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Good Things about Affordable Health Care Act

Posted: Nov 14, 2010

Providing Small Business Health Insurance Tax Credits

Effective Jan. 1, 2010

Up to 4 million small businesses are eligible for tax credits to help them provide insurance benefits to their workers. The first phase of this provision provides a credit worth up to 35% of the employer’s contribution to the employees’ health insurance. Small non-profit organizations may receive up to a 25% credit.

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small buz health tax credit - GOPmt

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Yer kidding, right?? Have ya swallowed the far-left ideology hook, line, and NONthinking?? Have ya also considered the fact that insurance costs have RISEN 35% so how is that helping small businesses?? They can't afford health insurance on their employees now, so adding new employees is out-of-the-question. Of course, the unions and the big companies like McDonald's are getting waivers...its just the working man like you and I that it is gonna cost out the kazoo! THINK before you post such ridiculous statements.

I am not the OP, but boy are you rude! - nm

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not apologizing for rudeness - GOPmt

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When I comes to MY money, and how little income I derive from being an MT these days, its a VERY situation. I HAVE to take care of my best interests because the government sure does not have them at heart. It SLAYS me to see such hypocrisy coming from the left-side of the room.

You can still get your point across without being rude. - nm

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People who are that rude - are generally pretty miserable

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I feel sorry for her.

Actually she was not rude - see message

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Just because you don't agree with someone doesn't mean they are rude. She stated the facts. If you don't like them just say I respectfully disagree.

Besides, if people are rude it does not mean they are miserable. There are a number of reasons why someone might be rude. First one must understand the situation. What is the topic they are discussing. Has the person tried to get their point across and in return was shown rudeness, or was someone deliberately lying about a topic trying to pass it off as truth?

If a person is disagreeing with someone it does not mean they are rude. Just a difference of opinion. I did not find her post rude. She was just stating facts.

Besides no where have I found that being rude means people are "generally pretty miserable". I know a lot of people who are rude, but they are very satisfied with their lives.

Rudeness also seem to follow - a lot of rhetoric

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with nothing to back it up.

exactly! - intheKnow

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GOPmt - you got it right. The far lefties, the unions, etc.. They got all of us honest, hard-working people being made even more poor. My health insurance pmt went up 30%! I could barely afford to pay as it was!

Like Pelosi said, we need to pass it so you know what's in it.. (Obamacare).. says a lot, don't it?

sigh.

why doncha calculate how much they would have risen anyway - then subtract the credits

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eh? Know it all doya?

Yep...and who did one of the waviers go to? AETNA. - sam

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Now if that does not speak volumes no one is listening. You know unions would be the first ones to get waivers...they spend millions of their members' money trying to get Democrats elected. The good ol' boy you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours is alive and well and living in the White House.

Isn't Aetna an Insurance Company? - sm

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From my understanding, these waivers allow people to keep their "mini" insurance policies. These policies are basically, I guess not worthless, but are not real major medical health insurance. (Some provide about $2,000 per year total coverage) The waivers allow these employers to at least provide this until the real coverage is phased in by 2014. What it looks like to me is that Aetna has no qualms about not providing real coverage to their own employees.

Yes, Aetna is an insurance company. See inside for more on waivers... - sam

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The rest of the story on waivers:

The Obama administration has given waivers for the new Healthcare program to 111 corporations and entities so far, but few know where the application is to apply for it. On the Health and Human Services (HHS) website, it takes clicking through six pages of information and misdirection to find the waiver application, and also to see a list of approved businesses who have opted out.

Approved Applications for Waiver of the Annual Limits Requirements of the PHS Act Section 2711 as of November 1, 2010. (Click on the link to go to the page with waiver applications and approved lists)

Unfortunately, to receive a waiver it appears you must have political capital with the administration to be accepted. For most small businesses, you will be incurring the new taxes, fees, and programs that will add thousands to your bottom line, and in more than a few cases, might cause a small business to close their doors.

In March, AT&T reported from an internal study that the new Healthcare program will cost their company over $1 Billion in new and additional costs. We do not know at this time if they have applied for a waiver from HHS, but they are not on the approved list as of November 1st.

