By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist
A new NBC News poll shows why President Barack Obama's health care plan is in trouble: Americans are ignorant about key parts of it.
This won't come as a great surprise to supporters of reform.
They know the GOP as well as other backers of American's costly, ineffective health care system have spent millions on a media campaign to mislead America.
Straight from the NBC News poll story:
Majorities in the poll believe the plans would give health insurance coverage to illegal immigrants; would lead to a government takeover of the health system; and would use taxpayer dollars to pay for women to have abortions — all claims that nonpartisan fact-checkers say are untrue about the legislation that has emerged so far from Congress.
Oh, let's not forget the inane "death panels" charge made by former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and others.
Forty-five percent think the reform proposals would allow the government to make decisions about when to stop providing medical care for the elderly. That also is untrue: The provision in the House legislation that critics have seized on — raising the specter of “death panels” or euthanasia — would simply allow Medicare to pay doctors for end-of-life counseling, if the patient wishes.
Of course, one of the problems with all the misleading information put out by Republicans and other critics is this:
Obama and the Democrats have kowtowed to that campaign. Just last week, Democrats backed away from having end-of-life counseling be part of a Senate committee bill on health care.
Why? Because Palin's absurd charge had received so much publicity and because Americans who are ignorant of the truth complained so loudly about the bogus information.
Just sad.









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I agree
yael, your campain of lies and misdirection does hurt the debate. Let's take a few,
1. Focus on the "death panel". Forget the "death panel" crap, how is consulting with your doctor on this not covered? I know my parents have discussed it with their dr as I have with mine as part of a normal appointment.
2. Keep your current insurance. My company has changed providers every year for the last 3. Now they will have to have a plan that meets some federal requirements. I'm sure that won't be a problem...
3. Need more competition. See number 2 above, seems pretty competitive.
4. Illegals not covered. But a seperate equality clause is in the bill. Don't we already have such laws, why is this in there? Again refer to public school access.
I haven't even gone into cost lies, medicare, medicaid going bankrupt, rationing (guess the o will perform the miracle of the fish and loaves of bread since he is going Biblical on us) and almost endless other problems. Yes I agree, you and the administration are a big problem.
Of course Americans are
Of course Americans are ignorant of the Bill, it's 1000 pages long. Democratic leaders should have written a shorter bill if they really wanted Americans to read it. Truth is that they made the bill 1000 pages long so they could hide all the weird things they were putting in it. Check out this debate blog: http://www.healthcaredebateblog.com/
No More Health Catrina !
Let's set up the Equation !
1. All across the spectrum share the urgent need for the reform as the course today is financially unsustainable. By the way, how do we pay for it ?
Let's make it affordable while improving quality.
2. Of all choices on the table, savings via efficiency is the best, and Removing Wastes alone is Enough to Meet the Goal.
As one instance, please visit http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111967435, you will be stunned !
No one knows just how much medical fraud there is, and estimates range from from $600 to $6000 billion over the next decade lost to it.
And, in May 2009, the Obama administration announced a new task force made up of officials from the Department of Justice and the Department of Health
and Human Services to work on health care fraud.
3. Enough Room For Savings !
Many reformers recognized roughly 30 percent of all health-care spending in the U.S. -some $700 billion a year- might be wasted on medical abuse, unnecessary procedures, unnecessary visits to the doctor, overpriced pharmaceuticals, bloated insurance companies, and the most inefficient paper billing systems imaginable, and payment reform could solve this problem.
Provided the American people pay around twice the amount of the efficient systems, the result is still well below them, the ratio of waste might be estimated to far more than 50% in the U.S.
Let's be conservative regarding the ratio. Even If as little as 10% of savings apply to the combined Medicare and Medicaid cost of $923.5bn per year, as of July, the savings of $923.5bn over the next decade are possible.
And when these savings add to the already allocated $583 billion, the savings of wastes involving so called "doughnut hole" , the unnecessary subsidies for insurers, medical abuse, exorbitant costs by the tragic ER visits etc, the concern over revenue might be a thing of the past.
As a matter of fact, with the promising redesign in the pipeline, some patient-focused clinics in 10 regions have already achieved 16% of savings in Medicare while their quality scores are well above average.
Please be 'sure' to visit http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/13/opinion/13gawande.html?hp for credible evidences !
Thankfully, the provisions in the reform include more expansive, systematic policies such as 'a patient's outcome-based payment system' than they have. I for one firmly believe this American innovation, 'a patient's outcome-based payment system' , is capable of turning profit-oriented practices into patient-focused system / value.
Dr. Armadio at Mayo clinic says, "If we got rid of that stuff (waste), we save a third of all that we spend and that is 2.5 trillion dollars on health care. A third of that and that is 700 billion dollars a year. That covers a lot of uninsured people."
