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Well the bill was sold on the 45 million who didn't have healthcare. Why not address that to start with? Many chose not to acquire healthcare and are now forced to. Many were already eligible for healthcare programs at state and fed levels and didn't sign up. Why not get folks signed up, leave alone the folks who don't want healthcare and just create a pre existing thing for folks who fall into that category to begin with? Oh no that's not good enough the fed has to take over everything with a bill written by lobbyists that nobody read.
I just saw where Obama just signed an exec order for national aids testing. DNA database will be along soon. That info will be shared with the DOJ and other federal entities as spelled out in that order. Now why does the DOJ need to know if I have aids or not? You see there is much more at play in this thing then whether somebody gets healthcare insurance or not. I wonder if congress will be exempt from this exec order like they are from obamacare?
I've had to switch Dr's quite a lot over the years. They used to fall in and out of "physician groups" or cancel their contracts with certain carriers or not meet the requirements to be part of the "super special in network group" the insurance companies likes to play around with.
Cry about a lot of things when it comes to health care, but not because you might have to change Dr's. That's just a fact of life.
That's not the problem....what did obama say.....
When your Dr decides to "change" or fall out of some group as you say....is not the same as...you can keep your dr....
The American Hospital Association wrote Obamacare, not the insurance companies. Hospitals gain because they will still be allowed to charge whatever they want. Insurance companies lose because now they have to price for $nfinity dollars of healthcare. People lose because we have to buy insurance and companies lose because they have to pay for employee insurance. Workers lose because they get their hours cut.
"Obamacare" would've been far better, had Republicans not tainted it with their stench input inteference. Any adjustments, or "fixes", are obviously designed to lessen or eliminate these Republican fingerprints on this potentially great plan.
Bush and Republicans ignored the health care crisis for 8 horrific years. Good to see movement forward here thanks to President Obama and the Dems.
Haha, you've been one of the biggest supporters of Obamacare, telling everyone who pointed out the problems with it that they were wrong.. Now you're moving onto, its a failure, but everyone who said it was from the beginning is to blame.
Insurance companies will be the big losers when they have to insure everyone no matter what is wrong with them. I can just pay the fine for a couple years and get sick and go sign up for insurance and they have to insure me. They pay for my treatment and then I cancel and pay the fine again. How long can they stay in business when folks realize this?
Of course like always they pass a ridiculous bill that is a train wreck then think they are the heroes that will now come and fix it. Brain damage on display. Maybe if they read it they could have "fixed" it before passing it?? Meanwhile Obama is preparing to vacation in the vineyards. Those 2.3 million won't be getting any vacation since they will be part time now.
"In Lafayette, Ind., a school district cut the hours of 200 support staff to no more than 29 per week. In Bangor, Maine, the school system is preparing to track and cap the number of hours worked by substitute teachers to ensure that they don't work more than 29 hours a week. Elsewhere, in Portland, Maine, a small business reduced a part-time employee's hours from 35 to 29.
We are hearing reports like this from across the country. Why is this happening?
It's happening because under the Affordable Care Act a "full-time employee" is defined as anyone working an average of 30 hours a week, rather than the traditionally accepted 40-hour work week. Employers with more than 50 full-time employees or full-time equivalents will be required to provide their employees with health insurance or potentially face a financial penalty, essentially a fine.
This rule is causing a growing number of employers to cut the hours of their workers, and according to one study by the UC Berkeley Labor Center, at least 2.3 million workers are at risk. This provision of the health law is not in the best interests of the country, and it needs to change."
"Our idiot leaders now trying to fix the mess they created with Obamacare"
While watching the IRS hearings yesterday, Elanor Norton, Democrat from D.C. was trying to excuse the IRS because the tax cde is so difficlt amd I immediatly thought of. "We have to pass it so we can find out what is in it".
The don't seem to think the same way on any 2 issues.
They pass thousands of pages of laws (without reading them) then complain when it is complicated.
Well then "most" shouldn't have voted for a bill written by lobbyists (I agree with you 100% there) to begin with. Then Obama runs around lying trying to sell it to the people. If it was a bill that would be a mess before it's even hoisted upon the masses then it was a mess to begin with before voting for it. But as San Fran Nan said oh so eloquently............well we all know what she said.
Registered Lobbyists write most legislation. The parts that Congress writes are anonymous, usually written during the wee hours, behind closed committee doors. Most people call it pork.
"Obamacare" would've been far better, had Republicans not tainted it with their stench input inteference. Any adjustments, or "fixes", are obviously designed to lessen or eliminate these Republican fingerprints on this potentially great plan.
Bush and Republicans ignored the health care crisis for 8 horrific years. Good to see movement forward here thanks to President Obama and the Dems.
"Bush and Republicans ignored the health care crisis for 8 horrific years"
2 points.
1. Bush had the dems control Congress for the last 2 of those years. Why didn't the dems introduce something in those 2 years.
I've posted the solution no less than 100 times. Lunatics just want free healthcare, they don't care if they pay $20 for Advil as long as someone else pays. In short, do the following:
1] ban hospital cartels.
2] limit ownership of hospitals to one per Metropolitan Statistical Area.
3] repeal Section 6001 of Obamacare and encourage the development of highly specialized clinics (like Europe).
4] end all employer and employee tax subsidies
5] repeal all State "insurance" regulations except those regarding Capitalization and Liquidity.
6] Let/force insurance companies compete across state lines.
7] Outlaw price collusion among hospitals and enforce antitrust laws. Hospitals shouldn't be immune to antitrust regulations.
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