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- Leslie Marshall
- Leslie Marshall is no newcomer to the world of talk radio; she has been a radio talk host for over 19 years and a pundit on national television for the past 5 years. Leslie became the youngest person ever to be nationally syndicated on radio when she replaced Tom Snyder on the ABC Satellite Radio Network in 1992. She was also the first woman to host an issues oriented program nationwide.Leslie continues to be seen on television each week on the Fox News Channel and also each week on CNBC’s Kudlow& Company. She is a regular contributor on CNN’s Showbiz tonight, as well as the O’Reilly Factor, Hannity & Colmes, The Neil Cavuto Show, The John Gibson show, all on Fox. She was formerly a Varsity Panel Member on the Dennis Miller Show on CNBC.. Leslie has also been seen on Scarborough Country on MSNBC. Leslie lives in the Los Angeles area with her husband, son and their cat. Her passions ( in addition to talk radio) are travel, friends and shoes of course! You can find out where Leslie is appearing next on her website: www.lesliemarshall.us
There is no "health care reform bill" in the Congress. This is simply a Socialist attempt at MORE Government control of the economy and a eugenic system that will allow control that will lead to a Dictatorship no different than that of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.
ReplyDelete"Health care reform" and Obama MUST BE STOPPED NOW!!!!!
Alex Burford: AmericanEagle2076@gmail.com
Even if there is a health care reform bill in Congress the scary part is that in the process of negotiation, key elements can be stripped from bills effecting the bill's ressults but are OK'd because it was in exchange for something unrelated..
ReplyDeleteExample: One of the Chrysler bailouts was attached to the Iraq spending bills.
The Coalition to Protect Patients’ Rights is giving the President, legislators, and the American people a “Second Opinion” on how to fix our healthcare system. The Coalition is a growing group of more than 10,000 doctors and healthcare professionals from across the country who are concerned about the ongoing healthcare reform debate.
ReplyDeleteOn October 5, President Obama invited doctors to the White House to participate in an event to help him promote his version of health system reform. Unfortunately, representatives from the Coalition to Protect Patients’ Rights were not invited.
Now representatives from the Coalition to Protect Patients’ Rights are in Washington to provide insight to elected representatives as they consider health reform legislation. The Coalition is offering a “Second Opinion” on healthcare reform with a two-day Fly-In which will include a press conference at the Capitol and visits with elected officials.
Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2009
The Coalition to Protect Patients’ Rights supports reform that will help improve the system, but is concerned that legislators are simply in a rush to reform for reform’s sake. The Coalition has laid out a number of principles and ideas that would help benefit the healthcare system, including:
We have the best healthcare in the world.
The government-controlled public option is bad policy and divisive to the overall debate. This should be taken off the table.
Already Medicare reimburses less than the cost of providing many services. There shouldn’t be any cuts to Medicare.
We should expand access to healthcare to the uninsured. There are market-based approaches that can accomplish this goal without a complete government overhaul.
Government should continue to fund and otherwise support medical research.
The surest and quickest way to slow the healthcare cost curve is through comprehensive medical malpractice reform.
Your question presupposes the Healthcare bills in congress now will reform Healthcare. If "reform" includes "dismantle," the public option need not be present for devastating reform.
ReplyDeleteThe bill(s) in Congress are (like most bills) too politicized and too concerned with appeasing special interest groups instead of fulfilling the public need.
ReplyDeletepoliticians should rush such bills through congress. Healthcare should be broken down and examined for proper solutions. If rushed through without reading,it will only add to more anger that is already out there.
ReplyDeletelets stop chating and start doing something:
ReplyDeleteI want a strong public health care bill !!! those who oppose this are in the minority !!the rich insurance industry who also own the media, are the problem :
It is dividing this nation for the sake of the dollar-money is the only thing stopping this > the Media needs to Back-off @
Leslie Marshall is a Fartshall-she also farts & poos, which is why her name is Leslie Fartshall.
ReplyDeleteThe question is a leading question and assumes that the health reform bill will, in some way, cause positive change. First, they have not defined a "public option" you think it will be a government run plan, but "public" can mean exchanges, etc. Second the last time I heard anything on the public option, they were going to use the medical reimbursement of Medicare or Medicare + 5%. As Medicare only reimburses about 80% of the actual cost of care and most private insurers pay Medicare + 20% or M + 30%, there is an immediate disconnect. If this is the case, then all insurance companies should drop their networks and pay exactly the same reimbusement as the public option. That way it is a more level playing field.
ReplyDeleteRemember, the elephant in the room is the cost of health care, not cost of health insurance (as insurance is only the financing of the cost). If we don't tame the cost, then the system implodes in 5 years.
A couple of thoughts to include in the reform. 1. pay doctors a salary. Most would love this. Then they can focus on medicine.
2. Use Nurse Practitioners as the first line for most people. 80% of all issues can be treated by a NP.
3. Have the American Medical Association come up with best practices for those issues that they have enough information to do this with. Doctors should not be able to be sued if they follow those best practices. One would be ALWAYS prescribe a generic medication first unless there is a good reason (which needs to be written into the medical record) to use a brand name drug. It still gives the doctor discretion.
Next, federally tax all punitive damages at 100% above $1 million dollars. Punitive damages are NOT designed to enrich the plantiff or the attorneys and compensatory damages are designed to compensate the plaintiff. This would fundamentally alter the whole legal industry.
I'd also like to see a tax on fatty/sugary foods.
Just some thougths.
That is a very misleading question. The obvious answer to it is NO, they won't reform it with out a public option, and it is misleading because neither will they reform it with a public option. The bills are terrible.
ReplyDeleteHello: What we have is a Bill which in a few years will cost us 12 Trillon dollars,and who is going to pay for this,you can only Tax the Wealthy so much.You and I will be paying for this.The Stimulus has not done anything and the figures are being bloated to show job growth,when there has been none.And this Health Care Fiasco will bankrupt us.The Problem is the lack of regulation on the Insurance companies,not the Government taking over Health Care.Or the Government taking over anything.
ReplyDeleteThe "Health Care" bill about to be forced on the American people needs to be run through a shredder. Nothing that the President has promised will be accomplished. We will have more expensive but worse health care. The additional trillions of dollars of debt will further weaken the U.S. dollar. Doctors and Hospitals will stop accepting Medicare patients, and we will see increased waits for services (if not denied to us because of age or disease). The "un-insured" will remain "un-insured", so what is the real point to this exercise in futility?
ReplyDeleteThe one thing this bill will do is to destroy the democratic party for decades to come.
Gene
The only thing I feel at tis moment is to get into a quarte position and defend tis great union from all the turnips on Jenkin's Hill tat are trying to run my life.
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