Obama's message to opponents: bring it on

President Obama seems to be taking President Bush's lead when it comes to making unnessary challenges to individuals or groups that stand in opposition to his new and untested policies. President Bush said, this was one of his biggest mistakes after his ratings fell to around 22%. What's the fight about? Putting health care records into a computer is a wise idea, but making them available online is a violation of the Doctor/Patient Confidentiality. If anything you or your Doctor say can be used against you, would you want it to be made available online? Why is it the business of any corporation, crook, or government official to have access to your medical history? If you have a peanut allergy it can be used to kill you. A trip to Mexico could discriminate against any future employment opportunities. An affair that results in an unexpected STD could be prosecuted. This is not a good idea. He who is without sin would push to put everyone elses dirt in the street. We can't let this happen. Bring it on...It's already been brought. Obama is beat, but he doesn't even know it yet. It's unconstitutional and unethical.

Cecil, you got it all wrong. He is challenging Lobbyist that want to stop this country from attaining Universal healthcare. If the country gets this, the medical insurance companies will have to play the rules or they should close there doors. Also, the insurance companies get over on all of there customers; all of them. Obama is just letting the opposition know that this is his agenda and he will fight for the American people.

Let me speak slowly and succinctly so that everyone can see this debate for the fraud that it actually is. President Obama isn't helping here. Why? Health care is a broken system dedicated to blocking access to a Doctor. Obama wants to dump billions into this system and make it stronger. Blocking access goes against the stated goal of universal access. Computerizing records provides greater controls for the broken system to maintain the status quo. Conversely, what we have is a broken health care system doing battle against a forced "Self-care System." Health care is a cost prohibitive dinosaur paradigm that cannot be supported. Self-care is based on preventative medicine, diet, exercise, cost controls for medication and limited in it's effectiveness only by limiting access to a Doctor. It is the Doctor's role to perscribe meds and do surgery when necessary. The health care system adds it's cost to the Doctor's fee and passes the cost on to us. Self-care is the future, but we can't cut ourselves or perscribe meds. Pour the money into self-care and support the Doctor-Patient relationship not the Doctor-Broken System paradigm.

Cecil- It is so easy for all of us to be a Monday morning quarterback. But at least President Obama is attempting to fix a broken system and help all Americans to attain adequate healthcare. He is the one we hired to fix the problem. If we are better qualified to fix the problem, then we should have run for President. Let's all shut up and let him do his job.

Thanks Todd -- "cj shut up!!!?"

"In the laws of many common law jurisdictions, the concept of legal privilege, or the rule that certain conversations are so private and confidential that they cannot be used as evidence in court, extends to communication between a patient and physician. Although the rule is sometimes thought to apply only to situations such as admissions made to a psychiatrist during treatment, this is only one case. In some jurisdictions, conversations between a patient and physician may be privileged in both criminal and civil courts." Cecil, truth be known most medical records are already avaliable for possible misuse. I see celebrites business get in the media all the time. If the argument is to protect those who have something to hide, that's bologna. Universing the medical system is more than the public being able to access anyone's records, it's to cut down costs. If i have an emercency in Denver but my medical records are in D.C., all the red tape could lead to my death. It's a shame how the hospital is so behind in time. Did you know hospitals only keep your records for 90 days and then ship them off to a warehouse to never be discovered again. Also if you request your records it costs like a hundred bucks and takes like six months to get. It's crazy. the fear is all the bogus charges that go on in the hospital like a doctor coming to your room when you are in the hospital just to say hi but charging you five hundred dollars. I don't know if you had anyone with a seriuos illiness or ailment like just breaking a leg with no insurace will send you to bankruptcy. It happens all the time and the tax payers just pay for it anyhow. So the arugment Cecil makes is bogus. I'm sure there will still be clinics to be tested annoymous we are talking about a Democratic healthcare system not Republican. The problem is nobody wants to move into the new century. The rich wants to keep getting richer and the poor get told to just STFU and be grateful to be in America. If we've lost so much money in the last couple of years, where did that money go. Where did the 50 billion husteling scheme money go. Obama is right, it will be a fight no doubt about it. Maybe we can win it this time. If not we can get really close. And don't use Bush as the barometer. We all know he lied, took us into an illegal war, created so many foreign enemies and that truth will soon be told. As always i enjoy you commentary Cecil, but in the word of the late Paul Harvey, "I love you, but you are wrong."

