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Senator to introduce measure to require health insurance for all Americans
John Byrne
Raw Story
Wednesday, Nov 12, 2008
Senate Finance Committee Chairman and Montana’s Democratic senator Max Baucus will introduce a sweeping healthcare measure today intended to ensure healthcare coverage for all Americans.
The move is short on financial specifics. But its introduction will immediately move healthcare into the spotlight, putting pressure on President-Elect Barack Obama to bump medical coverage to the top of his priority list. Asked in an interview four days before the election what would be the priorities of his incoming Administration, Obama has named healthcare third after the economic crisis and energy independence.
Baucus’ healthcare proposal differs from Obama’s in one key respect: he would mandate all Americans to have health insurance. In that respect it is more like Sen. Hillary Clinton’s primary proposals.
In addition to mandating coverage, the bill would bar insurance companies from charging higher premiums or denying coverage to patients with pre-existing conditions. The measure enjoins businesses to provide coverage to their employees.
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“Under the Baucus plan, most employers would be required to offer insurance to their workers or pay into a fund, with the contribution based on the size of the firm and its annual revenue,” the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. “Small employers would get a tax credit if they offer insurance, with the size of the credit based on the size of the company and its earnings.”
The plan “doesn’t provide a cost estimate, and a Baucus aide declined to give one,” the paper added. “The plans proposed by Sens. Obama and Clinton were each estimated to cost about $100 billion a year, not accounting for savings they hoped to generate through new efficiencies in health-care delivery.”
Baucus’ plan would also expand coverage in Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, and allow people from 55 to 64 to “buy in” to Medicare by paying the premium cost. It would also loosen eligibility requirements for some federal assistance programs.
Read the full Journal article here and the NY Times’. description of the proposal here
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November 12th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
oh, wow, this is so good !!!!!!! do i have to get a microchip to be insured ??????? can my pets be covered also ??????????
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm_xX1Ur43I
goldieshouse.piczo.com
November 12th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
what we need is a mandate that all politicians be honest and
work for the good of the people and country
under penalty of death
November 12th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
This is a retread of Hilary Clinton’s play or pay deal. It was a shitty idea then, it’s a shittier one now.
I have no need or desire to see an AMA doctor for anything and do not want to see an AMA doctor for anything other than a traumatic injury like a car wreck or falling off a roof.
AMA doctors know nothing about heath or how to make or keep people “healthy” They are just pill pushers or cutters. None of their stupid pills have proven to be of any value whatsoever and most are harmful and worse than the condition they are prescribed to treat.
I am 56 years old eat what I want and exercixse and take supplements and have never taken a prescription drug in my life and I can guarantee yuo I am healthier than any AMA doctor you can find.
To hell with allopathic “medicine” it’s useless and more harmful than helpful.
Death dues to prescription drugs far outnumber the deaths from illegal drugs.
Reject allopathic medicine and make yourself healthy and happy. Stay as far away from doctors as you can get and you will be healthier for it
November 12th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
I think this is a good thing. People are dying because they’re too poor to get healthcare. Stop being so goddamn paranoid about making nationalized health care an option and not mandatory. This is a GOOD THING. You don’t have to get the nationalized health care but you can get it if you can’t afford health care. Fuck you if you think that sucks.
November 13th, 2008 at 1:44 am
“I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.” ~ Benjamin Franklin, 1766
To Tom, the idiot. You stand against America, period. You are a traitor, bigot, and false.
“They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” ~ Benjamin Franklin, 1759
This is why America was founded as a mighty Republic. Our founding father’s despised, above all other form’s of government, democracy. We are not a democracy, it is “for the republic, for which it stands.”
“Democracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man’s life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few.”
~ John Adams, 1763
November 13th, 2008 at 7:44 am
Once upon a time in an interview, George Burns was asked what his doctor thought about him drinking a pint of scotch and smoking three or four cigars a day. His reply?
“My doctor is dead.”
November 13th, 2008 at 10:25 am
From my experience staying in El Camino Hospital psychiatric section, I saw several homeless people there getting food and bed. One homeless guy lived in the Salvation Army in San Jose, CA was there getting a packet mailed from a library in San Francisco.
If homeless people are able to stay in hospitals after they tried to commit suicide, why Americans worry to get health insurance?
I am not sure if El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, CA was working for the covert operation to claim a Japanese international student at SJSU as a foreign spy. But what I saw is the psychiatrists like Dr. Peter Newsom, Dr. Robert Burr, Dr. Kent, Dr. Rau making up something to keep me stay in the hospital for human experiment.
The Blue Cross paid my hospital stay and the pills over 500$ to take my credibility to bring SJSU student harassment case to a lawsuit. From the beginning I had no feeling of suicidal or harming anyone while I was on my way to Dr. Marco Meniketti’s class.
November 13th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
It’s a short ride from “universal” to “compulsory”.
Once the government is responsible for your health they will force you to play their game that is the AMA’s and Big Pharma’s game. I can mandatory flu shots, mandatory statins, mandatory yearly physicals and if you doctor prescribes you something because your number is 2 standard deviations from “normal” you better take it or face discipline.
Lets try freedom for a change
November 13th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
What about HR676? I haven’t scanned through the ins and outs of the whole bill, but what I’ve read sounds pretty darn good. It’s definitely significantly better than any of Obama’s or Clinton’s plans as well as this one. The website is:
http://www.hr676.org/
November 14th, 2008 at 7:38 am
Alex (not Jones),
I agree with you 100%! I keep plenty of safe distance between myself and the corporate-treatment-establishment-ignorant medical “industry.” I eat good food in the proper proportions, exercise regularly, get plenty of rest, drink liberally (yes!). If I were to get ill, I’d first seek out ANY alternative treatment and only go to an AMA doctor as an absolute last resort, only if near death. The thought of being forced to buy health insurance, as Hillary proposed, is enough to make me flee this country. As you said (I believe it was you) in an earlier comment, “Lets try freedom for a change.”
Dave
http://daveeriqat.wordpress.com/
November 14th, 2008 at 7:44 am
If you don’t have the money to pay the premiums what then?? They’ll have to be awful cheap for me to pay it!!!