Boo Radley
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The problem is you have bought into the basic concept that access equals improved quality and that the govt. can do it better. Then you keep saying we can improve the bill. Please give me an example of where that has ever happened with legislation.
This bill is a multi TRILLION dollar POS that as stated many times does nothing to improve quality or quantity yet passed. You are betting with money that you don't have and that is what politicians do so they just print money.
Think for a second. If there is no access, there is no possibility of quality. To even begin to improve quality, you must improve access. The government is providing quality, they're providing better access. They don't run hospitals, or manage doctors, or dictate treatment. This Bill only moves to greater coverage, which increases access, which is a vital step toward improved care.
Second, there are incentives in the bill to reward lower costs and better care, not to mention more primary care physicians.
As for bills that continue after the reform starts, follow work place safety:
In 1877, Massachusetts passed the Nation's first factory inspection law. It required guarding of belts, shafts, and gears, protection on elevators, and adequate fire exits.2 Its passage prompted a flurry of State factory acts. By 1890, nine States provided for factory inspectors, 13 required machine guarding, and 21 made limited provision for health hazards.
The labyrinth of State job safety and health legislation covered a wide range of workplace hazards but was badly flawed. There were too many holes in the piecemeal system and numerous hazards were left uncontrolled. The laws had to be amended often to cover new hazards. Many legislatures failed to provide adequate funds for enforcement. Inspectors, who were often political appointees, were not always given the legal right to enter workplaces. State with strong safety and health laws tended to lose industry to those with less stringent ones, which made States competitive and limited their legislative efforts.
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The Federal Government was relatively inactive, though not dormant, on safety and health until the era of workers' compensation. In 1790, the First Congress passed an ineffective merchant seaman's act which gave the crew of a ship at sea the right to order the vessel into the nearest port if a majority of the seamen plus the first mate believed it was unseaworthy.9
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By 1969, the idea of a general job safety and health law had taken hold. Beginning in 1965, Congress passed several laws protecting various groups of workers. The Service Contracts Act of 1965 and the Federal Construction Safety and Health Act of 1969 provided missing links in the protection of Government contractor employees. The 1966 Metal and Non-metallic Mine Safety Act protected non coal miners. A mine explosion in 1968 causing 68 deaths in Farmington, W.Va., spurred Congress to pass the Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969.
U.S. Department of Labor -- History -- The Job Safety Law of 1970: Its Passage Was Perilous
Work conditions are clearly better today in large part due to safety regulations. And they improved over time.