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Shouldn’t Obama be reforming the education system too?

Sunday, June 20th, 2010

thegubmint asked: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091020/ap_on_re_us/us_college_costs
College tuition is every bit as out of control, maybe more so, than health care costs. And for what reason? The CPI is going down, yet tuition continues to rise. Is it time to create some huge federal entity to take over all the colleges to ensure that everyone has [...]

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What should be done with people with preexisting health problems?

Friday, May 21st, 2010

Warren T asked: I know that by requiring insurance companies to cover people with preexisting conditions will push up their costs which they will pass on in higher premiums. Most states of insurance programs for people like this but the premiums are very high and a lot of people cannot afford them but they [...]

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Would you please give me your thoughts on this?

Monday, March 22nd, 2010

Warren T asked: I went to einsurance dot com and did a search of health insurance policies in Nevada for a 62 year old man. I found about seven companies offering about 103 policies. Since I do not have the facts I am not going to do like liberals do and claim the [...]

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What do you think about this idea for health insurance?

Friday, January 29th, 2010

Beverly S asked: reform? This is not my idea but one I heard this morning on a radio show. There are 40 million people on Medicare in this country. Last year we spent 480 billion dollars on medicare claims. Average cost per person being around $12,000.00 per year. The idea [...]

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Why does President Obama lie to us?

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

gmeyers1944 asked: He said that Republicans have no plan, but they have proposed that people be allowed to establish Health Savings Accounts, buy insurance from other states like with car insurance, and get tort reform to limit excessive judgments.
Grumpy: Yes, I listen to Rush. I also watch Keith Olbermann.Kraig Darring

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Whose better suited to make your healthcare decisions; You, or the State?

Friday, October 30th, 2009

Obnoxious American asked: Since unlimited “perfect” healthcare is prohibitively expensive, even for the world’s richest people, any healthcare, public, private, or self financed will inherently have to be rationed in some way.
The question is; who do you want making those rationing decisions for you?
This question becomes even more important when you realize that these rationing [...]

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Does the CEO of Whole Foods have a better Health Reform plan than Congress?

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

Lance asked: The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare
Eight things we can do to improve health care without adding to the deficit.
8/11/09
By JOHN MACKEY
“The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.”
—Margaret Thatcher
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204251404574342170072865070.html
Highlights:
•Remove the legal obstacles that slow the creation of high-deductible health insurance plans and health savings accounts (HSAs). [...]

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Why can’t I put money into a Health Savings Account (tax credit) to help pay my medical bills?

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

Bobbi asked: I can only put money into an account if I buy the company policy (under federal law). Yet, my company policy is $700 a month! and it is crap! I have my own plan for under $200 a month. Yet, I would like to use a HSA, yet why is it against the [...]

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Universal Health Care compromise?

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

delectable asked: What if America had universal health care available, but something like vouchers for people who have a problem with universal health care? For example, if someone didn’t want to pay for an insurance system that covered specific procedures, they could apply for a voucher. Or if they thought they could get [...]

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The general mess Of Medicare?

Saturday, June 13th, 2009

jonrhoward@sbcglobal.net asked: I suggest that the failure is never revealed .The 2003 Medicare bill was crafted to profit the entire drug industry.Health savings accounts will greatly profit banks. The wealthy who have a great amount of wherewithal to participate in this scam have a tax write off. The vast majority suffer in there ignorance [...]

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