Comments on: Our Deficit Debate’s “Sick Secret” Is Killing Us … Literally

By: jon

jon — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:31:53 +0000

I agree, kind of like what Jon Stewart said, I don’t remember what episode it was ( sometime during the spring or summer 2012 i think) but, he pretty much said that same thing.

By: Richard (RJ) Eskow: A Deficit Hawk Earns His Seat in Heaven : freedomluchador.com

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 04:27:38 +0000

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By: George Renaud

George Renaud — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 05:31:42 +0000

The elite have a well thought out plan. Increase profits. Does not matter to them who eats or starves. Until the wealth is taken away from corporations and dynastic families you can talk all you want because nothing will change. We need a democracy not a plutocracy.

By: newdeer

newdeer — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 02:17:46 +0000

I thought you were going to say our sick secret was the “military-industrial-congressional-complex” and the “pathology” driving it.

By: Mary Bess

Mary Bess — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 00:28:38 +0000

Yes, the private insurers, Big Pharma and other major players in the health care racket are holding our lives hostage to their profits. Health care should not be “for profit.” Medicare for All can insure everyone and cost less than what we pay for this criminal system we’re subjected to that costs twice what other systems in western industrialized countries cost with poorer outcomes.

Thanks, Richard Eskrow, for your continued reporting on this and other social safety net issues. You are providing an invaluable public service.

By: rick

rick — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 18:26:53 +0000

Just a Thought.

Americans love war, so lets get the Senate to declare war on disease. Next they can draft members of the medical profession to fight the battles. If this is done the excessive amounts of money that the military gete is justified.
PROBLEM SOLVED

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Fri, 04 Jan 2013 17:57:41 +0000

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By: Daniel Davis

Daniel Davis — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:44:50 +0000

Even more greed driven, more detrimental to human health
is the ugly thing chained in medicine’s basement–
Worker’s Compensation care. It’s drug of choice is denial, followed by opiates. This canary has been dead in a gold mine for a long time.

By: Christopher Warren

Christopher Warren — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:29:58 +0000

It drives me to despair that the “consensus” of our Medical Industrial Complex, Media and Political Hacks is that Medicare and Medicaide are “Entitlements”!
My wife and I are qualifying for Medicare coverage and that “Entitlement” will cost us about $500 a month for coverage that will not equal our current Health coverage!
Medicaide covers disabled people, like the blind and paralyzed, disabled Vets and people that are too poor to afford insurance!
How can anybody with even half a brain have the half-assed opinion that these are ENTITLEMENTS?
The only “ENTITLEMENT” I see is that of the GREED of so many in the Medical Industry. They all feel ENTITLED to being Million, or better yet, BILLIONAIRES!

Sadly, after Republicans drilled holes in the Medicare coverage to give profits back to Insurance companies our “Healthcare System” has just been another device turned into squeezing more and more PROFITS out of us Americans and then they try to tell us it’s the best in the World!
HORSE APPLES!
Compared to most every other OECD Country in the World the USA SUCKS! and that’s the TRUTH!

By: Richard L Stivelman, MD

Richard L Stivelman, MD — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 14:23:29 +0000

This is a very important article and I look forward to the next “chapter.” I hope this is not impudent, but may I suggest you edit your final draft more carefully?