No blacks at Cpac? But klan meetings rarely have them. Black people "Wake up" This is the new klan white people wont be caught dead wearing a white hood. But they'll go to a cpac convention and get the same rhetoric. We need to give Young Jeezy a break, and pick up a book and read. Surf the daily newspapers. Find out whats happening. This is your Damn world too! Obama cant fight alone. And for us to be able to take our place in this battle, we must be informed. Please! "READ" Boycott Rush Limbaugh's sponsors he has free speech, but we have freedom to organize, and boycott his drug addicted ass! Black people stand up.

When President Obama said, "Bring it on" you all brought it in here, but you've missed my point. A Doctor/Patient relationship means the Doctor is responsible for maintaining your records. A Doctor can be contacted from anywhere in the United States by fax and this doesn't excuse those treating you anywhere from making this contact in the event of an emergency. Medical records don't have to be present in order to determine what's wrong with you currently. The key fact driving this debate is your HIV status. Nobody wants to take the risk if they don't know your status. Treat everyone as if they are potentially infectious. This is why we have "Universal Precautions." Putting them online doesn't serve you, the Doctor, or the worker. In an emergency, the bloodbank doesn't use your records to determine your blood type. They require a sample. To add something to this debate you should know something about health care. Self-care is prevention, exercise, diet and no risky behavior. Health care is blocking access to the Doctor and paying for the building and staff. It's a cost added system that we all agree is broken. Obama pouring billions into the broken system is fraud, waste, and abuse. Health records are not the problem in adding costs. Controling records just gives more control to the Corporation controlled Government and HMO's. Invest in Self-care.

All i got say is where is self-care if you break your leg, get into a car accident or get shot on the streets. Is self care the same if you're standing in line and the bank gets robbed and you're shot? Where is self care if your child is born with autism or you devleop parkison or MS? Where is self-care when it comes to cancer? The argument you make is about protecting HIV records or STDs. I get it, somebody got something to hide. Cecil, I just ask before you start attacking a system that doesn't exist yet, let it be argued. That's all i got to say. It's convenient to attack something that hasn't even been organized or clearly articulated. I personally believe there will never be a universal heathcare system in America because of capitalism. Our entire country is designed to exploit the poor. It got rich from slave labor and then immigrant labor and now overseas low cost labor. Rush Limbaugh is right about something, and i hate to say it, but this country is exploitive and power hungry but he uses the words conservatism. In a conservative world, the rich exploit the poor and dare them to say anything. No healthcare for those who work at Mcdonalds and get treated like crap every day. No healthcare for millions of the working class who just above the medicare cut off line. It's a shame of a system. Lastly, the reason why so many don't get tested for HIV is because they have no healthcare. Or they afraid if they get tested, having HIV will prevent them from getting healthcare in the future. Why have health insurance at all if it can't be used if you are a high risk? Safe care is great, I exercise and eat right and wear condoms, but i have health care just in case i walk out my apartment and bust my ass on the icy sidewalks and break my leg. Self care is cool, but what if I go in for a checkup and find that something is wrong with my heart or somethign worse, then my insurance drops me. Don't make the argument of self-care, prevention because it's bogus. It's said if it's not broke then fix it. The healthcare system is beyond broke, it's tragic, it's absurd, and it's wrong. To give up on trying to fix is "fraud, waste and unethical." Lord forbides there come a time for you or a love with to have to deal with the healthcare system as it is now, i'm sure your argument would be dramatically different.

I agree neo. Thats why I get so dissappointed when I see lazy black people standing in line to recieve a hand out. And racist "conservatives" use those few to describe the majority. Because most blacks even if there recieving govt. assistance are still striving to do better. Its those few that would turn down a decent career to stay on assistance that make it bad for the rest. Hell, and anyway its more whites recieving govt aid than blacks! But you"ll NEVER hear that on Rush's radio show. Let us take the brilliant minds that God has blessed us with. And do his will! Lets take our country back from the right wing conservative "Greed Whores"!