DEMS UNVEIL HEALTHCARE BILL
It looks like the Healthcare issue is slowly but surely going to find itself resolved, at least sometime during this Presidential term. Last week we saw the Senate Finance Committee approve a $900 billion dollar healthcare bill. This morning, the Dems met on Capitol Hill to unveil their bill which includes a more moderate public option.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that the Affordable Healthcare for America Act will allow affordability for the lower class, limit out of pocket cost, provide seniors with better benefits and much more. This expanded coverage will offer a moderate public option and will cover 96% of all Americans. Nice! Even better, it’ll end discrimination for pre-existing medical conditions and won’t add one dime to the deficit.
It seems like this version will not only please the President but it really has Americans best interest at heart. What do you think? Do you like this version?
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I hope the bill doesn’t include the ‘Opt Out’ compromise that days ago, Senator Reid announced would be added. If states can choose to decline the public option, then the whole attempt to overhaul the healthcare system will have been one big waste of time and effort. I haven’t been able to find confirmation that it has. Does anyone have information on that?
The following is per Karen Ignagni, the insurance industry’s top lobbyist:
“We are concerned” the House bill will violate assurances that individuals would be able to keep their insurance if they like it, she said. She said it would be responsible for “increasing health care costs for families and employers across the country and significantly disrupting the quality coverage on which millions of Americans rely today.”
I can’t decide whether that’s a veiled threat or promise. But, I anticipate that the insurance industry will do everything in their power to make Americans miserable, so that we’ll regret the reforms. I’m willing to take that chance.
“Ditto!”
I live in Georgia. I called Saxby Chambliss’s office to express my support for a strong public option. I spoke with a representative within his office and I got the response that I expected. That he does not support a public option and neither does his constituents. I inquired about whether he would support it if his constituents changed their views and supported it.
The representative stated that she didn’t know if he would but she doubted that their constituents would change their minds on the subject. I got similar responses from Isackson’s office.
In short, I have no confidence that if given a choice, Georgia would choose to utilize a public option plan. If given a chance to opt out, they would do exactly that.
Isn’t it peculiar how people who are in high places and who are supposedly, of sound mind, can’t quite figure out why those who are in lower places want fair options? Is there no shame, no sence of decency, no compassion for our fellow man and woman? Dare I ask where’s all the good christian values that the republican party always rams down our throats? I for one see no evidence of one, who will stand for any similance of the christian values that I identify with. Maybe they are speaking of a different kind. One for which I want no part of.
I also live in Georgia. I was born and raised in rural south Georgia where Sen. Chambliss comes from. However, Chambliss needs to realize that I am one of his constituents that support the public option and my voice is just as important.
But I am not surprised with Isakson and Chambliss stance on the issue. They have to please their base: white, christian and mostly rural Georgians that still want to make a big deal about bringing back the old state flag with the rebel cross.
The ‘Opt Out’ clause will be a significant factor for the healthcare bill. No solutions have been explained regarding the ‘options’ for the uninsured, should their state choose to decline the public option.
The healthcare bill must have an addendum that states provisions for the uninsured who will encounter this circumstance.
Otherwise, What is the recourse for the uninsured? Will they have to relocate to another state that supports public option?