Medicare Took One Year; Reform To Take Decade [Uninsured Must Wait For 2013!]

AP Report ^ | July 20th 2009

[Steelfish]

Medicare took one year; reform to take decade

Even if bill is signed this fall, uninsured won't get coverage until 2013

July 20, 2009

WASHINGTON - President Lyndon Johnson signed the Medicare law on July 30, 1965, and 11 months later seniors were receiving coverage. But if President Barack Obama gets to sign a health care overhaul this fall, the uninsured won't be covered until 2013 — after the next presidential election.

In fact, a timeline of the 1,000-page health care bill crafted by House Democrats shows it would take the better part of a decade — from 2010-2018 — to get all the components of the far-reaching proposal up and running.

The moving parts include a national insurance marketplace overseen by a brand new federal bureaucracy — the Health Choices Administration.

Medicare was big. This could be bigger. If a bill passes, Americans probably will be discovering — and debating — its effects for years.

[SierraWasp]

It's gonna be a "revolting" development!!!

(Ole hydrogen barackside is gonna git burned real bad when he gets the Senior Activists and Communutty Organizers all upset!!!)

[dalereed]

Socialized medicine must be stopped!!!

[SierraWasp]

I remember well how upset old Claude Pepper of FL used to get thinkin that Reagan and those revolting Republicans were gonna scale back his Medicare. He'd just yell at the top of his aging lungs in a quavery voice: "HANDS OFF MY MEDICARE!!!"

Then he went out to teach all the oldsters how to drive CONgress absolutely nuts!!!

[Salvation]

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