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

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (19033)	8/29/2010 11:30:03 PM
From: i-node	2 Recommendations Respond to of 42652

The fact is that if Congress were to do what they said they would to "pay for" the legislation, YOU would LOSE your Medicare Advantage plan. THAT is a fact. Nobody's opinion. Of course, we knew going in that they wouldn't pay for it. Charles Krauthammer, a genius if ever there was one, pointed out at the time that it is silly to think for a minute that some as yet unnamed future congress is going to have the guts to cut your Medicare Advantage when the bunch of weak ninnies who passed this legislation didn't have the guts to do it. The reality is we got an unfunded mandate on states to cover 20 million more people on Medicaid, plus $500 Billion in new debt for the federal share of that bill plus other failures to raise the needed funds. In the end, if the bill stands, we're talking many, many trillions. We told you so.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (19033)	8/29/2010 11:38:56 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

I take the content rather seriously, and I think it deserves it. Its about current facts in the law, policies decisions based on it that have been discussed, and relatively straightforward analysis of what these things entail. The specific numbers are just projections, or if you want "opinions" or "guesses", but the point that many will have to change their coverage is pretty solidly established. "Medicare has already notified insurers they will no longer be able to offer more than one "basic" drug plan in any given location." That's not an opinion, that's what has been done already. Since a number of major companies have offered two or more plans, a lot of people are going to have to change just from that decision. The student plan issue is also a concern. They don't meet the minimum standards in the new law. Unless they get some sort of exemption older college students will be forced to change their plan (and likely spend more, even much more). And the concern of the tightness of the limits for employer plans to be "grandfathered" in is a real concern as well. None of this is "agenda driven opinion" Its the reality of current law and policy.