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Health Care Reform: Cost and Controversy - WSJ This Morning. In a nutshell, most of us want health care reform.
But we’re not on board with coughing up so much tax money to get it done. In Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R- WI) easy- to- follow opinion piece in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, he wrote that before members of Congress even had time to read the 1,0.
House committees. They didn’t even know the cost. So expensive, so complex, and potentially so powerful as to forever change the role of the federal government, and yet they’ve fast- tracked it? The quick deadline that President Obama wants serves what purpose?
He says in Washington, things don’t get done without a deadline. How about a $7. 87 billion stimulus package? How about the government takeover of banks and car companies? The health care overhaul proposal blows those issues out of the water in terms of size and cost. The President says the American people are demanding a deadline. I don’t know of anybody who wants to see action this fast on something so important and yet so poorly thought out. The Congressional Budget Office, standing tall in the face of Democratic outrage, provided analysis that shows the President’s plan will NOT reduce government spending on health care like he said it would, and that it will substantially increase the federal deficit – despite tax increases.
President Obama says providing a public option that people can choose to join will keep insurance companies “honest.” But comparing a government plan to a private health insurance plan is not honest. Ryan notes, the private sector pays taxes; the government COLLECTS taxes. The private sector pays the doctor or hospital a rate that’s been negotiated; the government pays a rate that’s been DICTATED.
Harold Meyerson, editor- at- large of American Prospect and the L. A. Weekly, wrote an opinion piece for the Washington Post defending tax hikes on the wealthy to help pay for the government’s plan.
He can’t understand why centrist Democrats (Blue Dogs) are opposed to taxing the wealthiest 1 percent. Rich people don’t pay enough taxes already? It’s laughable that even in discussing such monumental costs, nobody has produced specific plans to reduce spending. Mr. Meyerson also has no pity for the tax burden on small businesses. He quotes the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities which claims that only the top 4 percent of those businesses would be affected by the proposed surcharge. If there’s 2. 7 million small businesses in America, 4 percent of those is 1,0.
You have to figure that they’re already hurting in this economy. How would they respond to additional taxes? Most Americans are employed by a small business. Why hurt the sector that does the most hiring? Bobby Jindal, Governor of Louisiana, says one of the seven ideas for reforming health care should include pooling for small businesses, the self- employed, and others.
He’d like to see people free to purchase their health coverage without tax penalty through their employer, church, union, etc. He says individuals should benefit from the economies of scale currently available to those working for large employers. We all would like the chance to buy the least- expensive, highest- quality insurance available. Gov. Jindal also proposes that low- income working Americans without health insurance get help in buying private coverage through a refundable tax credit.
We’re all desperate to hear specifics from our leaders in Washington so we can formulate an educated opinion about the health- care reform proposals. Specifics have been clearly lacking so far. One thing that would help: inviting financial reporters to White House press conferences to ask questions on these matters; not political reporters. Then we, and President Obama, wouldn’t waste an hour of our evening (like this past Wednesday) on useless question- and- answer sessions that add to the public frustration.
Health Reform, Point by Point. Compare the health- care bill that won approval on Capitol Hill late Sunday with the bills that passed in the Senate Dec. House on Nov. 7, and with President Barack Obama's pitch to Congress in September. Cost. Obama said his plan would cost around $9. For those families, the levy would be raised to 1.
He now supports an individual mandate as long as hardship waivers are provided. Obama signed an executive order affirming current law and provisions in the legislation that ban federal funding for abortions except in cases of rape, incest or danger to the life of the mother.
Benefits package. That provision would apply to adults starting in 2. But the final version would let the HHS secretary negotiate rates with providers.
Has signaled that he's open to compromise on the issue. Prohibit insurers from rescinding coverage except in cases of fraud. Prohibit insurers from rescinding coverage except in cases of fraud. Require grandfathered plans to eliminate lifetime limits on coverage and annual limits on coverage. Require grandfathered plans to eliminate pre- existing condition exclusions. Read more. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Affordable Health Care for America Act.
Obama on Health Care. Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2.
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