Some key provisions of the bill include
• Creates “non-profit” co-ops to provide insurance to members
• Establishes government insurance companies to compete with private insurers
• Provides that individual States can choose whether to participate in “government insurance”
• Beginning in 2013 everyone would be forced to buy insurance
• Deductable paid by insured would be based on income
• Many of the costs begin upon passage but the benefits of the program don’t go into effect until the years 2013 and 1014 allowing the pool of money to “buildup”
Who pays?
• Establishes a tax on “Cadillac” health plans
• Establishes an excise tax on all annual premiums of plans that are over $8,300 for individuals
• Raises Medicare payroll tax
• Slashes Medicare coverage
• Taxes health insurance companies and Pharmaceuticals
• Places an additional tax of 5% on cosmetic sugary
• Cost exemption goes into place after those that can’t afford coverage have paid 8% of their income for coverage
This is the Obama-Max Baucus Democrat plan and they need 60 votes to move it along. If one Democrat senator falters in his vote for this bill it will fail to move ahead. Now we know our Senator Baucus will vote yes as it is his bill. Senator Tester however, can make a difference on this vote. He has the opportunity on Saturday to protect Montanans from this over-reaching and costly plan. If our readers think this is a great plan, then by all means do nothing. If, on the other hand you think some of these details need more work as I do, be sure and call Senator Tester and demand he vote NO on Saturdays vote. Call the Capital - switchboard at 202-224-3121 and ask for Senator Tester’s office. Be active! Do something! Or do not complain when you get the bill.
Every Havre Union employee with a “Cadillac” plan will pay more under this version of the bill. Every person with a desire for a boob job or a facelift will be taxed for that luxury. Every poor person, currently uninsured will get forced to pay 8% of their income to yet another tax. Deductibles will be based on income but will be set by agency Czars so it could be argued that anyone with a “decent” job could be subjected to paying the load for those that can’t. Most importantly, the fact that the Government is going into “business” to compete with anyone, scares the living bajeebers out of me. Tell me one “business” that the government has ever run that succeeded.
PERHAPS LAWYERS ARE THE PROBLEM WITH HEALTH CARE? And yes, I plagiarized this piece but it is so true.
ReplyDeleteThe Democratic Party has become the Lawyers' Party. Barack Obama is a lawyer. Michelle Obama is a lawyer. Hillary Clinton is a lawyer. Bill Clinton is a lawyer. John Edwards is a lawyer. Elizabeth Edwards is a lawyer. Every Democrat nominee since 1984 went to law school (although Gore did not graduate). Every Democrat vice presidential nominee since 1976, except for Lloyd Bentsen, went to law school. Look at leaders of the Democrat Party in Congress: Harry Reid is a lawyer. Nancy Pelosi is a lawyer.
The Republican Party is different. President Bush is a businessman. Vice President Cheney is a businessman. The leaders of the Republican Revolution:
Newt Gingrich was a history professor. Tom Delay was an exterminator. Dick Armey was an economist. House Minority Leader Boehner was a plastic manufacturer. The former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is a heart surgeon.
Who was the last Republican president who was a lawyer? Gerald Ford,
who left office 31 years ago and who barely won the Republican nomination as a sitting president, running against Ronald Reagan in 1976. The Republican Party is made up of real people doing real work, who are often the targets of lawyers.
The Democrat Party is made up of lawyers. Democrats mock and scorn men who create wealth, like Bush and Cheney, or who heal the sick, like Frist, or who immerse themselves in history, like Gingrich. The Lawyers' Party sees these sorts of people, who provide goods and services that people want, as the enemies of America . And, so we have seen the procession of official enemies, in the eyes of the Lawyers' Party, grow.
We cannot expect the Lawyers' Party to provide real change, real reform or real hope in America Most Americans know that a republic in which every major government action must be blessed by nine unelected judges is not what Washington intended in 1789.
The United States has 5% of the world's population and 66% of the world's lawyers! Tort (Legal) reform legislation has been introduced in congress several times in the last several years to limit punitive damages in ridiculous lawsuits such as 'spilling hot coffee on yourself and suing the establishment that sold it to you' and also to limit punitive damages in huge medical malpractice lawsuits. This legislation has continually been blocked from even being voted on by the Democrat Party. When you see that 97% of the political contributions from the American Trial Lawyers Association goes to the Democrat Party, then you realize who is responsible for our medical and product costs being so high!
So how do we stop this government run healthcare. The penthouse folks in the congress don't give one damn hoot what there constituants think or want.
ReplyDeleteSo did you talk to your senators? If you are aginst the healthcares bill before the Senate did they say they would take your concerns into consideration? I bet they did! See if this passes to move to debate, see if it does who votes to take it there, See how much pork barrel is added for each state, See if ( i don't believe in porkbarrel at all Tester askes for.
ReplyDeleteAs I have said before these polititions could care less what you have to say(except of course when its time for re-election) move this bogged down with BS and things that go against all of the american publics wishes. If you think medical care is high now wait and I tell you it will go higher.
The plan moves forward. You, the taxpayer paid to have Sen Max Baucus flown from Montana, torn from his ailing mother's side today, straight to Washington so he could cast this historic vote. 58 Democrats and 2 independents cast a yes vote. (Including Senator "No Earmarks Ever", Testor)
ReplyDeleteToo bad Tester didn't have the nuggetts to do what is right for Montana
Yes, I agree...I think lawyers are part of this problem!!
ReplyDeleteI think "tort-reform" is an important aspect, but again the Democrats poo-pooed this idea!!!
Did you see in todays Great Falls Tribune that the AARP is backing the 430 million medicare cut brought forth by the Senate, And they want me to trust them with my future as a retired people. I think not.
ReplyDeleteThere has to be tort reform or health care will never be reformed. It all fits together.
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