Comments for Legislator aims to ‘protect’ state from health care reform at http://www.theind.com , comment 1 to 15 out of 15 comments http://www.theind.com Mon, 20 May 2013 02:47:06 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.theind.com/home/4805#comment-2332 I read all 1017 flippen pages of H.R. 3200! Makes you want to throw up! Lots more BAD then good. BAD....Sec.113-pg21-22, Sec.122-pg29, sec.123-pg30,sec.142-pg42,sec152-pg50-51,sec163,sec164,sec201,........this bad bill goes all the way to Sec.2521-pg1000... Those that support it must not have read it!! This is a non-partisan view... - Town Hall Meetings Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:30:08 +0100 http://www.theind.com/home/4805#comment-2288 I hope to be on a death panel so I can get rid of some Democrats. (There is always a silver lining) - Last Call Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:54:01 +0100 http://www.theind.com/home/4805#comment-2274 You may not even need a loan office. I've had hospitals just send me a bill and not even ask me to put up money. I once spent 7 years paying back a hospital for a procedure. Never got a loan, just sent them whatever I felt like sending whenever I could. Never turned me over to credit reporting agencies or anything. If they demand payment, though, I'm sure you could get a loan from most banks in town if you have reasonable credit, a job history, a house, etc. - ragin_cajun Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:38:45 +0100 http://www.theind.com/home/4805#comment-2272 Banks weren't in trouble until Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac forced them to take on mortgages loans for people who couldn't pay them back. This didn't happen in South Louisiana because the banks here were more conservative (gasp, did I use that anti-liberal word?) and refused to be forced to loan money to NINJA's (That No Income, No Job or Assets). The banks here went through the oil bust and remembered. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were run by criminals who happened to be good friends with the politicians, and donated lots of money to their campaigns. As for automakers, big Iron is a thing of the past. I see more foreign cars on the street than I do American made. Automakers were run by highly intelligent morons who didn't take the car they drove to the shop when it broke. And the unions ran up the cost of producing a car, while giving lots of money to their politician friends. Government in business is absolutely a mistake. Why don't you ride Amtrak to someplace and then tell me about government screwups. - Phil Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:31:39 +0100 http://www.theind.com/home/4805#comment-2271 Currently have over $100,000 in medical bills for seven days of hospitalization. Facing approximately $500,000 in cost to "fix the problem". Please send me the name of your loan officer. - Gwyn Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:47:53 +0100 http://www.theind.com/home/4805#comment-2263 Katherine-- Banks, financial firms, automakers are 3 of the most highly regulated industries there are. I think insurance companies and hospitals would round out the top 5. I don't think the failure of highly regulated industries in a mixed economy are good examples of the shortcomings of capitalism.:) Do you? As for health care reform. I have a GREAT idea! How about if everybody just pays their own medical bills. That's how I grew up. I was born in 1970, and my parents didn't have health insurance until I was a teenager. I well remember when you just paid your medical bills. If you couldn't afford it, you took out a loan and paid it back. Health insurance was an oddity, and the reason my family had it is my dad worked for an insurance company. Most of my friends' parents did not have any health insurance, and we all got braces on our teeth, tonsils out, broke bones set, hospital care after car wrecks. - ragin_cajun Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:04:28 +0100 http://www.theind.com/home/4805#comment-2261 The reason the banks and all the other bailouts were done, is because of government being involved. Health care run by government is a disaster. I can't wait until you people, (socialist) get your share of governmnent health care. May GOD bless this country as we will need GOD back in our schools and definetfly in our government. Just make sure you have the government, congress and all the senate on the same health care program the rest of the nation is on. - JZ Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:42:05 +0100 http://www.theind.com/home/4805#comment-2260 Who thinks this is a good idea. Louisiana along with Texas, Calif. and Florida have the highest per person cost for medical care and La. also has some of the highest rates of cancer heart disease high blood preasure and diabeties in the county and this is good? What he should be proposins is what Alabama is doing, state empolyees have until11/30 to get screened for chronic illnesses if they want to keep state paid health insurance. After 2010 those at risk must show they are taking steps to imporve of pay a monthly fine. The porblem is our health. - nm Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:00:19 +0100 http://www.theind.com/home/4805#comment-2257 What is Talbot talking about. He is the government. See what they have done to Louisiana. He is so transparent!(re-election gimmick) - northsidian Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:36:12 +0100 http://www.theind.com/home/4805#comment-2256 And as for "a government that can't run anything" --- where would banks, financial firms, automakers, and other linchpins of American capitalism be today without the government stepping in and bailing them out? So don't even BEGIN to talk about government "screwing something else up". Puhleeze. - KatherineIV Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:13:29 +0100 http://www.theind.com/home/4805#comment-2255 Oh, puhleeze. Doesn't Talbot have anything better to do? Give me a break! Health insurance reform is SO overdue!! - KatherineIV Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:10:23 +0100 http://www.theind.com/home/4805#comment-2252 This reform is not necessary, way too expensive, and penalizes businesses. Why can't the government fix Medicare, Medicaid, and other programs before screwing something else up. Medicare supposedly has 30% waste. Fix that first. Fix Social Security. Fix Amtrak. Fix Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac. What we have is a government that can't run anything about to "fix" something else. Of 46 million American's without health care, 24 million don't want it. So, the remaining 22 million could be covered by an expansion of Medicare coverage, much cheaper. - Phil Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:19:17 +0100 http://www.theind.com/home/4805#comment-2248 I am also wondering if Mr. Talbot read what is proposed in the health care reform ??? this reform is necessaryyou like it or not. - another tax paying citizen but not American Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:06:54 +0100 http://www.theind.com/home/4805#comment-2247 I wonder if Talbot actually read what is being proposed in the health care reform, or is going on partisan talking points? - JP Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:58:01 +0100 http://www.theind.com/home/4805#comment-2241 Talbot is one of the few good legislators we have in Baton Rouge. - Taxpaying American Citizen Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:18:19 +0100