Health Care Simple Solution

Back to the Health Care Drawing Board......William Rivers Pitt

http://www.truthout.org/091709A?n

Give some credit to Democratic Sen. Max Baucus of Montana, who unveiled his $774 billion health care reform bill on Wednesday, for being true to his word about wanting to craft a centrist, compromise piece of legislation. That's exactly what he did, and after revealing his bill, that's exactly where Baucus put us: in the middle of the road, right where all the squashed roadkill can be found lying on top of a long, yellow stripe...........

From: Gordon Peterson

I really appreciate seeing this description about this bill. There are so many of them, all different, and the result is confusion regarding what's good, and what's not.

I really wish that someone like Consumer Reports would do a serious analysis of all of these bills, and point out which are better and which are awful. Of course, the reason CU doesn't tackle this, I suspect, is because with their publication cycle, and there being so many bills and all of them are moving targets, the analysis and their report would be out of date and thus no longer valid before it even hitsubscribers' mailboxes.

And indeed, this is one of the most serious problems in our entire present system of government...! All of these bills change and mutate before they get passed, such that the passed version often only vaguely resembles (if even that) the originally offered bill, with nobody really understanding what it does and what it doesn't do.

PLB response:

The solution is very simple, is already in place and is sitting before their very eyes. Thom Hartmann wrote this letter (Link below) a couple weeks ago and I have sent and resent it. This week I plan to fax it to every member of Congress........one at a time! Hartmann calls for Medicare for those who do not have insurance. Republicans & most of the Democrats don't want this to happen, screeching, "How will we pay for it?" Hogwash... I have medicare & a supplement. On my limited income (a SS check) I pay just under $200.00 a month. There is no reason on earth why Medicare health insurance premiums could not be deducted from a paycheck, based on salary just like income taxes, etc. This congress is making a mountian out of a molehill for the sole purpose of benefiting the Insurance industry and their own pockets. The bill is already written and needs only a couple lines to expand it.

Dear President Obama: A Modest Medicare Proposal
http://magginkat.wordpress.com/2009/08/20/dear-president-obama-a-modest-medicare-proposal/

Check it out. The only reason that Congress and the insurance giants are fighting this is because Medicare works & is inexpensive! They know that given the option of insurance from these con artists and Medicare, most people will eventually switch to Medicare. That will shoot the hell out of the insurance racket.