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Saturday, November 07, 2009
Key details of Democrats' health overhaul bill
By The Associated Press
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Will the Dems' health care Christmas Present to America be an improvement or detriment to our health care system?


The House health care bill passed Saturday would:

_Require most Americans to purchase health insurance or pay a fine.

_Expand health care coverage to 36 million more people over the next decade.

_Require employers with payrolls above $500,000 to provide insurance to their employees or pay a fine.

_Prohibit insurance companies from denying coverage because of pre-existing medical conditions.

_End premium disparities between men and women.

_Impose a 5.4 percent income tax surcharge on income above $500,000 annually for individuals and above $1 million annually for households.

_Establish a government-run insurance plan to compete with private insurers beginning in 2013.

_Cost $1.2 trillion over 10 years.

_Cut Medicare spending by more than $400 billion over 10 years.

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Reply # 1
Date: Nov 8, 2009 - 11:15 PM EST
Sky Pete
What happens if the whole thing you want passes, then you find out it doesn't care for you even half as much as you have now? Will you be a winner, or a loser?
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Reply # 2
Date: Nov 8, 2009 - 3:41 PM EST
The poor Canadians (and Illegal Aliens)!
The poor Canadians (and Americans and Illegal Aliens)!
Where will the Canadians, and everyone else, go for their urgent or critical health care treatments once the new "system" (tyrannical socialism) is in place in the USA? Imagine the chaos when all of the new government health insurance bureaucrats and clerks try to reconcile errors in claims and billings with the billing office administrators of physicians and hospitals. Who is going to interpret a 2000 page "Law" in order to administer the payments and allowed treatments with fairness?
In a survey conducted about 10 years ago, the IRS gave 10 different answers to the same tax question. You must go to Federal Tax Court in order to resolve taxation disputes with the IRS.
Now you will have to go to a Federal Health Insurance and Health Care Court in order to resolve disputes over your billing or care. Of course, if you have a care dispute, you may die or worsen before your case gets resolved because cases taken to Tax Court, as an example, usually take a year just to get heard and another 1 to 3 months for a ruling. Just imagine the complications involved in trying to resolve a health care dispute: you have the patient and his lawyer, the Doctor, the Hospital, the Government health insurance bureaucrat, and the office administrators of the Doctors and Hospitals that have to be heard and reconciled in the dispute.
This new “Health Care” Bill is a “make work” tyrannical socialist project for unemployed Lawyers, and it will create new classes of workers called Health Insurance Adjustors and Health Law Administrative Judges.
God help us!
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