http://finance.senate.gov/sitepages/leg/LEG%202009/091609%20Americas_Healthy_Future_Act.pdf
[...those at the lower end of the income ladder would receive federal tax subsidies to defray the cost.]
Lying dog liberals still trying to push the public government run option to get their filthy foot in the door.
And Acorn would just the right group to run those nonprofit cooperatives!
I hear they have some extra staff available from the census and housing groups that could run the cooperatives. It is a perfect fit!
Healthy Future act = Health care reform = Fed takeover of health care.
Public Option = Co-opts = Fed takeover of health care.
Performing artist = Prostitute = Bipartisan human trafficking organizer.
See how it works?
This needs to be beaten down.
And they want me to beleive there won't be any fraud, waste or corruption in this POS? I wasn't born yesterday, and unlike dims, I don't think history started yesterday either.
Any government program is riddled with fraud, waste and corruption less than 24 hours after it goes into effect. Bar none.
“...unveiled a 10-year $856 billion bill ...”
Holy crap. These people are delusional. HOW THE HELL IS THIS REFORM??????
Compare this monster of a bill to the one submitted in May of this year:
Senators Coburn, Burr and Representatives Ryan, Nunes Offer A Better Path Forward on Health Care Reform
Bicameral Coalition of Reformers Unveil “The Patients’ Choice Act of 2009”
WASHINGTON – Earlier today, U.S. Senators Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK) and Richard Burr (R-NC) and U.S. Representatives Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Devin Nunes (R-CA) introduced health care reform legislation that delivers on the shared principles of promoting universal access to quality, affordable health care, and does so without adding billions of dollars in new debt or taxes.
“The Patients’ Choice Act of 2009,” transforms health care in America by strengthening the relationship between the patient and the doctor; using choice and competition rather than rationing and restrictions to contain costs; and ensuring universal, affordable health care for all Americans. “The Patients’ Choice Act” promotes innovative, State-based solutions, along with fundamental reforms in the tax code, to give every American, regardless of employment status, age, or health condition, the ability and the resources to purchase health insurance. The comprehensive legislation includes concrete prevention and transparency initiatives, long overdue reforms to Medicare and Medicaid, investments in wellness programs and health IT, and more.
Click below to read the details about the bill that the Democrats have kept from being heard. Why? Because it is not Government takeover of healthcare and certainly not a socialist bill.
http://coburn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=HealthCareReform.Home
Let me get this right. They cut $507 billion, expand Medicare/Medicaid roles but don't cut services for the elderly? Give me a break!
The democrats have total control of the House and Senate and are having trouble getting their representatives to support this monstrosity (which also says a lot), much less trying to pass the responsibilty for it off to a few defecting RINOs.
God grant that we can return honest, patriotic statesmen and women to office soon...like in 2010.
INDEPENDENT AMERICAN MOVEMENT FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RESTORATION
Not even Olympia Snowe will support this monstrosity. Now, the left is defecting too - Jay Rockefeller says he won’t support it. It doesn’t seem Baucus has made any progress at all and this bill is just as bad and divisive as HR 3200 and the Senate HELP bill.
DU was cussing up a storm over Baucus over his ties to the medical and pharmaceutical industries.
Still no tort reform.
Jimmy Carter suspects racism is what is driving this.
FNC reported that NO POLITICIAN WOULD STAND with Bacus at the press conference.
He was all alone.
Also includes this nugget:
"The Secretary would ensure that in each state exchange, at least one plan provides coverage of abortions beyond those for which Federal funds appropriated for the Department of Health and Human Services are permitted.
In other words, the fed gov't is going to require every state - regardless of its laws - to provide insurance that covers abortion-on-demand.
FAIL.
The Secretary would also ensure that in each state exchange, at least one plan does not provide coverage of abortions beyond those for which Federal funds appropriated for the Department of Health and Human Services are permitted."
The gov't will require an option that limits coverage to the above-mentioned conditions (which are non-starters anyway).
So, anyway you cut it, this bill, by requiring states to offer abortion-on-demand insurance, is indirectly mandating abortion coverage with your taxes. States can still prohibit abortion if they so choose, but since all 50 states allow it, it's guaranteed that your taxes will finance an innocent child's death.
“Moreover, insurers would be barred from using a range of practices — such as denying health coverage to individuals with pre-existing conditions”
This is the clause that will change health care as we know it in America. Say there are 20 million people that instantly gain health care coverage that previously couldn’t afford it or have pre-existing conditions.
Suddenly millions of people with everything from heart disease to arthritis to hang nails start seeking care. The burden on the current system will be huge. Doctors will be overwhelmed, but required by law to give care. Quality of care for those paying for insurance and will be diluted by those who now have free access, not to mention the costs involved. Waiting times become ridiculous. A disaster.
As soon as the government accepted the responsibility of providing this, it would be this much per year within 2 years.
