Kevin,
You still haven't given us the answer to the question WHO?
The preliminary CBO analysis of Universal Health Care a.k.a. "Kennedy’s Health Care Bill" that came out yesterday indicates it will result in a net increase in Federal deficits by $1 Trillion dollars for 2010 through 2019. Please go to the following link for the full CBO estimate, download and read:
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If you read it carefully, the "Kennedy Bill"/"Affordable Health Choices Act" will cover 16 million presently uninsured folks for a Trillion Dollars over 10 years so the real expense is going to be much higher under Universal Health Care or the "health care exchange" as Obama now calls it to provide health care to the rest of the uninsured...
If you do the math, that works out to over $60,000 per person over 10 years ($6,000 a year per person - That's more than three times what Joyce was paying for full coverage under Blue Cross/Blue Shield and if you add in long term care it's still a thousand dollars more a year.) just to get 16 million of the 47 million presently uninsured people covered with health care at our expense...
What a deal!!! But, as there's no Tort reform and you'll need start paying for it with increased taxes now so 20 years later... it might be a good deal... then again... it might not... That make sense????
BTW, Medicare is already rationing coverage for procedures and medications for some 83 million senior citizens 65 and older...
I think you'll find the Medicare plan below that's already in process cuts more than 50% in home oxygen therapy coverage for over a million COPD sufferers by 2011, very illuminating... and they still don't cover oxygen therapy as a treatment for cluster headaches...
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What makes you think universal health a.k.a. Obama's "health care exchange" will be any better or that Joanie's gall bladder won't land her in the queue waiting behind all the illegal aliens for a government provided surgeon contracted at McDonald's wages from a 3rd world country?
Finally, you and I both know the only letter that crosses a congressman's desk and prompts any action is one that promises campaign donations or support for a pet earmark...
However, having said that, when the idiots in Congress realize how pissed the voters are becoming over the horrific costs and loss of freedoms associated with this smelly mess, Obama's health care exchange, as briefed to the AMA yesterday, will go down the drain faster than a turd in Dina's Dumper...
Take care,
V/R, Batch