Entries tagged Health Care Bill
Senator Nelson. We knew what he was, now we know the price.
Dec 19th, 2009 by daddams16007 | read more
Well, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid finally seems to have his 60th vote.
Senator Nelson has announced support of the Senate Health Care Bill. The cost? Revised language on Abortion, and an exemption for Nebraska in regards to Medicare expenditures.
That’s right. The Federal Government will pay for the Medicare expenditures for the State of Nebraska. All [...]
Topics: Health Care Bill, Senator Nelson
CBO Report: Senate Bill will cause Insurance Premiums to increase
Dec 3rd, 2009 by daddams16007 | read more
It’s been awhile since I posted. I got sick. Then busy. Then sick again. (I know, no need to post personal problems.)
Anyway, the latest CBO report on the effect of the Senate’s latest Health Care Reform Bill undermines the arguments being made by the Democrats. The keep saying that the bill will lower Health Costs, [...]
Topics: CBO, Health Care Bill
Health Care Bill: Taxes Taxes Taxes
Nov 8th, 2009 by daddams16007 | read more
The Health Care Bill currently being debated in the House has a large number of Tax provisions, some of them are just dumb-founding.
Sec. 501 revises the Internal Revenue Code to impose a tax on any individual without “Adequate” Health Coverage. One of the major problems here is the fact that the Federal Government gets to [...]
Topics: Health Care Bill, Taxes
Hiding the true cost of the Health Care Bill
Nov 7th, 2009 by daddams16007 | read more
I have posted previously on the fact that the costs of Health Care Bill’s currently before Congress aren’t accurately reflected in the CBO’s scoring of those bills.
The bills shift costs of Health Care away from Medicare and onto Medicaid. Because the latter is administered by the States, this serves to shift the cost off of [...]
Topics: Cost Shifting, Health Care Bill
Quick Road to Universal, Government run Health Care
Nov 4th, 2009 by daddams16007 | read more
There has been a 40+ page Amendment to the House of Representative’s Health Care Bill.
Sec. 104 (“Sunishine on Price Gouging”) has been amended as to provide a quick method to reach Universal, Government Run Health Care.
This section forces insurers to defend any increase in premiums. It couples this forced disclosure of information from health insurers [...]
Topics: Health Care Bill, Universal Health Care
Death Panels
Nov 3rd, 2009 by daddams16007 | read more
There are people that keep talking about the provisions for end of life counseling and referring to those as “death panels”. Those aren’t really death panels (although there is potential for the counseling to put pressure on a senior to fill out something like a DNR order, so they could result in deaths for senior [...]
Topics: Death Panels, Health Care Bill
Why it’s really the “Unaffordable Health Care for America Act”
Nov 1st, 2009 by daddams16007 | read more
Only a completely and utter economic illiterate could possibly believe that the Health Care Bill proposed in the House would result it insurance becoming more affordable. (Unfortunately, that seems to be an apt description of far too many of our elected officials.) It is full of provisions that will do nothing but increase costs for [...]
Topics: Health Care Bill, Increased Premiums
So much for keeping your coverage if you’re happy with it
Nov 1st, 2009 by daddams16007 | read more
President Obama kept defending the Democrat’s Health Care Bill by saying that if you were happy with your current coverage you would be able to keep it.
Well, not really.
SEC. 202. PROTECTING THE CHOICE TO KEEP CURRENT COVERAGE.
(a) Grandfathered Health Insurance Coverage Defined- Subject to the succeeding provisions of this section, for purposes of establishing acceptable [...]
Topics: Continuing Coverage, Health Care Bill
The House Health Care Bill predicts Rationing
Nov 1st, 2009 by daddams16007 | read more
I’ve been sick this week, I finally got around to looking at the House Health Care Bill just released. It seems ironic that it goes on for nearly 2000 pages, given that diarrhea was one of the symptoms I was suffering from when it was posted. (I know, TMI)
Section 101, which is the first section [...]
Topics: Health Care Bill, Rationing
Democrats in House Arming the Nuclear Weapon
Oct 16th, 2009 by daddams16007 | read more
There has been a debate over the last month or so about using the “Nuclear Option” in order to pass the Democrat’s version of Health Care Reform.
The Nuclear Option in this case is something called Reconciliation.
The reconciliation process is used on budget bills. It changes vote needed in the Senate to halt debate from the [...]
Topics: Health Care Bill, Reconciliation