Should the KennedyCare bill be fast tracked without final language in place or a fiscal note?

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   Paul Grass is back July 15, 2010 at 10:47 am

   fast tracked, no it should be shelved and forgotten, anything named after Teddy has major flaws and won’t hold water or bridge any gap

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   kscottmccormick July 15, 2010 at 11:32 am

   Five new offices for women’s health? Are there any offices for men’s health?

   Section 511 could be used to deny treatment to citizens suffering from diseases deemed too expensive to treat by the bureaucracy. For example, doctors who treat for Lyme disease can now be hauled before the board of medical examiners by insurance companies because the existence of Lyme disease is difficult to prove. This could be applied to any number of diseases and treatments to achieve complete government control.

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   Sailing July 15, 2010 at 12:08 pm

   I have to laugh at the last one. The government has no idea how to hunt for “fraud, waste and abuse”. That defines our government.
   We still don’t know how much this will increase our taxes. Of course the 50% of the population who don’t pay taxes don’t need to worry so they certainly don’t care.
   When you see Teddy Kennedy’s name on anything you should run as fast as you can away from it because you know it isn’t going to be good and it will cost us.
   Massachusetts has mandatory medical and we do get “fined” if we don’t have it. But I still wonder how many illegals in Mass are still going to our emergency rooms getting free care and what is going to happen to all the illegals in our country? I guess once the liberals make them citizens we won’t have to worry about that because then they can get free healthcare, like they don’t get it now.

   It seems that there are still a number of congressmen who are questioning this healthcare of Obama’s on both sides. We need to write to our representatives and let them know how we feel.

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   pacer July 15, 2010 at 12:19 pm

   NO

   “Doctors paid for their “performance” – compliance with government treatment directives (SEC 143).”

   The VA Medical Faculties are government health care which the government NEVER has enough money to properly fund for fewer than 15 million veterans/patients. What will occur when civilian doctors are mandated by government management because of low funding to medicate the majority of 300 million people’s symptoms’ instead of costly, prolonged, or unproven treatments?

   I watched Obama’s healthcare town hall speech in Green Bay, and some of what he said can work. When he stated that doctor’s don’t overmedicate he clearly did not know what he was talking about.

   For decades our government has done a very good job of saving taxpayers’ money with inadequate Veterans Affairs funding.

   President Obama recently made excellent leadership appointments to Veterans Affairs. Even with their proven leadership abilities, and impeccable credentials, both Secretary Eric Shinseki and Deputy Secretary W. Scott Gould are facing the cumulative inadequacies of decades past. The tiny fuse of overmedication that has kept this whole VA system operational for 30-some years now desperately needs to be replaced with major re-wiring.

   This young generation of veterans should not have to experience the palliative treatment of health care most veterans using the VA have experienced for decades. It would be great to see the VA step into the 21st century as the leader in world-class health care.

   But after decades of under-funding, this proposed new VA budget is not enough. For our new leadership to achieve its full potential along with world-class VA health care, a one-time, additional funding of at least $17 billion is desperately needed.

   The VA has many good doctors working there who will feel much relief to actually have the opportunity to treat their patients instead of just medicating their symptoms.