Comments on: Health Care Law Struck Down; Fight Continues In Pensacola http://www.northescambia.com/2010/12/health-care-law-struck-down-suit-to-continue-in-pensacola Local News for Molino, Bratt, McDavid, Century, Walnut Hill, Cantonment Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:41:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: David Huie Green http://www.northescambia.com/2010/12/health-care-law-struck-down-suit-to-continue-in-pensacola/comment-page-1#comment-64145 David Huie Green Thu, 16 Dec 2010 02:57:45 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=38433#comment-64145 " use the navel hospitals " Now THAT'S specialization ” use the navel hospitals ”

Now THAT’S specialization

]]> By: tlad http://www.northescambia.com/2010/12/health-care-law-struck-down-suit-to-continue-in-pensacola/comment-page-1#comment-64059 tlad Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:46:26 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=38433#comment-64059 Dear "huh" - I must take issue with your generalization of insurance companies. I worked for Florida's largest health insurance company for 17 years and can truthfully tell you that this company does not and never has tried to determine ways to keep coverage from or limit coverage for folks. Most employers choose what coverage they want provided to their employees and what limitations are to be applied. . .also most health plans are designed based on what the market wants, not on what the insurance company wants. This company was doing good to have a 1% annual profit, and most of that came from the interest it earned on the cash reserves it must legally keep on hand to pay for any unexpected, catastrophic claims. When will folks learn that it is the total cost of medical services (like hospital charges and the price of drugs, but which also includes insurance company administrative costs just like any other business) that drive up premiums, not the insurance companies "out to get" us? Although I agree that government should not tell us we have to buy health insurance. . .what do we do with people who CAN afford it, but choose not to purchase coverage and then rely on us taxpayers to foot their emergency room bills? Dear “huh” – I must take issue with your generalization of insurance companies. I worked for Florida’s largest health insurance company for 17 years and can truthfully tell you that this company does not and never has tried to determine ways to keep coverage from or limit coverage for folks. Most employers choose what coverage they want provided to their employees and what limitations are to be applied. . .also most health plans are designed based on what the market wants, not on what the insurance company wants. This company was doing good to have a 1% annual profit, and most of that came from the interest it earned on the cash reserves it must legally keep on hand to pay for any unexpected, catastrophic claims. When will folks learn that it is the total cost of medical services (like hospital charges and the price of drugs, but which also includes insurance company administrative costs just like any other business) that drive up premiums, not the insurance companies “out to get” us?

Although I agree that government should not tell us we have to buy health insurance. . .what do we do with people who CAN afford it, but choose not to purchase coverage and then rely on us taxpayers to foot their emergency room bills?

]]> By: huh http://www.northescambia.com/2010/12/health-care-law-struck-down-suit-to-continue-in-pensacola/comment-page-1#comment-63966 huh Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:59:16 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=38433#comment-63966 But when you make laws regulating them, people scream " government take over of the free market!!" But, insurance companies are out of control, its not your health that they care about. They are betting on you, if you get sick or need healthcare they lose, so they drop you or find another way around the issue Healthcare shouldn't be a betting game between companies , a sick person with cancer shouldn't have to worry about being dropped when they need the coverage. Or having medicines denied just because the health companies feel like. The problem is the healthcare companies have no compassion for you, or I, its all about profit, with disregard to your health. The biggest issue is you can't just change to better carrier or provider , like our free market suggests. Because they are all just as bad . I think the gov run health care program should not have subsided private providers and instead should have been an opt in program through the government. They could let people use the navel hospitals for basics to start. But when you make laws regulating them, people scream ” government take over of the free market!!” But, insurance companies are out of control, its not your health that they care about. They are betting on you, if you get sick or need healthcare they lose, so they drop you or find another way around the issue

Healthcare shouldn’t be a betting game between companies , a sick person with cancer shouldn’t have to worry about being dropped when they need the coverage. Or having medicines denied just because the health companies feel like.

The problem is the healthcare companies have no compassion for you, or I, its all about profit, with disregard to your health.

The biggest issue is you can’t just change to better carrier or provider , like our free market suggests. Because they are all just as bad .

I think the gov run health care program should not have subsided private providers and instead should have been an opt in program through the government. They could let people use the navel hospitals for basics to start.

