54% Say Passing No Healthcare Reform Better Than Passing Congressional Plan
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PostmodernProphet
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because nobody can "give" anybody anything unless they also "take"....you can also ask "why don't we give America the Cadillacs they enjoy".....(oops, did that with Cash for Clunkers)....
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Do they really know what the plan is, or do they oppose it because they have health care insurance and they aren't worried about the people who don't?
This is what I am seeing, the fight between the haves and have nots!
When it comes to foolishness like the death panels, well, those people are just angry about everything that isn't right and white!
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Only on the truly ignorant. The rest of us have learned to educate ourselves, right or left.
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Which plan would that be?
No bill currently exists.
But you seem allergic to any change in the status quo. Are you one of these people?
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I didn't know that the Senate got Cadis from us! Now I want one, too!
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What is sad is, what is your plan? It doesn't seem that your party has one...they just want it to go away for their buddies the pharma and the insura!
Follow the money, honey!
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And yet, they don't know what that something should be, because they listen to the likes of Rush who supports the pharma in more ways than one! Via Viagra! I bet he gets his lifetime supply now for free!
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huh? what freedoms are being abused? and such debating skills, the likes I have never seen...and taking your quotes from Glenn Beck these days. Fascist, just like you use to call us anti-American when you were lock stepping to Bush, you make you laugh, tea bagger! Do you know the slang for a tea bagger! I just crack up every time these people proclaim this so proudly!
Nuts to you!
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The freedom to stand by while 47 million Americans go without health care is being abused.
Only the GOP can save America!
Only the GOP can save America!
FUCK THE POLICE
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You have to spend money to make money, true.
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The legislation on the table would make Medicaid available to more people and would cover others by helping them buy their own insurance, with subsidies based on income.
The venue for people to buy insurance would be an "exchange," a marketplace that would replace the uncompetitive and lightly regulated landscape that now confronts individuals and small businesses trying to buy coverage.
Insurers on the exchange would have to meet basic standards and would no longer be allowed to deny coverage or price it exorbitantly because of preexisting conditions; they'd still be able to set rates based on age, but not to the degree they do now.
Insurers would comply because they would want the customers coming to the exchange, notably the younger and healthier uninsured.
This is one reason all the proposals would mandate that people buy insurance, or pay a fine. This would draw younger people, who spend relatively little on health care, into the exchange, lowering the price of coverage for everyone.
Extending coverage to the uninsured would cost a lot, around $1 trillion over 10 years. But the country spends more than twice that much on health care in a single year, and the Medicare drug benefit passed in 2003 was expected to cost more than half as much.
President Obama proposes paying for most of the effort by squeezing costs out of Medicare and Medicaid, including the subsidies that go to private Medicare Advantage plans and Medicaid funds that hospitals get to treat the uninsured. He would pay for the rest by shrinking the itemized deductions of wealthy taxpayers.
The venue for people to buy insurance would be an "exchange," a marketplace that would replace the uncompetitive and lightly regulated landscape that now confronts individuals and small businesses trying to buy coverage.
Insurers on the exchange would have to meet basic standards and would no longer be allowed to deny coverage or price it exorbitantly because of preexisting conditions; they'd still be able to set rates based on age, but not to the degree they do now.
Insurers would comply because they would want the customers coming to the exchange, notably the younger and healthier uninsured.
This is one reason all the proposals would mandate that people buy insurance, or pay a fine. This would draw younger people, who spend relatively little on health care, into the exchange, lowering the price of coverage for everyone.
Extending coverage to the uninsured would cost a lot, around $1 trillion over 10 years. But the country spends more than twice that much on health care in a single year, and the Medicare drug benefit passed in 2003 was expected to cost more than half as much.
President Obama proposes paying for most of the effort by squeezing costs out of Medicare and Medicaid, including the subsidies that go to private Medicare Advantage plans and Medicaid funds that hospitals get to treat the uninsured. He would pay for the rest by shrinking the itemized deductions of wealthy taxpayers.
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If your only concern is finding a way to cover those who are involuntarily without insurance, why are you supporting a plan that intentionally screws with the part of the system that is already covering over 250 million Americans? THAT is where the majority of opposition comes from. Not the trumped up charges of people being afraid of a death panel, etc. but the fact that the plan under consideration totally messes with the part of the system many millions of people are quite satisfied with.
And MY personal objection to the plan under consideration is it is the typical political bandaid non-solution to the problem. It won't fix a damned thing. At best will only shove the problem onto future generations who will then not only have the original problem to deal with, but also all the problems that will result from bloated government bureaucracies this bill will create.
PostmodernProphet
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you still can....they give you the first $4500.....
PostmodernProphet
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I oppose it because I have read it....
PostmodernProphet
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Click http://www.kff.org/healthreform/sidebyside.cfm for the truth about where the proposals are in the process.
In the meantime, tell us how happy you are about this:
"Health insurance premiums for nearly 200,000 people covered by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan policies would increase an average of 22 percent -- far less than the company originally sought -- under a tentative agreement reached Thursday"
http://www.wilx.com/news/headlines/52627047.html
In the meantime, tell us how happy you are about this:
"Health insurance premiums for nearly 200,000 people covered by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan policies would increase an average of 22 percent -- far less than the company originally sought -- under a tentative agreement reached Thursday"
http://www.wilx.com/news/headlines/52627047.html