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CBO Says Some Middle Class Families Would Pay Thousands For Health Care
A family of four with a $66,000 household income could face a health care bill of $10,000 a year under the Democratic health care bill, the Congressional Budget Office said Monday.
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Observer, I agree with you that there are no easy answers about Health Care Reform. Anything that we do will require trial and error. We can review the health care systems of other countries that have government run health care. Canada, Great Britain, Germany, Japan and Thialand all have government run health care. There are some great resources to review. The most common theme among all these nations health care systems is government regulation of health care cost. The option for government run health care varies in complexity, but all gov run health is comprehensive. The option being purposed in Washington is an alternative, not comprehensive. Therefore, it could never work financially. The ideology behind a completely comprehensive plan in the US would never fly, and it would never work in any other form. Therefore, it has no real option for success. I'm glad it's not a real option, but reform and regulation can go a long way to curbing the cost of HC & it needs to be done.
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Perhaps there is not an educated response conerning Helathcare Reform. It does need reforming. To do nothing is not acceptable. The problem is that Healthcare is not simple, thus Healthcare Reform is not simple either, but instead very complicated. Never been done before, so no one knows what will really work and what really won't work. We are about to find out what will work & what won't. It is what it is.
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Actually, I work in retail selling an American icon. I was hoping, Observer, that I would have received an educated response. No one I know has been able to give an educated response to the current health care solution in Washington. I was hoping you would be able to, instead you like to throw around babies. Actually, I guess that does make sense considering your views on health care.
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One unhappy Canadian and you are ready to throw the baby out with the wash water! Which insurance company do you work for?
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Observer, get help, or move to Canada where you can get all the gov health run health care you want (when you can get it, or if you need sugery and have to come back to the states). A gov run option starts the meter on the cost and quality of health care. The answer is health care regulation and overhaul, not abandonment to a gov run system. The system we are looking at closely resembles that of Canada. After visiting Canada and asking a Canadian about their health coverage I was told they have to wait to see doctors, get medications and have to go to the States to have surgery because of the wait and the level of care. Get off the Dem propaganda, do some real research and come up with an original conclusion. You might get a bigger picture of what is going on around you.
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When Healthcare Reform was first talked about there were many who saw no need for reform--it was not broken! Due to discussion on the matter & learning the facts, most folks now agree there is a problem that must be fixed. Healthcare Reform without the Public Option is like putting a bandaid on a gaping tweve-inch wound. States can opt-out of the Public Option. If your state has the Public Option & you dislike it, move to a state that doesn't have the Public Option. Insurance companies are modern-day Robber Barons (monopolies with no competition) who can do whatever they want with impunity. Changing that is a first step, & that is what the Public Option will do.
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There is no doubt there has been need of health care reform, but I don't think anyone has said there didn't need to be (although, Observer thinks so). There are needed changes just like the ability to retain insurance and not be dropped. Price fixing is among the biggest problems. I am on a family plan, and I'm not guessing about the numbers by reading a Palosi news letter. There needs to be limits placed on insurance companies and the medical community as a whole, and it takes a health care bill to do that. When you introduce a gov run insurance plan you start the meter running on cost. What is expensive now will not be in comparison to the cost of a gov plan in taxes and misuse in the years to come. Most can see that including moderate Dems, and that is why this bill has had so many problems. Take out the gov run option and we might have something.
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I dont believe anyone has ever said our heatlh care system is perfect. There is always room for improvement in medicine and the insurance industry. But a govt. run system aint the answer. Check with Canada...oh yeah....that is always held up as a system that works...then why in Canada do they complain about the exodus of doctors out of the country? Why do wealthy Canadians seek medical care outside of the country? Fix what is broken...dont socialize medicine in this country.
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Now I've heard it all. Guess there was never a problem with the American Health system. I guess Obama and his administration made this up in pursuit of world domination. Get off the gas people. It's no wonder your party is being decimated.
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Did your calculator tell you what the outrageous premiums will be in a few years? A rise of 166% puts private insurance out of the reach of most Americans. Few can afford it today. That impersonal, uncaring greedy insurance company can drop you, deny or delay treatment to save them money. You better stay very healthy or an insurance company employee will get a big bonus for recommending dropping you to save the company money. Millions for the insurance company CEOs but not a penny on you if they decide that way. And nothing you can do about it under the current system. They can price-fix- gouge the customer- & nothing you can do about that either. The average American family pays about $13,000 a year for premiums, not including co-pays, deductibles, etc. Perhaps the $13,000 figure is for a family of five, not four. And your insurance policy may not offer as good a coverage as the $13,000 policy. Either way, you will do whatever & pay whatever the insurance company tells you to do.
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Keep drinking the kool aid!
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My family cleared $66000 last year, and if I did not have an employer covering my premium our family plan would have cost under $7000 (including yearly deductibles). You call Republics' Obama & Dem bashers with no brains. If Obama & the Dems had calculators on the mind instead of an agenda to own the country and its' liberties they would understand they are about to hurt middle America. You don't get it either, Observer, and my calculator works.
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Paying $10,000 a year through a government plan would be a savings of $3,000 or more a year for the average American family buying their own coverage. Insurance premiums are projected to rise another 166 or so percent in the next ten years. Who would not like an extra $3,000 a year in their pocket? Obvious answer to that: Republicans, just because it came from Obama & the Democrats! Talk about bite your nose to spite your face!
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