Pat Roberts Pleads For Three-Day Delay So Lobbyists Can Read Health Care Legislation (VIDEO) »
Posted By bluetexasvalley 2 months ago in Political NewsSenate Finance Committee member Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) earnestly pleaded on Wednesday for the committee to delay a vote on its version of health care reform until after the proposed legislation has been up on the committee's website for at least three days. "The thing I'm trying to point out," said Roberts, "is that we would have at least 72 hours for the people that the providers have hired to keep up with all of the legislation that we pass around here, and the regulations that we pass around here, to say, 'Hey, wait a minute. Have you considered this?' That's all I'm asking for."
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bluetexasvalley2 months ago
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FTA:
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Hard to imagine that "the people that the providers have hired to keep up with all of the legislation" means anything other than lobbyists from the health industry.
The statement is odd not only for its candor, but also for the fact that as far as anyone knows, the lobbyists are the ones writing the finance committee's bill to begin with. They should be pretty familiar with what's in there by now. -
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Radiofreeeuropa2 months ago
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The finance committee bill is poor, it was written on K street and I doubt anyone but Bauchus will vote for it as is. What we actually end up with may not look anything like that though.
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http://www.usconstitution.net/consttop_law.html
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engineer2 months ago
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Pat Roberts must be investigated for the alleged bribes he must be getting from this unscrupulous group of lobbyists.
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The pharmaceutical industry made $300 profit for every person in the United States
If you take out the prescription drug adverting, which at one time was illegal to advertise, it would be $600 per person or $70 per week 'profit' for every 4 person family. -- What thieves!!!-
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wtagg2 months ago
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You have to remember that other industries thrive also. The media is the perfect example.
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Why do they advertise to the public in the first place? The only rationale is to have patients ask for drugs to be administered vs. the doctor making that decision. That is a dangerous precipice we are currently hovering over.
To continue that, why are we subjected to a 90 second commercial of what is or isn't about something like Celebrex? That information should be directed at the health care professionals that prescribe such prescriptions. Do they not make the decision of prescribing treatment? It seems that we are on the path of self-prescription. -
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BB642 months ago
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I find it funny that the party that accuses insurance companies of padding contracts with fine print refuses to let anyone actually read their bill ending private health insurance with a national death plan.
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I'd like to see how they define terminal illnesses and define what treatments are covered. I think people with Aids, HIV, Parkinson's, arthritis, Cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer's and other illnesses will be treated. According to the definitions in the House's version, they would be treated for pain but nothing else. Especially when it comes to the "terminal" cases, people who know from diagnosis, they will die from the disease. They promised to reduce costs, that would mean dumping expensive treatments. It's done that way in Canada, France and the UK, it would here too.
So instead of attacking insurance companies, why not publish your wonder program and the magical way it will take care of everyone. Or is your program that bad, you can't possibly let people read it for themselves?-
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antibrainwasher2 months ago
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Why is 75% of all advertising on TV pharma cures for repug boner epic failure?
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Who owns insurance companies? Do you really think all those repug insurance execs., playing golf at the country clubs, with their 20 year younger third wife, are interested in progressive medical research, pure biological research in cancer or aids or heart disease or womens mecical condition? No, dear, they need to pork their blonde 25 year old wives while playing country club golf 5 days a week with their 60 year old limp scotch saturated Cheney. -
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Beau78902 months ago
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I know I've told you this before, but apparently nothing sinks in.
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All of the healthcare reform bills before Congress are freely available to read online. If you'd like, I'll post links to them once again for you.
If you haven't read any of the reform legislation, you have no one to blame but yourself.
And there are no "national death plans" in them. You'd know that if you read the bills.
Why do you and others continue to lie about healthcare reform bills?
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harpro2072 months ago
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They promised to reduce costs, that would mean dumping expensive treatments. It's done that way in Canada, France and the UK, it would here too.<
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The average life span in Canada and France is three years longer than in the US. In the UK, it's one year lionger. The per capita cost for health care in each of those countries is half what it is in the US and everyone is covered. All three of those countries have a representative form of government. Everytime change to a health care system like ours has been proposed in those countries, it has been crushed.-
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Radiofreeeuropa2 months ago
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BB64,
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Ever hear of "the google"?
You can and should 5read the bills, they are posted.
(Look for a .gov site though not a Limbaugh blogger if you are sincere in wanting to know facts, many posters here are not. Facts get in the way of their claims...best to ignore them). -
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Radiofreeeuropa2 months ago
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The average American pays roughly 30% in taxes. The average Brit pays 38%.
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They have free excellent healthcare. And numerous publicly funded services we don't.
There are publicly funded schools and privately funded schools...both exist without conflict.
Why assume publicly funded healthcare will force private healthcare out of business? If private insurance is so much better and more efficient than government could provide as is claimed, wouldn't most choose their private company? The fear is that the public plan will be better at a much lower cost.
Businesses in the 3 countries mentioned do not shoulder the cost of health plans for their employees, US businesses do. If your pro business, why don't you want American businesses to be able to compete in the global market?
I've heard no serious complaints from any Canadian, French, or British Citizen about their national health care...only 2nd or 3rd hand accountsthat are not verifiable from people who have never lived in these countries and have no experience whatsoever with their health care.
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crespi2 months ago
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I watched Reverend Pat "Blood Diamond" Robertson PRAY TO GOD for World War III to begin on his television program.
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He also laced our government with over one hundred Fundamentalist fanatics from his phony "university" who are openly anti-Democracy.
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Radiofreeeuropa2 months ago
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Another crappy result of deregulation. Doctors SHOULD be the ones who decide what prescription drugs are best for the patient. Advertisements ( Advertising is a business expense for pharma...deductible...want to blow money promoting your boner pills instead of paying taxes? You bet!) Pharma advertising is so pervasive, media certainly has a vested interest in keeping the status quo as well. I can't think of a single instance where deregulation since the 80s benefited the citizens. It made existing empires bigger, allowed foreigners to own our news outlets (prohibited before Newt Gingrich successfully lobbied for Rupert Murdoch who was an Australian national), and lowered journalistic standards. (Fox News fought and won the right to lie as protected under the 1st amendment). Where was all this concern about deficit spending from the right when Bush DOUBLED the already inane national debt?
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And for what? Tax breaks for millionaires and an ill conceived unnecessary war.
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