Misinformation On The Health Care Bill: Whose?

by Joel Hendon⁽¹⁷⁹⁾ Red Star

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Since the surge of “townhall meeting” dissidents, we are hearing endless protests of Astroturf, un-American misinformation concerning the HR3200 now being considered by the congress. But, who is spreading the misinformation? Let’s listen to a few remarks. President Obama repeats everywhere he goes, that “if you have insurance and you are happy with it, you can keep it.” He knows and you need to know, that is not true. From all appearances, not any of these will be continued as you now have and appreciate. First, because the government is going to mandate various savings, lower payments to hospital, doctors and other caregivers, which is going to affect your insurance. You may like it the way it is, but it isn’t going to be the way it is. Your services at the hospital will be limited or rationed and there will be less nurses which means you will receive less personal attention. There may be certain procedures which you will not qualify for, where once it was the doctor’s (and patient’s) call.

I have Medicare with a supplemental insurance which I am completely satisfied with. He, nor any of his coolies can tell me that I will continue to be fully satisfied with the governmental regulations and denial of services which will be seen under the new bill. Their plan is to trim $500 billion dollars from Medicare. This plan is in the red already. By the time they reduce services to $500 billion plus enough to get the plan into black ink, there will be virtually nothing left. The waste and corruption going on in the plan is estimated to be only about 1% of that reduction. So 99% of the $500 billion will be strictly a reduction in services.

Also, those insurance companies which are left intact, will be competing with a taxpayer powered plan with the authority to lower the costs of the various health providers services. They will not long be able to compete and more and more people will be forced into the government plan. None of these tid-bits are being discussed.

The problems we now have with health care are serious but not in many areas. Insured for the uninsured, those who have pre-existing problems and those who are too poor to afford insurance should be considered and corrections made. Medicare and Medicaid are losing money and will be broken within a few years. That needs to be corrected, and can be. Those illegal aliens who are presently receiving Medicaid benefits and all the others who will be receiving care under the new plan, should be repatriated. Those who are earning sufficient incomes to have insurance, but who choose not to, should be warned that no assistance would be forthcoming in case of a catastrophic illness or injury. This would reduce our uninsured to some 10-15 million. A number not nearly so difficult to contend with.

High health costs. Normally supply and demand should control most situations as this, however, in the healthcare industry, this does not always bring forth the optimum. Certain governmental controls, if not too restrictive, could be enacted to keep prices at an acceptable level while allowing enough profits to perform adequate research.

Instead of 1018 pages of highly technical and ambiguous language which will turn the entire heal care industry over to the government’s every whim, which is unacceptable, a simple decision to rectify the above problems could be reached at a mere fraction of taxpayers money which would be needed for the huge bill. Let your legislators know before things go too far to stop.

Article submitted Saturday, August 15, 2009 & read 84 times.

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