Have a preconcieved template to the story...check.

Find facts to back up the template...check.

Ignore facts which dispute the template...check.

Make no attempt to discover facts which may disagree with the template...check, check and check.

Run story.

Are only people with bad stories allowed to lobby or speak out? I would think that they would want him to praise government-run "health insurance" (Medicare Part C = Medicare Advantage). Medicare is the worst "health insurance" possible for the money - so much so that 75% have supplemental coverage despite us spending >$6000 per beneficiary per year not including supplementals, out-of-pocket, and Part D.

I love reading stories like this! Too bad the MSM just can't tell you the whole story. I would like to hear them explain to people how Medicare Advantage works, that being that Medicare pays an insurer "X" number of dollars per year for each person enrolled in the plan, and the insurer pays each person's claims out of those dollars. The goal is to end each year without having to pay out more inclaims than was received from Medicare. Mr. Cameron is an excellent case of why HMOs are needed. Medicare sure didn't pay United Healthcare a million dollars for Mr. Cameron's coverage, not even 5% of that number. So where did all the other money come from? It came from the money that was received for folks who didn't have a lot of claims or money that was saved by making sure services were actually needed.

As for Ms. Dispenza, she sounds like a classic example of one of these folks who justify why we never want universal healthcare. I don't know of any insurance plan that won't cover a service that's medically necessary, and the bar for determining that is set pretty low. In most cases all you need is a phone call from your doctor. What I've found is that the words "refused to pay for" usually means that the plan would cover most of the costs, but the patient is also responsible for 20% copayment/co-insurance and for a deductible.

Coming back to universal healthcare, our current insurance rates are, like automobile insurance rates, largely influenced by patient responsibilities like deductibles and copayments. The higher they are, the lower the cost of the premium. The goal of the Democrats is to provide health insurance to those who can't afford the premiums, but if a person can't afford to pay $100 or $200 a month in premiums, how are you going to expect them to pay a $1,500 deductible or a $2,000 co-pay? Short answer is you can't, especially when a bunch of whiney UHC members start showing up on The View, KO, Travis Smiley, The Today Show, and all the other Lib outlets and decry how unfair it is that they still have to pay some part of their healthcare bills. Anyone who thinks providing insurance to these folks is the worst of it is in for a shock. We're going to be paying the premiums, the co-pays, the deductibles, and everything else that we have to pay ourselves on our own plans.

Did you read the recent UK article (here) about the mum that wasn't able to give birth at the hospital because they closed the maternity ward to new admissions... told to go to a different one, and instead, due to the baby wanting to get out, had the baby at her house?

Mum is now blaming her Post-Partum (Post-Natal) depression on the fact that she gave birth at home. I wonder if Tommy-boy Cruise has some good advice for her!

I had a minor health care concern two weeks ago. Called my Doc at 1:30 PM and was asked if I could be in by 2:00 PM. My Doc gave me tender loving care (I do prefer the female touch), and sent on my way to the pharmacy owned by my neighbor.

Last week, my adult daughter had some concerns re abnormal cells. That's probably enough info, unless she wants to post. She went to her Doc and was immediately referred to a specialist. She saw the guy within two days. Her concerns have been resolved, thankfully, she's okay.

Can we do something to improve health care for poor people in America? Yes.

Can the politicians improve the health care system for poor people without ****ing  it up for everybody else. I seriously doubt it.

I'm a unapologetic, selfish SOB when it come to the health care of my loved ones, and myself, for that matter. When the politicians and lawyers  become our primary care providers, we will all stand in line for service as if we are at the freaking Post office.

BTW, Newsbusters, Merry Christmas! It's great to be alive.

 Liberals don't care what you do, as long as it's mandatory.  -Franksam

The
history of the race, and each individual's experience, are thick with evidence
that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.-- Mark
Twain

I invested enough time in investigating the health INDUSTRY and found some key points.

Rockefellers control ALL the AMA doctors and schools.

Rockefellers decide on what treatments are viable and all of those pills, radiation and butchery basically only last as long as the patient's money and insurance hold out.

For example, in a blog I wrote last year, I noticed that cigarettes are "bad" and wondered why they were "bad" for the health INDUSTRY as it makes people sick and they profit........

WRONG. See like Rush Limbaugh stated smoking actually does have benefits in keeping people healthy from colds ect... The problem is that when side effects like cancers do develope is they are so fast moving in smokers due to weakened health systems that the INDUSTRY does not get the opportunity to irradiate the bodies for 18 months for profit when the treatment just happens to run out at the same time health insurance does.

If you have understanding, you can relate why the big seat belt push was on. It had nothing to do with keeping people safe........but it had to do with the fact that in car crashes most people die, BUT if seat belts are employed then the bashed in bodies usually survive long enough as in 48 hours to be hooked up to machines where the medical industry can then waste a week at high insurance intensive care at thousands of dollars a day before the family is told insurance will not pay any more and then the plug is pulled.

ABC is pure gluteous maximus orifice, because they know Teddy Kennedy set up the health industry for the Rockefellers which drove up prices in changing it from a medical assistance into a medical industry.
To malign Mr. Cameron for a system they are profiting from.......oh yes just look at the big shots in just what they are invested in and it is meds and pharms as that is where the billion dollar profits are.........is pure lies.

This entire industry has so propagandized and terrorized Americans into thinking "quality of life" is radiation poisoning when Royal Rife and now modern treatment is showing radio waves will treat cancer better without any vomit..........is as Nazi as pumping pills into heart patients knowing that the heart pills will cause diabetes.

This cartel has so terrified people from dying that people will do anything to survive in pure horror.........oh of course until Terri Schiavo's insurance runs out then "death is beautiful" in dehydrating someone in a criminal murder.

I would like to quote Billy Dixon, for those who do not know him, he is the basis for Tom Selleck in Quigley Down Under and most of Lonesome Dove etc.... in he made a shot in an Indian fight at about 1 mile with an old Buffalo Rifle. He also won the Congressional Medal of Honor in surviving an Indian attack in a buffalo wallow.......so he knew death and he watched people die.

Bill Dixon said, "In the last moments death is not cruel at all in nature. There is no fear. It is welcome as it wraps you up in a warm embrace and you leave the world in peace".

The point in this is American citizens deserve to know that death is not a terrifying thing to dread. It is natural and when allowed to play out God has designed the body to give great peace and the pain mechanisms shut down.

Right now the medical industry is so prolonging existence that people are being tortured to death and usually have to be drugged to oblivion to deal with the pain.

My cousin died of breast cancer, no treatment.........she lasted as long as women who were treated. Another cousin had colon cancer.....she lasted exactly without treatment without puking and loosing her hair as people who took the industry torture.

I know the networks have covered stories recently in a clinic which is not fringe which is using radio frequency treatments on cancer. I hope more information on all of this comes out so the torture will stop of the American ill as what is going on now is pure disaster.

Katie Couric pisses and moans about bridges.........how the hell about a government mandate that all hospitals must upgrade from knife surgery in pendicitus to the new lasers........just like dentists using the new laser methods instead of that horrid grinding from drills.

Fix health care and make it caring with a pay as you can.......and stop this industry of torture.

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