Please visit http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=820455&catid=391 for detailed infos
-- Americans' Best Friends Are The Envy Of The Planet ! --
-- Except For The Underinsured, The Uninsured Alone outnumber The Entire Population In Canada --
4. Some say, if the reform package is affordable and improve quality, then the inflation/bankruptcy-oriented market can not last, thereby competition should begin with our unfair, unsustainable market value, or let's make another insurer-friendly scheme, even though the inflation/bankruptcy-oriented market share the need for change.
5. CONCLUSION = THE WILL OF REFORM, NOT COST.
The runaway premium similar to the peak fuel price last year and left so many folks in despair insists on staying the course with the attitude 'unchanged', clearly this trend could bankrupt individual, business, and government. Now the government subsequently is tasked with these two main assignments, first, to address premium inflation, second, to expand coverage to all in urgent need.
In order to cover all and not to add to the deficit, the public option can not set the same rates of private market, rather, it needs to have BALANCING function to keep it in check in terms of INFLATION, too. Unfortunately, this 'unavoidable' direction is aggressively being accused by the runaway premium, citing government 'take-over' .
Under the circumstances the energy bill to determine human future and the other major issues are presently piled up, who wants to waste time making enemies ?, which also does not benefit the forthcoming election.
with the heartbreaking tears in mind (Nearly 11 Million Cancer Patients Without Health Insurance), private market also needs changes and should join together to complete this reform , as promised, otherwise, the runaway premium only has itself to blame while new firms are filling the void with competitive deals.
And It can be said that fair competition starts with a fair, sustainable market value.
However, Job-based coverage (indirect payment) and a limitation code over transfer, mandate code, and ample capital, reduced ER costs, IT base to streamline the administrative processes and trim the costs might be favorable to the private market. Over time, supposedly, the public plan will concentrate more on basic, primary cares, and the private insurers will provide their clients with differentiated services.
Let me repeat; No More Health Catrina, No More Bankruptcy Of Middle Class !
-- Americans' Best Friends Are The Envy Of The Planet ! --
-- Except For The Underinsured, The Uninsured Alone outnumber The Entire Population In Canada --
Thank You !
and yet...
As a daily reader of Newsbusters I can state with reasonable conviction that puts him in Newsbusters top 10 most liberally biased editorial writers nationally this year!!
Congrats Yael.!!. You've earned it honestly.
LINK: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/rusty-weiss/2009/08/19/why-do-americans-oppose-obama-health-care-plan-they-re-ignorant
QUOTE: "Perhaps the Kansas City Star and Abouhalkah can go a step further in recognizing their own ignorance by issuing an apology to the millions of well-educated, well-informed, intelligent Americans who rightfully question and oppose this government health care plan?"
And yet the news busters site did nothing to actually disprove anything in Yael's article. It only railed on him for implying that dissenters were ignorant.
News busters and Yael are one in the same. The only difference is their political slant. Read behind the lines and make decisions for yourselves.
See here how all the
Obama will be a one term president if he keeps up this healthcare fight. Check out this debate blog:
http://www.healthcaredebateblog.com/
So who is ignorant?
So, Americans are ignorant for believing in death panels and federal funding of abortion?
Gee.. then so is President Obama himself.
As a candidate:
He promised Planned Parenthood, that any reform would include abortions.
He also noted that a council needed to be setup to "guide" America in how to stop paying for end of life care.
Sorry, Yael, your hero believes in the same things as everyone else, he just thinks abortions and death panels are good things.
Illegal immigrants
Scott Parks just made a good point on KMBZ. If ObamaCare will not cover illegal immigrants, then Democrats need to subtract the 10-12 million illegal immigrants from the total of "Americans" they say have no health insurance.
It gets better
Yael has, for the 4th time this year, received single story coverage on Newsbusters for his silly ditortions that triggered this thread.
As a daily reader of Newsbusters I can state with reasonable conviction that puts him in Newsbusters top 10 most liberally biased editorial writers nationally this year!!
Congrats Yael.!!. You've earned it honestly.
LINK: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/rusty-weiss/2009/08/19/why-do-americans-oppose-obama-health-care-plan-they-re-ignorant
QUOTE: "Perhaps the Kansas City Star and Abouhalkah can go a step further in recognizing their own ignorance by issuing an apology to the millions of well-educated, well-informed, intelligent Americans who rightfully question and oppose this government health care plan?"
"Just sad", indeed!!!
I visit media watchdog sites most every day. In my visit to Newsbusters (one of the best on the conservative side)last hour it was interesting that one of their reports (link) stated that NBC had engaged in the egregious, but increasingly common "network poll" habit called "push polling".
From that article: "By its push polling, NBC is not simply reporting the news—it is blatantly attempting to shape public opinion."
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2009/08/19/nbc-push-polling-obamacare
Gee, no wonder Yael only referenced the poll rather than link to it. How sad is it, Yael?