Looking at the list, you will notice that unions are one of the largest entities given a waiver, and speaks to the political gifts given by the Administration to them. The Obama Presidency has proven their partnership with unions since 2008 to the detriment of small business.

I guess you are only a rich evilll corporation if you don't get the Obama club....the Obama Club being come on rich corporations as long as you donate heavily to the DNC and do basically whatever I tell you.

I really don't believe that spin. - nm

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These are fake insurance plans. Also, like everything else there appears to be an application process--just like doing your taxes or applying for anything. You have to document, right? Otherwise the complaint is that there is no accountability.

The waivers are fake insurance plans? - sam

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If that's what you think, then you need to go to the Health and Human Services website where the applications for waivers are and the waivers that have been granted are listed. That is a govt website. With Obama's cabinet member running it (sebelius). Are you saying that the Obama administration is posting fake insurance plans on the HHS website?

I just want to make sure I understand who you are accusing.

There is no SPIN to waivers.

Are you just plain silly? - s/m

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The mini-plans that are offered by McDonalds, etc., are the fake plans. What do you call a plan that would not even cover a colonoscopy or more than an office call? A kid of about 20 can probably get by with that kind of coverage, but don't get pregnant or actually get sick.

Can't even start a post in a civil tone can you? What IS it... - sam

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with you on the left? Ahhhh still stinging from the shellacking and absolute rejection of your health plan. Still...you could leave the junior high attitude behind.

Did you look at the rest of the list? All those labor unions on it? Are THEY offering a plan that would not even cover a colonoscopy or an office call? If they are, why the heck are they spending millions on elections then? Why don't THEY buy insurance for their members? Oh well...obvious answer.

In case it escaped you, the majority of that 30 million people this huge debacle was created for ARE the 20-somethings and 30-somethings who by their own choice are underinsured or uninsured. Maybe YOU want to pay for their insurance and force them to carry it, but I DON'T. Why don't you and all the others pushing this mess so hard set up a pool and pay into it to insure these 30 million if you are so concerned about them?

Simple answer...because you could care less about them. You are pushing this for what might be in it for YOU.

At least be honest about it.

The word "silly" is much gentler than what - I was thinking.

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Twisted logic again? You and I already are paying for those uninsured people. I would love to for them to pay, also. All of this has been beaten to death, but here is one more take on it. Who is most likely to have premature babies? People who are at risk are usually the younger and uninsured. How much does it cost to take care of a preemie baby? Now, I do not begrudge the care of a preemie, but I do have a problem with them being uninsured and then uninsurable later in life. I also think people should have to wear helmets when riding motorcyles and pay extra on their insurance because I am tired of having to pay for their head injuries.

I don't know about you, but the people I know have their major medical insurance paid for by the company they work for, not the union they belong to. These mini policies are similar to when you join an emergency road service or get a credit card and they throw in all these extra so-called "benefits".

You really should not hate the unions
so much--the unions will probably be the only thing that may save the working class once the 'pubs get done wringing out whatever is left.

I have seen many uninsured paying for themselves - sm

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I use to work at a doctor's office, and we had many uninsured patient's. A lot were offered insurance, but just chose not to take it. They would come in and pay for their services rendered. No one else was paying for them. I paid for a surgery on my own with very little write off. Don't assume that we are paying for all of the uninsured people. That is not always the case, and in most I have seen first hand, we are not. I am quite sure a lot of the uninsured that I was speaking of are not very happy right now, and those types are probably why we just saw the house shift we did. I can't imagine they will enjoy being forced to pay insurance premiums they could not afford in the first place.

As for the babies, I know in my state a pregnant woman without insurance automatically qualifies for Medicaid and also the baby for a certain period of time after birth. I know they do in some of the surrounding states also as I know ones that have done that. We have plenty that go without prenatal care in my state also, and obviously it is not because of insurance. Mostly, the ones I have seen are ones that are on Medicaid, and just did not get their prenatal care.

So you advocate for taxpayers paying - for pregnancies and LBW babies

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So that is okay, but cancer victims and head injuries are not?

