Alexander:

Huckabee and plot?
where in the Bible it was said to plot?

The King:

McCain will be the Republican nominee so Huckabee’s health care plot (if he has one) is irrelevant, since it won’t be place into action.

southarkansas:

i live in arkansas and dont see where he has helped the working class any

cashflowchris1:

I have a health care plot that facility. Its called get off your a$$ and get a job. pay for your own health care like most of us do and stop looking for the government and other tax payers to come to your rescue.
I don’t mind selection those who need it but I can’t stand paying for the people that abuse it. They tend to make up the majority.
What we need is less government, not more government.
If you reckon UHC is a excellent thought then why don’t you and everyone else who thinks it’s a excellent thought volunteer to pay extra taxes and pick up the tab!?

AAAH CHOOOO (SNEEZE):

does he even have a plot at all???

heyteach:

“We can make health care more affordable by reforming medical liability; adopting electronic confirmation keeping; making health insurance more portable from one job to a further; expanding health savings accounts to everyone, not just those with high deductibles; and making health insurance tax deductible for individuals and families as it now is for businesses. Low returns families would get tax credits instead of deductions. We don’t need all the government controls that would inevitably come with complete health care. When I’m President, Americans will have more control of their health care options, not less.

I also value the states’ role as laboratories for new market-based approaches, and I will encourage those efforts. As President I will work with the private sector, Congress, health care providers, and other concerned parties to lead a complete overhaul of our health care system, not more of the same, paid for by Uncle Sam at the expense of hard-working families.”
http://www.mikehuckabee.com/?FuseAction=Issues.View&Issue_id=8

Frankly, he’s closer than the Dems to solving the problem because the problems are the government meddling AND the violation of law routinely by large insurers. Fix that and you’ve got a lot of the problem solved.

“While growing into a colossus, UnitedHealth has repeatedly failed to perform its basic job of paying medical bills. UnitedHealth, which covers 70 million Americans, has been sanctioned in nine states for paying claims slowly; shortchanging doctors, hospitals, or patients; or poorly handling complaints and appeals.
One Nebraska woman complained to state regulators that UnitedHealth’s computers had incorrectly rejected claims related to her son’s surgery six times.
At one point, UnitedHealth owed Dr. George Schroedinger, an orthopedic general practitioner, $600,000. He and his clinic sued UnitedHealth of the Midwest in 2004.
Deciding for the clinic, U.S. District Judge Stephen Limbaugh of Missouri declared that the company’s claims processing systems were “flawed in many ways, denying, sinking, and improperly processing claims on a regular basis. And despite immeasurable requests, United was unwilling to remedy the underlying errors in its systems” (Star-Tribune Dec. 12, 2007).
Payment troubles continued after the verdict, and Dr. Schroedinger filed a following complaint. “These people can never get it right, which says to me that they just unadorned lie,” he said in an interview.
Failure to pay isn’t the only complaint. The insurer also gives incorrect information on which physicians are in its network, making enormous problems for physicians’ staff.
The AMA said that no other insurer has prompted as many complaints as UnitedHealth in this area abusive and unfair payment practices. AMA officials have met with UnitedHealth executives 16 times since 2000, with small to show for it.
“They have always got a new plot to fix it,” said Dr. William G. Plested III, past president of the AMA. But “nothing ever happens.”
It seems to us that this case is just the tip of the insurance iceberg. More and more tales are appearing day after day in the news media in this area how insurance company are instructing employees their jobs are to deny claims and/or falter payments.
With such a high percentage of medical premiums and other costs going to the legal profession, to keep up falling in line with endless government rules/set of laws and being hoarded by the insurance companies and executives — is it any wonder medical costs are increasing so dramatically?
It’s time to take a closer look at the medical insurance companies.
UnitedHealth Group is not the first medical insurance company to rob patients, hospitals and clinics to pay obscene salaries to their executives.
It’s a modern day robbing patients to pay pimps.
Michael Arnold Glueck, M.D., comments on medical-legal issues and is a visiting fellow in economics and residency at the International Trade Education Foundation of the Washington International Trade Council.
Robert J. Cihak, M.D., is a senior fellow and board member of the Discovery Institute and a past president of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons.
http://www.newsmax.com/medicine_men/medical_insurance/2008/01/03/61543.html

READ:
http://www.azcentral.com/community/gilbert/articles/0217er17.html
A doctor owned and run hospital that sees everyone gets care, no matter what happens to the bottom line.

http://www.simplecare.com/ a doctor-driven group where reasonable rates are exciting.

Note you can go to a walk-in clinic at Wal-Mart or CVS or the like in many cities and get many of the most typical reasons for seeing a doc addressed for under $100.

The price of LASIK has DROPPED dramatically over a decade. Plastic surgery is CHEAP. Compare a major procedure like a tummy tuck with the bill an uninsured patient will get for a medically de rigueur appendectomy WITHOUT complications.

Free market which we don’t have would work.