Comments on: More information on the healthcare boondoggle

By: Kathleen McDade

Kathleen McDade — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:16:12 +0000

I’ve read the portion of the bill that supposedly makes private insurance illegal, and I just don’t see it. What I saw looked like it was protecting people’s existing private insurance.

By: Jo Anne

Jo Anne — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:01:17 +0000

Our family has friends who live in England and Canada. Since both of these countries have a National Healthcare program we’ve heard how difficult these social programs are, difficult it is to get a doctor’s appointment, let alone a referral for a specialist. However, the second issue is that a National Healthcare program would require yet another national department of some kind. Just imagine all the new positions, federal tax hikes to pay for it, and the opportunity for corruption at the tax payers expense. This new department would mirror the IRS type of group – with the power and blanket authority to do whatever they please as the IRS had until the last few years. Scary stuff in my book.

By: Ann

Ann — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:58:47 +0000

I don’t know. My hope is that it turns out to be Medicare, which people seem to be generally happy with. I think there will always be a market for supplementary insurance of some sort.

I was reading somewhere that really all we need to do is regulate the current industry a bit more (pre-existing conditions etc) and most people who want insurance could probably get their own.

It’s hard. I have great insurance and my husband works in the healthcare industry so I am very conflicted on this, on a personal and political level.

I will say, I don’t like how few details there are out there about this, at least that are readily understandable to the general public. I interpret that as a deliberate action by the players involved. That is never a good thing, as we have learned in the past.

And of course, the whole funding for abortion or silent FOCA problem.

Sigh. I don’t know.

By: Peggy

Peggy — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:28:57 +0000

Maybe things in the bill have been changed while I was off on vacation, but from my skimming of the House version, I didn’t think that private insurance would be made illegal outright…just regulated to death and set up to be squashed by the subsidized public plan.

The reform bill (as I read it) would strangle existing plans by practically freezing new enrollment and by limiting changes to the plans and premiums. It would undermine the new “reformed” private plans (I think) by making it attractive for companies to pay the penalties rather than offer private insurance to their employees. So people would have to look for a private or public plan on their own, and the public plan will be much cheaper.

I don’t disagree with the conclusions given in the newsletter, but I think they are jumping straight into the ramifications of the bill, and overstating what it actually says. The sheer size of the bill makes it very difficult to read and understand firsthand.

By: the normal middle

the normal middle — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:12:28 +0000

I’ve been in bed sick all day with the summer tummy bug and I have watched alot of “coverage” on all sorts of news today.

It made me sicker.

I am so disappointed in the future of America for my children. May God save us.