How many people do you know who can afford to pay:

$93,000 (average cost for a cancer patient)
$50,000 for the first year of a LBW baby.
$83,900 for a "mild" head injury.

Tell me again, who is paying all of that? I would rather see everyone pay into the system and get the treatment they need, rather than bankrupting families.

Oh, by the way, I worked for public health, where many of these people get dumped--not at your private clinic.

Ok, so who exactly is going to pay for all of this - sm

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Are we going to run to China when when the system starts going bankrupt, or are we just going to force all of America to pay more in premiums? I get what you are saying, and there are some sad situations out there. That does not mean that others who are going to go bankrupt having to pay for an insurance they do not want should have to because someone else needs it. Sorry, my right, my freedom. I do not believe any kind of insurance is a "right".

My "private clinic" by the way shut down because in this rural area of government-ran insurances it could not afford to keep its doors open. The doctor finally decided to go in another direction as Medicare and Medicaid reimbursments are so low that he would have either had to see a lot more patients or close. With the sue happy public, seeing more patient that he did not have time to care for was not an option.

No way am I an advocate for the taxpayers having to pay for pregnancies and low birth weight babies. They can be put on some sort of payment plan just as those with deductibles. I thought you were saying that most were insured and that I should have to be forced into something by the government because of it. The point was they are already being paid for, so no worries.

Again, you have twisted logic - Your private clinic closed

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Because it did not have enough patients who were covered by private insurance or could pay privately.

Now you are complaining about the cost containment efforts of government.

You are a very confused person who has bought into the right-wing hard liquor.

It would definitely take A LOT of hard - sm

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liquor for me to ever agree with you on this. I am so tired of the left-wingers trying to shove things down my throat that I don't want. I pay taxes. I am not one that comes out getting back all that I paid in plus more. I want the right to choose. How can someone argue that? I don't want it plain and simple. I should not be forced into it. I understand there are people out there that need insurance. Okay, so why do I have to partake in it? How that you think this healthcare reform is going to help the private clinics like I worked for is beyond me? I think you may have drank some of the Obama-Aide, because I never see it working.

On a positive note, if I have been drinking the right-wing liqour, obviously a good portion of America has also. I'm pretty sure the President has even noticed that a lot of us are not happy.

Glad to see that you are Pro-Choice! - CalGal

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I am all for the right to choose.

Yes, I have noticed that most alcoholics are - not happy people

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That is the best idea I have heard from you. What a concept. Everyone who wants to could just opt out of that unconstitutional SS, MC, public roads, education and health insurance. You could then just do your own thing. Just don't do it at my hospital or on my roads or in my school.

Or since I am one who actually pays taxes - maybe they could put

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a little check mark here and there on a tax form to decide where our money is allocated. I'll check yes for the roads and education, and if you pay in taxes, you could put yours towards someone elses healthcare. Or, they could take all of the ones that want a government plan and let them all pay into and have their own little insurance. Of course, we all know it will go broke without the healthy folk paying in.

I am almost 30 and have been paying in to Medicare and SS since I was 16, and I do not expect it to be around when I turn 65.

You know, there are just different kinds of people in this world. We are obviously very, very different. I expect very little from my government. I expect them to provide protection for me and my family and very little else. Them stepping into my healthcare is getting a little too personal. They are not here to provide for us.

Yes...you and I ARE paying for those uninsured right now.... - sam

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AND we are a country in the worst financial shape we have been since the great depression. Number one, we know right out of the gait Obamacare as it stands without a public option is going to cost trillions more. We know that. We also know that the basis is "exchanges." We also know that that idea has failed in California and Texas. So we should also know that if those exchanges fail, we would all fall into universal health care. And nobody really knows how many MORE trillion that would add. But at that point what would it matter? We would be bankrupt and China would own us.

And the fact that you are willing to roll the dice in the economic state we are in just to insure those 30 million uninsured boggles the mind.

Especially since this government has not demonstrated they are capable of running it...they cannot even run Medicare effectively.

Do you really want UHC so bad that you are willing to put us ALL on the chopping block while they roll the dice?

