Posted on 07/28/2009 9:21:56 PM PDT by Nachum
WASHINGTON - After weeks of secretive talks, a bipartisan group in the Senate edged closer yesterday to a health-care compromise that omits two key Democratic priorities but incorporates provisions to slow the explosive rise in medical costs, officials said. These officials said participants were on track to exclude a requirement many congressional Democrats seek for businesses to offer coverage to their workers. Nor would there be a provision for a government insurance option, despite President Obama's support for such a plan.
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I just can't get used to this Communist BS. I want my old America back.
The list, ping
Not an improvement to the bill
You are going to have to fight for it.
Big Brother’s HealthCare debacle needs to be stopped in any form.
Bullshit re-branding of the exact same Marxist plans.
They could solve most of these problems with tort reform.
Ah, yes. Two lawyers in charge. Oh well.
No government health “plan” can slow medical costs, only disguise and/or shift them. A government plan will surely raise the cost of health care even as it restricts access and reduces plant and research and personnel. Look at Medicare and Medicaid. Reducing what you pay for something does not reduce the cost of it, only shifts that cost and adds more bureaucratic cost and causes more expenses to compensate for the costs the government incurs but refuses to pay. We are all paying for the Medicxxx in taxes and in higher private costs in insurance rates and actual costs as the shrinking private sector is forced to make up for the ever reducing and arbitrary rates that the government pays for Medicxxx patients and procedures. Every tie the government cuts what it pays to doctors it raises what those doctors have to charge the rest of us.
A real solution to the Medical dilemma is to eliminate Medicare and Medicaid and all other government interventions into the Medical market, including the VA. It would be cheaper for the economy if the government contracted on the market for VA medical care or just paid the costs as they arise. Even government Health “Insurance” for politicians in Washington needs to go. Prices throughout the system would go down even as quality of care rises.Total costs would,of course, continue to rise because we are a society that is getting richer-we can afford it- and older. Those who “can’t afford” medicine will be better served by charities and assistances groups that our free system produces richly than by any government financed and mandated systems.
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