16 Responses to “What Would The Republicans Have As An Issue If Health Care Reform Passes And Medical Costs Go Down?”

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   Greg said on Saturday, August 8, 2009, 3:45

   What good is lower health care cost when you won’t be able to get the care you need? It’s called “rationed health care”, which is why droves of people come to the U.S. for care.
   Check out Canada where they can’t get MRI’s, check out Great Britain where they have rotten yellow teeth because they don’t have enough dentitsts. Hey, it’s free….cool.
   I guess it seems people from Canada and Great Britain just like traveling and paying cash for medical services in the U.S. Kind of strange isn’t it?
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   Marvin the Martian said on Saturday, August 8, 2009, 8:06

   You may be confusing prices and costs. A price is the amount of money the buyer of the medical service pays, while the cost is the amount of resources that are actually consumed.
   For instance. The government orders doctors to perform a life saving service for half the price they were once charging. The best doctors have been using expensive techniques and just bail out, they find it cheaper and less hassle, to make strip queens out of insecure young women. Other doctors cut corners. Then a few people die. So the government raises taxes to make up the difference, but this pushes people out of work. So the true cost of this health care is a couple bodies and a bunch of unemployed. On the plus side the Queue sisters, Suzie and Barbi are now really popular with the boyz.
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   DAR said on Saturday, August 8, 2009, 11:48

   That would only happen with outright price controls and would lead to medical brain flight.
   It won’t happen. The REASON medical care, like education, costs have gone up is BECAUSE the government is involved. Them and insurance companies. Control needs to be given back to the patient as it was before the 70s.
   Ron Paul’s plan would do this. Obama’s wouldn’t.
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   Tired Trucker said on Saturday, August 8, 2009, 13:52

   Economics laws are like physics laws. You cannot break them regardless of how popular your president is. Your scenario is like saying Obama is going to drop a stone and it will fall to the surface of the moon. It can’t happen. Costs are rising because of government interference in the free market. More interference is not going to solve anything, only make matters worse.
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   C B said on Saturday, August 8, 2009, 17:53

   Ha ha ha ha
   When has anything from the government been cheaper.
   And this time next year, we might be bankrupt like California, that’s a safer bet.
   there are about 1400 insurance companies in America, plenty of competition.
   That’s not the problem
6. 

   Bobby said on Saturday, August 8, 2009, 18:19

   Costs can’t magically go down. Companies are holding off on expansion as we speak because they don’t know what added burdens Obama is heaping on them. Fear of govt medicine and ‘cap n trade’ are holding down the economy. Read a book
7. 

   njgrl622 said on Saturday, August 8, 2009, 23:39

   The QUALITY of health care will be horrible….try waiting 8 weeks after a cancer diagnosis to start radiation, that’s what they do to patients in Europe and Canada. Why do you think they all come here???
8. 

   Gee Whillakers said on Sunday, August 9, 2009, 0:03

   The elderly will be the ones to suffer in the health care reform Obama is planning.
   When asked about it in public, he dodges the question.
9. 

   Cyrus T said on Sunday, August 9, 2009, 0:25

   medical costs go down!, Ever heard of the $800 hammer?
   9 most feared words… “I’m from the government and I’m here to help”. quote from Ronald Reagan.
10. 

    Shovel Ready said on Sunday, August 9, 2009, 6:10

    You have no historical basis for saying that the economy will recover from a policy of rampant pork spending.
11. 

    what ever said on Sunday, August 9, 2009, 10:08

    you mean when health care is forced on us or at least 1/3 of those that need it but it is cheaper to pay the $1000 fine then health care coverage
12. 

    how_woul said on Sunday, August 9, 2009, 10:13

    And the sky could soon be filled with flying pigs too.
    The Obama recession is just getting started.
13. 

    Nikki said on Sunday, August 9, 2009, 10:19

    & if I win the Powerball I won’t have to worry about health care at all.
14. 

    Reporter said on Sunday, August 9, 2009, 14:07

    It will piss them off that they have to come up with a new scam.
15. 

    Michael P in NJ said on Sunday, August 9, 2009, 14:45

    Their favorite four-letter word: GUNS! They cling to them!
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    Sunshine said on Sunday, August 9, 2009, 15:22

    They always find something, they’ll probably go back to bashing gays, that’s one of their favorites when they have nothing else.
    There are numerous, readily available sources on nationalized healthcare options. All of the other developed countries have far superior healthcare for about 1/2 the cost. It’s the administrative costs of the HMO’s that are driving up expenses, as determined in study after study. It blows my mind that they are still arguing these baseless rants.