Why not get rid of programs that don't work first to help pay for it? Why try to fix what has been broken for 30 or 40 years in one congressional session?

I don't hate the idea of unions. They were a noble and needed cause when they were first formed. However, they have sold out to power and politics. Union members themselves in focus groups were angry that their dues were being spent to support political candidates. And they were right...the unions should NOT be doing that without the members' consent.

Oh well...I suppose you will find an excuse for that too.

I'm sorry...I just cannot feel good about rolling the dice on UHC or Obamacare or anything else you want to call it. And I DO NOT understand why a person as intelligent as you seem to be, is willing to to that, faced with the economic situation we are in.

Don't you love that word - "appears"

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We were taught always to use the word "appears" when charting. The patient "appears" to be...blah blah blah. You can really say things without really saying them by using the word "appears."

"Unfortunately, to receive a waiver it appears you must have political capital with the administration to be accepted."

The link to the article is included. The link to the approved list is active.

Hey, this is quite the deal! Get paid to click - $

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I see the writers for the "Examiner" get paid one penney for every click. Is the Examiner one of those that used to be at the supermarkets with the pictures of "Big Foot" and that Kate Plus Eight person on it?

OMG! Health Insurance Costs are Going Up! - Doubling!

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Year Single Family

2000 $2,471 $6,438

2001 $2,689 $7,061

2002 $3,083 $8,003

2003 $3,383 $9,068

2004 $3,695 $9,950

2005 $4,024 $10,880

2006 $4,242 $11,480

2007 $4,479 $12,106

2008 $4,704 $12,680

2009 $4,824 $13,375

Source: Kaiser Family Foundation; Health Research & Educational Trust

And they wil continue to until competition is introduced... - sam

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into the insurance marketplace. Competition always brings prices down. If Obama wants to pass a law to really bring down health care prices then start with tort reform and making insurance companies make their products available across state lines and out of particular regions. That would go a long way to reducing premiums. That lets the little insurance companies compete.

Competition is coming - s/m

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The new health reform bill helps create a new competitive private health insurance market through State-run health insurance Exchanges (due to be on-line in 2014) Thank goodness this is in process already. With the rates going up as fast as they have been, it is too bad we have to wait until 2014.

Not a fan of the exchanges...that is just a trail to universal health care... - sam

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This does not sound good to me:

Ideally, an exchange would promote insurance transparency and accountability, facilitate enrollment and the delivery of subsidies, while also playing roles in spreading risk (i.e., ensuring that the costs associated with those with high medical need are shared broadly) and containing costs.[1] However, with too restricted eligibility and a market share too small, it could raise premiums, encourage "cherry-picking" of customers, and force a clearance of the exchange. This is what happened in Texas and California in their failed exchanges.[2]

Something to think about. I believe the exchange is designed to fail so that an "emergent" public option would have to be created to fill in the gap. My opinion, of course, but based on past experience and what Congress does when they feel something is "emergent" we get left holding the bailout bag, and this would be the MOABB (mother of all bailout bags).

A lot of the country used to believe what this administration puts forth without any question. Not the case any longer.

Thanks for posting the info though, and prompting me to start looking more into insurance exchanges.

Correct. The biggest mistake in this bill is there is no - public OPTION! nm

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Absolutely agree. Ruined the whole thing. - nm - .....

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Question for you as well.... - sam

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What gives you any kind of belief that this government can administer a public option when Medicare has been hemorrhaging money for years now? They cannot even contain the fraud on that small level....and you honestly think that would be any better if the WHOLE country was on a public option?

Seriously?

Ask any Senior - Don't touch my Medicare or SS! nm

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Obama care IS going to touch their Medicare. - sam

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and the Dems have already touched their SS. Several times in fact. Passed the law which allowed Congress to get into the Social Security Trust Fund during Johnson admin. Yep, seniors have a LOT to thank democrats for. Yep. (not so much)

Interesting PNHP - hadn't seen this - before

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Yes, have seen and read this...again, I have no confidence... - sam

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the government can administer a universal health system. Again...they could not and cannot manage Medicare and they could not and cannot manage the Veterans Health System. Medicare is neck level in fraud and losing money as we speak, and they plan to raid it further to help finance the big turkey. Why not clean up those two entitlement programs, learn to run them cost effectively and control fraud, BEFORE embarking on another huge entitlement when we are already nigh onto bankrupt? Why can't Democrats stop this procedure of throwing more money at something failing (look it up, historically that is the move of choice when they are in power) instead of fixing the existing problem? Why can't Obama get rid of some of the waste programs to pay for his health plan like he said he would?

