So, now it’s the Senate’s turn: the Senate’s turn to deliver on health care reform.
As in the House, it’s not a perfect bill. But it’s a damned good start.
Like the House bill, the Senate version gets rid of the pre-existing condition nonsense and takes away the ability of insurance companies to cancel policies just because you happen to get sick.
It would extend coverage to another 31 million Americans. And, while it would cost $849 billion – a small price for universal health care – it would also, according to the Congressional Budget Office, save $127 billion off the deficit over the next 10 years.
Unfortunately, the Senate bill now includes a tax on some insurance policies – which could hurt a lot of working Americans with union health care funds. Like me.
And the Senate’s public plan option would give states the ability to opt-out. Which is not fair to a lot of people who need health insurance, but live in red states.
But, with all its faults, the Senate bill’s better than what came out of the Finance Committee. And it’s a hell of a lot better than the status quo.
That’s my parting shot for today.
as the friend/advocate and ther representitive payee of a 55 yr old disabled man,its my duty to see to his wellbeing,when Bob was assigned to a medicare advantage company,i noticed drugs were being charged to his medicare ID.
the drug Zyprexa was falsley charged at the cost of $939.13 for 60 doses,one month alone the false charge of this drug was $2,350.82,in less than 7 months over $9,000 had been falsley charged to Robert’s ID #..
getting no help from the Part-D company,i ask C.W. Bill Young [R-FL]for help in getting a reversal,when i finally recieved a reversal of false charges,the cost for Bob’s medication was not over $11,000,but was less than $1,900…
that meant that more than $9,000 had been falsley charged to Bob’s ID# this probably has occured thousands of times with private insurance company’s in control of this unfunded medicare program and unlees controlled will banckrupt the medicare program for senior’s and the disabled..
this malfeacence is in 10 documents and can be sent on request.Jim Donald
Bill, I don’t get much chance to listen to you in the AM, but I love to read your parting shot and follow you on Twitter. First, this isn’t universal health care, it is universal helth coversge, with exceptions. It still doesn’t give care to almost 10million people, it still gives more money to the insurance companies, it does nothing to prevent denial of care or rate hiking, and I don’t know about you, but for my family, nearly 10% of our gross income for insurance is no change for us. In fact, forcing us to pay the monthy rate, co-pays, deductables, etc will drive us into the poor house faster than taking our chances with out it. Which we do. Saying this bill isn’t perfect is like saying a car wheel isn’t perfect when it doesn’t have a tire on it. But the UK and Canada, etc have tired on their wheels, but maybe they need to be retreaded. Their systems are not perfect, but they work. This won’t work and hoping they go back and patch an 2000 page bill later is pipe dreaming. Its already too big when the bill in Canada was 3 pages, and the bill HR676 was something like 20? (correct if I’m wrong). No, vote it out and start over. The insurance companies deserve to either go non-profit or out of business.
November 1st: i contacted [medicare] about a blue letter to be sent to some part-d recipient’s whether they will change insurance carriers,”UNICARE’ [wellpoint] was charging $366.30 for 60 doses of 200mg “Lamitcal”, in my contact with [Medicare 1-800-633-4227] they found a company called “HEALTH NET ORANGE”/option 1, with the cost of 200mg “Lamitcal” at $87.00 for 60 doses with a co-pay of only $6.31 and an agreement to cancel a $300.deductible due to Robert’s “disabilaty”, and as Robert’s representitive payee for the SSA. i “AM’ to call them [medicare 1-800-633-4227] after December 1 to ativate the agreement and remove “UNICARE”,[wellpoint],, changing these expensive company’s,will help keep “Medicare’s” cost down. if you need to change company’s just give [Medicare] a call at “1-800-633-4227″
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Let’s stop and think hard….Why so much pressure about this Health Bill? Obama on this bill since he got in office…Why? The poor is who will really sufer from this Health Bill. If the Government has the it’s hands in the cockie jar then someone is going to loose and the other will win. Open your EYES people, you will be forced to take medication that has not even been tested. This bill will help eliminate the middle class, hey another step in the agenda. As a black man, I didn’t vote for OBAMA and I will not vote for anything this man (CEO) of United State Of America Co. If they really wanted to help os them why are they not releasing our Bond. Yes is you don’t know about this research.”History reveals that it took only 20 years after 1913, the year the Federal Reserve Act was “approved” by Congress for the United States (Corporate) to slip into debt and insolvency. The International Bankers served Notice of this fact on the government. Between January and July of 1933 the Roosevelt
Administration and Congress responded.” Come On People let’s stop letting these brain washer into our homes….