Friday, January 2, 2009

Time to deliver on healthcare promises

-People are trying to convince Obama and his administration to prolong his healthcare reforms till things settle down with the current recession
-Obama is showing signs of going right into though
-It would be excellent for people to not fear losing their healthcare even if they lost their job
-Unemployed are canceling medical procedures and prescriptions to save money
-Elective surgery is going down
-In medical outcome, the US is nowhere near countries that have Universal Healthcare, like Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
- Conservatives in England did nothing to "do away" with socialized medicine. Like other socialized, fire, police and sewage, it becomes a permanent fixture.
- Obama may take healthcare reform slowly because he and administration have excellent healthcare already.
-A columnist said that a government run program would limit freedoms like choosing your own freedom or to make personal medical decision.
-Obama said that because his mother had to argue with health insurance companies when she was dying of cancer