Comments for Healthcare Thoughts http://healthcarethoughts.com observations on healthcare, technology and the American way by Brian Sharp Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:30:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 Comment on Playing Politics with Healthcare by Sean http://healthcarethoughts.com/2009/09/30/playing-politics-with-healthcare/#comment-273 Sean Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:40:22 +0000 http://healthcarethoughts.com/2009/09/30/playing-politics-with-healthcare/#comment-273 Your company is taking a 23% discount off our workers comp claims. We disassociated ourselves from your w/c products in October of 2005. I have left voicemails for the people who are supposed to address this. No one seems to be able to answer their phones this morning. Your company is taking a 23% discount off our workers comp claims. We disassociated ourselves from your w/c products in October of 2005. I have left voicemails for the people who are supposed to address this. No one seems to be able to answer their phones this morning.

]]> Comment on Healthcare Blogs And Their Liberal Point of View by My Domain http://healthcarethoughts.com/2007/11/10/healthcare-blogs-and-their-liberal-point-of-view/#comment-272 My Domain Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:19:45 +0000 http://healthcarethoughts.com/2007/11/10/healthcare-blogs-and-their-liberal-point-of-view/#comment-272 <strong>Joe</strong> Check out my domain sometime. Joe

Check out my domain sometime.

]]> Comment on Proposed Healthcare Flow Chart From Dems by Esther @ ftd florist http://healthcarethoughts.com/2009/07/15/59/#comment-260 Esther @ ftd florist Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:44:07 +0000 http://healthcarethoughts.com/2009/07/15/59/#comment-260 I've been inquiring the web for my research on this field. I'm so appreciative of what you shared bestows a new attribute to the information I'm accumulating. I really appreciate the way which you look at this field, it offer me a unique means of seeing at it now. Thanks for the share. I’ve been inquiring the web for my research on this field. I’m so appreciative of what you shared bestows a new attribute to the information I’m accumulating. I really appreciate the way which you look at this field, it offer me a unique means of seeing at it now. Thanks for the share.

]]> Comment on A Dr. Point of View on Healthcare reform by Anne http://healthcarethoughts.com/2009/08/31/a-dr-point-of-view-on-healthcare-reform/#comment-259 Anne Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:44:27 +0000 http://healthcarethoughts.com/2009/08/31/a-dr-point-of-view-on-healthcare-reform/#comment-259 this is awesome this is awesome

]]> Comment on The Common Sense Factor by Sandi http://healthcarethoughts.com/2009/09/10/the-common-sense-factor/#comment-188 Sandi Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:00:30 +0000 http://healthcarethoughts.com/2009/09/10/the-common-sense-factor/#comment-188 I feel Obama is a very articulate and interesting speaker. Most are so monotone you're bored to death in the first two minutes. I am always intrigued by his speaking manner and watch the entire speech rather than flipping the channel after five minutes. There are still a lot of unanswered questions from me, but he is right when he said the partisanship needs to end and both sides need to work together for a solution. They need to stop with the scare tactics and smearing and focus on the real issue, which is rising healthcare costs to both employers and consumers both, let the doctors dictate what procedures are medically necessary and not the insurance companies, cover pre-existing conditions and stop dropping insureds when they get sick and need the coverage the most. I think they need to also address life insurance companies doing the same. A long story, but a very popular life insurance company dropped my dad because he is 69. They told him he is no longer eligible since he is over 64 years of age, but they took his money every three months from the age of 64 to 69 without ever telling him he was not elegible. The quacking duck got one over on my dad big time (in the tune of roughly $5K), and I will be writing the President about my concerns over this issue and my unanswered healthcare questions. They should have told him when he turned 64 that he was no longer eligible rather than continuing to deposit his social security checks, which is basically what they did!! I feel Obama is a very articulate and interesting speaker. Most are so monotone you’re bored to death in the first two minutes. I am always intrigued by his speaking manner and watch the entire speech rather than flipping the channel after five minutes. There are still a lot of unanswered questions from me, but he is right when he said the partisanship needs to end and both sides need to work together for a solution. They need to stop with the scare tactics and smearing and focus on the real issue, which is rising healthcare costs to both employers and consumers both, let the doctors dictate what procedures are medically necessary and not the insurance companies, cover pre-existing conditions and stop dropping insureds when they get sick and need the coverage the most. I think they need to also address life insurance companies doing the same. A long story, but a very popular life insurance company dropped my dad because he is 69. They told him he is no longer eligible since he is over 64 years of age, but they took his money every three months from the age of 64 to 69 without ever telling him he was not elegible. The quacking duck got one over on my dad big time (in the tune of roughly $5K), and I will be writing the President about my concerns over this issue and my unanswered healthcare questions. They should have told him when he turned 64 that he was no longer eligible rather than continuing to deposit his social security checks, which is basically what they did!!

]]> Comment on Unemployment hits 9.7% by Mandy Milan http://healthcarethoughts.com/2009/09/04/unemployment-hits-97/#comment-187 Mandy Milan Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:48:36 +0000 http://healthcarethoughts.com/2009/09/04/unemployment-hits-97/#comment-187 I believe a second recession is inevitable. The mortgage ARMs are going to hit in 2010-2011 causing another wave of foreclosures. We'll be lucky to pull out of that by 2013. I believe a second recession is inevitable. The mortgage ARMs are going to hit in 2010-2011 causing another wave of foreclosures. We’ll be lucky to pull out of that by 2013.

