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To: Alighieri who wrote (537823)	12/21/2009 12:57:33 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) of 1575622

Thanks Al. I think the picture is a lot more complicated than what sound bites can cover. The CBO report only talks about malpractice reform in a vacuum. Nothing about how many procedures are still performed under the fear of legal action, even in states that have limits on malpractice liability. As long as costs are divorced from the prescribed remedies, we're going to have a large percentage of unnecessary procedures. No one wants to go to a personal "PAYGO" system for health care, so someone is going to end up with the unpopular task of rationing. Today it's Big Insurance. Tomorrow it will be the politicians. Like I said, nothing in the current legislation in Congress will actually reduce health care costs. "Reducing the deficit" means increasing taxes and fees: news.yahoo.com > At their core the bills passed by the House and pending in the Senate are similar. Each costs around $1 trillion over 10 years and is paid for by a combination of tax and fee increases and cuts in projected Medicare spending. Each sets up new insurance marketplaces called exchanges where uninsured or self-employed people and small businesses can compare prices and plans designed to meet some basic requirements. Unpopular insurance practices such as denying people coverage based on pre-existing conditions would be banned, and young adults could retain coverage longer under their parents' insurance plans — through age 25 in the Senate bill and through age 26 in the House version. By the way, the "cuts" to Medicare are nothing more than a shuffling of the costs. The whole bill's aim is to expand health care entitlements, not reduce them. Even the AARP knows this, which is the only reason why they support it. Tenchusatsu

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