Monday July 6, 2009, 2:56 am
A look at health care legislation taking shape in the Democratic-controlled House and Senate as President Barack Obama pushes to overhaul the system, cover nearly 50 million uninsured Americans and reduce costs. Many of the details are still being negotiated and any final health care bill would have to meld proposals from the House and Senate.

Check it all out here....

Monday July 6, 2009, 5:56 am
hmmmm... Sounds like there are some major differences, a whole lotta mess bundled together and none look at what costs should be, just basing on what costs are... that's not gonna reduce costs or correct fraud... arrgghhh... I like stuff in each plan... but none correct the current issue and all sound way more expensive, it's still folks with income paying for everyone, no addressing of how homeless, poor give back to the plan, if ever... This will still get more and more expensive each year... It's too much and too vague... and too expensive... all rolled in to one... I can think of a hundred other first steps the government could do to reduce costs for everyone and provide care for everyone without doing this as a first messy step... :( Thanks Kathy!

Monday July 6, 2009, 3:30 pm
Noted. I'm really don't know what to think of the Heath Care Plan. (???)

Monday July 6, 2009, 5:53 pm
noted thank you

Monday July 6, 2009, 6:06 pm
noted..and still furious about the whole thing!

Monday July 6, 2009, 6:25 pm
Health care my hind end!!! I'm on disabilty and so is my husband we each have to pay $38.00 a month to get our meds which we are only allow $2,700.00 a year then you hit a doughnut hole in other words your out until January of the next year. Also found out they take $125.00 from my ss check each month but Medicare helps with nothing none zilch nana. Not only that My husband called them and as them when we turned 65 what benfits will we get they said NONE!!! the same as we get now. Is there not something wrong with this picture? pardon my french but I work my ass off from 17 until I got hurt and couldn't work any more and the last one was 12 years construction, but they will let other people in our County that has not paid a dime and give them a medical card, food stamps and ss. thats Bull!!! If your on Disabilty and are not 65 you will not get medicare this is totaly wrong. America is so slack in taking care of there own people. We can barely afford what insurance we have now much less anything else, so how is this suppose to help us in any way? It won't for we won't be able to afford it.

Monday July 6, 2009, 11:30 pm
Ohhh, I believe you Songbird....there are soooooo many loopholes that the insurance companies or govt. use to screw people over....people who are honest and NEED those meds. to survive. I definitely know first-hand the troubles this country is in when people can't get the haealthcare or medicine they need.....wouldn't Michael Moore love to interview YOU!!

I wish you the best, and hope things change soon for the better. Thanks for commenting!

Tuesday July 7, 2009, 6:20 am
Thanks Cathy. noted And Songbird I am in the same boat you and your husband are. My thoughts are that education and healthcare should all be free. And the insurance that the govt higher ups get should be taken away and they should have to pay thier own way just like the rest of us. Who made them special? And why is it that the money from the lottery in the states that have it which was designated for education only seems to be used for college age students grants? What about all the kindergardeners who are just starting thier educations and the need for teachers and supplies in order to reach thier college years? Sorry this whole subject really riles me up.

Thursday July 9, 2009, 12:11 pm
tHANK U PEACE! OUR HEALTH CARE SYSTEM IS ONE OD THE MAJOR ISSUES~

Monday July 20, 2009, 2:20 pm
Gupta and Blunt Lament the Insurance Industry Being Put Out of Business



Republican Rep. Pete Hoekstra Complains About Having To Work Late On Health Care

Whiney Republican has to work! Hey, Pete! if the job too tough for you, go ahead and resign! Nothing special l about you. I'm sure Michigan can scrounge up another Republican representative who is at least as lazy as you are!

Monday July 20, 2009, 2:20 pm
Be informed.

READ the bill:

\Short version: http://edlabor.house.gov/documents/111/pdf/publications/AAHCA-BILLSUMMARY-071409.pdf

Full test (scroll down to Learn More, then Read Bill Text): http://www.speaker.gov/blog/?p=1864

Help HuffPo with investigation of same: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matthew-palevsky/hundreds-join-together-to_b_237999.html


Just Go Read It
Everyone who's yapping about the CBO chief's comments about health care costs, should read this piece by Jon Cohn. Another one of those cases where -- shockingly -- it really helps to understand the policy details and not just the political atmospherics.



If Congress Fails to Pass the Obama Health Care Plan

The next time a Member of Congress tells you that he'd love to vote for the President's health care reform package but he represents a tough swing district, remind him about all the ex-members of Congress who said the same thing in 1994 and were retired by the voters to resume their careers selling insurance or practicing law.

Single Payer: Bold, Affordable, Humane
If you believe that every American has the right to quality, affordable health care, then the only affordable means to achieve that goal is through a properly financed, single-payer national health insurance program.

Follow the Money on Health Care Reform "Right now we are the only nation on earth that barters human life for money." -- Geri Jenkins, RN, co-president of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee in her testimony Wednesday, in the one Congressional hearing at which single payer has been on the table


Health Care For All : What If ... We Stripped Away the $13 Billion Insurance Company Profits ...
President Obama's health care plan will get rid of exorbitant corporate profits, bloated CEO bonuses, endless denials, and skyrocketing costs while giving voters more choice and making private insurance companies behave better.



Here is how your Representatives/Senators are voting on the public option.

http://standwithdrdean.com/where_congress_stands?chamber=&party=&state=&hc_status=&commit=Filter

Contact info, included.



Senate Report Finds Insurers Wrongfully Charged Consumers Billions
24 Jun 2009 Health insurers have forced consumers to pay billions
of dollars in medical bills that the insurers themselves should
have paid, according to a report released today by the staff of
the Senate Commerce Committee. The report was part of a multi-pronged
assault on the credibility of private insurers by Commerce Committee
Chairman John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.). It came at a time when
Rockefeller, President Obama and others are seeking to offer a
public alternative to private health plans as part of broad health
reform legislation. Health insurers are doing everything they
can to block the public option.



Public Health Plan Could Save Money Faster: Policy Group
A nationwide health insurance exchange that includes a Medicare-like government option could save $1.8 trillion more than if only private plans are offered, a prominent private U.S. health policy group said on Wednesday.


Medicare for All (Single-Payer) Reform Would Be Major Stimulus for Economy 2.6 Million New Jobs,$317 Billion in Business Revenue

First-of-Its Kind Study: Medicare for All (Single-Payer) Reform Would Be Major Stimulus for Economy 2.6 Million New Jobs,$317 Billion in Business Revenue, $100 Billion in Wages


TransGriot: 10 busted myths about the Canadian health care system.

Americans Who've Used Canada's Health-Care System Respond to Current Big-Lie Media CampaignMy wife and I used Canada's health care system for years, and we've been incensed by the lies we've heard back here in the U.S. about how it's supposedly broken.