Why do you never hold Democrats accountable for their failures? (I just threw that one in because I reallyyy don't understand it...lol)

Why? - Why

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do I never hold Democrats responsible for their failures? I'm not into blame games.

If UHC were a bad idea, then it would be just that..a bad idea. It isn't.

Agree on one thing...not a bad idea. A horrible one! - sam

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for the reasons I described. The fact that you can just discount history, look at Medicare and the Veterans system and think that this government is capable of running a universal system....why? Because they SAY they can? I don't believe that you are that disingenuious, which makes me think it is about what you personally will get out of this and the cost to your country and your fellow Americans...well like old Marie said, they can eat cake?

Speaking of history.....Marie didn't say - that .

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It's not a matter of ignoring history, it's a matter of knowing it, interpreting it correctly and also realizing that nothing stays the same.

Take heed oh young one.

I suspect you have brain dyslexia - nm

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Wow. Way to take the low road! Your are an asset... - sam

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to your party.

It would have been the best - but not totally ruined

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At least the insurance companies will not be able to deny care based on pre-existing conditions and the cap on lifetime coverage is/will be lifted. Many good things.

Then why not just impose the rule that insurance.... - sam

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companies cannot ban people for pre-existing conditions? And the cap on lifetime coverage. Why this massive, huge, expensive albatross? What you describe could be done so much easier and with very little cost. All this tells me is the purpose behind this monstrosity is an end-around through exchanges to a public option which becomes universal health care.

Sorry. Cannot get behind this in the current form.

Why not take it the way it was meant rather than - add all the

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"I know what this is coming to" rhetoric. People are upset because insurance premiums are skyrocketing and talk about competition being the answer, yet the public option was removed by popular demand.

It appears some still believe we are headed for full-out universal health care, public option or no.

darned if ya do, and darned if ya don't.

Ok....what do YOU think will happen if the insurance... - sam

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exchanges fail like they did in Texas and California (even on a limited scale they failed). So we have history that they have indeed failed. Fact, not sepculation.

If national exchanges fail rapidly, much like the banks going south and that happened like a snowball going downhill once it started, we are faced with another crisis...all of a sudden the insurance you bought in the exchange is worthless. All bets are off. What do YOU think the government will do? Does the bill address what they might do? Of course not.

It does not take a rocket scientist, based on history, to see what they will do. Massive public option rollout here let us cover you. Which is the intended purpose...Obama was very clear on that. When he took out the public option, he knew he would still get where he wanted, it was just going to take a little longer.

I am looking at known fact and making a supposition based on history. Am I willing to roll the dice to that magnitude? No. Insurance costs, unless they put in cost cutting measures which include rationing of care, are still going to go up because they have NOT addressed lowering costs in any way, shape or form in this piece of....legislation. They did not include tort reform, which would have taken a giant step. If you want proof, look at states where tort reform has been passed regarding car insurance. I live presently in a state where tort reform has not been passed regarding car insurance. I lived briefly in a state where it WAS, and my car insurance there was $500 a year cheaper than my car insurance is here. Tort reform speaks VOLUMES related to insurance costs.

That is another thing which tells me that Obama's goal is NOT to cut costs. His goal is universal government-sponsored health care and he doesn't care if he walks into it or backs into it.

I'm sorry, I don't believe everything he says. I don't. I stopped looking at what he says a long time ago. I look at what he DOES.

I don't - disagree

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that what you mention are possibilities; however, I believe we should have adopted a single or multipayer UHC instead of putting everyone through all this unnecessary agony.

