US House Democrats Unveil a Health Care Plan 925
gollum123 sends in this piece from a political blog in the NY Times. Here is the text of the bill in question (PDF). "House Democrats on Friday answered President Obama's call for a sweeping overhaul of the health care system by putting forward [an] 852-page draft bill that would require all Americans to obtain health insurance, force employers to provide benefits or help pay for them, and create a new public insurance program to compete with private insurers — a move that Republicans will bitterly oppose. ... But the chairmen said they still did not know how much the plan would cost, even as they pledged to pay for it by cutting Medicare spending and imposing new, unspecified taxes. The three chairmen described their bill as a starting point in a weeks-long legislative endeavor that they said would dominate Congress for the summer and ultimately involve the full panorama of stakeholders in the health care industry, which accounts for about one-sixth of the nation's economy. ... House Republicans, who have had no involvement in the development of the health legislation so far, quickly denounced the Democrats' proposal as a thinly disguised plan for an eventual government takeover of the health care system. ... The House Democrats' plan is one of three distinct efforts underway on Capitol Hill to draft the health overhaul legislation. In the Senate, both the Finance Committee and the health committee have separate bills in the works, and in recent days those efforts seem to have stumbled."
Re:Stupid... (Score:3, Funny)
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Re:Great quote... (Score:5, Funny)
The problem with Margaret Thatcher is that she is always wrong.
Re:Great quote... (Score:3, Funny)
...that actually sounds worse than the post-privatisation British railway system. Impressive!
Re:give me a break (Score:3, Funny)
Are you two douchebags sitting in red leather recliners with many a leather bound book at your backs, dressed in red smoking jackets with pipes in your mouths? If not, you should be - it would add nearly 1% to your pointless pomposity.
With their heads so full of lies (Score:3, Funny)
Stop. We know you're lying.
The Canadian system doesn't work. We know that because we've been told so by our politicians , and they should know because they get a lot of contributions from the health care system and go to a lot of cocktail parties. And we've been told it so many times that we know it's true.
The approximately 20% growth health care stocks showed for at least a decade, back when I paid attention, was because they were so amazing and efficient and wonderful, not because they were siphoning off more and more of our healthcare dollars.
The paperwork is good because it generates jobs. Jobs we NEED. The American system is the best in the world. A Canadian-style system would cost us a fortune and kill us with crappy care. You won't get to choose your own doctor. You'll wait for surgery, the hospitals will fall apart and no one will ever become a doctor again. You should know all that. Haven't you been watching TV?
Re:Great quote... (Score:3, Funny)
What, a major surgery took five weeks to go from diagnosis to recovery, and you're whining about it? Hell, it takes that long to get my insurance company to approve a required test.