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
NO SOCIALIST NATIONALIZATION OF THE MEDICAL INSURANCE INDUSTRY
Oh I get it SEIU, ACORN, UAW etc. --- those tens of millions!
So he's not eliminating Nebraska's pork - he's giving it to everyone. And, that's going to cost less?
You get the tar, I’ll bring the feathers.
Odumbo and ?
So they won't start collecting money on the "cadillac plans" till 2018...how's that supposed to help fund the plan that starts in 2013.
I’m holding out for the hope that he just completely self-destructs.
He’s become like a stalker. The US is the girl in this example, and he’s the creepy guy. The girl accepted one date (the election.) After a few more dates, she realized he was psycho and she told him to back off. However, he keeps coming at her with different ideas and she keeps turning him down, but he won’t give up.
This fall is gonna be Obama’s restraining order. The 2012 election will be when her new boyfriend beats the sh*t out of him.
They’ve been harping on this waste,fraud and abuse thing for the last year. Why haven’t they stopped it?
They will.
Waste and fraud are leftist code speak for implementing ‘Death with Dignity’ program in order to eliminate the terminally ill, the elderly and the handicapped.
That will save money and the Obama along with the left can proudly take their place next to the NAZI party .
Hmmmmmm .... which tens of millions? Why not hundreds of millions?
Oh I get it SEIU, ACORN, UAW etc. --- those tens of millions!
i dont know why its not working but it was just release on the wh site
Yeah, and lets not forget the 40,000 Americans that died while they were screwing around and not getting this done!
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“Improve Medicare Advantage Payments”
By cutting them.
I prefer this analogy. Obama is like Nazi Germany - roundly defeated soon after D-Day but now lauching his own Battle of the Bulge as a last ditch effort to salvage his reich. Message to GOP on Thursday “summit”/battle - BURY THIS PRESIDENT!!
LIAR! Impossible. How stupid does he think we are?
It’s time to get back on the phones, send those emails and faxes folks! Keep hammering away at them just as we have for the past year. Don’t let up!
Government needs to validate its existence, so they first create problems, then deem themselves the only ones qualified to "fix" the first set of problems; the first round of solutions opens up another set of problems, and it's been a screwed-up merry-go-round ever since.
Thanks but that link worked for me. I was referring to the link that goes to Redstate at the bottom of the first post. This one: http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/files/2010/02/summary-presidents-proposal.pdf
I've seen that movie. Right about now is when the girl decides to go investigate that noise in the basement (hey, it might be a solution to the healthcare problem!).
This movie doesn't end well.
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