The Bullet Hits the Bone: Clinton's Health Care Plan

[StlSluggers]

Highlights:

• Everyone must have insurance.
• You can continue to get insurance through work.
• Employers will have to contribute to fund for uninsured if they don't offer insurance to their employees.
• Medicare to be expanded.
• Insurance to be available, even for pre-existing conditions.
• Estimated cost: $110B/year.
• Tax credits for poor.
• Repeal of "Bush-era" credits to wealthy to help pay cost.

MSNBC.com link

[Pacman]

Not commenting on this, other than to say, I'm against it.


But...



"The Bullet Hits the Bone"... immediately brought to mind: "Twilight Zone" by the band Golden Earring. Great early 80s tune.

[StlSluggers]

"The Bullet Hits the Bone"... immediately brought to mind: "Twilight Zone" by the band Golden Earring. Great early 80s tune.

Me, too.

[statsman88]

In Canada where they have universal healthcare, you have to wait something like 3 years just to see a doctor because everyone abuses the system.

[StlSluggers]

In Canada where they have universal healthcare, you have to wait something like 3 years just to see a doctor because everyone abuses the system.

I believe this has been proven false before.

Business Week article:

...as several surveys and numerous anecdotes show, waiting times in the U.S. are often as bad or worse as those in other industrialized nations—despite the fact that the U.S. spends considerably more per capita on health care than any other country. In addition, 48 million people without insurance do not have ready access to the system.

[Mookie4ever]

In Canada where they have universal healthcare, you have to wait something like 3 years just to see a doctor because everyone abuses the system.

You have no idea what you're talking about.

[brewcrew4you]

Here is what the Canadian Institute for Health Information has as current wait times

Some things aren't bad, but MRI wait times of months is not enticing

[StlSluggers]

Here is what the Canadian Institute for Health Information has as current wait times

Some things aren't bad, but MRI wait times of months is not enticing

Are MRI wait times better here?

[Art Vandelay]

I haven't had time to look at this in any depth yet, but on a related note: I wish Senator Ron Wyden's Healthy Americans Act would have got more publicity. No plan will be perfect, but his had some good ideas in it...some of which look like they were co-opted here by Sen. Clinton. Anyway, I'm just glad to see someone of national prominence at least proposing some kind of solution.

[IllinoisBandit]

This plan is absolutely horrific.
Forcing people to have health insurance is wrong. It's the right of the citizen to determine whether or not they need it, or whether they can afford to allocate their funds to it.

Not to mention she's already telling outright dreamland fibs about it. No increased bureaucracy? Give me a break. Please tell me how you're going to regulate this law without creating an agency to enforce it.

I think the verdict is still out on socialized medicine, but this is NOT socialized medicine.