I've lived abroad and I've lived in the U S, and the U S is the most expensive and difficult place to get healthcare. I have insurance, but honestly, we don't get that much for our dollars.
The article stated "Curiously, many individual components - doing away with insurance denials for pre-existing conditions, tax credits to help pay premiums, insurance purchasing pools - are widely popular". Of course if you give anyone money to buy something with they will take it, even me. The only thing is I know I'm a ***** and will admit it. I may be easy but I'm Not cheap. The way I look at it, it's my money that I paid in taxes so they're just giving me my own money back. Rather me than some other low-life.
What about the fact that the bill does not cover all children right away like the democrats and president has been saying. According to news reports this afternoon the language in the bill does not cover all children. And the democrats said they had looked at this stuff and had it right. Just another example of people who do not read what they are voting on because most of them are getting paid off.
I'm amazed at how little the media knows about the business of health insurance or business in general. Their ignorance is only matched by their stupidity regarding our CONSTITUTION.
Why are millions of people NOW generally afraid that the Fed. Gov't will run whatever business they want, put whatever company out of business they want... ad infinitum.
The Democrats and their MOUTHPIECES are saying they have the authority to FORCE people to buy a product,or they'll be fined by the gov't, through the COMMERCE CLAUSE OF THE CONSTITUTION. If this sticks, there's nothing the Fed can't do to individual citizens. Stop.......get down off your PARTISAN HORSE and think. Could the Fed make you insulate your home with their chosen company, not eat certain foods, not open a certain business, only use certain types of energy that are tax ADVANTAGED and other forms of energy tax advantaged. Can you imagine?? Someone in the HOUSE OF REPS. says, "well people have to buy insurance EVEN IF THEY DON'T WANT TO, so we can pay for medical care". NO, NO , NO,...you stop right there and look for other ways to solve the problem. You don't make people buy something they don't want. WE DON'T DO THAT IN THIS COUNTRY. We come up with other answers, maybe small solutions a little at a time,,BUT NEVER HAD CITIZENS HAD TO BUY SOMETHING THEY DON'T WANT. THAT'S NOT AN ANSWER. Europe is crippled economically, forced to join a giant conglomerate of countries to stay competitive. It's not working. They're dragging each other down the rat hole. We are in better shape because we don't have all the bureaucracy weighing US down yet. We will always be better off, including better healthcare insurance and a better medical industry with more innovation than any country in the world. WE must not put this enormous MONKEY on the backs of citizens, businesses and entrepenuers. It's not a question of being KIND OR EMPATHETIC, it's a question of being smart. This is the beginning of the end of the GOOSE THAT LAYED THE GOLDEN EGG/ it's about marxist's power and payback. It will create a class system, with no way out for our citizens. My kids are ready to compete and achieve, I'm not sure why anymore.
NO ONE KNOWS or can even reasonably speculate what this program will do. What we are reading are WAGs; and one WAG is as good as the next. (WAG=Wild A$$ Guess)
What we do factually know is:
* Government ain't trustworthy * Government screws up nearly everything it touches * The President, Senators, Congressmen, Judges and government workers are exempt from this program
Now tell me why you'd give government so much power over the health care system?
...and I absolutely believe health care needs to be reformed!
Why do you refer to President Obama as "Mr." Obama? Not once in this article do you refer to him as "President" Obama. CBS News is so clearly biased against the President and against health care reform. I've lost a lot of respect for CBS news over the last year.
way to go dems and obama! this is why we voted for you! bringing healthcare to 32 million americans and putting an end to the despicable practices of insurance companies is a major accomplishment. the richest country in the world should not have so many citizens unable to afford basic medical care. so what if the top 2% of income earners pay a little more! their incomes have been growing far more rapidly than those of the rest of americans, while their tax rates have been falling since the 1970s. it's about time for this bill! insurance companies are ripping off the american public, and lobbied hard against this bill. medicare and medicaid already account for half of healthcare spending, so without a public option, this is hardly a govt 'takeover'. a single payer system would eliminate the huge sums of money that go to lining the pockets of the insurance companies, but this bill did not even include a public option! however, it does make healthcare affordable for tens of millions of americans.
