Community Health Care Discussion

Posted by Jeff Pruitt - 12/15/08 @ 4:31 pm - Filed Under Featured, Local Politics

From the press release:

HEALTH CARE COMMUNITY DISCUSSION
Monday, December 29, 2008 @ 7 PM at
the Unitarian Universalist Meetinghouse
5310 Old Mill Road, Fort Wayne, IN 46807

President-elect Barack Obama has asked all Americans to meet together to discuss the best ways to achieve quality, affordable health care for all.

The Northeast Indiana Chapter of Hoosiers for a Commonsense Health Plan will host the Health Care Community Discussion on Monday, December 29, 2008 @ 7 PM at the Unitarian Universalist Meetinghouse, 5310 Old Mill Road in Fort Wayne.

This is open to everyone in the community – please bring your ideas for change. Light refreshments will be served.

Also, if you feel drawn to do so, please bring a non-perishable item for a collection to be given to the Community Harvest Food Bank of Fort Wayne.

Comments

6 Responses to “Community Health Care Discussion”

Bobett on December 15th, 2008 5:59 pm

I think the state of Indiana should succeed from the Federal Government. We already take care of our locals, City, County & the State of Indiana
needs.

We need to focus!
Bobett on December 15th, 2008 6:09 pm

By the way this food drive is so on-going my heart bleeds. The same with the blood-drive for the American Red Cross.

Give.. Give…. Give…..
I’m with the program.

Yet, tell me where there is one scarifice in the United States Federal Government. I wish our Fair State Of Indiana will succeed. Our Federal governement is way out of control. It’s time to reign in their powers & corruptions.
gadfly on December 15th, 2008 6:39 pm

I agree with this editorial from today’s Washington Times, which sums up the situation nicely:

On the issue of health care, affordability and choice rule the day with conservatives. While we are in stark disagreement with Mr. Obama’s plan for “universal” health care, the one word that makes such overreaching plans even remotely palatable is “voluntary.” We oppose the enactment of any new government mandates or health-care entitlement programs. Medicaid and Medicare already have a lock on uncontrollable spending, and health-care costs for veterans are on the rise. The key to health-care reform is choice. Let the people who have health insurance keep it. An estimated 15 percent of the current population are without health insurance. The overwhelming majority of Americans are covered, and for them the number one issue is affordability, with accessibility a close second. Let the marketplace answer both calls. Beyond allowing Americans the option to choose health care, consideration must be given to addressing soaring health-care costs and permitting Americans to keep their insurance when they change jobs. President Obama - and his newly named health czar, Health and Human Services Secretary-designate Tom Daschle - must make these concerns part of the new administration’s agenda to reform health care. The government cannot possibly do for Americans what the marketplace can.

On the notion of controlling costs, we need to dispense with the middlemen …the HMO organizations that are fifth wheels just like unions in manufacturing. And we need to go back to paying for health care directly in order to manifestly show that market-based interaction is the only thing that will bring down prices in this monopolistic fixed-price industry where one practitioner sends you to another, to another, etc.
Bobett on December 15th, 2008 7:15 pm

What it will come down to is we can soak folks that have always paided for health/care/ insurance. Everyone should have health care and pay for it themselves.

Lets see we can capitalize on those that already pay & choose to take money out of their pay checks/plus many may capitalize on those employee sponsored health care insurance policies to cover
those not in the system.

Yes that’s the ticket. Let’s have all people be responsible for their up-keep. Ownership, personal responsibility will drive down the monopolistic fixed-priced health care industry.
City Resident on December 16th, 2008 9:24 am

Bobett,

I think you mean ’secede’ rather than succeed from the Federal government. Look it up. You’ve probably read about the last time a few states tried that. Nasty business, that was.

I’m a firm believer in self-reliance. However, I also realize that not everyone was dealt the same cards that I was in life. A blanket statement like yours is easy to write, but not at all realistic. Are you going to evict all of the WWII veterans and Grandmothers on Medicaid from the nursing homes? They aren’t paying their own way! It sure is easier to have “ideas” like yours while living the life out in Aboite.

By the way, I gave blood yesterday. If you haven’t in the last 56 days I’m sure the Red Cross can get you an appointment
Steve Gordon on December 16th, 2008 3:16 pm

The course of the discussion at this location could be very interesting. The Obama transition web site includes a paper recommending extreme changes to current abortion policies, both domestically and internationally when connected with U.S. funding. One of the signatories of this paper includes the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations. In the paper some of the recommendations made under the guise of health care includes: expanding abortion services domestically, increasing federal spending for national and international abortion services, total defunding of all U.S. abstinence programs in public schools, and filling all open federal judiciary appointments with judges that will support privacy issues (read: support abortion). Many of these policy recommendations are encouraged to happen during the first 100 days. The Obama administration did not write this paper, but since it is pposted on their web site would indicate major support of the recommendations.