Posted on 02/22/2010 7:30:55 AM PST by Bigtigermike
The President’s Proposal puts American families and small business owners in control of their own health care.
* It makes insurance more affordable by providing the largest middle class tax cut for health care in history, reducing premium costs for tens of millions of families and small business owners who are priced out of coverage today. This helps over 31 million Americans afford health care who do not get it today – and makes coverage more affordable for many more.
* It sets up a new competitive health insurance market giving tens of millions of Americans the exact same insurance choices that members of Congress will have.
* It brings greater accountability to health care by laying out commonsense rules of the road to keep premiums down and prevent insurance industry abuses and denial of care.
* It will end discrimination against Americans with pre-existing conditions.
* It puts our budget and economy on a more stable path by reducing the deficit by $100 billion over the next ten years – and about $1 trillion over the second decade – by cutting government overspending and reining in waste, fraud and abuse.
The President’s Proposal bridges the gap between the House and Senate bills and includes new provisions to crack down on waste, fraud and abuse.
* Eliminating the Nebraska FMAP provision and providing significant additional Federal financing to all States for the expansion of Medicaid;
* Closing the Medicare prescription drug “donut hole” coverage gap;
* Strengthening the Senate bill’s provisions that make insurance affordable for individuals and families;
* Strengthening the provisions to fight fraud, waste, and abuse in Medicare and Medicaid;
* Increasing the threshold for the excise tax on the most expensive health plans from $23,000 for a family plan to $27,500 and starting it in 2018 for all plans;
* Improving insurance protections for consumers and creating a new Health Insurance Rate Authority to provide Federal assistance and oversight to States in conducting reviews of unreasonable rate increases and other unfair practices of insurance plans.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/health-care-meeting/proposal/whatsnew/overview
Forwarded your email in mass. My husband is a retired Navy Chief too. 24 yrs and 2 tours in Nam and 3 in Korea and this is what we get? We are also on TFL and like your husand and every military retiree that gave up higher paying civillian or private employment to serve in the military because of the “promises” and benefits..we were lied to by our govt.
God bless you for all of this. Wow!
Thought you might be interested. Clear bullet points.
“When the plan is actually in front of lawmakers, it will get dissected.”
Kind of like your tagline.
I'm fighting with them to get them to pay for my name brand Synthroid $22 a month, can't take the generic it makes ulcers in my mouth and I wear a partial plate, it will also make your hair fall out. You need extra test to make sure it works, because it is not as well absorbed by the body as the name brand. But because the name brand cost a nickle more per tab they don't want to pay for it, but will pay for 4 testings a year instead of 2 I'd need on the name brand. STUPID it just drives up the cost.
IF people trust bambi to keep his word and not implement the increases I've ocean front property in the gobi desert to sell them.
Here’s what is REALLY sick about the “President’s Healthcare Bill” (besides EVERYTHING) is:
The taxes it depends on are imposed in 2010
The benefits do not begin until 2014
That’s what Jon Scott on FOX News just asserted.
Watch the Federal Government (bail out) aka seize hospitals and other medical care facilities before or soon after they are bankrupt.
All physicians, nurses and medical technicians will be Federal employees.
p.s. Health Insurance company employees with Federal contracts will be the first to be “bailed out”.
Do we have to buy healthcare credits?
Yes. Thank you.
Fact Check: Insurance Companies Support Obama
http://www.nhteapartycoalition.org/tea/2009/08/17/fact-check-insurance-companies-support-obama/
The same reason they won't be serious about stopping illegal immigration before amnesty. They want to use a phony promise of "reform" in exchange for a huge leftist coup.
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