Posted on 12/16/2006 4:14:40 PM PST by FairOpinion
The Republican-controlled Congress favored legislation to help expand and improve Health Savings Accounts and brought consumers the not-so-popular changes to Medicare. Now, as Democrats prepare to take control of the 110th Congress a new approach to healthcare reform is expected - universal coverage.
Democrats look to place greater responsibility on government and employers for increasing access to insurance coverage, and they don't intend to sit idly by about it either.
A survey in November shows a majority of Americans would favor government intervention. Very large majorities, for example, favor increased government funding for programs aimed at children and low-income Americans (77 percent) and giving tax credits to low and moderate-income families to help purchase insurance coverage (85 percent). While only 63 percent favor support modifying the current system rather than replacing it with government-run health care.
Incoming Democrats who will chair health committees in the 110th Congress have their own ideas about reforming healthcare in the United States. Representative Pete Stark (D-CA) favors universal coverage, while Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Maine) supports expanding Medicare.
Rep. Stark will chair the Ways and Means Health Subcommittee and Sen. Kennedy will chair the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.
Sen. Kennedy characterizes his bill, the "Medicare for All Act", as "a starting point for discussions on achieving universal coverage."
Rep Stark introduced a Constitutional Amendment to "establish a right to health care of equal high quality for every American."
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) introduced "The Healthy Americans Act" earlier this week that would abolish the employer-based system but would still require all employers to finance health care. Sen. Wyden's bill would require all Americans to purchase health insurance and Medicaid would be abolished.
Most political and policy observers agree that Congress will not go through with any major health care system reform, but it will move to the forefront in the 2008 presidential election and eventually, there will be some form of government universal health care system installed.
I hope all those who stayed home or voted third party and helped the Dems take power in the new Congress are very happy now.
But we all have to suffer because of them.
Yes, thanks RINO hunters. Bagged your quota.
We are seriously (expletive deleted).
And this is only the beginning.
They favor universal health care? Then let's deport them to Canada for their socialized system- If they love it so much- let them suffer the ill effects of socialized medicine for a bit- when they're denied entrance to hospitals for emergencies, and suffer an abysmal care system THEN let them come back- we'll see how much they want social health care then! http://sacredscoop.com
Let's vote for Comrade Clinton in 2008 and completely screw up our health care. Democrats don't care if their policies make costs spiral out of control -- that just makes people more dependent on socialism.
They think that by winning in 08, programs that was passed by the Rat is going to overturn right away..
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
That is what I plan on doing. Voting for Comrade Clinton if a Rino is nominated... /Major League Sarcasm...
{I hope all those who stayed home or voted third party and helped the Dems take power in the new Congress are very happy now.}
Those people aren't happy. They eternally unappeasable folks. Their goal in life is to complain.
Oh they are. They see the 2006 elections as the first step in destroying the GOP.
>>>While only 63 percent favor support modifying the current system rather than replacing it with government-run health care.
I must have missed the news about the constitutional amendment that gave the federal government the power to nationalize the health care system.
These people and their dreams of a command economy should be fought to our dying breaths.
"survey in November shows a majority of Americans would favor government intervention."
Isn't government meddling in our health care what caused the problems to begin with ? Yea, we're in desperate need of more intervention. /sarc
Now where will the Canadians go for their MRI's?
The problem is not our government. It's the insurance companies. They are the richest corporations in the country. Control them and the problem goes away.
On Nov. 14, for example, Schwarzenegger said he wants to cover about half of the uninsured. On Nov. 26, on NBC's “Meet the Press,” Schwarzenegger said he wants to cover all of the uninsured.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20061213-9999-1n13health.html
A fellow I used to work with is a canadien citizen, he recently moved back to Canada with his family and his son got hit on the head hard and was bleeding all over. He waited over 5 hours in an emergency room before anyone saw him. He was so angry he almost moved back to the US. Put that in your pipe and smoke it idiot leftists!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
Bravo Sierra..
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