For some strange reason, the nation that won the Cold War isn't all that excited about trusting the party that opposed the efforts to win that War.
And, then again, the party making the vast and empty promises is the party that lied their asses off to defend a perjured president, who tried to steal the election in 2000, who stole the Minnesota Senate election of 2008, who hasn't spent nearly a trillion dollars in "stimulus" money but wants to spend one or two more trillion stimulationg something, no one's sure what, and who can't run Medicaid or a CARS program, yet demands to nationalize the entire country's medical industry.
No, we're not going to trust those friggin' idiots, and even the worms under the grass roots are starting to realize the danger of letting Democrats steal 1/6 of the national economy.
I don't know whether to laugh at your ridiculous remarks or be concerned that many Americans actually believe this tripe.
The proposed health care bill (according to Wikipedia) mainly is concerned with these points:
The summary of the bill includes the following elements, among others:[5]
1.Establishes a mandate for health insurance for all legal residents of the U.S.
2.Prohibits pre-existing condition exclusions.
3.Prohibits premium variances, except for age, geographic area, or family (vs. individual) enrollment.
4.Prohibits cancellation of coverage except for evidence of fraud.
5.Limits annual out-of-pocket expenses to $5,000 for an individual and $10,000 for a family.
6.Includes a public health insurance option to compete with private insurance.
7.Establishes a Health Insurance Exchange (HIE) within a proposed Health Choices Administration, to provide individuals and employers access to health insurance coverage choices. The HIE would contract with various insurers to offer benefit plans at competitive prices, by establishing a risk-pooling mechanism. This will allow individuals and small companies to band together to bargain for lower rates.
8.Provides a tax credit for low-income individuals and families to help pay insurance premiums.
9.Requires employers with payroll costs over $250,000 that are using the HIE to provide health insurance.
10.Provides for a tax on individuals without health insurance and employers that do not provide the required health insurance.
11.Provides for a tax on individuals with adjusted gross income exceeding $350,000.
12.Reduces Medicare payments to hospitals with excessive re-admissions.
13.Establishes a Center for Comparative Effectiveness Research, which would analyze cost variances for similar treatments across the country.
14.Further expands Medicaid eligibility and scope of covered preventive services, for lower-income individuals and families.
15.Increases Medicaid payments to physicians for primary care.
16.Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop quality measures for the delivery of health care services in the United States.
17.Establishes the Health Benefits Advisory Committee chaired by the Surgeon General.
I don't understand how so many of you can object to things like people not being refused for pre-existing conditions. In fact, all these points sound logical and reasonable.