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What's not to like about this health reform?
What's not to like about this health reform?
Date published: 9/4/2009 This paper could check more facts to verify misrepresentations in some letters so that readers are not misled. When important public issues like health care reform and others are being debated, lots of false information is spread in the media. For example, abortions cannot be paid for with federal funds under any health reform plan because of the 1976 Hyde Amendment passed in the Senate in response to the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion. There has been no discussion of changing that bill. Reform will not cut Medicare benefits. Reform will not cover illegal aliens. Reform will extend coverage for young people, stop insurance companies from charging women more, and make it illegal to deny coverage because of a pre-existing condition or cut care just when most needed. Reform will eliminate co-pays for preventative care like cancer screenings and immunizations. Reform will improve Medicare's quality of care by cutting down on paperwork, focusing on wellness and prevention, and rewarding doctors for the care they provide instead of how many procedures they do. There are no "death panels" in any health reform. Living wills are between doctors, patients, and their families. No one will have to have a living will if they don't want one. There has been no proposal by the president or any congressional committee that will result in a government takeover of the health care system. Members of Congress are covered by private insurance under the same system that covers all federal workers; i.e., Federal Employees Health Plan. In July, Investor's Business Daily published an editorial in which it claimed that H.R. 3200 would make private insurance illegal. But IBD was mistaken. It was citing the part of the bill that ensures people with individually purchased coverage don't have to give up that coverage unless they want to. We all know the sources of the bad information and outright lies. Freedom of speech provisions of the U.S. Constitution protect them. George Beddoe Fredericksburg
Date published: 9/4/2009
Good Job Mr.Beddoe
(posted by
BLK
, Sep. 5, 2009 6:22 pm)
You are Correct on ALL Points.. And Yes We know where and Why The Lies are Being Told.. People are being Mislead By The GOP Right Wing.... They Would Be Praising This " IF" W was still in office and This was his plan.. People, Do Not Let Your Self Be Lead around Like Sheep as the Republican are Trying there Best to do so... My Hope is that there Best is Just not Good enough... .
We NEED Real Health Care Change in This Country..
Reverse what the feds messed up long ago
(posted by
bostonteaparty
, Sep. 5, 2009 9:44 am)
When the gov froze wages during WW2 companies began offering insurance to lure workers.
Nice move.
Make it illegal for companies to offer insurance
The free market will bring down the price
This is how it works.
blitz, if that is true
(posted by
True_Bob
, Sep. 5, 2009 8:43 am)
it's as stupid and counterproductive as any other idjits with their fingers in their ears chanting "Lalalalala I can't hear you!" All of us, on all sides, can do better than that. BTW, I think the convention is that LW idjits are "moonbats" and RW idjits are "wingnuts".
Let's kill socialist programs like Medicare TYPO CORRECTION
(posted by
sacha
, Sep. 5, 2009 8:40 am)
Good letter Mr. Beddoe. Funny how none of the wingnuts can counter your facts. Since Medicare is a government run program for the seniors, let's save them from the evils of government and shut that program down .... it's socialist. Let's let the insurance companies take it over. Good luck seniors!!! Talk about your death panels!!!!!!!!!!!
Continued (and I could go on and on)
(posted by
True_Bob
, Sep. 5, 2009 8:40 am)
The gummint has, despite it's reputation and it's ease of targeting, generally done a great job. Gummint has been there for all sorts of emergencies, has protected us through diplomacy (Cold War?) as well as with the military. Gummint has kept our flying transport system safe and reliable, has pushed the bounds of technology for our benefit (SATCOM, GPS), and protected us from tainted food (watch that deregulation). Sure, gummint bungles things, spectacularly at times, but overall, not too shabby.
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