The following comes from a Dec. 5 story in the Desert Sun.
More than 40 people showed up Thursday to sign up for health insurance as desert health care leaders launched a new program designed to enroll as many of the Coachella Valley’s roughly 90,000 uninsured residents in the Affordable Care Act as possible.
The new outreach efforts include a $1.2 million partnership between the Desert Healthcare District and the California Endowment and a newly launched Path to Health from Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs and John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital in Indio….
“There’s a lot of pent-up need,” said Kathy Greco, CEO of Desert Healthcare District.
The hugely controversial — and little-understood — federal reform has a large, vocal group of detractors who have tried to derail it from the start and point to recent failures in the federal exchange’s website, as well as the cancellation of individual insurance policies under the ACA, as evidences of its failure.
But California has pushed ahead and opted all-in to its key tenets, choosing not to comply with a delay in policy cancellation and working actively to enroll residents through outreach events, advertising and a recently launched “Give the Gift of Health” holiday campaign….
In the valley, the Desert Healthcare District and Endowment have funded 25 health navigators through six different community agencies — Borrego Community Health Foundation, Clinicas de Salud del Pueblo, Hope to Health, Planned Parenthood, Catholic Charities and FIND Food Bank. All of the positions have now been filled and, following final training for some, will head into the community soon to begin their work….
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This appears to be no more than a massive transfer of uninsured immigrants into the MediCal program.
This is a major effort to train and sign up people who don’t have health insurance. Our Bishops have done our parishioners a disservice by railing against the program of affordable care. Yes, it does pay for things in which we do not believe, but that is a given in our society, that is not very God-centered. But, that is not reason enough to throw the baby out with the bath water. People now have affordable health care, they will not be refused coverage for previous conditions, they will no be kicked out of their insurance plan when they use too much of it, etc.. And, most important, it requires everyone to have acceptable insurance, even young people who do not need extensive coverage, but do need to contribute to make the plan work. This is a nation that asks all people to participate, not a group of individuals who can tell the rest of the population to xxxxxxxxxx it.
Bob One can always be counted on for group think….”People now have affordable health care, ” Lies from beginning to end… people are losing their affordable care and being forced (key word) to pay higher premiums for the same coverage they once had…Or they are now longer being able to keep their doctors or current treatment. But none this matters to people like Bob One, the ONLY THING that matter to his kind is the intention not the actual result or who is being hurt by this monstrosity of a law
Saul Alinsky Quotes:
#1. “Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.”
#2. “Last guys don’t finish nice.”
Bob One’s distraction or quote:
“This is a nation that asks all people to participate, not a group of individuals who can tell the rest of the population to *xxxxxxxxxx it*.” = Saul Alinsky would certainly be proud of Bob One’s tactics.
In other words, Bob One, people who did not bother to get health insurance, but subsequently got sick, can now rely on those who did plan ahead to be robbed by the government to pay for their negligence!
May God have mercy on an amoral Amerika!
Viva Cristo Rey!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher, Founding Director
Concerned Roman Catholics of America, Inc.
Yes, Bob, there is a Santa Claus…
Bob One, so then you are you saying that you are ok with poor Californians being assigned Planned Parenthood as their Primary Care Provider under the new Obamacide program? Other than this, can you explain to me how health insurance actually equates with health care?
oops that’s no longer
Bob One,
Have you not seen the number of people who will not be able to see their doctors, go to their hospitals, and receive their drugs b/c of this plan? In the end it would have been better, less intrusive in people’s lives, cheaper to just put more people on Medicaid or give them health vouchers to purchase their own insurance. As an example money has been diverted from Medicare to pay for this and as a result care, because of age, has to be curtailed or limited. After the age of 75 as an example it will be very hard, if at all, to get a knee of hip replacement. Putting the gov’t in charge of healthcare is a very dangerous thing to do. If they control this they control you.
I agree with you, but! I am on Medicare and for about $100 per month extra we have a Medi-gap plan that covers a lot of what Medicare basic doesn’t cover. I think it is called Medicare Advantage. Medicare is the most efficient health insurance plan in the country. Only about 2% is charged to administration because it is a one-payer plan. If we had gone to Medicare for all, it would have been cheaper. We all know this. If the government had stepped in an put an end to the unfettered profits and administrative expenses of private insurance companies or controlled their ability to kick people out of the plan for use, refusing pre-existing conditions, etc. We would not have had to have the government step in at all. A small percentage of people are losing their current insurance because the insurance company doesn’t want to be part of affordable care in some states or because their insurance didn’t meet the definition of basic care to begin with. Others, likely the young, are going to pay more for insurance because they must help pay for basic care rather than just catastrophic care. I agree that putting government in charge of anything is dangerous, but it is we, the people, who keep sending our chosen representatives to Congress and the State House to do poorly for us year after year. Subsidiarity didn’t work, so the problem was raised to the federal level. On the other hand, health care in the U.S. is a federal problem. We are the only industrialized country that doesn’t think that good health care is a basic human right, but should be based on our ability to pay. That is wrong!
Bob One has become an expert at crowing Democrat party talking points…. small percentage losing coverage? It could be between 50- 100 million people who lose their current coverage, (despite if you like your plan you can keep it lie, by Pharoh Obama) and forced to pay higher premiums or choose inferior coverage. “Others, likely the young, are going to pay more for insurance ” yeah sure Bob One, they can barely find a job never mind pay for insurance they don’t want or need.. Government must be removed from the equation to eventual destruction of the welfare state.
