Price caps

[Riot]

Only if the parts of the plan that enable them to work are also introduced. Your choices don't really reflect the way things will work out <g> For example, there is no "single payer" option in either the House or Senate bill - that simply cannot happen here. Yet you have it as a choice?

I hope folks realize there is no "Presidents' Healthcare Plan" that will be voted upon. That is only a list of starting points for discussion he has assembled. Has nothing to do with anything really - the House and Senate are in charge of this. He only - finally - came out with his own comments as a starting point, after leaving the House and Senate alone to work it out themselves this past year (and we saw how well that went)

The President is going off parts of the Senate plan as the base of negotiation. The Dems are embracing the House version, especially with strong support of the popular public option. The GOP wants a little, mostly tort reform and to sell across state lines. We'll see. The more of the House bill that is in there, the happier I will be.

[joeydb]

I should have phrased as "will eventually kill private insurance, and a single payer plan will be 'necessary'."

[randallscott35]

Price caps don't work.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by joeydb

I should have phrased as "will eventually kill private insurance, and a single payer plan will be 'necessary'."

The sky is falling! The sky is falling! Sometime in the future - if A and B and C were to all happen - the sky is falling!


Can't we stick to debating what "is", rather than what someday might be?

There's plenty of difference of opinion and stuff to debate if we just concentrate on reality alone

[timmgirvan]

Originally Posted by Riot

The sky is falling! The sky is falling! Sometime in the future - if A and B and C were to all happen - the sky is falling!


Can't we stick to debating what "is", rather than what someday might be?

There's plenty of difference of opinion and stuff to debate if we just concentrate on reality alone

you scare me,really! The sky will fall in on the taxpayer as well as the patient. It's kinda like a tornado warning out there!

[dalakhani]

Originally Posted by timmgirvan

you scare me,really! The sky will fall in on the taxpayer as well as the patient. It's kinda like a tornado warning out there!

Timmi,

Arent you worried about how you are going to get your zoloft?

[timmgirvan]

Originally Posted by dalakhani

Timmi,

Arent you worried about how you are going to get your zoloft?

Never tried the stuff.....I read about the side effects of these drugs, and I'll stick with the ones I have

[Riot]

Originally Posted by timmgirvan

you scare me,really! The sky will fall in on the taxpayer as well as the patient. It's kinda like a tornado warning out there!

You are completely unawares that one of the first things you received from Obama was a tax cut, aren't you?

The tornado warning is WellPoint raising insurance rates in most of their markets.

[timmgirvan]

Originally Posted by Riot

You are completely unawares that one of the first things you received from Obama was a tax cut, aren't you?

The tornado warning is WellPoint raising insurance rates in most of their markets.

was this tax cut I got the one where I rec'd 250 from IRS, with the express
demand it would be included on my 2009 record.....good one!

Who is under WellPoints' umbrella? Don't worry....not a trick question!

[Riot]

was this tax cut I got the one where I rec'd 250 from IRS, with the express
demand it would be included on my 2009 record.....good one!

No.

Who is under WellPoints' umbrella? Don't worry....not a trick question!

Anthem Blue Cross. They are the ones with the rate hike in CA that has everyone in a tizzy. But they are also raising rates double digits in other states.