Comments on: The Dirty Little Secret is on Page 16 of The Healthcare Plan

By: chicagobluesgirl

chicagobluesgirl — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:17:36 +0000

Somehow, I believe the IBD rather than you or any of the CNN commentators who have an agenda to support their leader. What do you think those new standards might be? How long before the insurance companies can no longer exist due to the non-for-profit situation of the government program? What is dangerous is that clueless people like you are still out there after all this time when you could have found out the truth but chose instead to just believe what your fraudulent government tells you.

By: JLO

JLO — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:23:39 +0000

The IBD is lying about page 16 and so are you.

It does not say that insurers cannot write new policy.

It says they cannot write new policy on the old standards. It says that any new policies they write must conform to the new standards once those new standards are in effect.

It also says that if you have an existing policy that does not meet the new standards you can keep it if you choose, as long as it was in effect before the new law takes effect.

Read the bill. Or at least read page 16 before you skwak about it.

Your ignorance is dangerous.

By: chicagobluesgirl

chicagobluesgirl — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 02:41:37 +0000

You are throwing the baby out with the bathwater, Dan. We can reform health care without destroying choice which is what a single-payer plan would do. Have you read the bill? I think not. If you had, you would not think it was genius. You may have “loved” your health care because you weren’t ill or old.
Page 22 mandates audits of all employers that self-insure. Page 29. It admits on page 29 that your health care will be rationed.
Page 30: A government will decide what treatments and benefits you get, and unlike an insurer, there is… Well, there’s an appeals process that you don’t even want to mess with that. Page 58: Every person will be issued a national ID health card.
Page 59: The federal government will have direct real-time access to all individual bank accounts for electronic funds transfer.
Page 239: The bill will reduce physician services for Medicaid, meaning there will be Medicaid cuts. The president is out there saying that there won’t be.
Page 427: Government mandates program that orders end-of-life treatment. Government dictates how your life ends. The Washington Post read the section, Section 1233 and came to the same disturbing conclusion.
Page 429: Advanced care planning consult will be used to dictate treatment as patients’ health deteriorates. This can include an order for end-of-life plans. The order will be from the government.

And speaking of writing skills, you could learn a few things about punctuation and paragraphs…maybe they don’t teach that in law school these days. I know that the trial lawyers are Obama puppets. Obviously you are just about as narcissistic as your almighty leader is. Your degree does not impress me at all– B.O. is from Harvard and he is as clueless as you are.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:40:41 +0000

Then dont let them exist. Do you know how much money insurance companies make? I have done loads of research. How can you keep standing up for insurance companies? Obama care will marginalize their profits, not kill them. Yes, some will go out of business and they should.

I lived in the UK for two years and I loved the healthcare!

I graduated from a top tier law school. The last thing I need is someone who has poor sentence structure and uses unnecessary commas to call me naive when the only point I made was that it doesn’t destroy healthcare the way we know it.

Also, one of reasons I went to law school was insurance schemes. This came to head after reading the Rainmaker. Give it a read.

Now that we are on the subject, I think this plan is genius because it stops all the rationing that is going on in the present system. Yea, preexisting conditions. Be part of the solution, not the problem.

By: chicagobluesgirl

chicagobluesgirl — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:08:12 +0000

I am continually amazed at what people will believe. Insurance companies, in order to exist, must make a profit. Yes, they are private sector businesses. Once Obama Care is out there not needing to make a profit because they are using our tax dollars, they will push out the private sector and you will have only single payer health care. If you like that, go live in Britain or Canada or Sweden for awhile and see how well you like it...especially if you are over 65. You are very, very naive if you think this health care is genius and you need to do research if you actually care about your country OR do something novel: read the actual bill: http://docs.house.gov/gopleader/House-Democrats-Health-Plan.pdf

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:27:09 +0000

Under the House bill, companies that offer insurance to individuals will do it through an exchange, where the government sets minimum standards for coverage. The new regulations require insurance companies to accept people even if they have previously existing conditions and to provide a minimum level of benefits, among other things.

This means that insurance companies will not longer be able to participate in predatory tactics which in turn screw over the common American so they can stuff their pockets with bonuses based off of denied coverage.

This is NOT a secret and it is NOT dirty. It is genius and about time.

By: chicagobluesgirl

chicagobluesgirl — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 01:44:42 +0000

Unfortunately, thanks to Senator Kennedy, a provision is provided in the bill for senators to not lose THEIR health care while all of us lose ours.

By: chicagobluesgirl

chicagobluesgirl — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 01:43:31 +0000

As time goes on, it is my belief that we will be able to choose less and less as our liberties and our constitution are extricated from our country’s mores.

By: chicagobluesgirl

chicagobluesgirl — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 01:40:29 +0000

I believe that China, whenever it chooses, can call its debt to our detriment. Thanks for writing.

By: nola norton

nola norton — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 01:46:20 +0000

And where does this country go to get its money? CHINA…………therefore, when this health care bill rears its ugly head, our country will go belly-up, then crawl on our knees to China for more money………..between Obama and China, who has to worry about the bomb?