]]> By: David Huie Green http://www.northescambia.com/2010/12/health-care-law-struck-down-suit-to-continue-in-pensacola/comment-page-1#comment-63960 David Huie Green Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:19:01 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=38433#comment-63960 REGARDING: " its a shame that corporations have such a hold on our country" Corporations are organizations of people even though many seem to think they are alien monsters who invaded us. They are us. Thus, when we say it is a shame they have such a hold on our country, we are really saying, It is a shame we have such a hold on our country. Exception: Corporations owned by non citizens. They actually ARE alien creatures among us. Even then, the individuals working for them are usually American citizens. That is why we need laws to keep all of them in line with our goals as a people, whatever those are. David thinking again REGARDING:
” its a shame that corporations have such a hold on our country”

Corporations are organizations of people even though many seem to think they are alien monsters who invaded us. They are us. Thus, when we say it is a shame they have such a hold on our country, we are really saying, It is a shame we have such a hold on our country.

Exception: Corporations owned by non citizens. They actually ARE alien creatures among us. Even then, the individuals working for them are usually American citizens. That is why we need laws to keep all of them in line with our goals as a people, whatever those are.

David thinking again

]]> By: huh http://www.northescambia.com/2010/12/health-care-law-struck-down-suit-to-continue-in-pensacola/comment-page-1#comment-63937 huh Tue, 14 Dec 2010 21:33:48 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=38433#comment-63937 I don't think people should be forced to pay private insurance companies. Since they were the original problem, they will just find new ways to hurt the public by denying coverage or raising rates. The public options would have given an alternative , they could have had a public option that just provided basic care (not cover everything but most basic things) As of now people with no insurance get sick, go to the ER, rack up a $1,000 bill for having a cold or something minor, and don't pay it, thats passed on to the tax payer and hospital anyway right? So might as well have basic coverage. I think it would have been nice If you have ever called a hospital and asked how much it will cost total for procedures , chances are they won't tell you. Why does a cat scan cost $800 and up when in india, on the same machine its $300? Public healthcare works great in the UK and Canada, plus they have a private health care option if they want to pay for that instead of the public care. People love it, of course the news media here wants you to think otherwise , and its a shame that corporations have such a hold on our country I don’t think people should be forced to pay private insurance companies. Since they were the original problem, they will just find new ways to hurt the public by denying coverage or raising rates.

The public options would have given an alternative , they could have had a public option that just provided basic care (not cover everything but most basic things)

As of now people with no insurance get sick, go to the ER, rack up a $1,000 bill for having a cold or something minor, and don’t pay it, thats passed on to the tax payer and hospital anyway right? So might as well have basic coverage. I think it would have been nice

If you have ever called a hospital and asked how much it will cost total for procedures , chances are they won’t tell you. Why does a cat scan cost $800 and up when in india, on the same machine its $300?

Public healthcare works great in the UK and Canada, plus they have a private health care option if they want to pay for that instead of the public care. People love it, of course the news media here wants you to think otherwise , and its a shame that corporations have such a hold on our country

]]> By: David Huie Green http://www.northescambia.com/2010/12/health-care-law-struck-down-suit-to-continue-in-pensacola/comment-page-1#comment-63931 David Huie Green Tue, 14 Dec 2010 20:46:24 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=38433#comment-63931 Whenever two different federal judges come up with opposite rulings on the same matter, the only resolutions are to rewrite the law to be acceptable to all, or to take the dispute to the Supreme Court to determine which one--if either--is actually right under the Constitution, the supreme law of the land. Any law which violates the Constitution is an illegal law and null. We've done so many things the Constitution forbids, it's interesting to see one pointed out this is one of them. It doesn't matter if it is a good thing or not, just whether or not it is lawful. If it is unlawful, it can be rewritten in some other manner but Congressional Democrats insist forcing everybody to carry health insurance is absolutely necessary for the thing to work at all. The other solution is that the United States can amend the Constitution to make it legal. This would extend the power of the federal government even more over our lives, but it is a lawful means of making the act legal under those circumstances--if the People agree. David wondering how they would amend the Constitution in this case Whenever two different federal judges come up with opposite rulings on the same matter, the only resolutions are to rewrite the law to be acceptable to all, or to take the dispute to the Supreme Court to determine which one–if either–is actually right under the Constitution, the supreme law of the land.

Any law which violates the Constitution is an illegal law and null. We’ve done so many things the Constitution forbids, it’s interesting to see one pointed out this is one of them. It doesn’t matter if it is a good thing or not, just whether or not it is lawful.

If it is unlawful, it can be rewritten in some other manner but Congressional Democrats insist forcing everybody to carry health insurance is absolutely necessary for the thing to work at all. The other solution is that the United States can amend the Constitution to make it legal. This would extend the power of the federal government even more over our lives, but it is a lawful means of making the act legal under those circumstances–if the People agree.

David wondering
how they would amend
the Constitution
in this case

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