GOP Pressures for Health Reform Repeal with 1.6 Million Signatures

Just make sure these 1.6 million sign a waiver that when their insurance goes sky high or they go without insurance and suffer catastrophic health problem, they will have no one to blame except themselves.

Stupid penny pinching republicans care only for themselves and the poor can go to —- unless we can enrich ourselves at the poors expense.

Only thing any of us can do, is sit back and watch what the HC does. I guess in about 10 years, we will know whether any of this works or not:

“Health insurance premiums shot up 9 percent this year, nearly three times the rate of inflation and the most since 2005, a new study shows

This year, the annual premiums paid out for employer-sponsored programs topped $15,000, according to Kaiser Family Foundation/Health Research & Educational Trust, which conducts an annual health benefits survey”

Its funny to me that these people want so badly to repeal the law, but they offer nothing to replace it with

“Just make sure these 1.6 million sign a waiver that when their insurance goes sky high or they go without insurance and suffer catastrophic health problem, they will have no one to blame except themselves.”

The problem is not the lack of insurance. It is the cost of health care. This idiotic law doesn’t solve anything…in fact, it creates problems.

What do you think doctors will do when everyone is insured? They’ll start running more unnecessary tests and raising the costs of them. They can do this and sleep well at night…after all: they’re gouging some faceless corporation, not their patients. The patients have a deductible.

Then, to counter this expenditure, insurance companies will jack their rates up and raise your deductible. In fact, it will probably happen before they start seeing all of the unnecessary expenditures. What are you going to be able to do about it? You have to have it. It’s the law. We saw the same thing happen with automobile insurance, and 20 years later things are finally starting to normalize in that industry.

If Obama actually WANTED to fix the health care problem, he would have started at the cost of it. But instead, he is trying to force Americans at gun point to get insurance so the insurance companies can make more money, and so the doctors can make more money. The only thing Obama wants to fix is the bottom line of people who are already rich. And why wouldn’t he? After all, he’s in the same club that they are.

If anyone believes that Obamacare will save us money, or come in even close to its projected cost in years to come, I have some swampland for sale. Compare the cost projections from years ago vs actual costs for Medicare and SS, and you’ll understand that is a pipe dream. And Obama’s denials not withstanding Obamacare DOES cover illegals as well. Sen Johnson (an accountant as well as business owner) – KEEP UP THE FIGHT !!

I find it odd that all the Republicans dire “predictions” for the future of healthcare have not happened in other nations with real national health plans. This, even though their economies are weaker than ours. It seems the opposition to health care reform and President Obama are visceral. If you look at his actions, he is a centrist. Both ends of the political spectrum oppose him. This puts him on the right track for the independents. These swing votes control election outcomes in the US. The result has been gridlock.When or if these voters ever decide to commit to a concept of government then politicians might actually begin govern. In the past it took a depression and World War II to bring that kind of clarity. We are edging toward both again.

“I didn’t vote for this! I voted for McCain’s plan, which was exactly the same, except for selling across state lines and tort reform.”

THINKINGSMART says “Look at BOA for instance, 5 monthly fee and yea you can thank govt regulation for that…” Come on! The Dodd-Frank bill was to try and stop the fees charged by banks. Bank of America has been charging fees forever and the $5 monthly fee was just another start for them to rape their customers. And “Trickle down effect” was supposed to happen to the middle class but it never happened. All the wealth is focused at the top with nothing trickling down.

This bill is something I would expect to be passed in a communist country, not the US

Posted by: Bob—It isn’t the governments business. The government is the reason costs are so high, they create artificial demand, artificial demand always drives up prices.

I always wondered why President Obama went after the health care reform so quickly after entering office but the other day I read that the bill is projected to save somewhere in the neighborhood of 200 million dollars for medicare costs. While I realize that is only a fraction of the deficit – it makes sense to start with health care costs in order to begin work on reducing the deficit. That being said – the bill may have imperfections (Good grief – name a bill that doesn’t) but it is a start and a darn good one. Insurance companies have been gouging everyone for years – that didn’t just start with passage of this bill. Hopefully this bill will remedy some of that soaring costs and level the playing field for all businesses – now when ALL businesses are required to either provide health insurance or pay into a fund for their employees – that would create a more level playing field for ALL companies. To those of you saying my deductible went up, my premiums went up, blah blah blah – they were going up anyway. This bill didn’t cause that. Our costs at our company have been rising for years. We pay more and more and get less benefits. The insurance companies passed it to the company owners and they passed it to the employees. Nothing to do with the health reform bill. Get a life people. The GOP will do anything and everything to persuade all of us that they have the magic answers and can fix it all – yep I’m totally buying that load of manure.

…This bill is something I would expect to be passed in a communist country, not the US”…posted by Mason S at 4:03 PM. What an insipid comment. What “communist” country are you familiar with, Mason?

A country cannot take care of all the needs of their people. Millions of lazy Americans milk the welfare system. People on social security by and large paid for it. We need to pay for one welfare child per woman but cut them off for contiually have kids they cannot support. Also medicare is immersed in Fraud by both doctors and patients-cut it off. Give medicare to people who earned their social security but Obamacare is a crock that needs to go. Set up clinics for the poor to go to but they cannot take over from people who have paid for it.