Okay....what about the way the government has handled Medicare... - sam

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and the veterans health system gives you any confidence at all they could manage effectively with minium waste and fraud a national health care system? I just do not understand the democrats' approach to throw more money at a failing system by making it bigger and even more unmanageable, and taxing us all into oblivion to pay for it. We are still going to be paying for our health care in addition to health care for people who won't pay for it themselves.

It is astounding to me that people are willing to put that burden on a country already on the verge of bankruptcy into MORE unncessary agony (to use your words). And common sense should tell you....what has been broken for many years cannot be fixed in one bill slammed through one session of congress with back door politics and deals.

All I can guess is that people cannot take their eyes off the possibility that they might not have to pay their own way. First insurance...then what? Collective food stores and we just direct debit our checks to the government?

Sigh. Forget retirement then. You die at your desk and they just push you out of the chair and stick another worker bee in it. yes, dramatization, but I think you get the point. Socialism.

Check out where the middle class is in Cuba, if you can still find any of them.

Drama and doomsday predictions - Relax

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No system is perfect. UHC works in other countries, it can work here too. Like you said, you can't fix something that has been broken for years all at once, which is what some people seem to think should have happened the minute Obama took office.

Why would think that only people who choose not to work, etc. would like to have a single/multipayer system. It is simply not true.

Sure it does. - sm

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My sister-in-law is from a country that depends on their government for healthcare, and if they want really good healthcare, they can bribe the doctors. Don\'t you want to depend on our government to tell you if you can have a procedure done?

Wow, that was vague. Could be - anything

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What types of procedures are you talking about and what country are you talking about?

I have close relatives in Germany and some 3rd cousins in Australia. All of them are happy with their health care.

There are stories both good and bad about our health care system over the years too.

Depending on the insurance company to tell me - whether I can

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have a procedure paid for now. They make a profit from denying as much as they can. It's sickening.

Right, because government ran insurance isn't the - worst for this.

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Medicare pretty much sets the standard. Just like these lovely Medicare HMOs they have out for the patient's to feel like they have choices. They are for profit and have about the same reimbursements as Medicare. They are making piles of money, and how do you think they would be doing that? Deny, deny and more deny. I always loved doing their referrals or pre-auths.

This is - interesting

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Yes, I started reading until I figured out it was - published 10 years ago

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Things have changed a bit. A lot of thiings the patient's don't even know. They have no ideas the hoops that have been jumped through. I use to feel so bad for these elderly people after they got put on Medicare and had a stay in the hospital or a doctor's visit. They had no understanding of what all of the different deductibles were. The managed cares were so bad where I worked that we had to stop taking some. No fear, they actual insurance companies opened their own doctor's offices. How convenient. No control in healthcare there.

We will have to agree to disagree big time on that one.... - sam

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I think that is the BEST thing about a loser healthcare plan.

I have a question for you though...look how the federal government has administered any of the entitlement programs currently in existence. All of them lose money. None of them are efficient. Medicare is public option on a smaller scale and they cannot operate it efficiently...it is losing money and they want to cut into it even more to help pay for the BIGGER mistake.

How can you have any faith at all in the ability of the government to run any kind of public option efficiently? Or are you just so invested in "free" health care that your opinion is, like Obama's, damn the torpedoes and full speed ahead?

Just asking.

I agree wholeheartedly...we need a public option! - sm

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The only problem with the current health care bill is that it did not go far enough. There needs to be universal health care for all American citizens!

Why? - sam

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why should there be universal health care for all american citizens? Why do you think that all your fellow Americans should have to buy your health insurance for you? What next? Food stamps for everybody? A welfare check for everybody? Those of us who continue to work might as well just have our entire paycheck direct debited to the government.

Not trying to be confrontational or rude or mean or anything....just a straight question. Have you researched Obamacare and just don't care what it is going to cost the country, or you really don't understand it and all you want is your health care paid for no matter what it costs the country?

Again...just asking.

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Health care employment rose by 24,000 in September. The increase was concentrated in ambulatory health care services (+17,000). Health care employment has risen by an average of 21,000 per month this year. http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf ...