It's obvious that the author of this comment is completely ignorant of how politics works. On Sunday evening, the champagne corks were popping in the insurance co offices. This bill is the greatest bonanza the industry ever had. Imagine, 30 million new customers, forced by the government to buy their product and most of the premiums payed by the government! Whoopie! The bonuses next year will be astronomical. Of course, they had to endure the charade of being the bad guys for Pres. Obama to denounce, but they knew it was all part of the agreement. Obama told them you pretend to oppose the bill, and we will funnel 30 million new customers your way. Grow up, jem, and realize when you are being snookered
I pay about $600 a year in property taxes to my local charity hospital district to pay for health care for the uninsured. What's wrong with requiring these people to buy their own insurance so that I don't have to pay for their care when they go to the taxpayer supported public hospitals? In fact, that sounds like a talking point for the Reagan Republicans of the 1980s. Which shows how the current Republicans have just fallen off the looney edge.
And you really believe that once these people "buy their own insurance" (although it won't be with their own money) that your property taxes will be reduced by $600??? Me thinks YOU have just fallen off the looney edge.
If we had a national health plan first, the area Frankftw lives in would never have had to create this hospital district. I live in a part of Texas where the county is thinking about creating a Special hospital district because of the uninsured (the alterative is 2 charity hospitals will shut down. With the passage of this bill it probably won't be necessary.
The reason a lot of people don't want this bill is that the Republicans and Tea Party have been scaring people with lots of lies. Government takeover of the health care system, bureaucrats telling you what plan you have to have, death panels, huge deficit spending, can't keep your own doctor, taxpayers paying for health care for illegal immigrants, go to jail if you don't pay -- all lies.
Lately, the press has been doing a little better job of telling what this bill really is. But they need to stop calling it an overhaul of the entire national health care system. It's not. It doesn't do much to hospitals and clinics, except help make sure they get paid for their patients. It's a health insurance enrollment bill.
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Why are millions of people NOW generally afraid that the Fed. Gov't will run whatever business they want, put whatever company out of business they want... ad infinitum.
The Democrats and their MOUTHPIECES are saying they have the authority to FORCE people to buy a product,or they'll be fined by the gov't, through the COMMERCE CLAUSE OF THE CONSTITUTION. If this sticks, there's nothing the Fed can't do to individual citizens. Stop.......get down off your PARTISAN HORSE and think. Could the Fed make you insulate your home with their chosen company, not eat certain foods, not open a certain business, only use certain types of energy that are tax ADVANTAGED and other forms of energy tax advantaged. Can you imagine?? Someone in the HOUSE OF REPS. says, "well people have to buy insurance EVEN IF THEY DON'T WANT TO, so we can pay for medical care". NO, NO , NO,...you stop right there and look for other ways to solve the problem. You don't make people buy something they don't want. WE DON'T DO THAT IN THIS COUNTRY. We come up with other answers, maybe small solutions a little at a time,,BUT NEVER HAD CITIZENS HAD TO BUY SOMETHING THEY DON'T WANT. THAT'S NOT AN ANSWER. Europe is crippled economically, forced to join a giant conglomerate of countries to stay competitive. It's not working. They're dragging each other down the rat hole. We are in better shape because we don't have all the bureaucracy weighing US down yet. We will always be better off, including better healthcare insurance and a better medical industry with more innovation than any country in the world. WE must not put this enormous MONKEY on the backs of citizens, businesses and entrepenuers. It's not a question of being KIND OR EMPATHETIC, it's a question of being smart. This is the beginning of the end of the GOOSE THAT LAYED THE GOLDEN EGG/ it's about marxist's power and payback. It will create a class system, with no way out for our citizens. My kids are ready to compete and achieve, I'm not sure why anymore.
What we do factually know is:
* Government ain't trustworthy
* Government screws up nearly everything it touches
* The President, Senators, Congressmen, Judges and government workers are exempt from this program
Now tell me why you'd give government so much power over the health care system?
...and I absolutely believe health care needs to be reformed!
Lately, the press has been doing a little better job of telling what this bill really is.
But they need to stop calling it an overhaul of the entire national health care system. It's not. It doesn't do much to hospitals and clinics, except help make sure they get paid for their patients.
It's a health insurance enrollment bill.