OSMA oppose the house health bill

From Cleveland Plain Dealer, Cleveland.com:

"WASHINGTON, D.C. The Ohio State Medical Association, which represents a majority of doctors in Ohio, this afternoon [Nov. 4] announced its opposition to the current health care reform bill working its way rapidly through the U.S. House of Representatives.

The association, an affiliate of the American Medical Association, has applauded the general concept of extending health care to more Americans. But it worries about the lack of a long-term fix for the budget rules that are supposed to require Medicare cuts to physicians' fees every year.

Congress every year sidesteps this with a single-year exemption, but doctors find it waring and unpredictable. The latest House bill, which could get a vote as soon as Saturday, does not include a fix, handing the matter off to a separate piece of legislation that may or may not pass sometime. Some doctors as well as tax groups say this is duplicitous."

The OSMA says it has glaring deficiencies, it adds hundreds to the Medicaid rolls of Ohio, it will cripple hospital expansion, and it fails to curb law suits.

I wasn't surprised, were you?

"Mr. Obama made a surprise appearance in the White House briefing room, seizing on the endorsements in an attempt to provide a final burst of momentum." WSJ

He has hung his brief career and reputation on the passage of an unnecessary, over priced, economy-killing health care bill. Why would anyone be surprised he shows up to give the old Chicago land knee capper if this ends up in the crapper?

We all know the Democarats needed no help from Republicans to pass this monstrosity, but I really would have liked to see them put up more of a fight to the death.

• The first thing is they needed to line up behind Joe Wilson and denounce ALL the lies, beginning with the one that they hadn't presented any alternatives, and
  
  
• secondly, they should have never, never used the word "reform" when speaking of this evil take over. Once illegals were eliminated from the count, and people who qualified for other government plans but hadn't bothered, and those who were between employer plans, we were left with about 5% of the American citizen population. Anywhere from 80-85% of Americans were perfectly happy with their insurance. Fraud and waste are and will continue to be a huge problem in the government health care we do have. This is not "reform." It's the equivalent of flesh eating bacteria for our economy's recovery.
  
  
• Third, the lie that somehow, this weakened, lily livered group of Republicans could hold anything up, including their spines, should have been broadcast from the halls of Congress, but I guess that would have been hard to admit.
  
  
• And finally, trying to tweak a really, really bad bill by reaching an agreement on abortion just proves how weak the Republicans are and all they care about is getting reelected because that plays well at home, just like their Democratic twins.

Dear Mary Jo Kilroy

What are you people doing? HR3926 is even worse than the last one. And do you really believe that people your age with a serious illness like MS will be better served with Medicaid-lite? You are destroying one of the best health care systems in the world. Are you planning to give up your insurance and take the public option?

You have the worst e-mail template I've ever used. You don't use the extra 4 digits on your website--why do you want us to?