Posted on 03/27/2010 7:12:03 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts
As someone who has spent the past year tangled in the minutia of excise taxes and curve bending and subsidy levels, it is good to finally say this: With the passage of the reconciliation fixes, the health-care reform debate is finally over. But if you're thrilled to hear that, then I also have some bad news: Health-care reform itself is just beginning.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
"This is not single-payer (though you wouldn't know it listening to the GOP) or the ambitious Wyden-Bennett reforms. Come 2019, about 10 percent of Americans will have a different insurance arrangement than they would have had without the bill. Most of us won't notice any difference."
The vermin that signed the bill probably invested in wooden soap as well.
Good grief! By that point the US would be a mirror of Britain’s failed system.
Read the rest of the article at the link. I think Ezra has been drinking waaaay to much of the Kool-Aid and it has effected his critical thinking skills. Based on what he has written, I know he could not have read the whole 2700 page bill.
The “debate” has hardly begun, even by the lights of the Rats themselves who saw this as a flexible thing subject to trimming (which is why they didn’t give a darn that they did not understand the bill).
That chin has seen a lot of pounding.
LLS
Mental idjit who will be eating a lot of words before this fiasco is over. To bad journalists aren’t held to account for what they write.
They had to rush the bill through to get coverage to the uninsured NOW. But it turns out that nobody will get coverage, including children, for at least 4 years.
So they collect taxes now. Destroy the private insurance industry now. Cut Medicare payments and increase premiums now.
And that insurance for the alleged 30 million uninsured who are dying now at the rate of 45,000 a year, is not such an immediate concern in reality.
The numbers game here. Allegedly 30 million are uninsured. America’s population is 330 Million. So roughly nine percent of the population is uninsured now. And the bill is supposed to cover UP TO 94 percent of the population with insurance. So in reality, only fourty percent of the 30 million uninsured ( or about 12 million people will get access to this so called coverage for all. And the other 300 million citizens will be paying for their coverage while sacrificing our own liberty and freedom, and income.
What an effing deal for America. Fascist control, while tearing down the best medical system of delivery in the World.
House votes to exempt TRICARE from health reform bill
http://govcentral.monster.com/news/articles/25743-house-votes-to-exempt-tricare-from-health-reform-bill
TRICARE and Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
http://www.tricare.mil/NHCB_QnA.aspx
Will the new legislation transfer TRICARE into another government health care program?
No. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act leaves TRICARE under sole authority of the Defense Department and the Secretary of Defense, and we are governed by an independent set of statutes. “For the Department of Defense, and specifically for our 9.6 million TRICARE beneficiaries, this law will not affect the TRICARE benefit. Eligibility, covered benefits, copayments and all other features of our TRICARE program remain in place.” – Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs) Dr. Charles Rice
What does deeming TRICARE as “qualifying coverage” mean?
It ensures that TRICARE beneficiaries will not be impacted by the new legislation’s requirement that people without qualifying coverage will have to pay a financial penalty.
Is TRICARE For Life considered “qualifying coverage” under the new law?
Yes, TFL is deemed qualifying coverage under the legislation already passed by both the House and Senate.
Can I expect my TRICARE enrollment fee, premiums, deductibles or co-pays to go up because of this legislation?
There is nothing in the legislation that would change any TRICARE fees.
The new health care bill allows adult children to stay on their parent’s health care plan until age 26 if their employers don’t offer insurance. Will TRICARE adopt this policy?
Many beneficiaries with dependent children are very interested on how the Act will impact their children age 26 and younger. Our current age limits – 21, or age 23, if the dependent is in a full-time school program – are set by statute, so separate legislation would be required to change them. If changes are made to the statues governing TRICARE, then, like any other legislative initiative, time will be required for us to implement the changes. Until that time, the benefit remains unaffected by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Tricare Meets Health Care Bill’s Standards, Gates Says
American Forces Press Service ^
Posted on Monday, March 22, 2010 6:59:25 PM by SandRat
WASHINGTON, March 22, 2010 – The Tricare military health plan meets the standards set by the health care reform bill the House of Representatives passed last night, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said in a statement issued yesterday.
Calling their health and well-being his highest priority, Gates reassured servicemembers and their families that the legislation won’t have a negative effect on Tricare, which “already meets the bill’s quality and minimum benefit standards.”
“This was clarified by a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives [March 20], and is expected to be re-affirmed by the Senate,” Gates said in the statement.
“The president and I are committed to seeing that our troops, retirees and their families will continue to receive the best quality health care,” the secretary said.
http://www.defense.gov//News/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=58412
‘Can I expect my TRICARE enrollment fee, premiums, deductibles or co-pays to go up because of this legislation? There is nothing in the legislation that would change any TRICARE fees.’
That still doesn’t answer the question of the NEW BIG FEES passed in the 2009 DOD bill, that go into effect in 2011.
Does OBAMANATIONCARE negate the BIG NEW FEES in the DOD bill? Just because there are no new fees in OBAMANATIONCARE doesn’t mean that they aren’t still in the 2009 DOD bill!
Calls to congress critters are needed for clarification.
http://economicspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/05/tricare-for-life-is-obama-trying-to.html
This option would help reduce the costs of TFL, as well as costs for Medicare, by introducing minimum out-of pocket requirements for beneficiaries. Under this option, TFL would not cover any of the first $525 of an enrollee’s cost-sharing liabilities for calendar year 2011 and would limit coverage to 50 percent of the next $4,725 in Medicare cost sharing that the beneficiary incurred. (Because all further cost sharing would be covered by TFL, enrollees could not pay more than $2,888 in cost sharing in that year.) http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/99xx/doc9925/12-18-HealthOptions.pdf
Gay as a goose in garlands gavorting about the gazebo
Alliteration always alerts all of us to intelligence.
Dilettante dummies deserve derision.
(Do I qualify?) :)
It's not. It's a health insurance bill. They say millions of poor folks don't get free health care. BS. They don't have health insurance. Ask any illegal alien how to get free health care. Just go to the ER. None of them have insurance yet they do seem to be able to get free health care.
See you in line, Ezra. Bring a thick book.
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