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Comments on: Wisconsin Has The Model https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/07/12/wisconsin-has-the-model/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Fri, 27 Jul 2007 09:14:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Addictions https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/07/12/wisconsin-has-the-model/comment-page-1/#comment-27998 Fri, 27 Jul 2007 09:14:27 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/07/12/wisconsin-has-the-model/#comment-27998 Addictions…

Addictions…

]]> By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/07/12/wisconsin-has-the-model/comment-page-1/#comment-27619 Fri, 13 Jul 2007 21:30:19 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/07/12/wisconsin-has-the-model/#comment-27619 The guy in charge of Medicare and Medicaid makes slightly more the $150K/year, while the CEO of the largest private health insurance corporation make about $124M. Tell me again about private industry efficiency.

The Wisconsin plan is a model and an important first step, but we have to get off the dime and do something. Having over 40 million people with no medical coverage is a recipe for a public health disaster.

Hospitals and doctors should be backing this as they will no longer have to hire collection agencies or go to court to recover from uninsured people. Additional savings will be realized by smaller business offices as a result of simpler billing procedures.

]]> By: Steve Bates https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/07/12/wisconsin-has-the-model/comment-page-1/#comment-27613 Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:29:33 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/07/12/wisconsin-has-the-model/#comment-27613 Unconstitutional, hipparchia? I doubt it: “consistent with ancient tradition” is more like it. Mark Twain remarked that “Whiskey is carried into committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues.” If laws made by members under the influence of recreational drugs were unconstitutional, we probably would have no laws at all.

]]> By: hipparchia https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/07/12/wisconsin-has-the-model/comment-page-1/#comment-27607 Fri, 13 Jul 2007 07:02:36 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/07/12/wisconsin-has-the-model/#comment-27607 plus, they don’t shoot cats there.

the wisconsin plan looks great, but now that i see that tne report is from the lewin group, i want to look more closely at it. i’m still working my way through their health benefits simulation model, and i still have some questions about their comparison of 10 different health care proposals [you can scroll down to p10 for a summary chart].

i dunno, i’m thinking sober isn’t the way to go, and that we should spike the 61’s kool-aid with some lsd and then call for a vote. i suppose there’s a danger that drugging them to get our way would make it unconstitutional or something, though.

]]> By: oldwhitelady https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/07/12/wisconsin-has-the-model/comment-page-1/#comment-27605 Fri, 13 Jul 2007 04:48:32 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/07/12/wisconsin-has-the-model/#comment-27605 We have to have 61 “sober” Senators to get anything meaningful done, and that will not be easy.
Ha! Sober in more ways than just kicking the habit of insurance and Big Pharma. They certainly need that 12 step program. I guess they could work one thing at a time.

]]> By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/07/12/wisconsin-has-the-model/comment-page-1/#comment-27604 Fri, 13 Jul 2007 03:59:31 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/07/12/wisconsin-has-the-model/#comment-27604 One of the ways of introducing them to a higher power would be a recorded vote on HR 676 before the 2008 election. Let them explain their choice to their constituents.

]]> By: Steve Bates https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/07/12/wisconsin-has-the-model/comment-page-1/#comment-27602 Fri, 13 Jul 2007 03:34:46 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/07/12/wisconsin-has-the-model/#comment-27602 If they could only begin by turning their lives over to a higher power…

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