Update on Capitol Hill
88 million people will lose their private insurance and enroll in a public plan under the House bill. Source: Lewin Group (for Heritage).
Nation's Centers for Excellence condemn what Congress is doing. Group includes Mayo Clinic and Intermountain Healthcare.
Goodbye to ERISA. After a five year grace period all employer health insurance will have to be approved by federal bureaucrats.
"Money gets you in the door." For $20K, you can have dinner with Sen. Max Baucus.
The House bill, just to remind everyone, is the bill that the AMA endorsed. Nothing like screwing your own members. If nothing else, surely the docs who pay dues to this organization deserve to get a refund.
Well, oit really doesn’t matter anymore anyway. Republicans again have killed any hope of reform. Proving yet again that I was correct in saying that republicans do not want reform. The attitude of letting buisness reduce costs is just what the status quo is now. Costs have not been controlled and will not be controlled in the future. Why should they? No-one is going to stand up for American citizens and government silence and in-action can be bought. There will be no legislation of any effect because the system proposed by republicans is already in effect. The result will be more people un-insured, higher premiums and higher poverty levels nationwide.
The writing was on the wall. Minimizing, fear-tactics, half-truths are all hallmarks of republican political action. What have we seen from republicans? Minimizing, fear-tactics, and half-truths……
Again we have been sold out, again politicians ignore the will of the people and vote strict partyline at the expense of Americans.
The only winners are the insurance companies who now can raise prices with impunity. Congratulations on destroying the lives and welfare of millions now and many more millions to come.
Even if it is emotional, I have been proven right in my predictions about republicans and healthcare reform, therefore I will continue to fight against republican greed over American health and trust in the truth of real-life experience rather than opinion and fantasy.
Of course republicans are “saying” they want reform but action speaks louder than words and their action proves their selling out.
Brian: Republicans, I am sorry to say, have had no impact whatsoever on health care reform. The Democratic pans are collapsing of their own wieght.
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I am also disgusted with those democrats that allowed themserlves to be terrified into deserting the American Citizens. BUT the party of no has yet again struck only the victims are American Citizens.
It would be refreshing to have legislators, both Republican and Democrat, that actually does the work rather than worry whether they will be voted in again. At some point in time, someone needs to do what is right rather than what is easy. Obviously we cannot trust Republicans to be mature and take their jobs seriously.
Republicans have always shot down reform and now is no different. You are mistaken when you claim that Republicans have not affected healthcare reform. The have not only affected it, they have killed it. I hate it when I am right. I was the one that called it ovewr a month ago. Everyone saying that I didn’ty know what I was talking about or that I am too ewmotional, but beinng proven correct is all the vindication I need.
AND BOY WAS I CORRECT! Unfortunatly.
Now Insurance has free-reign and I bet that premiums go up at least twice this year alone. Congratulations!
What killed it is one government regulation after another. They’re going to “fix it” and bring us “affordable healthcare”. Call it what you want, Republican, Democrat it doesn’t matter anymore.
Its better to let the system fail and build it from scratch which is probably what will happen. Soon we will have a healthcare bubble followed by a healthcare bailout.
The comment from Mayo and others is very telling.
President Obama and Members of Congress have repeatedly said… “if you like the insurance you have, then you can keep it.” However, if federal bureaucrats have veto power over self-insured employers’ ERISA plans, then most American with private coverage will not be able to keep what they have for long.