...” It’s true that many companies will have to absorb additional costs, which they do every year anyway when health insurance premiums go up. “
No they don’t absorb costs, they pass it along to the consumers — we will just pay more for everything.
What a bunch of crap. The CBOs analysis is based on the data provided by the whitehouse, which is reason enough to distrust the figures. Doctors that I have talked to, including my wife, are gravely concerned about the adverse impact this will have on their practices.
FU us news.
And another thing... consider the shortage of doctors when many doctors decide to retire early or work less, and all the up and coming bright minds that WERE looking at careers as doctors decide it is not worth the effort.
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The DNC media is out today in full force, trying to quell the revolt against national socialism.
How can anyone say this with a straight face when the whole point of the bill was to change our health-care "system?" The bill is 2600 pages. Is he telling me that most of them were blank?
This article infuriates me on many levels and for many reasons. But for starters, it is nothing but a list of excuses and unsupported opinions pretending to be a well-researched set of facts. This is classic no-talent hack work.
What was that about well-run businesses being creative? I love it when the left does this. Don't try to understand or even take the trouble to offer a solution. Just make it someone elses problem, like when they raise fuel economy standards with no idea of how they will be achieved but are certain that the geeks they despised in school will pull some new technological rabbit out of a hat.
They are controlling the terms of the debate when it is called “reform”.
Reform would be making changes such as tort reform or not letting insurance companies drop people who get sick.
This is a “government takeover” of an industry. Or nationalization, or whatever term.
We should not let them get away with defining the terms of the debate.
That would be alarming if it were true. But government involvement in healthcare will increase gradually over time and remain modest, especially since there's no "public option" in the current plan that would set up a government-run insurer. If you have doubts, consider the attitude of professional investors, who would stand to lose a lot if the government took over healthcare. They don't exactly seem worried. Shares of health insurers like Aetna, UnitedHealth, Wellpoint, and Cigna—subject to the strongest new rules under reform—have outperformed the stock market over the past year.
Wow!! Yahoo has become quite the good little propaganda site, hasn’t it?