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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (5603)	5/18/2008 1:18:08 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

"Obama knows that the American people are leery of nationalized health care, I think his plan is a way to ease us into it. I predict in his second term he will propose we go to a completely government run program." This is a pretty tame proposal. I think the author is too hard on it. That data collection he claims is costly is data they already have and can pretty cheaply make it available to the public. I question providing taxpayer-paid health coverage to illegal aliens. But I don't much mind the cost of the employee record capture because of what we discussed the other day about the difficulty of finding a player to step up. As far as the second term prediction, this proposal isn't all that much different from what we have now, way to far from single-payer to make an easy transition. Further, it would take a full two terms to put this in place so the next step would be in some other administration.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (5603)	6/11/2008 12:27:33 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Brumar, 1. It covers every American. 2. If you already have Insurance your premiums will be lower. 3. He will offer a plan similar to the one Congress has to all Americans. (You will have to pay premiums for this plan) 4. No American will be turned away from any insurance plan because of illness or pre-existing conditions. 5. Individuals and families who do not qualify for Medicaid or SCHIP but still need financial assistance will receive an income-related federal subsidy to buy into the new public plan or purchase a private health care plan. 6. If you are one of the 45 million Americans who don't have health insurance, you will have it after this plan becomes law. No one will be turned away because of a preexisting condition or illness. 7. It will require that all children have health care coverage. 8. It will expand eligibility for the Medicaid and SCHIP programs. This sounds to me like the day when Jesus spoke to a crowd, and when they were hungry, he fed the entire crowd with few loafs of bread and a few fishes. We live in exciting times. The second coming is upon us... Joe