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Good article from an investor site: http://market-ticker.org/archives/2109-Health-Care-Arbitrage-Obama-And-The-Dems.html (bolding mine) Health Care: Arbitrage Obama And The Dems Yes, I mean it. And yes, I've read the Health Bill. Both the 2,000+ page original and The House changes as voted upon. Here's the bottom line: If you refuse to buy health insurance, you will be fined on a sliding scale that amounts to 2% of your AGI. So if you make $100,00 ...

Dec 14, 2010
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Jun 03, 2012
Health care employment continued to increase in May (+33,000). Within the industry,employment in ambulatory health care services, which includes offices of physiciansand outpatient care centers, rose by 23,000 over the month. Over the year, health careemployment has risen by 340,000. The Negative Nellies will not like this, but too bad. More health care employment, more jobs for us, more people getting needed health care. ...

Dec 03, 2009
So....a friend is for our US health care reform (already retired and on Medicare) because he had no trouble going to Canada to get laser surgery on his eyes so he wouldn't have to wear glasses and states there is nothing wrong with the Canadian system....but, and I'm asking a serious question here, how long do people really wait for emergent surgery if they belong to the Canadian system versus the American system as we have it now? How did Canada get their health care system up and ru ...

Jun 29, 2012
It seems to me that a lot of MTs feel that the MTSOs are very greedy and pay slave wages. It is my understanding that under the ACA companies with more than 50 employees will have the option of either providing medical insurance *OR* opt out and pay the less expensive penalty. I also believe that many of these MTSOs have in excess of 50 employees, particularly the larger ones like Nuance and M*Model. Just keep that thought in mind while you connect the dots. ...

Sep 25, 2013
http://news.yahoo.com/obamacares-average-monthly-cost-across-u-328-040209815.html My husband and I are healthy and can afford only catastrophic insurance, and we pay just over 300 bucks per month for the two of us now! We cannot afford to double this. I guess they will just have to put us in jail. ...

Mar 24, 2013
EDITORIAL Report Card on Health Care Reform By THE EDITORIAL BOARD Published: March 23, 2013 182 Comments FACEBOOK TWITTER GOOGLE+ SAVE E-MAIL SHARE PRINT REPRINTS Republican leaders in Congress regularly denounce the 2010 Affordable Care Act and vow to block money to carry it out or even to repeal it. Those political attacks ignore the considerable benefits delivered to millions of people since the law’s enactment three years ago Saturday. The main el ...

Jun 15, 2012
What happens when your ailing son is about to exhaust a lifetime of health insurance benefits before his third birthday? Kelly Whaley came dangerously close to finding out...... ...

Nov 08, 2013
If you are interested in the facts about the people that are receiving cancellation letters from their insurance companies due to Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act, then this is something that will interest you. Pay special attention to the link in the story regarding what Consumer Reports uncovered. There's also a very good further explanation through a link in the story from Talking Points Memo. Image Credit: Rick McKee, Cagle.com. ...

Apr 03, 2015
Aren't the insurance companies still in control, with what they will approve and what they won't approve? Senator Debbie Stabenow Mar 30 at 4:33 PM To me Dear ***, Thank you for contacting me about the Affordable Care Act and its ongoing implementation. Millions of Americans, including several hundred thousand people in Michigan, have been able to buy high-quality private health insurance plans through the Affordable Care Act. The law also holds insura ...

Sep 14, 2011
On Tuesday, the Census Bureau released its annual report on health insurance coverage in the United States. News media widely misconstrued the data and presented the problems facing the nation's health care system through a distorted lens. Many major news outlets made a basic error when reporting on the Census Bureau study. The Los Angeles Times wrote that "the number of Americans with no health insurance rose in 2010 to 49.9 million from 49 million the year before." But the figure c ...

Oct 15, 2009
In response to Keith O's idea of conducting free health care clinics in the states of dem legislators who are reluctant to support health care reform, progressives have donated $600,000 so far. The clinics are being scheduled. Dr. Oz is one of the many health care volunteers. Progressives put their money where their mouths are. ...

