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September 9th, 2009
06:00 AM ET
What's on Tap – Wednesday September 9, 2009
Today's top stories:
- In a matter of hours, President Obama will put a huge stack of political chips on the line to try and sell health care reform. The president will go before both houses of Congress and a national TV audience to make his pitch. President Clinton used the same stage in 1993 but his push for health care reform died a year later. So will President Obama have better luck... And could lawmakers come closer to an agreement on health care before tonight's speech? We have a team of reporters ready to go. Suzanne Malveaux is at the White House, Brianna Keilar's on Capitol Hill and Jim Acosta's in our Washington bureau.
- Dramatic testimony from the father of a Kentucky high school football player who collapsed on the practice field and later died. His former coach now on trial for reckless homicide. Prosecutors say his "brutal practice" led to the 15-year-old's death. We'll look at how the potentially landmark case is playing out in court.
- And lifestyles of Bernie Madoff... New pictures of the homes and boats that were seized by the feds and are ready to be sold. And our first look at the New York City apartment where Madoff spent his last days as a free man. Christine Romans has that story for us.
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Hopefully Obama will address the issue of access. With everyone being insured, there will be longer waiting times to see or talk to a doctor, unless we make the system more efficient and improve the flow of information. An example is the use of free and HIPAA compliant online services such as housedoc.us for email communications between doctors and patients. Its an example of how simple uses of advanced technology can improve healthcare.
Ah Jeff is forgeting that every HMO/PPO has a restricitve list of providers that you have to use.
Also You will see ads by insurance companies trying to beat the Prez to the punch by offering new deals like no penalties for existing health problems, etc. That doesn't fit into the 'in bed' remark.
The only problem I can see is the lack of a 'cap' for medical malpractice. Instead there should be a national board of censure that can suspend a doctors license in all states for the appropriate time.
Chnage the thresholds for MEDICARE and MEDICAID so that the average American that owns a home but is having a hard time paying bills can take advantage of the money that they and their relatives have put in the system.
After all we give those services to illegal Cubans that make it to the US and they have given nothing into the system, so they riding on American backs, yet Americans can't use those same services under the restrictive parameters and protocols currently set.
Scale down on military ops in Afghanistan and eliminate all insurance and government fraud, waste and abuse, and stop all foreign language translation services for government offices and communications and you won't have to tax Americans at all.
My wife and I have health insurance. However, I do not want to lose the right to not have it if I so choose. Making health insurance mandatory is a boon for the insurance companies and is not in the best interest of the American public. By making it mandatory, insurance companies will have over 40 million new clients coming from the currently uninsured. If this would lower insurance costs to the currently insured it may be a good idea but it will not. I believe the current administration is in bed with the insurance industry. There are no ad campaigns by the insurance companies apposing a government run health insurance plan. Why? Because the payoff is the 40 million new clients.