HEALTH CARE BILL PASSES!!!! ( Archived) (243)

Girl, I really like your style, not just on here today, but many other posts. You are a very classy gal!

Where do you get your figures from? No one I know is satisfied with their health insurance program.

Those are the figures they have been touting on FOX news based on their polls. Funny thing is the majority of their viewers are conservatives that are against the bill, so the numbers are quite subjective.

Oh, no wonder. Fox news. LOL. Like that's a reliable source.

You might want to pay attention!

Gallup: 80% satisfied with health care, 61% with insuranceposted at 3:35 pm on September 23, 2009 by Ed Morrissey

Read the following from a study done in 2007.

Health Care Reform: What Do Americans Want? (Or Think They Want?)
Maggie Mahar, The Century Foundation

"On the surface, it seems that American voters have made their will clear. Poll after poll shows that they are calling for a major overhaul of our health care system.
But when you look closer, their responses bristle with contradictions and discrepancies that I think the reform-minded presidential candidates will have to consider when deciding how to approach health care reform.

In a poll reported in Health Affairs at the end of last year, sixty-nine percent of respondents rated the US system as “fair” or “poor.” Yet in the same survey, when asked about their own experience with receiving medical services or with their own physician, 80 percent who had received care in the last year ranked their care as “excellent” or ”good.”

Other polls reveal the same pattern.

According to a survey released by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner in July, voters express doubts about the quality of the American health care system (with 49 percent dissatisfied), while 74 percent were dissatisfied with the cost. Yet, “at another, more personal level,” the pollsters note, “a slightly different picture emerges. Fully eight in ten (82 percent) describe themselves as satisfied with the quality of the health care they receive personally. This number jumps to 90 percent among seniors (64 percent very satisfied), but includes impressive majorities of nearly all groups…”

Pay attention to what? Polls are biased. YOU might want to pay attention to what I had stated before, and will state again: NO ONE I know of is satisfied with their health insurance program.

Oh...and I will also state there's a difference between being satisfied with the quality of the health care you get and with the insurance coverage you have to get that care. Two different issues, really, in many respects.

For example, I didn't even have insurance during my recent 7-day stay in the hospital, and the quality of my care was absolutely phenomenol. I was seen by every type of doctor imaginable that had to do anything whatsoever with my illness. They came to visit with me at least two times a day. The nursing care I got was also superb, with few exceptions.

Conversely, when I had health insurance, I never received that quality of care at a different, "richer" hospital. Not even close to that quality of care.

I work two jobs, self-employed, and have no "toys," and still cannot afford health insurance. Don't assume the majority of people who don't have health insurance is because they simply won't get off their fat butts and work. I need my cell phone for communication with clients, family, etc. I need internet for my work. The amount I pay for cable wouldn't even begin to cover health insurance. For many people, it's a choice between paying for groceries and paying for health insurance. I absolutely DETEST incompassionate people like you who asssume that people who cannot afford insurance can't do so simply because they sit on their "fat butts" and don't work. There are multitudes of very hard-working people (harder working than you are, in many cases, I would bet) who STILL cannot afford adequate health insurance. I don't believe health care should be afforded to only those people who can, well, afford it. What makes you any more deserving of health care just because you can afford to pay for it, versus someone else who can't? Why should someone have to make personal sacrifices to obtain that which should be a fundamental right of every citizen of this country? I pay freaking taxes, same as you do. I provide two different services, work sometimes 16 hours or more a day. The insurance and pharmaceutical companies control everything now, with regard to medical care. Are you satisfied with that? I know of no one who is.