And it will be bi-partisan! (Notice the NYT journOlists refrain from mentioning that bit?)Soon after the 112th Congress convenes Wednesday, Republicans in the House plan to make good on a campaign promise that helped vault many new members to victory: voting to repeal President Obama’s health care overhaul.
“If we pass this bill with a sizable vote, and I think that we will, it will put enormous pressure on the Senate to do perhaps the same thing,” Mr. Upton said on “Fox News Sunday.” “But then, after that, we’re going to go after this bill piece by piece.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/03/us/politics/03repubs.html
Upton, a Michigan Republican, said that his party had 242 votes in favor of repeal, and that "there will be a significant number of Democrats who will join us."
New Congress sets its eyes on oversight - CNN.com
I hope they also plan to allow hospitals to turn away ER patients who can't afford to pay. You know, since paying for the healthcare of others is so terrible for us. If we're not going to do it efficiently, maybe we should stop doing it.
I am inclined to agree. It should either be one way or the other. We should either let people die in the street or we need to manage healthcare effectively. Unfortunately the recent healthcare legislation is so bastardized that it doesn't really manage healthcare effectively.
Geez, maneez.
NO ONE is saying healthcare shouldn't be reformed, but not in the nationalized abortion form that Obamacare is carefully predestined to become.
But that will be what Obama runs on: "We gave the rich their tax cuts, and they STILL want to take away your healthcare!"
No you didn't, and know we don't.
I hope they also plan to allow hospitals to turn away ER patients who can't afford to pay. You know, since paying for the healthcare of others is so terrible for us. If we're not going to do it efficiently, maybe we should stop doing it.
So what's your healthcare reform plan?
My God, it took the Apollo project over a year, and 2100 pages to lay this current turd on us, and you want him to write a plan right this moment?
Unreasonable much?
j-mac
My God, it took the Apollo project over a year, and 2100 pages to lay this current turd on us, and you want him to write a plan right this moment?
Unreasonable much?
j-mac
And it will be bi-partisan! (Notice the NYT journOlists refrain from mentioning that bit?)
How about the Senate? Will we see bi-partisanship there? Or more bull-ship? ROTFLOL.
Readying the noose for 2012.
Beautiful.
Decisive, historic victories are game changing. I wonder... how many Dems that voted for the stink bomb called ObamaKare will vote to repeal it?
Any guesses?
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My God, it took the Apollo project over a year, and 2100 pages to lay this current turd on us, and you want him to write a plan right this moment?
Unreasonable much?
j-mac
So you admit that "access" was never the issue?
j-mac
So what's your healthcare reform plan?
Actually, no.
What I'd like for any GOP Senator to do is show that their health care proposals were any better than what was signed into law. Better yet, show a proposal where GOP ideas weren't incorporated into the law. I think it's been archieved by now, but there use to be a thread in the Health Care forum that linked to a spreadsheet listing all of the health care reform bill proposals. I reviewed most of them and if memory serves me correctly, there were only 2 leading GOP proposals and both offered many of the same things we eventually got in "ObamaCare"...
- eliminating pre-existing conditions
- raising the federal poverty limit
- expanding Medicaid
- reducing fraud, waste and abuse in Medicare and funding and/or closing the "donut hole" for prescription drugs
- starting state-sponsored health insurance exchanges (a GOP idea)
- reducing or eliminating the life-time cap of benefits
About the only thing all the proposals had in common was none really offered a clear way to reduce health care costs or pay for their proposals upfront. So, GOP, if you're going to repeal what's already out there, you'd better come up with something much better than what we got! As I've said several times before, HR 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act - was the best compromise we were going to get in this country's present partisan atmosphere.
They've had countless years - they could have done something substantial by now.
Actually - they did. At the time the AACHA was circulating there were several other extensive plans either presented in bill-form . . . or being worked on.
Some were just as ridiculous. Some were simple and fixed just a few things. Other measure were meant to be applied slowly to permit adjustment before presenting or writing the next measure. . . and so on.
The sheer number of ignored plans that were presented or suggested is astonishing.
Are some bullet points too much to ask?
Also, why are you talking about space programs that ended in 1972?
Being forced to wait until a condition becomes serious-to-life-threatening and then being stuck with a bill 10 times higher than what it would have been a month earlier is not what I would call good access.
Yes, people have some access via ERs that can't turn them away. They also go bankrupt in the process.
Oh, and the ER only has to stabilize them, not treat them.
Actually, no.
What I'd like for any GOP Senator to do is show that their health care proposals were any better than what was signed into law. Better yet, show a proposal where GOP ideas weren't incorporated into the law. I think it's been archieved by now, but there use to be a thread in the Health Care forum that linked to a spreadsheet listing all of the health care reform bill proposals. I reviewed most of them and if memory serves me correctly, there were only 2 leading GOP proposals and both offered many of the same things we eventually got in "ObamaCare"...
- eliminating pre-existing conditions
- raising the federal poverty limit
- expanding Medicaid
- reducing fraud, waste and abuse in Medicare and funding and/or closing the "donut hole" for prescription drugs
- starting state-sponsored health insurance exchanges (a GOP idea)
- reducing or eliminating the life-time cap of benefits
About the only thing all the proposals had in common was none really offered a clear way to reduce health care costs or pay for their proposals upfront. So, GOP, if you're going to repeal what's already out there, you'd better come up with something much better than what we got! As I've said several times before, HR 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act - was the best compromise we were going to get in this country's present partisan atmosphere.
I hope they also plan to allow hospitals to turn away ER patients who can't afford to pay. You know, since paying for the healthcare of others is so terrible for us. If we're not going to do it efficiently, maybe we should stop doing it.
I hope they also plan to allow hospitals to turn away ER patients who can't afford to pay. You know, since paying for the healthcare of others is so terrible for us. If we're not going to do it efficiently, maybe we should stop doing it.
Let me just add to my previous post that I think charities would probably move in to fill the gaps for most of those that truly can’t afford health insurance.
Let me just add to my previous post that I think charities would probably move in to fill the gaps for most of those that truly can’t afford health insurance.
...Being forced to wait until a condition becomes serious-to-life-threatening and then being stuck with a bill 10 times higher than what it would have been a month earlier is not what I would call good access.
What charities? Like the Red Cross who runs massive debt often and their disaster relief supplies are frequently being depleated by worldwide disasters that they respond to?
It's just a fact of life - there will always be 'poor' - and there will always be people who *don't* care and most certainly many who won't be donating to save their fellow man from anything.
That's not the way it works in California. Here they show up at an ER whenever they want, and they say they can't pay. They get the treatment for free and that's the end of it.
Give me a break. Americans are the most charitable people on the planet. If the government stopped redistributing so much of our money, Red Cross would probably be doing a lot better.
Like I said though, if people know they won’t get treatment if they don’t buy insurance, the rate of uninsured will drop astronomically.
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