KissyKissy says the Beltway reporter

Comment re For Baucus, health care is the issue of a lifetime http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/23/
AR2009052301893_Comments.html


Good grief, Washington Post. You've reminded me again never to underestimate the delusional mindset that often overcomes Beltway newspaper reporters. Anyone who can write about Baucus without mentioning his obligations to those who fund his political campaigns is missing the point. By a wide margin. Baucus receives more money from the drug and health insurance companies than any other Democrat in the Senate or the House. So it is no surprise that his recent superficially complex proposals mask love letters to the HMO interests. If the Times falls, is the Post next?
5/25/2009 2:08:36 AM

ObamaCare

•What He's Learned
A Conversation with Barack Obama
By Jon Meacham | NEWSWEEK
Published May 16, 2009
From the magazine issue dated May 25, 2009
http://www.newsweek.com/id/197891/CommentSuccess/false#CommentBox

•• COMMENT
Nonsense. Obama's ignorance about health care is being writ large across the nation. Many people are going to catch on: ObamaCare means:
• an overall decline in quality of care for the vast majority of low-income and middle-income Americans;
• Continued high quality care for the upper-middle class, the rich and the political class.
• little or no change in costs for consumers ... you pay less, you get less .. then you get sick and pay more;
• reduced reimbursements for providers;
• reduced benefits for consumers;
• few or no consumer protections;
• Hostility and ignorance toward people with politically incorrect chronic or disabling health problems;
• Universal managed care.
• No thanks.

Date: May 4, 2009 5:55:59 AM EDT
To: letters@nytimes.com
Subject: letter to

"Where did all the doctors go?" (Letters, May 4) is more nonsense promoted by the HMO lobby and its dupes in the media. Should we pay people more when they are less educated, less trained and less experienced than people who know more, train longer and have more experience? Only in the dreamland inhabited by the puppets programmed by the HMO propaganda machine. More than a third of our population has a chronic or disabling health problem that requires expert care by a specialist serving as a principal (not primary) care provider. Most specialists are doubly credentialed, in internal medicine and in their specialty, and are more than capable of doing both jobs. It's time for an end to the attacks on them by the less deserving and jealous MDs. They have made their own bed of nails. Let them lie in it. Nobody put a gun to their heads and forced them to choose to serve a less needy and healthier population requiring simpler services. And nobody guaranteed them equal pay for less work.