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Good Evening Everyone;
As I read this, I am in shock...
My mind cannot even wrap around the sheer numbers involved.
The answer: "625"
The question: "How many persons lost their health insurance EVERY HOUR in 2009?"
That translates to 5,475,000. (That's an additional 5½ MILLION+/- people/year).
Add that to the 46 MILLION that already don't have health insurance.
We are against this, why?
Stay well my friends.
Love to all.
XOXO
Anne
5,475,000 wow that's a lot of unimportant people you have there, 625 it's like being in a lottery you never know when your "Next Please" is not going to come up eh
ReplyDeleteThe whole issue is just making me sick to my stomach , we elected Obama into office, one of the reasons to bring us affordable health care, now all of a sudden the American people dont want it, give me a friggen break. None of us have a choice but to try and stay well, one major illness could kill us! love to you my sweet Annie.
ReplyDeleteaffordable is the key reason
ReplyDeleteYou have to read and understand the whole thing...
ReplyDeleteCLAIM 1: Tort reform will significantly lower health care spending.
FACT: According to the Congressional Budget Office, malpractice costs are not the main driver of health care spending and the GOP’s prescription of capping non-economic damages has failed to reduce premiums on the state level. Indeed, states that have adopted reward caps have failed to significantly lower health care costs. When Texas capped non economic medical malpractice damages to $250,000 in 2003, most conservatives argued that the reform would free doctors from having to prescribe unnecessary treatment. It didn’t happen. According to the Dartmouth
research on disparities in health care spending, many Texan doctors are still prescribing aggressive treatments that don’t improve outcomes and premiums continue to increase. In fact, as of 2006, Texas was still at the top of the list of high-spending states.
CLAIM 2: Selling insurance across state lines will promote competition amonginsurance companies and lower premiums.
FACT: Selling policies across state lines would allow an insurer to choose a single ‘primary state’ “whose covered laws shall govern the health insurance issuer” and sell its policies nationwide. This will encourage companies to choose a state with scarce regulations and sell policies that don’t provide mental health parity, cancer screenings, or abide by regulations that limit the rates that can be charged to higher-cost consumers. In fact, the GOP house health bill requires a “health insurance issuer” to issue a “notice” informing consumers that policies sold from other states are “not subject to all of the consumer protection laws or restrictions on rate changes” of
the state where the beneficiary lives. The Republican proposal also expands the definition of ‘state’ to not only include the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, but the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands. This would allow the governments of the Virgin Islands or the Northern Mariana Islands to be the sole regulators. Given the record of corruption and general willingness of these countries to allow themselves to be used for off-shore banking and tax shelter entities, it is unlikely that these governments would provide effective oversight for market conduct, trade practices.
CLAIM 3: Everyone will have “universal access” to insurance. Individuals who cannot purchase insurance in the individual market can be covered by high risk pools that states will be required to establish.FACT: Nationwide, high-risk pools cover fewer than 200,000 people. Often, enrollees face high premiums and are denied benefits for treatments related to their preexisting conditions. Covering all high-risk Americans through these pools is likely to be prohibitively expe
Someone somewhere , sometime has to pay for this, like it or not. And that is a fact
ReplyDeleteThrough the deductions in our paychecks, we would ALL pay for it; (even those new to health coverage).
ReplyDeletePeople want to see IMMEDIATE reduction. That is silly. We won't. But in the long run, we WILL.
It takes time to add to the fund.
ReplyDeleteNobody is asking to get anything for free.
Nobody ever said the fund would balance out next month or even next year. I believe the figures were at 10 years.
ReplyDeleteThat said, multiply the above mentioned numbers by 10 more years if we don't pass this bill with the public option.
If you do that math, you should be sickened by that.
Can we afford NOT to pass this?
ReplyDeleteWith comprehensive health insurance reform, we can finally control rising health care costs and bring relief to the many American families struggling to keep up with their bills. According to these leading economists, “the health care reforms passed by the House and Senate – with recent modifications proposed by President Obama – include serious measures that will slow the growth of health care spending.” If reform fails, they add, “the chances of reducing growth of health care spending in the future will be greatly reduced.”
From The White House
Sweet Mommy,
ReplyDeleteI am with you 100%! We canNOT afford to NOT pass this.... All these republican dumbasses that say that the cost is too much or that we will be a socialistic society and what not... All I hear from them is: "Blah blah blah, the insurance companies are paying me well... blah blah blah, I could care less about the Americans I represent.... blah blah blah...."
Sad that they can't think of anyone but themselves. "Oh no, I'd be paying a tiny bit off of my paycheck to ensure that Americans like me won't suffer without health coverage? No, screw the other Americans, let them die for all I care, just don't take a few dollars of my paycheck"...
Yes, we will ALL be giving a little to make this work, but I'd be more than willing to bet that MOST Americans with hearts won't mind a few dollars off the paycheck to insure millions and millions of fellow Americans....
Grow up and make up your own mind on this matter, don't listen to the GOP members that have the insurance companies stuffing their pockets....
Love you MUCH MUCH!
~Casey
Sweet CaseyFace!
ReplyDeletehehehe You said a bad word. Too bad it's applicable...
People before profits.
I used to tell people that I was 'middle of the road and leaning left', politically, but after the pla$tic people, men and women, that I have seen throughout this healthcare bill, I am found that I am very "left" on this issue.
People have blocked me from their blogs to prevent me from linking them to the truth.
Actually blocking me is a good thing, because in order to do so they have to make their entire blog 'private' and just show it to a few people. Therefore their republican crap about healthcare is not searchable on the net. hehehe
XOXO
Mama D.
People before profits.
ReplyDeleteI used to tell people that I was 'middle of the road and leaning left', politically, but after the pla$tic people, men and women, that I have seen throughout this healthcare bill, I am found that I am very "left" on this issue.
People have blocked me from their blogs to prevent me from linking them to the truth.
Actually blocking me is a good thing, because in order to do so they have to make their entire blog 'private' and just show it to a few people. Therefore their republican crap about healthcare is not searchable on the net. hehehe
XOXO
Mama D.
hehehe
ReplyDeleteYou said a bad word! And it's funny because it is applicable!
http://www.mcclatchydc.com
ReplyDelete"If the public option is the cost, who needs a single Republican vote? Without it, this is just a cash cow for insurance companies- which stand to "gain enormously" from the bill.
The only ways to cut the cost of health care is to take the savings out of either or both the insurance companies' or drug manufacturer's profits, or reduce treatments. If these groups stand to "gain enormously", then consumers stand to lose enormously."
That's a fact!
This from talking points memo comments:
ReplyDelete"No matter what form the bill ultimately takes (especially if it's one that makes fiscal sense and increases the number covered), the GOP will oppose it. The better the final bill appears, the more imperative that they kill it.
If any such bill passes, the President will get the credit, and the GOP has to prevent that at all costs. It would sink them in 2010 and 2012, and who knows how long after that.
The reason the GOP is terrified of health care reform is that it will put the lie to their libertarian claptrap that the government cannot do anything. If universal health care became a reality, it would be VERY popular (it is in England, France, and Canada), and the Republicans would be virtually unelectable for the next generation.
It is too bad the Democrats are so *&@% spineless that they cannot see that. The Republicans have thrown everything they can against the public option, yet the polls show that Americans still want the public option in the health care reform bill. Thus, the public is not listening to the Republicans. Too many Democrats in the Senate, however, are not listening to the voters."