]]> Comment on The Idea of Cooperatives For Healthcare by Richard Yadon, CPC, CERS http://healthcarethoughts.com/2009/08/27/the-idea-of-cooperatives-for-healthcare/#comment-181 Richard Yadon, CPC, CERS Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:41:39 +0000 http://healthcarethoughts.com/2009/08/27/the-idea-of-cooperatives-for-healthcare/#comment-181 Another resource we just posted to our website's homepage is great tool to use for viewing the current legislature in Congress as a side-by-side comparison of the Major Health care Reform Proposals. Whether you work in a skilled nursing facility, acute care setting or managed care organization, be sure to check out HR3200, as it may have an impact on everyone. Another resource we just posted to our website’s homepage is great tool to use for viewing the current legislature in Congress as a side-by-side comparison of the Major Health care Reform Proposals. Whether you work in a skilled nursing facility, acute care setting or managed care organization, be sure to check out HR3200, as it may have an impact on everyone.

]]> Comment on Tenncare and The National Healthcare Debate by Brian Sharp http://healthcarethoughts.com/2009/08/21/tenncare-and-the-national-healthcare-debate/#comment-179 Brian Sharp Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:26:48 +0000 http://healthcarethoughts.com/2009/08/21/tenncare-and-the-national-healthcare-debate/#comment-179 Marsha Blackburn is a conservative. Marsha Blackburn is a conservative.

]]> Comment on Tenncare and The National Healthcare Debate by Mickey http://healthcarethoughts.com/2009/08/21/tenncare-and-the-national-healthcare-debate/#comment-176 Mickey Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:33:58 +0000 http://healthcarethoughts.com/2009/08/21/tenncare-and-the-national-healthcare-debate/#comment-176 Prescription Drug Benefit. The final version (conference report) of H.R. 1 would create a prescription drug benefit for Medicare recipients. Beginning in 2006, prescription coverage would be available to seniors through private insurers for a monthly premium estimated at $35. There would be a $250 annual deductible, then 75 percent of drug costs up to $2,250 would be reimbursed. Drug costs greater than $2,250 would not be covered until out-ofpocket expenses exceeded $3,600, after which 95 percent of drug costs would be reimbursed. Low-income recipients would receive more subsidies than other seniors by paying lower premiums, having smaller deductibles, and making lower co-payments for each prescription. The total cost of the new prescription drug benefit would be limited to the $400 billion that Congress had budgeted earlier this year for the first 10 years of this new entitlement program. The House adopted the conference report on H.R. 1 on November 22, 2003 by a vote of 220 to 215 (Roll Call 669). Marsha Blackburn Voted FOR this bill. 108-2 (Source: The New American, December 29, 2003) Marsha Blackburn is my Congressman. She is no conservative. See her unconstitutional votes at : http://bluecollarrepublican.com/blog/?p=614 Mickey Prescription Drug Benefit.
The final version (conference report) of H.R. 1 would create a prescription drug benefit for Medicare recipients. Beginning in 2006, prescription coverage would be available to seniors through private insurers for a monthly premium estimated at $35. There would be a $250 annual deductible, then 75 percent of drug costs up to $2,250 would be reimbursed. Drug costs greater than $2,250 would not be covered until out-ofpocket expenses exceeded $3,600, after which 95 percent of drug costs would be reimbursed. Low-income recipients would receive more subsidies than other seniors by paying lower premiums, having smaller deductibles, and making lower co-payments for each prescription. The total cost of the new prescription drug benefit would be limited to the $400 billion that Congress had budgeted earlier this year for the first 10 years of this new entitlement program. The House adopted the conference report on H.R. 1 on November 22, 2003 by a vote of 220 to 215 (Roll Call 669).
Marsha Blackburn Voted FOR this bill.
108-2 (Source: The New American, December 29, 2003)
Marsha Blackburn is my Congressman.
She is no conservative.
See her unconstitutional votes at :
http://bluecollarrepublican.com/blog/?p=614
Mickey

]]> Comment on Will The Government Monitor Your Bank Accounts? by Brian Sharp http://healthcarethoughts.com/2009/08/19/will-the-government-monitor-your-bank-accounts/#comment-171 Brian Sharp Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:32:36 +0000 http://healthcarethoughts.com/2009/08/19/will-the-government-monitor-your-bank-accounts/#comment-171 I see your point and fully understand. The issue here in the way the bill is written is that the government may get full access to your electronic banking accounts with an ability to take money out on their time frame. We are talking about something very different that normal drafts from an account. This is the government controlling your account, not you giving permission for a draft to be taken out. The devil will be in the final bill that comes forth, but for me it serves as a major warning signal. If you are still not sure, read the book "1984" again. This is the concern that so many of us have. Thanks for the comments, love to see the participation on the blog. I see your point and fully understand. The issue here in the way the bill is written is that the government may get full access to your electronic banking accounts with an ability to take money out on their time frame. We are talking about something very different that normal drafts from an account. This is the government controlling your account, not you giving permission for a draft to be taken out.

The devil will be in the final bill that comes forth, but for me it serves as a major warning signal.

If you are still not sure, read the book “1984″ again. This is the concern that so many of us have.

Thanks for the comments, love to see the participation on the blog.

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