Posted on 09/08/2009 3:58:52 AM PDT by tobyhill
Time is running out for a two-party compromise on health care as a bipartisan group of six Finance Committee senators considers a new proposal that might be the last, best hope for an overhaul agreement.
The six were to meet Tuesday on Sen. Max Baucus' proposal to create nonprofit insurance plans to compete with those offered by profit-making companies. The proposal by the committee chairman is noteworthy for the piece that's missing: a government-run alternative favored by liberal Democrats.
President Barack Obama, who will address Congress and the nation on health care Wednesday night, told an audience on Monday's U.S. Labor Day holiday that it's time for insurance companies to share accountability for problems in the system. He was not addressing the Baucus plan.
The United States is the only developed nation that does not have a comprehensive national health care plan for all its citizens. About 50 million of America's 300 million people are without health insurance, and Obama campaigned on a promise of offering affordable health care to all Americans. But opposition has grown because of conservative attacks and liberal inability to counter them effectively.
Four congressional committees so far have produced partisan plans for revamping the nation's health care system. Baucus, a Democrat, said he would move forward with a plan if there's no bipartisan agreement by Sept. 15.
Baucus would impose a fee on insurance companies to help finance coverage for uninsured Americans.
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So let it run out.
To repeat: “NO COMPROMISE”! Kill the bill!
Bipartisan.
Wow is that word supposed to make all Americans become stupid and accept something that is wrong for them and not good for the Nation?
Obamcare, which is not about care at all and is only about control and power is dead in the water. A majority of American citizens stand firmly against this power grab.
Congress: 3 words:
No, NO, NO!!!!!!!!!!!
Aren’t most of the current insurance companies HMOs - created by the government in the 70’s?
Government control of health care is paramount to the Communist Revolution taking place under Obama. He will probably throw in some Tort Reform as lawyers are not needed without private enterprise.
.......“NO COMPROMISE”! Kill the bill!.....
Ok, what do you propose? Are you adamant that there should be no change in the process?
It is my understanding that there is a House Bill 3400 that is supported, perhaps even written by Republicans that would bring major positive changes.
It would allow insurance companies to cross state lines
It would allow portability
It will provide for a high risk pool that will end the problem of pre existing conditions
It will provide for major tort reform
Do you oppose such a bill?
Howard Dean said that there would be NO Tort Reform so if the Rats are that committed to no Tort Reform then the GOP should be committed to no bill.
The Rats could very easily pass individual bills such as Tort Reform and Interstate sales of insurance but they won’t do it because it won’t include the Government takeover.
***Besides establishing a new way to purchase coverage for Americans who have trouble getting and keeping health insurance, the Baucus plan would allow Americans to keep their own doctors***
Yeah sure! The catch is that the doctors would be part of Obama’s health care plan, so it’s the same thing as government control of your health.
KILL THE BILL
TORT REFORM ONLY
TORT REFORM NOW.
Your big mistake is confusing health care reform with tort reform and killing laws controlling insurance across state lines. None of the things you outline are health care reform. Healt care reform in the taking over of private health care by the government and I, for one, am totally against any health care reform. To add things to your list, we need to gradually phase out medicare also, it is the primary reason health costs are as high as they are today, in fact the high prices we have today were predicted when medicare was firts passed.
No compromise bill, no "bi-partisan" health care bill. Since we cannot get tort reform and insurance legislation changed then Kill the Bill, because any bill passed under this congress will morph into Nationalized health care and slavery for the American people.
....Your big mistake is confusing health care reform with tort reform and killing laws controlling insurance across state lines.....
Au contraire mi amigo (a little frog mex language there), I did not use the term health care reform. I wrote of change. There is no trace of confusion. There is perfect clarity.
I did not confuse the issues because I wrote of the top issues of change to existing health care system desired by the American people. These are three major points in a Republican drafted House bill. The changes desired are concerned with health care tort law to reduce costs for waste, change to health care insurance law to allow health care insurers the privileges of operating across state lines like casualty or auto insurers, and an end to the troublesome practice of no coverage for preexisting conditions.
Others have responded that the Rats will never allow these three changes to come about. If that is so, then we will continue as is. There will be major effort to trick the status quo supporters with some slight of hand that will bring about the desired government control result. The Princess speaks of a trigger to do just that in 5 years or so. It is transparent and must be rejected.
Given the complete uproar of the American people and the unprecedented outpouring of disgust for the Government plan and associated favorable opinion of what exists I sense there will be changes but not an overhaul.
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