Comments on: Lyndon Baines Reid: A Moment of Triumph, but How Long Will It Last?

By: manapp99

manapp99 — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 23:21:22 +0000

Wait until all those 20 and 30 somethings find out that they will have to buy insurance not at today’s rates but at the inflated rates that the insurance companies will be forced to charge to stay in business.
When insurance companies are required to cover all regardless of pre-existing conditions they will have to charge the young and healthy more to cover the increased costs.
When insurance companies cannot charge the elderly more than twice the amount they charge the young and healthy then rates for the young will have to be more to compensate.
When medicaid is forced to increase coverage then hospitals will see more medicaid patients. Medicaid does not compensate at the same levels as private insurance so hospitals pass the cost over to private insurance by charging 5 dollars for a bandaid and 50 for an aspirin. With more medicaid patients to compensate for the hospitals will be forced to charge even more to the private carriers to make up the shortfall. This will drive up premiums even more.
The increased medicaid coverage will also mean that states will have to raise taxes. Unless, of course, you live in Nebraska which got an illegal contribution from Harry Reid with your money. This is why 14 states AG’s have lined up to fight this illegal provision.
Your right…the liberal MSM has done a lousy job of explaining how bad this bill is.
The good news is that it is likely to cost the Dems the majority so the GOP can come in later and fix this mess.

By: Ray

Ray — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 11:56:05 +0000

@ Dave:
Look all over the industrialised world and you will see a wide variety of healthcare systems- some run by the government and some run by the private sector with government regulations.
The things that all these other countries have in common are that they provide universal healthcare- and they cost about half as much as the US system.
This healthcare bill is only the start of bringing the US system up to the standard of the rest of the world!

By: 2smart4u

2smart4u — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 17:41:28 +0000

Completely unrelated: but what was the purpose of he First Couple to incite people on Christmas Day to help
the fighting troops by donating phone cards, care packages, etc, while they sit in front of a Christmas Tree, in Hawaii, resting from other travels. What ever happened to the Nobel Prize $s that we were told would be going to a charity.. Wouldn’t it be a show of
concern for these troops if he had made donations to
them, by providing THEM with treats and playing cards and games? Again, hot air….

By: steve

steve — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 22:55:47 +0000

Why wont they let insurance companies sell across state lines? I thought they wanted competition?

By: totally disgusted

totally disgusted — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:47:22 +0000

Chicago style Washington politics – change ? YES way more corruption- those so called poloticians should be shown the way that Nixon took. If any commoner did anything like whats been happening they would be proecuted!!!
What has government had control over that has not been AFU ?
TOTALLY DISGUSTED

By: Sandcrab1612

Sandcrab1612 — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:02:21 +0000

It appears that the real problem is government, career politicians have taken over and their first job priority is either getting elected or getting re-elected to office. Their next job priority which is far below the first is to pass legislation the people need. Ask yourself would you spend millions of dollars for a job which pays only slightly more than $200k per year and in the case of a member of the House of Representatives do it every two years? It is time to get rid of the career politician and get folks in office who are there to do the people’s business rather than line their own pockets. All present Congressmen and all running for Congress in the future should be asked to fully support proposed Constitutional amendment COE09E33. This is a simple easy to understand two page bill, Google COE09E33 to read it for yourself. This one simple bill would result in change that we the people could really believe in.

By: lfrichar

lfrichar — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:27:46 +0000

“”"”"Americans will finally get real health care.”"”"”
Posted by: mmmoke
Considering Obama is about to break about 4 campaign promises when he signs this bill, Americans better get something out of it beside higher taxes.

By: War919

War919 — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:56:35 +0000

Wow, New Wave actually said something I agree with. Each candidate gets only “X” dollars to work with, outlaw campaign contributions and lobbying and maybe, maybe Washington will begin to change back to “for the people”.

By: New Wave

New Wave — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:54:38 +0000

Peter King: You forgot to mention that other NV Senator – John Ensign. Who had an affair with a staffer that is married to another staffer of his. John Ensign’s parents paid off the other family with $93,000 as ‘gifts’. Don’t worry that case will grow bigger as 2010 rolls on, in time for the elections.
Oh..how about the diaper-wearing (with prostitutes) GOP Sen Vitter of LA?

By: gus amaral

gus amaral — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:54:19 +0000

One problem with this bill is it appears to continue allowing unregulated fortune building of corporate ‘providers’ of profit-for-illness, at the expense of the [once] middle class.
The conservaflunkies have no idea what that really means, they just yell against it, because the GOP dinosaurs tell them to.
Howard Dean brings up a good point. Just scrap the bill, and start over again.