Does anyone understand the National Health Care Bill?

Does anyone understand the National Health Care Bill?

by Liv Published on November 29th, 2009, 9:21 am Rift: News

Here's the thing. I want it, the national health care bill, to pass.... at least I think I do? The more and more I read about it though it seems the less I know about it.

Those who now have the hardest time getting coverage — the self-employed and small businesses — could buy a policy in a new insurance market, with government subsidies for many. cite

Wait? What about the public option thing? This sounds nothing like what Europe has.

One exception would be those with high-cost insurance plans, whose premiums could rise as a result of a tax on insurers issue the coverage.

Huh? Look, I just want to be able to go to the doctor when I'm hurt and sick, and not have to spend the kid's college fund on it.

The House adopted strict limits on abortion funding as the price for the support of anti-abortion Democrats.

Sorry... I've got to believe, they know that this would in effect be found illegal by some means after the first court room case contesting it? So why the dog and pony show?

I mean, it just seems like we're making a mountain out of mole hill are we not? New law: If you're sick you get health-care to make you better. What's so hard about that?

[A Person]

Wait? What about the public option thing? This sounds nothing like what Europe has

Correct, it is nothing like the single payer insurance that many countries have and it's nothing like the regulated private insurance systems the Swiss have or the mix of public and private system the French have.

Sorry... I've got to believe, they know that this would in effect be found illegal by some means after the first court room case contesting it? So why the dog and pony show?

For the voters for whom it's a defining issue. It will get changed later after few publicized deaths.

I mean, it just seems like we're making a mountain out of mole hill are we not? New law: If you're sick you get health-care to make you better. What's so hard about that?

Because it goes against the principle that if it's American it must be the best in the world (and any statistics that say otherwise are a lie) and of self determination -if you are poor or sick it's your own damn fault so why should anyone else be obliged to help you - that's not the 'Merkin way.

It ought not to be hard, but when you see the amount the insurance companies pay politicians it's not too surprising that their mutual welfare is paramount.

[BecauseHeLives]

Too many people believe that "not wanting the responsibility of being a parent" falls under the sick category and think the public should pay for their abortion. Not gonna happen.

[SouthernFriedInfidel]

I think that the basic question that we should be asking here is what organization is best suited to spreading the health risks for the population, private industry or the government? This bill does not answer that question in the most sensible manner, I think. But it does try to address some rather egregious problems with the current system, which isn't a totally worthless endeavor.