Health Care: How Will It End?

what’s really at stake for America. The Senate health reform bill will:
– Extend coverage to 31 million Americans, the largest expansion of coverage since the creation of Medicare.
– Ensure that you can choose your own doctor.
– Finally stop insurance companies from denying coverage due to a pre-existing condition.
– Make sure you will never be charged exorbitant premiums on the basis of your age, health, or gender.
– Guarantee you will never lose your coverage just because you get sick or injured.
– Protect you from outrageous out-of-pocket expenditures by establishing lifetime and annual limits.
– Allow young people to stay on their parents’ coverage until they’re 26 years old.
– Create health insurance exchanges, or “one-stop shops” for individuals purchasing insurance, where insurance companies are forced to compete for new customers.
– Lower premiums for families, according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office — especially for struggling folks who will receive subsidies.
– Help small businesses provide health care coverage to their employees with tax credits and by allowing them to purchase coverage through the exchanges.
– Improve and strengthen Medicare by eliminating waste and fraud (without cutting basic benefits), beginning to close the Medicare Part D donut hole, and extending the life of the Medicare trust fund.
– Create jobs by reining in costs — fostering competition, reducing waste and inefficiency, and starting to reward doctors and hospitals for quality, not quantity, of care.
– Cut the deficit by over $130 billion in the next 10 years.
It’s a long list. But that’s only because this bill represents the most significant health reform our nation has seen since the creation of Medicare.

“It’s a long list”
Yes, you forgot ‘buy insurance or face massive fines/prison’.
Lots of young healthy singles don’t buy and don’t want to buy insurance that they don’t feel that they need at this stage in their lives.
This will make criminals of them.
way to go, Dems.

Well – Joe White – what happens if those “healthy singles” get into an accident or come down with cancer? Who is going to pay their bill? Everyone needs to be responsible. Fines are not the answer but govt subsidies should help those “healthy” young people to afford a plan. Everyone who owns a car must have insurance. It will be up to private insurance companies to make healthcare affordable. If not, they risk going against a public option in future legislation

Ok so you are telling me that you will give everybody healthcare but it won’t cost a cent more to anybody but the wealthy. If you taxed the wealthy to death you still couldn’t begin to pay for this. That means that middle class folks will take taht burden on eventually. Oh but lets take money from medicare but medicare won’t lose any coverage. Except for getting rid of medicare advantage and a few other things. But then we can print money. So we can devalue the dollar. Lets also make people get insurance. Afterall it is apparently constitutional to reqire people to buy products in America. And finally I know that when I have a huge amount of debt on my plate I know nothing makes me feel better then a gigantic shopping spree that costs one seventh of all my assets. So yea this makes complete sense. And in the end we would still have 20 million people not covered. Sounds like a great idea.