” so the problem was raised to the federal level” by those who wish to have complete and total control over our lives… Bob One is the type who will be genuflecting on his way the prison camps…
When the rebellion of middle class finally occurs it will be the masterminds and the utopians who have forced this monstrosity on us citizens (along with rest of their totalitarian policies) who will pay the price, you can bet on that
Bob One will be quite surprised to learn that those supplemental plans for Medicare he’s so confident about are undergoing vast changes. Over 300,000 doctors have been eliminated from United, one of the major Medicare supplemental providers thru AARP. And some of the most advanced hospitals are off limits as well. It’s not healthcare; it’s rationed healthcare. Here’s one more piece of the puzzle for Bob. Thus far, we use our Medicare cards in a ‘private’ and for profit healthcare system. The government is simple picking up the tab. With Obamacare, the government will control the costs by controlling the point of service to the patient, which means when Bob goes in for that hip replacement he may need someday, if he’s deemed to be too ‘old,’ he might end up with just a bottle of aspirins and a cane — that’s the Affordable Care way.
Bob One, do you realize how much your Medicare is costing your Grand kids? Enjoy!
Bob One, if the United States only grants good healthcare based on one’s ability to pay, then can you explain why a person can fly into the United States from a foreign country, walk into an emergency room in chronic kidney failure, and end up on dialysis by that evening? Here in California they will subsequently be placed on “emergency” Medi-Cal. No one will show up to usher them out of the country either! Now do you wish to give more lectures on “basic human rights”?
I no longer contribute to the diocesan collections for Catholic Charities and the Campaign for Human Development. It is disgraceful that our contributions will
go to help Obamacare which the majority of Americans and I am sure Catholics oppose.
A recent national poll showed that a majority of people were against “Obamacare”, but a majority were in favor of “the affordable health care act”. It is all in the positioning and looking at facts, not what Rush says.
A majority also reelected him AFTER the health care act passed. Elections are the only poll that really counts.
YFC, spoken like a true totalitarian… Obama may have been re-elected but he has ZERO legal authority to arbitrarily make changes to the law after it has passed, repeat ZERO… If we had a functioning government and an actual opposition this guy would be impeached….
“A majority also reelected him AFTER the health care act passed. Elections are the only poll that really counts.”
You’re right, YFC, and that is precisely why the Democrats lied as a matter of party line. To get re-elected.
A dishonest group such as the Demoncrat Party can get a poll to read whatever they want. Heck they can even win elections that they actually lost!
May God have mercy on an amoral Amerika!
Viva Cristo Rey!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher, Founding Director
Concerned Roman Catholics of America, Inc.
So could the Republican’s under Bush!
And the facts are Bob One that Obamacare is an unmitigated disaster … and will continue to be so.
Who will have the courage to tell Bob there really isn’t a Santa Claus…?
Planned Parenthood and Catholic Charities working hand in hand. What a stomach-turning scandal. Surely our bishops understand the murderous work of PP. How can they allow this?
Canisius is right about Obamacare, but it will be worse in one year: those who are losing healthcare coverage now have individual policies, even such as with Kaiser or Aetna (I have a family member who lost her coverage: her premiums now with Kaiser jumped to $550/mo from about $260, and her deductible will be $5k! Fairness. “If you like your coverage…”) But at the end of next year, group policies such as those with your employer, even large corporate concerns, will have all their policies cancelled, estimated conservatively to be at least 100 million more Americans. Remember the great Pronouncer repeating a mantra that his new healthplan would promote “choice and competition”: Over and over, “Choice and competition.” This is one of the greatest lies in history; and who is the Father of Lies?
Bob One is right about one thing: Medicare Advantage has been a very successful supplemental plan “B” coverage. But Bob One doesnt know that Medicare Advantage is terminated by the ACA (oxymoronically named “Affordable Care Act” or “Obamacare”). You are in for a big surprise, Bob One in the next 12 mos.
I feel compelled …! In fact, I don’t have all the answers to the ACA and don’t know all of the devilish details, but there is a lot to discuss. First, we have to stipulate that there are a lot of people who do not have health care insurance. The new law requires that everyone have insurance, and that if they can’t afford it they can receive some assistance with premiums. If they choose not to be insured, they must pay a fine of $95 or 1% of income whichever is larger. We need to also stipulate that emergency room services are not what is meant by health care. You should not go to the emergency room for basic health care. ERs are required to give basic help to everyone who shows up. If a person who does not have insurance presents to the ER, those of us who have insurance pay for it or the government pays for it. But, again, that is not health care. Health care is designed to keep people healthy. That is why the ACA requires a minimum level of care for all insurance plans. Prior conditions will be covered, mammograms are covered at no costs, annual check-ups, etc. ACA also changes the way we measure health care. It goes from a pay-for-procedure system to an outcome system. Among industrialized nations of the world, the US health care system ranks pretty low. Most Americans think we have the best health care in the world, but in terms of outcomes it isn’t that good.
“Catholic Charities and Planned Parenthood on same team” ??? the smoke of Satan has infiltrated Holy Mother Church. We’ve gone fm praying the rosary outside the abortuaries to joining them in an evil cause. Socialized healthcare, which is at the end of the obamacare brickroad he’s herding us to, is Orwellian in its control of citizens. Sarah Palin was right, God blrss her, there are “death panels” that will decide if you get a needed treatment/surgery etc depending on ur viability or “who you are”. And doesn’t the thought of the IRS nazis as the enforcers of obamacare make you just a little bit uncomfortable?
Besides, name one thing the government has run well and in the black. Post Office should be privatised before it’s totally bankrupt. And the VA refusing to diagnose PTSD, agent orange, etc. In other words, if it costs money, don’t diagnose it.
The lamestream media crucified Sarah Palin for having the courage to speak out and try to warn us. She was one of the few governors who READ it. I wish we had Catholic leaders with her moral compass. She would never join Planned Parenthood for anything. Praying for Catholic leadership to remember the Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Kill (Abort)