I have to admit that I haven't read either the cap n trade bill or the health care bill. I also don't think the information that I'm getting from various sources gives an accurate picture of what's in either of these bills. I doubt that Obama has read either one and is accepting the bullet point summaries from his aides about what's in each one and he's accepting the fact that there's a ton of earmarks in each one - "earmarks" is just another way to say "bribes for votes".
Anyone who's ever read any government document knows that they are written in bureaucratese and impossible to decipher what it's actually saying. How do they plan to implement a 1000+ page document? Do the minimum wage kids, who are going to be in charge of implementing the bill, have to read the bill so they understand what their job is all about?
Why is it called a health care bill? Isn't this more about insurance?
Isn't this more about money than health care?
I took care of my folks for 4 years and their health care was Medicare and AARP as the secondary. They both had a myriad of problems: Parkinson's, cancer, heart disease, dementia, etc. I never had one problem with Medicare paying for all the care they needed, except for a doctor who charged for house visits he never made. There were a lot of stupid rules - such as $100 a month for a hospital bed that the company it was rented from kept charging for it long after it had exceeded the original cost of the bed. Or, my dad couldn't have an egg crate mattress in the hospital unless he had bedsores. Once he got the bedsore, then he could have the egg crate, even though it's known that egg crates prevent the bedsores.
I'm on Medicare and so far haven't had any problems - although I don't go to the doctor that often and don't have the kind of problems that require a lot of medical attention.
Don't you think that the focus should be on how this bill is going to be paid for? I think it's a distraction for people to be yelling about things that are talking points about "health care". It's really health insurance. |
