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How to Achieve Affordable Health Care
Posted: Dec 23, 2009
Despite all the hubbub about health care, the United States can have affordable health care tomorrow if we want it. There have been real solutions available, solutions that have been right under our noses for decased,but you don't often hear about them and the prospects of getting them are rather grim unless the public is apprised of them. Today's debates and town hall meetings have not been about reducting the overall cost of health care, but about who's going to pay for it.
See the rest of the article here. It's interesting.
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CBO just determined also that current dem plan will - add to deficit. Those dingalings miscounted
[ In Reply To ..]Medicare savings TWICE.. Yeah, and we want govt running our healthcare, more like RUINING it. This is truly shameful for our country. Its one thing to fix healthcare, its another to rush a disaster through the way they are doing it before Christmas. They should be embarrassed and ashamed, and Americans should be speaking out.
Really? That's hard to believe (CBO Miscounting) - Backwards Typist
[ In Reply To ..]They're usually pretty good at calculating costs.
I also agree this is a disaster. Rushing does not help, it hinders.
Kucinich didn't like it and voted against it:
After voting against H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement:
âWe have been led to believe that we must make our health care choices only within the current structure of a predatory, for-profit insurance system which makes money not providing health care. We cannot fault the insurance companies for being what they are. But we can fault legislation in which the government incentivizes the perpetuation, indeed the strengthening, of the for-profit health insurance industry, the very source of the problem. When health insurance companies deny care or raise premiums, co-pays and deductibles they are simply trying to make a profit. That is our system.
âClearly, the insurance companies are the problem, not the solution. They are driving up the cost of health care. Because their massive bureaucracy avoids paying bills so effectively, they force hospitals and doctors to hire their own bureaucracy to fight the insurance companies to avoid getting stuck with an unfair share of the bills. The result is that since 1970, the number of physicians has increased by less than 200% while the number of administrators has increased by 3000%. It is no wonder that 31 cents of every health care dollar goes to administrative costs, not toward providing care. Even those with insurance are at risk. The single biggest cause of bankruptcies in the U.S. is health insurance policies that do not cover you when you get sick.
âBut instead of working toward the elimination of for-profit insurance, H.R. 3962 would put the government in the role of accelerating the privatization of health care. In H.R. 3962, the government is requiring at least 21 million Americans to buy private health insurance from the very industry that causes costs to be so high, which will result in at least $70 billion in new annual revenue, much of which is coming from taxpayers. This inevitably will lead to even more costs, more subsidies, and higher profits for insurance companies â a bailout under a blue cross.
âBy incurring only a new requirement to cover pre-existing conditions, a weakened public option, and a few other important but limited concessions, the health insurance companies are getting quite a deal. The Center for American Progressâ blog, Think Progress, states âsince the President signaled that he is backing away from the public option, health insurance stocks have been on the rise.â Similarly, healthcare stocks rallied when Senator Max Baucus introduced a bill without a public option. Bloomberg reports that Curtis Lane, a prominent health industry investor, predicted a few weeks ago that âmoney will start flowing in againâ to health insurance stocks after passage of the legislation. Investors.com last month reported that pharmacy benefit managers share prices are hitting all-time highs, with the only industry worry that the Administration would reverse its decision not to negotiate Medicare Part D drug prices, leaving in place a Bush Administration policy."
More here:
http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/11927
No.No.. the CBO just analyzed the updated bill - by the dems.. DEMS miscounted.nm
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