Get to Work – FRC’s new ad on Health Care costs
by Jared Bridges
October 22, 2009
FRC’s new ad on Health Care:
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Comments
Nice job. Keep up the good fight! I wish more commercials like this were out there.
That was great!! and sad to say, truer words couldn’t be spoken!!
This is so very true and yet many refuse to think about it and its ramifications to my grandchildren and even theirs. Praise the Lord He is opening many more eyes!
I appreciate the idea, but it could flow better with improved direction.
Nice! Entitlement generation strikes again!
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Just to keep you from being indoctrinated by the culture. Here’s what’s going to be if we get goverment health care.
Very silly ad that misinforms — just what I would expect of FRC with its anti-Obama campaign. Health care in the US today costs more and delivers worse outcomes than most OECD countries. Why not show an ad where a woman is told by a health insurance CEO making $324 milllion a year that she must be sterilized to gain coverage (because she had a c-section previously and is “high risk” of another c-section baby and thus uninsurable — now THAT is anti-life and based on for-profit greed!). Why does the FAMIlY Research Council want to perpetuate a system that is designed for profits, not for families?
Reform can REDUCE costs, reduce the burden on the next generation. Canada and Australia have lower cost health care, completely free choice of doctors (it is insurance access that is government supported, not provision of health care — an important distinction). Why opposed lower costs, better outcome, and fairer treatment (i.e. now people are trapped in bad jobs if they cannot afford to give up their current insurance program because of a pre-existing condition e.g. a child with diabetes, pregnancy, breast cancer).
Simplistic ads are the solution. This is a serious issue affecting the lives of families. Let’s work together constructively for the best outcome rather than following the lines of political parties.
Tony Perkins writes, “…the threats to life, quality care, and liberty in the liberals’ proposed health care reforms. ”
In 1974, President Richard M. Nixon proposed the same type of health care reform for the same common-sensical reasons. Was Nixon a commie liberal threatening American liberty and life? Must be since he believed the same things about health care are our current president. The history books will have to be re-written to cast Nixon as a left-wing liberal!
We work hard to care for our families and don’t want government “managing” our lives
Thank you so much for all that you are doing to help us “not” get into a socialistic
government and this horrible healthcare that is trying to be “forced” on us. This is like a bad dream. Where in the world did these people come from? It saddens me to think that these are adults asking us to put ourselves into a massive debt which we will never be able to catch up with. I do not want my children and heirs to be saddled with this debt. The politicans who want this indebtedness should be made to live like many of us do to see how it feels to have so much of our hard work being used for their selfish purposes. Our prayers are with you as you continue this
“spiritual battle”. Perhaps our politicans need to go back to school and learn about our history once again. God bless, Muriel
I’m glad someone is projecting into the future some of the negative possibilities of the
public option!
Tony,
Try reading Matthew chapter 25. You might find that your new ad is at odds with Matthew chapter 25.
Great job! Hit’em harder.
America and Congress has got to wake up. The government cannot run healthcare. Look what they’ve done to Social Security and Medicare and medicaid. This administration will run this country into the ground faster than you can imagine. The Muslims will take over and ALL our freedoms and beautiful cities and countrysides will look like the shambles the Middle East looks like.
So. Who does pay for health care, when the poor and needy need assistance. What would Jesus say about this ad? Grab a copy of the New Testament to discover the answer. I am quite disappointed a “Christian” organization is on the wrong side of the issue.
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I think Jesus would say, “God helps those who help themselves.”
My bible says “help others”, not “Pay for their stuff”.
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Although I could not view the ad on your site, I’ve followed your almost daily updates on the healthcare issue and understand your views on it. Both my husband & I have worked in the healthcare field for over 35 years, having as our main motivation the care of our patients. I’m saddened by the comments of Rev. Newt who seems to be compassionate but uninformed about how the “system” currently works or does not work.
We as taxpayers have been providing for basic healthcare of the indigent through our taxes (supporting Medicaid and Medicare since the 60’s), cost shifting what Medicaid and Medicare do not pay onto the privately insured, more recently through the S-CHIP program (children’s health insurance program, expanded again in the last year of the Bush administration) to cover those children not qualified by Medicaid and uninsured, free emergency room care for the uninsured, and even free hospitalization in non-profit, religious hospitals supported by volunteer foundations and hard work or sometimes not supported at all. Many hospitals and physicians care for those without coverage and never receive a penny for it.
We have the best medical care in the world, and most people can access it. However, the real problems have to do with the cost of care and the ability of the consumer to continue to pay for it. These problems can be improved by interstate mobility of and accessibility to healthcare insurance. This would increase competitiion among policies accross state lines and make insurance portable from job to job, even with pre-existing conditions. The cost of malpractice insurance would be reduced with tort reform. These are just some of the commonsense ideas which would lower the cost of the delivery of care.
Government run medical care in both Canada and England is a mess, just ask those who have to wait 6 months for an appointment, up to 2 years for needed surgery, and those who are denied care. Tell me when government has run something more cheaply than the private sector. Are you thinking of Medicare or Medicaid, both of which are bankrupt? Or what about the Postal System?
And what about those of us in the private pay system? I’m old enough to remember fee for service, paying for my everyday doctor’s visits and having insurance for the possible catastrophe requiring hospitalization. Costs were much lower then and the average person could pay for it (If not, doctors took payments.) It’s so complicated now in the private insurance world, that even the person hired to deal with insurance cannot tell me what my total will be and what my insurance will or will not cover until it is processed. We in the working sector are beginning to take on the mentality of entitlement, that is “It should be free.” What’s next? Will the government be buying our food and clothing?
By: David | October 22, 2009 at 12:59 pm
Great job! No doubt this was conceived by the brain trust in the communications department!