The so called public option insurance will raise cost of private insurance leading to people choosing Government care thinking it will cost less. Yet it has to be payed for and in Countries with Nationalize Healthcare Systems middle class income taxes range from 50% to 60% and their healthcare systems are still broke causing rationed care.
I don't think American's want rationed care.
Medicare waste $1 to every $3 dollars it spends this cost taxpayers over 70 billion a year. I don't think that is a plan worth expanding.
In the UK at any given time 700,000 people are on waiting list for Hospital Admission, with some 50,000 canceled each year. Over 90,000 in New Zeland await treatment. In Sweden waiting time for Heart Surgery can be up to 25 weeks, hip replacement a year. Results of these waiting list are people die or live in pain for months or years. I don't think Americans want that kind of care.
REAL HEALTHCARE REFORM should empower the consumer not the Government Bureaucrats.
Two proposals that would go a long way towards lowering health-care cost and increasing access. One would be to change the tax treatment of health insurance so that individuals who purchase their own insurance receive the same tax break as those who receive employer-provided insurance. By breaking the link between employment and insurance we can ensure that insurance is personal and portable. People could take it job to job. At the same time, because people would be directly purchasing their insurance, and therefore directly confronting the cost, they would become much more cost-conscious in their health care spending. Second, one of the best health-care proposals by Rep. John Shadegg's is to allow Americans to buy insurance across state lines. State mandates and regulations drive up the cost of health insurance. Consumers should be allowed to shop for insurance in states with less costly regulatory regiemes. Those two steps can be done immediately without raising taxes. Also looking into Health saving or Health status Insurance would go far more to saving taxpayers and lowering healthcare cost without rationed care.
Healthcares need to be in the consumers hand. The problem today is that someone else is paying and the industry is over utilized because of it. Also part of the industry could be deregulated to give advantages to consumers and Doctors which could cut cost.
Healthcare lobbyist between 1999 and 2006 spent more money then any other business to lobby Congress and more regulation passed that put money in their pockets at the expence of consumers. I say deregulate the industry and let free market drive cost.
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Can you imagine the reaction if a Republican had tried this?
Top aides to Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) called a last-minute, pre-emptive strike on Wednesday with a group of prominent Democratic lobbyists, warning them to advise their clients not to attend a meeting with Senate Republicans set for Thursday.
Russell Sullivan, the top staffer on Finance, and Jon Selib, Baucus’ chief of staff, met with a bloc of more than 20 contract lobbyists, including several former Baucus aides.
“They said, ‘Republicans are having this meeting and you need to let all of your clients know if they have someone there, that will be viewed as a hostile act,’” said a Democratic lobbyist who attended the meeting.
“Going to the Republican meeting will say, ‘I’m interested in working with Republicans to stop health care reform,’” the lobbyist added…
Senate Republicans are opposed to plans by President Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats to implement a government-run, public plan option as a part of health care reform. They also are concerned with how Democrats plan to pay for reform.
Recognizing they don’t have the votes to stop legislation on their own, Republicans are pushing their natural allies in the business community to help bring public pressure to bear as another way to influence the outcome.
Obama has set Oct. 15 as the deadline for approval of health care reform, and Democratic leaders in Congress are rushing to clear bills from their respective chambers by the end of July.
“Our effort has been to get these folks to speak their mind,” one senior Senate Republican aide said…
But with Baucus’ office still warning dissenters that anyone who makes their opposition public could be permanently excluded from future negotiations, the groups representing businesses, health care providers, hospitals and similar stakeholders are still wavering on whether to voice their concerns publicly.
The lineup of lobbyists who attended the Wednesday session included a cast of Democratic insiders similar to that at previous meetings convened by Baucus’ staff. The participants included: Jeff Forbes, a former Baucus chief of staff who lobbies at Cauthen Forbes & Williams; Jonathon Jones, a partner with Peck, Madigan, Jones & Stewart; Tarplin Strategies’ Rich Tarplin, an assistant secretary at Health and Human Services in the Clinton administration; another former Baucus top aide, David Castagnetti, of Mehlman Vogel Castagnetti and OB-C Group founder Larry O’Brien.
The lobbyists represented at this meeting undoubtedly represent all sorts of health care stakeholders: hospitals, doctors, nurses, insurance companies, etc. The unmistakable message from Baucus is that those who don’t roll over and make a deal will wind up getting raked over the coals. Democrats railed for years about the purported heavy hand of hardball politicians like Tom DeLay, but they never resorted to blackmail.
Where is the mainstream media on this?
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Executive_Order
The national health care has to be fought. We can not afford to go there not only monetarily, but health wise.
State and Federal Laws allow choice of forced vaccination or incarceration in prisons or camps http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=2802 making it ESSENTIAL to demand the right to self-quarantine NOW: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27275