do you like the health plan they are proposing?
Personally, I dislike іt very much. Mу thουghtѕ аrе іt wont bе gοοd fοr society. Tο mе іtѕ lіkе playing life boat whο gets tο live bу receving health care аnd whο doesnt mаkе іt. Whаt аrе уουr personal thoughs AND hаνе уου read thе proposed health care рlаn іn іtѕ entirety?
It is a disaster. Why don’t people talk about the burden on the states who are already hurting. The democratic plan calls for massive expansion of Medicaid – this is a federal program paid for at the state level. The plan is estimated to cost 1.3 trillion but the price to the states will at least equal this and I suspect the numbers are off by 100% to expect a 10 year total of 5.2 trillion combined.
The government system require employer’s to either provide insurance or pay a per-worker fine. The fine is far less than the cost of insurance so it is estimated that some 80-100 million employed and insured people will be dumped into the federal system as employers opt for the small penalty to save costs. This will increase total costs by some 62% under the best case bringing totals to nearly 8.5 trillion.
There are much cheaper and far less intrusive options. I have not read the bill just parts of it. I am waiting for a final form to read and be horrified.
Also medicaid and medicare patients have toruble find MD’s now who will see them. The income to the MD from seeing a medicare/medicaid patient in a primary care doctor’s office is right now far less than the per patient overhead costs of the office. Obama is promising to cut doctor and hospital payment for these patients further.
Further, missing is meaningful tort reform. No real health reform is possible without it. Defensive medical practice cost a huge amount.
No, i have not read the health plan.
i have not read it. except for between the lines
but it’s a start. there is so many people in the united states that cant see a doctor. because of
the insurance premiums. and it’s really said. why
does the united states rebuild a country after a
war. we spent a trillion dollars are more rebuilding iraq. we could have used that money
for the American people and there health care
needs.
in reality, it really wont effect most people who alreadyhave health care. thats obvious.
and most people who dont will have a much easier way of gettng it.
it really is a crisis. but it wont really effect my health care. so im supporting it. im glad its a priority.
and people like that guy above is basically just copying whatever some obama-hater said. like anyone just comes up with those figures themselves. you KNOW he didnt fact check…
not sure what this has to do with marriage and divorce though…
Nope, haven’t read it, ‘in it’s entirety’ (you’re kind of demanding aren’t you?)
But, I did see Sicko twice. Does that count?
I’m sure it’s better than the asinine system we’re currently sporting: cash for cancer. We take awesome care of our citizens. Little bit of an oops on that whole ‘right to life’ business that was intended to be a founding tenet. I guess it should read, ‘right to life, unless your card is declined.’ It’s really sad for those who may die because their health is merely a commodity.
Oops, my socialist undies are showing. My bad. Totally wrong section, anyway. Don’t you mean how does the proposed health plan affect my sex life? ;P
Added to Thomas: Tort reform?!?! Really? And how exactly do you propose that we hold companies liable for making decisions that cost human lives? You know what actuaries do, right? They tell Ford that statistics demonstrate only 3500 of their new model cars will explode bc of the glitch they just found.
And, since there is no way to know which ones they are, the cost of recalling ALL would be 50 million. Whereas, thanks to tort reform, the cost of letting 3500 cars explode will be a maximum of only 5 million. What decision do you suppose they will make? Please, shareholders would sue the living tar out of any officers who chose to spend 50 million when they could have spent 5! Putting a cap on human life or injury is always a bad idea. Anyone who says otherwise need only consider their son or daughter in the exploding car.
When we are making decisions to limit the financial accountability a company may face, we must ALWAYS remember that money is the ONLY method we have to keep them in check. Business is amoral, necessarily so. In our country, healthcare is a business, so the same is true. Tort reform fails to consider this reality, thereby GUARANTEEING families will lose their fathers, and mothers; parents will watch their children die because it is cheaper for companies than recalling defective products.
I despise tort reform. It is marketed, like everything republican, as if it were FOR good old conservative Americans, but these are not the facts! Many of the companies this protects are multinational conglomerates whose primary assets aren’t on US soil, AT ALL. So incredibly shortsighted. Ugh.
If you want see what the Government run health plan will look like. Just go to a VA Hospital.