Here is a comment from my StepDad. He is up on lots of political stuff and has this to say:
There may be a lot things in our health care system that need fixed, but government intervention in the health care industry is the reason it is so expensive today. I have read quite a few different versions of both houses bill's over the last few months and the main consistent thrust in both amounts to a bailout for the insurance industry. I mean, really, buy insurance or go to jail? At least it will create a few jobs in the prison industry.
The Senate version does in fact restrict Medicare and transfer money from that system to the new system in the latest version I could find.
The other statistic I will comment on is the 47 million without healthcare insureance. That number is pretty specious. Even the white house has admitted it includes up to 12 million illegal aliens. It also includes prisoners (both federal and state), and closer to home, it includes the military (Tri-care is not considered insurance). It also includes folks who do not want insurance for a variety of reasons, the Amish/Mennonites and other religous groups, the young and bulletproof folks who would rather buy a widescreen than insurance. I have some serious heartburn with government stats designed to tell a different story than the honest one.
I guess my bottom line is, if the current system has some issues, fix them. The current legislation is throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Even is the number is 47 million, and did not include an insurance company bailout, I want to know how we are going to pay for it! Our official projected deficit is $1.3 Trillion dollars, before healthcare, cap and trade and not including the two wars we are involved in.
To put a trillion dollars into perspective. If you were given a trillion dollars on the birthday of Christ and spent one million dollars a day, you would still be a billionaire today.
Very informative - again I need to find these bills and get educated before I comment.
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