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House Health Reform Bill Debate Begins, and Other Health Care News
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The U.S. House’s historic health care reform legislation—which would dramatically improve health coverage in this country while cutting the U.S. budget deficit in the long term—is headed to the House floor today for debate. The vote on H.R. 3962 will happen later this week or early next week.
This comprehensive, fairly funded bill will provide millions of uninsured people with affordable coverage and put tough new rules in place on insurers to protect consumers who already have insurance. The bill includes real responsibility for employers, subsidies for low- and middle-income families to help pay for insurance and a public health insurance plan to compete with insurance companies.
Here’s more news from the fight for health care reform:
- According to a letter sent by five committee and subcommittee chairpersons in the House, H.R. 3962 has at least 30 new tools to save billions by fighting fraud in the health care system.
- A new Johns Hopkins study estimates that over the past two decades, children without insurance were 60 percent more likely to die during a hospital stay than children with insurance—leading to 17,000 unnecessary deaths. The fight for health care reform has real life-and-death stakes, and the current system is failing.
- Big pharmaceutical companies are spending $2 million this week on an ad that uses misleading scare tactics to frighten seniors and senators about health care reform.
- Speaking of scare tactics, Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield is the latest insurance company to contact its customers and threaten that health care reform will increase rates, relying on a flawed study.
- Finally, irony of the day: Douglas Holtz-Eakin, formerly an economic adviser to Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), is coming up on the end of his COBRA eligibility, and he’s nervous about entering the individual insurance market—the same market that millions would have been forced into under McCain’s health care proposals.
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http://theprogressivecapitalist.blogspot.com/2009/10/affordable-health-care-for-america-act.html
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Of those “50 million,” that lack insurance there were 45,000 who died without health care. With health care, 98,000 died FROM health care because of malpractice.
The question is do we want to trust that largest corporation in the world, the U.S. Government.
Do not expect house calls anytime soon.
We have seen how well the government delivers on its promises and its bureaucracies pursue the money without giving us benefits on so many levels. Imagine another organ of the government that only ultimately must listen to the Secretary of the Treasury – another “service” of which is the IRS.
http://theprogressivecapitalist.blogspot.com/2009/10/affordable-health-care-for-america-act.html
That blog of mine above has several .pdf connections (HR. 3962 and two summaries, a few videos, and page references for new taxes and other mandates).
If you believe the promises of this bill, you have to deal with the lie that it fosters competition with a government option called the “Public Option” and establishes the government as a monopoly making its own rules.
Don’t worry. You’ll run out of “rich” soon enough. We have at least a$12 trillion economy of which at least $1.8 trillion is spent on health care. If you read the bill, there are plenty of opportunities to soak the middle class, if you do not mind th 1.6 million made jobless.