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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (584094)	9/2/2010 3:36:05 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573413

No. It's just a crap plan. Income has nothing to do with it - it's not even a factor. It's a HIGH RISK POOL, for people with chronic conditions that are either uninsurable or priced out of the market. It didn't help. No one is signing up for it. Perhaps it will become more affordable when the bulk of the population is added to it in 2014 and the risk is more diffused, but I seriously doubt it. fdlaction.firedoglake.com "The media are finally waking up to the fact that the temporary high-risk pools created by the new health-care law were completely unfunded. Only $5 billion was set aside for the program, which is probably less than a third of what would be required to keep the program funded until 2014. This should not be news to Congress or people closely following the health-care debate. Back in December 2009, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) clearly concluded, “By 2011 and 2012 the initial $5 billion in Federal funding for this program [high risk pools] would be exhausted.” A fact FDL chose to highlight. As little as a year ago, this would not have had to become a major problem. I would have expected Congress in 2011-2012 to provide the needed additional funds for the high-risk pools, preventing hundreds of thousands of people from losing their health care. That is before I witnessed the recent fight to kill the tax-extender bill, which contained COBRA subsidies, emergency Medicaid funding and unemployment insurance extension. A cruel indifference to the plight of regular people and fake deficit hysteria have taken over the Senate. The added funding for the high-risk pools may suffer the same fate. This is one of the many foolish political time bombs Democrats wrote into their own health-care bill. They cared more about some CBO price tag than doing it right." =============================================================== The Devil is in the details, and Obamacare is a failure for me. It doesn't work for me. I think in 2014, the rest of the country will be in for a shock! I'm nearing Medicare age, so, there's that ( I hope! ).