Rabble Rouser says:

Betsy McCaughey is a loser and a bitch. She was Pataki’s Lieutenant Governor, and was just a figurehead while in office.

She’s trying to gain points, now that Caribou Barbie has hit the crapper.

Dale says:

“I don’t like the bill, but it’s not because of this death panel BS.” -Guilherme Cherman

So this post was for what? Guilherme Cherman, you add nothing to this blog that the most moronic commentors don’t. You fan flames with emotional hyperbolic entries. Please keep your brand of intellectual input on twitter or myspace where it will fit right in.

Ringo says:

It’s been my personal opinion for a long while that when given the opportunity to get real answers out of guests, Jon Stewart is one of the best, most well-informed interviewers in the news industry today.

He asks the right questions everyone wants to hear, he, like freddybob said, does his homework, he doesn’t take a fluff answer, and probably the most important reason, is that because the guest is on the Daily Show on Comedy Central, they don’t expect to being actually interviewed.

dusanmal says:

Death panels maybe not, but passive euthanasia certainly. Semantic difference to make it easier to swallow. It follows every Govt. run health care system. Recent examples: Canada counting people over 50 who die from refused treatment based on age/disease as dying of natural causes; Britain where ban was just issued on cancer drug that is known to extend life for 6 months, because of cost,…
My personal life examples from country who run such system: My father denied life saving kidney transplant, despite good medical prognosis as he was over 60. He survived until 64 on dialysis; My mother who died from ALS denied basic nursing care at age of 80, not worth spending “Govt.” money on as she should die soon, which she did under our own care. That waits for you too here in USA if you pick socialist path with many promises and nothing for it.

Cronjob says:

I don’t see what the problem is. If you contributed a LOT to society, then you can probably afford the health care to live forever. If you contributed a good deal to society, you probably have some form of health care with your employer.

If you contribute very little or nothing to society — you are old and sit around all day watching “programs” or you are an unemployed mooch your whole life — then obviously you don’t have health care, because you haven’t contributed anything worth getting health care (a solid quality job) and you live a shorter life.

I’m not saying that’s right or wrong, but that’s how it is and I don’t know anything more capitalistic than that. The more value you have to society, the better your health care. If you’re a useless shrub, you get nothing and I get to keep my taxes.

ECA says:

And I LOVE FUTURE facts from politicians..
POLL a group, separate them in 2, then ASK the 1 group that AGREES with you, all the questions.

ick says:

JCD dump this Cherman guy…he’s taking this blog further into the weeds than it usually is even on a bad day. Fanning the flamers and feeding the trolls to the point where I’m only checking it once a day and not hanging around long. it’s starting to look like the old Yahoo comment threads.

deowll says:

#8 has my vote. What Obama and company are saying has little to do with the real world.

In the real world when you move resources from senior care to others care seniors die sooner. If that is what you want for reasons that seem good to you say so but don’t bother to lie about it.

The PM of England had to apologize for one hospital that so for as can be told goofed to the point that 400 people died over the span of few years that should not have died at least at that time.

Many of you think this isn’t par for the course for government run programs but it sounds about normal to me.

I also don’t expect the government to spend an unlimited amount of money on anybody. Every health care system in the world has its death panels. Anyone who thinks ours won’t is delusional.

The teenager will get the kidney/heart transplant every time, all things being equal, unless the senior can pay for it themselves in which case the kidney may come from the teenager.

If you want me to support the government taking over 1/5th of the US economy tell me what I and those I love are going to get for the money, how much money it will cost, and how it will be run fairly and efficiently.

If you leave me with “you and those you love will be worse off”. We don’t have a clue where the money is coming from other than a tax on the “rich” and small business during a depression and by the way all the major social spending programs are frankly financial disasters that we can’t sustain as things stand now, I’m not going to support it.

Yeah I know, Socialist can’t or won’t do math nor are they worried about probable negative outcomes of their efforts to forge a new world order in which all people everywhere will live together in peace and harmony and universal brotherhood, which means everyone that worries about such trivial issues is a stupid, evil person who shouldn’t be allowed to vote or express their opinions in public.

timcat says:

Omg! what she says about the medicare requirement for doctors is so fracking true! I love Jon Stewart. While I get my news media from several sources the only TV “news” I watch is the Daily show. But Jon just doesn’t have the decades of context on this issue.

Medicare does pay Hospitals and Doctors differently depending upon whatever criteria is the flavor of the quarter. In the last decade and a half we have seen the creation of an entirely new filed in Health care: Billing.

In hospitals there is a separate department just for Billing. Medicare is the reason because they change their codes every few months without revealing what codes pay. Private insurance does the same but they lag behind Medicare.

The latest big carrot on a stick, the ones you hear hospital advertising about is Chest Pain Accreditation. If a person with chest pain comes in and we don’t get a ekg, a chest x-ray, and cardiac enzymes done in ten minutes then the hospital eats the cost! Doesn’t sound like a bad idea right? In practice though, government funded holders, they’ve been sitting an hour or two waiting to be seen, Bam! instant chest pain. It was even on “Hiding in Plain Sight” on USA a few weeks ago.

I have twenty-nine years in health care. Something does need to be done, I have two sons who can’t afford health care, hell, I can’t afford health care if either my wife or I lost our job, but slamming something, or as Obama seems willing to do, anything through in just a few months? I call B.S.