups, and in no way an effort to help all Americans.
Now, Americans are waking up to the truth that ObamaCare basically means that every time you are sick or injured, you will have a clerk from the Department of Motor Vehicles telling your doctor what he can and cannot do.
The American people already know that Mr. Obama's plan to lower health costs while expanding coverage and bureaucracy is a myth, a promise of something that never was and never will be -- a bureaucracy lowering costs in a free society. Either the costs go up or the free society goes away.
These are perilous times. Mrs. Hillary Clinton, our Secretary of State, has given Iran the go-ahead to have nuclear weapons, an unqualified betrayal of the nation. Now, we face a devastating loss of freedom at home in health care. It will be joined by controls on our lives to "protect us" from global warming, itself largely a fraud if believed to be caused by man.
Mr. Obama knows Americans are getting wise and will stop him if he delays at all in taking away our freedoms.
There is his urgency and our opportunity. Once freedom is lost, America is lost. Wake up, beloved America.