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ORIGINAL: djv1255

I am new to twitter so I am not sure I did it correctly.

You are suppose to include something that will alert the whitehouse.

A poll was recently taken that show 70% are satifisfied with their own heathcare. So I asked the WhiteHouse why destroy the best healthcare system in the world.

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A poll was recently taken that show 70% are satifisfied with their own heathcare. So I asked the WhiteHouse why destroy the best healthcare system in the world.

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ORIGINAL: rlj

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A poll was recently taken that show 70% are satifisfied with their own heathcare. So I asked the WhiteHouse why destroy the best healthcare system in the world.

How will he destroy the French or Italian systems?

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ORIGINAL: RosieCotton
On Monday, Nancy-Ann DeParle will be hosting a live-streamed, online chat to discuss health care reform (like the recent one with Van Jones). Join the White House's Facebook page to get the time once it is finalized. This will be done at 5pm Eastern Time.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/live/

Then on Wed, July 1st, the President will hold another online town hall to answer more of your questions. This online town hall will be a little different than the last one. This time around, we are engaging online networks outside of WhiteHouse.gov, such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY7HccFXjZU&feature=player_embedded

For those who are interested, here are somethings to watch and hear what is going on in our country. If you don't like this and will not be watching/listening, that is fine, but please keep your negative comments to yourself. If you did watch it, what are your thoughts on what you heard?

Thankyou.

Rosie.

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yeah.....i know i'll soon be w/out healthcare.......
for me, i am very interested in this debate.
and that is a pretty frightening thing.......

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I'm interested because our daughter (40+) works for a temp. agency and therefore w/out health care insurance. She went to 'Patent Care' yesterday for what turned out to be a sore throat and bronchus; It Cost her $525.00 before she was finished --- and that included generic and over-the-counter meds.. A whole weeks and half of the following weeks pay check . Are any of these "reforms" going to get to the source --- outrageous cost factor? At these prices, I'd rather risk dying then going to a doctor today. Yes, it's ALL about COST to me!!!

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Are any of these "reforms" going to get to the source --- outrageous cost factor?

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I've been without insurance since graduation, and it is scary.

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ORIGINAL: RosieCotton

yes, i listened......and was kindof filled w/more questions then the ones they answered......it was interesting, but i've learned more since.......

i listend to the Daily Show, http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/233134/wed-july-15-2009-kathleen-sebelius the beginning is alittle over the edge, but.....the end w/Kathleen Sebulius is pretty interesting.......and should be encouraging to your daughter.


Rosie.

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ORIGINAL: solo_soprano23

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I'm interested because our daughter (40+) works for a temp. agency and therefore w/out health care insurance. She went to 'Patent Care' yesterday for what turned out to be a sore throat and bronchus; It Cost her $525.00 before she was finished --- and that included generic and over-the-counter meds.. A whole weeks and half of the following weeks pay check . Are any of these "reforms" going to get to the source --- outrageous cost factor? At these prices, I'd rather risk dying then going to a doctor today. Yes, it's ALL about COST to me!!!

I just graduated from college, and it would cost $500 monthly to stay on my parents' insurance provided through the job. I've been without insurance since graduation, and it is scary. I have medical conditions I need treatment for, but I had to stop because I have no insurance. I called and got individual yesterday for about $100/month, but I can't get treatment for pre-existing conditions for a year. The pre-existing conditions are the main reason why I need insurance. I'd pay out of pocket, but it's way too expensive and my doc doesn't take cash anyway.

How wonderful.

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I'm waiting for the obligatory response of "that is just too bad, you should get a better job, sell your tv, buy your clothes from Salvation Army and rummage through the trash during the week for your furniture. If you can afford those things then you can afford insurance! You peeple just have to have everything given to you!!!!"

Just trying to sound like a "good conservative" here. I've slowly got on the "healthcare bandwagon" since 1993 when the left painted the more accurate picture of where care was actually going than the right.

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If it were JUST ill health, it might be one thing. But ill health leads to disability or at least to enough trouble with employment it often might as well BE disability, which then leads to poverty, which all to often leads to judgment and finger pointing about how the person in ill health shoulda just had good insurance to get proper health care in the first place so they coulda kept working, rather than daring to extend a helping hand or offer so much as spare change. This is why access to appropriate health care in a timely manner is so important and must be made unconditional or at the very least a whole lot cheaper and easier than it is now.

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As to malpractice, it's a red herring. No one has any HONEST or ACCURATE idea how many of the suits are "frivolous" and how many are "appropriate". What we do know is that in at least many states, there's no way to report a doctor who's badly practicing medicine that will actually do anything OTHER than by filing a lawsuit to hit him or her in the pocket book. This in itself is absurd. Before we start doing any "tort reform" what we need is QUALITY reform. There are lot of doctors practicing - many without so much as a blemish on their license - whose level of quality is around "shouldn't be allowed to see live patients without direct supervision". I've seen doctors who've asked ME medical questions, ones who clearly ignored even the most basic bits of medication direction as listed on the PATIENT handouts, and ones who couldn't diagnose or treat even something as simple as a fever if you handed them a thermometer and the tylenol - and some of my friends have seen worse doctors. What are nitwits like these doing practicing medicine without some sort of warning in their lobby that a substandard doctor hides behind the door? Yet you can look up their licenses and almost without exception they've never even been investigated. This has a lot to do with why there are so many malpractice suits - someone has to get the point across that this isn't tolerable. If the suits aren't either, tell the applicable licensing agencies to start doing their jobs instead of protecting incompetent doctors.

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ORIGINAL: solo_soprano23

$46 for six pills?

Can you get the generic from Walgreens/CVS/Walmart?

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ORIGINAL: Bettawrekonize

I don't necessarily disagree with his plan (and I don't necessarily agree with it either, whatever his plan is) but I would like him to present any bill to the public for review and give the public AT LEAST two weeks (3 - 4 weeks preferably) to review and analyze the bill before he signs it. At least that would give us time to prepare for what's to come or to try to resist if there is anything absurd.

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ORIGINAL: Pat-rebel_lady
I think a bill that effects every American not only should be presented to the public for review and give the public AT LEAST two months (3 - 4 months preferably) to review and analyze the bill and then let the public go to the Polls and Vote for or against it --- Popular/Majority votes winning.

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I don't have a problem accepting the difficulties of having ill health, I simply don't accept the panacea of socialist healthcare offered by this administration. They don't have to go hand in hand.

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$46 for six pills?