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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (60807)	8/15/2009 9:57:10 PM
From: Little Joe	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 149317

"Buying insurance across state lines has the potential for insurance companies to lose money. I could buy a cheap insurance in Arkansas and then decide to come to California to have surgery where medical costs are high" Unlikely because most insurance plans have in plan docs. So if you lived in Arkansas you likely will have Arkansas Doc in plan and if you go elsewhere for your treatment, you will have to pay any additional amount charged. That is how my plan works anyway. "Besides we have insurance companies that are allowed to sell across state lines. Why is this an issue" Other types of insurance not health care. "When there is a bill and it comes to the floor for a vote. I expect my elected rep. and his staff to read every line of the bill. That is what they have sent there to do. NOt to come and lie to me by saying that the bill proposes "death panels." If they have already made up their mind without reading the bill so what if they then read it just to satisfy their gullible voters. You may disagree but the bill as written does not preclude the institution of age based criteria for access to medical care. "THis entire health care issue can be explained in a very very very simple way. If Medicare is successful, then change the eligibility age from 65 years to zero, cut Medicare costs such as unnecessary procedures, provide incentives to doctors for preventive care instead of curing patients after they fall sick etc. etc." Medicare according to any authority is unsustainable at its current level. Of course participants love it. They pay a small fraction of the true cost and get excellent health care. Why wouldn't a participant like that. What evidence is there that the government is capable of cutting unnecessary procedures, or that preventive care is cost effective and will save money, etc, etc, etc. As far as I am concerned that is all pie in the sky. However, I am willing to try it in a Blue state. Maybe yours, where to you live? Let's find out if the government can make it work, before we do something we will be sorry for. What is wrong with that. lj