8 ways reform provides security and stability to those with or without coverage
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Insurance companies will be out of the picture completely. Government will end up BEING the insurance company. And BTW if the gov screws up you don't get to appeal.
Reform will stop "rationing" - not increase it: It’s a myth that reform will mean a "government takeover" of health care or lead to "rationing." To the contrary, reform will forbid many forms of rationing that are currently being used by insurance companies.
I don't believe that for one second. If going to a doctor will no longer cost you anything, why wouldn't you be going to a doctor for every little thing? with doctors leaving the system now already why wouldn't they leave even faster with all the additional pressure they would surely be put under?
We can’t afford reform: It's the status quo we can't afford. It’s a myth that reform will bust the budget. To the contrary, the President has identified ways to pay for the vast majority of the up-front costs by cutting waste, fraud, and abuse within existing government health programs; ending big subsidies to insurance companies; and increasing efficiency with such steps as coordinating care and streamlining paperwork. In the long term, reform can help bring down costs that will otherwise lead to a fiscal crisis.
wow, that one is so full of holes I scarce know where to begin. "reform will bust the budget" check out the CBO's report on that. It was sound enough that even obama couldn't spin it away. Cost=$1,000,000,000.00 (1 trillion) according to CBO, and would increase our debt by $239,000,000.00 (239 billion).
"the President has identified ways to pay for the vast majority of the up-front costs by cutting waste, fraud, and abuse within existing government health programs" well Mr. President that's cool, but why do we need to wait until we need to pay for another program that's even bigger, even more prone to fraud and even more invasive? Why not just cut the waste right away? And BTW those "agencies" he was talking about? Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid
"ending big subsidies to insurance companies" again, why do we need to wait until we pass another big bill? do it now, you don't need a thousand plus page bill to do that. I say gov has been in bed with business too long to start with. (GM and TARP anyone?) that's not the american way, that's facism.
"and increasing efficiency with such steps as coordinating care and streamlining paperwork" by creating over a hundred new agencies/bureaucracies? I fail to see the logic in that.
"In the long term, reform can help bring down costs that will otherwise lead to a fiscal crisis." No argument there,
true reform, and not this bloated monstrosity we have now would probably help a lot, how about starting with tort reform
running out of time, be back later