Comments on: Health Insurance Caesar

By: Gregg's Health Insurance News

Gregg's Health Insurance News — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 08:07:24 +0000

Obama doesn’t know much about insurance plans. His quote that they will make sure insurers will limit what comes out of the consumer’s pocket…? Well, all major medical insurance plans already have an “out-of-pocket maximum”, and the standard is $10,000/yr. That’s what makes a major medical insurance plan a major medical insurance plan. Right now, enforcement of insurance is done at the state level…why isn’t this being discussed right now? How is Federal vs. State gonna work regarding reform? This is what I want to hear.

By: mw

mw — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 21:57:12 +0000

I’m with rob. The cartoon is fine but the poltics are bewildering. Perhaps someone can explain to me why they think it is an improvement to change the label on the sash of the thumbs down guy from “insurance” to “government bureaucrat”.

By: donar

donar — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:33:14 +0000

Fair enough. Normally I just include a link, but I’ll be more judicious with excerpts.

By: Rob in Denver

Rob in Denver — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:55:05 +0000

I never said the cartoon was vague. I got it. Meh.

But I think including the transcript excerpt gave context when none was really necessary and didn’t do anything to start discussion… a reasonable expectation when someone posts a large block of text on a medium ideally suited for discussion.

By: rob

rob — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:54:45 +0000

I may not agree with Donar on well… much of anything, but seriously how is the strip overly vague? There has to be room for readers to personalize it, but the theme comes across.

To me he’s pointing out that insurance companies already ration out healthcare, which begs the question what’s necessarily different about government usurping said authority?

By: Rob in Denver

Rob in Denver — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:41:46 +0000

Shouldn’t political cartoons — like, say, jokes — stand on their own? *shrug*

Of course, this comes on the heels of recent posts about the death of traditional journalism (tangentially related to politics… maybe), the music industry vs. Pandora (whatever that is), and a self-indulgent rave about Google’s still-in-limited-public-beta VOIP service.

By: dmf

dmf — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:40:13 +0000

frankly, i don’t get it. the cartoon is antithetical to the excerpt. is this trying to tell us this is how prez thinks it is now? is it making fun of that? because it pretty much is, if you have an HMO.

i mean, all this talk by the GOP about how the gov. will “get between you and your doctor” doesn’t really faze me because it’s the same way now, except instead of government bean counters it’s HMO bean counters.

as mentioned above, a little background would be useful.

By: donar

donar — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:23:54 +0000

thanks Rob. I provide links and transcripts to shed light on the research that went into the cartoon. I appreciate all comments positive and critical. Please consider the cartoon equal to post written and links and quotes just supporting material.

By: rob

rob — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:56:38 +0000

Donar makes political cartoons, not discussion pieces. I assume he included the excerpt to provide context.

By: Rob in Denver

Rob in Denver — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:38:47 +0000

Is there a point here you’d like to make? I can read this transcript numerous places — including at the WaPo link you provided.

This place used to have discussion. And it was about politics.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:35:03 +0000

I watched some of the town hall meeting. In general I agree with BHO. Something has to be done or we are going to bankrupt the system. And our elected officials have to put the country first not a political party or a special interest group ! That has been going on for way too long. We can’t just keep milking the bell cow – she’s going dry !