Oct 18, 2009
Got this email today: Hey there,I just heard a story that you need to hear too: A few years ago, Melanie Shouse was living the American dream when she transformed an old Dominos storefront into an expansion of her home business. But just as the store was opening, Melanie was diagnosed with stage four breast cancer and given months to live.Melanie had insurance, and she went straight to the experts at Siteman Cancer Center in St. Louis. Working with the world-renowned doctors there, she� ...

Nov 20, 2009
BREAKING: Full List of Tax HikesIn Senate Democrat Health Bill From Ryan Ellis on Wednesday, November 18, 2009 9:46 PM Read the full bill Read the tax revenue score from the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) Read the budget and tax score from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) PDF of this Document Individual Mandate Tax (Page 324/Sec. 1501/$8 bil): Starting in 2014, anyone not buying “qualifying” health insurance must pay an income surtax according to the following ...

Nov 24, 2009
A dear friend of mine shared a prayer she wrote for health care and was kind enough to give me permission to share it here with all of you. She makes some very poignant points that I feel should be shared. Here goes: Prayer for Health Care Lord, we know that you must be aggrieved at the thought of so many people in the world who suffer from denial of access to the healing arts. As a Healer Yourself, You showed unconditional compassion to so many of us humans who desperately n ...

Dec 03, 2009
Perhaps they should link it directly to Social Security. make the plan optional, but if you decided against participation in the reform plan, you are automatically dropped from future Social Security payments. If you are so dead certain that health care reform is socialism, you can make your stand by not taking social security. ...

Mar 20, 2010
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Mar 29, 2010
Senior Health Care Solution So you're a senior citizen and the government says no health care for you, what do you do? Our plan gives anyone 65 years or older a gun and 4 bullets. You are allowed to shoot 2 senators and 2 representatives. Of Course, this means you will be sent to prison where you will get 3 meals a day, a roof over your head, and all the health care you need! New teeth, no problem. Need glasses, great. New hip, knees, kidney, ...

Mar 29, 2010
By FRANK RICH Published: March 27, 2010 THERE were times when last Sunday’s great G.O.P. health care implosion threatened to bring the thrill back to reality television. On ABC’s “This Week,” a frothing and filibustering Karl Rove all but lost it in a debate with the Obama strategist David Plouffe. A few hours later, the perennially copper-faced Republican leader John Boehner revved up his “Hell no, you can’t!” incantation in the House chamber — ...

Apr 30, 2014
If our elected "representatives" (you know who you are) had cooperated instead of fighting tooth and nail against, the ACA could have been more to your liking. Our beloved president did the best he could against the irrational opposition. It is a beginning. Praise the bama. ...

May 01, 2014
This is the biggest spike in health care spending since 1980 and not just reported by "Faux" News (hate to disappoint y'all)... Take your pick of links: http://news.investors.com/politics-obamacare/043014-698989-gdp-01-gain-health-care-spending-jumps-on-obamacare.htm http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20140430/NEWS/304309965/reform-update-new-economic-data-suggest-spike-in-health-spending http://www.californiahealthline.org/articles/2014/5/1/health-care-spending-up-by-99-reach ...

Mar 17, 2017
I am now paying 3 times the amount I was paying for insurance premiums only 3 months ago. I'm making 1/3 of what I made 15 years ago. I am literally working for minimum wage. Something has to change or I'm joining the millions of people, including illegal immigrants and people who refuse to work, to get my free insurance, too (which I'm now paying for). ...

Jun 23, 2017
I know Obamacare needs some fixes--at least it was a step in the right direction. I am still doing reports where people are in the acute care hospital setting because they did not take their maintenance medications for hypertension and diabetes, etc. I do not know why they let their Medicaid lapse, but they are in crisis. How much does a prescription for BP meds cost versus the hospital stay + rehab for stoke patients? How much does insulin and blood testing cost versus blindness, ampu ...

Nov 05, 2009
Common Sense Health Care our Nation can afford. - This makes sense to me. The American people have spoken. They oppose government-run health care. Republicans are on the side of the American people. What Americans want are common-sense, responsible solutions that address the rising cost of health care and other major problems. In the national Republican address on Saturday, October 31, 2009, House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) discussed Republicans’ plan for common- ...