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Just check out the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) new scathing report entitled Coburn-Ryan Health Bill Would Jeopardize Coverage for Many, While Failing To Reduce the Number of Uninsured Significantly. Here's just some of the damage this bill would do:
•fails to make coverage affordable for many low-income people
•would cause employers to drop coverage while failing to provide viable alternatives for people who lose that coverage
•allows insurers selling coverage through (optional) exchanges to charge higher premiums for sicker people and exclude coverage for pre-existing conditions for one year
•prohibits exchanges from placing any limit on premiums and cost-sharing amounts
•doesn't set meaningful minimum standards on benefits, or limit deductibles or out-of-pocket costs
•lack of market reforms means that tax credit and low-income subsidy "would almost certainly be insufficient to enable many people who are older, in poorer health, or have special health care needs to purchase affordable coverage"
•low-income people could exhaust subsidy just to pay premiums
•low-income seniors eligible for both Medicaid and Medicare would face substantially higher costs because Medicaid would no longer pay their Medicare premiums and cost-sharing
•allows insurers selling coverage through (optional) exchanges to charge higher premiums for sicker people and exclude coverage for pre-existing conditions for one year
If this is true, and it has a ring of truth to it and is similar to what is done today. You'll have to pay the high premium for one year without treatment at all for your pre-existing condition before it kicks in. What a plan.
Just to put things in context: the "non partisan" CBPP is funded by Democracy Alliance which is heavily supported by George Soros and other rich, pro big government liberals.
Just to put things in context: the "non partisan" CBPP is funded by Democracy Alliance which is heavily supported by George Soros and other rich, pro big government liberals.
Some groups who oppose the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities's policy positions accuse the group of producing misleading studies.[5][6] However, the Center's analyses are based on the work of independent, nonpartisan authorities such as the Congressional Budget Office, the U.S. Census Bureau, and the Government Accountability Office. It is widely cited by media for producing credible analysis.
[quote=wc2005;10126172]People die each year from overheating due to not having air conditioners. Lets start another government program to provide an a/c to each household.
Seriously, when are people going to start taking care of themselves?[/quote]
I'm thinking that will happen when the government or the church stops doing it. Just my $.02.
Speaking to the OP, that's a nice piece of writing. And I'm thinking that the above quote addresses alot of the report. Economically challenged individuals will always have problems with health care, if not for the fact that they don't eat as well as those who are better off. I'm thinking that widespread distribution and mandates for injesting the "government approved bowl of mush" is the answer to that...just remember all you who are a bit better off will have to eat that same bowl of mush! (Then again the bowl of mush isn't likely because Obama's diet is rumored as being quite horrible, now if we had Arnie as the POTUS, wow what a diet he'd mandate for all of us!)
Maybe it is time WE THE PEOPLE write a health care bill and WE THE PEOPLE give it to all our congressmen.
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