House Health Care Bill released

That was Harry Reid? Wow, that cartoonist is not good at drawing cartoons. And blinking red means pain. Ouch. Hurts.

Harry Reid is a really terrible person. And not popular back home at all. He does not have a spine.


steph

Well, Jolie, the people who have previous conditions will have some type of insurance at the very least. I'd rather move away from all this crystal ball politically motivated speculation and see what the final bill looks like. It wasn't that long ago when death panels were all the rage.

One thing we know is, whatever they come up with, it won't be perfect.

Study: Public Option May Benefit Insurers

CBO Says Gov't-Backed Coverage Would Attract Only 2%, Mostly the "Less Healthy," Driving Down Private Plans' Premiums

Who's likely to sign up?

The budget office said "a less healthy pool of enrollees" would probably be attracted to the public option, drawn by the prospect of looser rules on access to specialists and medical services.

As a result, premiums in the public plan would be higher than the average for private plans. That could nudge healthy middle-class workers and their families to sign up for private plans.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/...html?tag=stack

Wow! This conveys the point I was trying to make much more eloquently. People with pre-existing condions are out of the loop currently.

Couldn't agree more............it won't even be close.

The bill includes numerous major priorities for the AARP. Under the House legislation, a gap in Medicare's drug coverage would be eliminated and the government would be permitted to directly negotiate drug prices for the program. In addition, health insurance market reforms would limit insurers' ability to deny coverage and charge higher premiums to older Americans, while subsidies would be provided to help low- and moderate-income people to pay for insurance.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The nation's leading medical organization said it will support the health reform bill facing a vote this week in the U.S. House of Representatives, providing an important boost to Democrats hoping for passage this Saturday.
The American Medical Association's stance breaks with the position of its Ohio affiliate, the Ohio State Medical Association.
But Dr. J. James Rohack, president of the AMA, said the association wants Congress to simultaneously pass a companion bill to fix Medicare's payment system. The latter provision has broad bipartisan support, Rohack said.

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They sent me some info last month and I wrote back telling them never to contact me because of their stand on Obamacare.

Just say no to Obamacare - Keep your hands off our health care.

http://www.americansforprosperity.org/national-site



steph

^... It will be closer, but, I agree we might have a long way to go.

Is this IT? READ THE BILL....READ THE BILL...is this it? lol the latest spin on the joke we call the solution for getting Americans health care "coverage". 1/6th of our economy, all of our jobs , our families health care......shall I say our families health care twice? Oh I see now it is called the consumer plan. Now it is Palosi's plan. The three ring circus continues. How many pages this time...over 2,000 pages of the government reshaping our entire industry, but of course in the mean time, not intruding or implying a government ran system right? We will take care of this emergency, crisis health care problem in America, in around 3 or 4 years, after we have been paying for it (but it is not going to cost us anything) and we will all be able to keep our insurance plan we have UNLESS you want to change plans or jobs cause then you will have to go to the "consumer option" but this will only be a competition to the big bad insurance industry, who will have to raise their rates cause now they will be ran by their new competitors who are imposing new rules and regulations on them, but it will not cause insurance companies to go down or jobs to be lost cause they are only in competition with the government plans and we will get better and more treatment with the woops consumer plan cause they are going to expand it but will cut the fundings for it but it will be OK cause they are going to save money cause they are going to go get the people that are committing fraud, cause this year they have figured out how to do that and is suddenly imprortant to them maybe because the government ran programs are 30 some trillion dollars in debt , but now suddenly they know how to do this all much cheaper and more effective, without limiting or turning down care to anyone. and and and ....ok break time.

my very fear indeed, the start of what is the question. That is a thought to sit back and think on. Using the poor and unhealthy population of the United States of America, in order to obtain powers for our government is a travesty...a true vilification of what America itself was founded on.

I'm sensing some Fox News hysteria here and not a lot of room for discussion. Enjoy yourselves.