The New Health Care Bill?

[Tonk]

I am totally ticked off with all this bickering by both parties and even the Independants up on Capitol Hill! Congress is supposed to look out for the good of the nation as a whole but it seems to me, that over the last 40 years, they have taken the money offered them by Big Business and sold this nation down the road or for better words across the pond.

This new health bill is now going to make all those Pharmaceutical companies Billions of dollars, as this bill STOPS all drugs being purchased by any American in countries like Canada and in Europe. It will NEVER do what was supposed to be the goal in the beginning. It seems to me that many on Capitol Hill are looking for what they can make off this deal......one way or another. The rich get richer and the rest of us get what meat might be left on the bone they toss at us.

[ToadHill]

This whold joke reminds me of the old saying; "If you want to make sure that crime doesn't pay let the government run it."

[KB21]

I'm still trying to figure out what exactly this bill is supposed to do.  The things that I know it will do are:

1.  Cut reimbursement to the physicians taking care of medicare patients.
2.  Raise premium costs on private insurance due to the elimination of risk stratfication on pts....i.e....companies cannot charge pt's at higher risk of developing health problems (smokers, alcoholics, pre-existing conditions...etc) more than they charge healthy folks.
3.  Take he decision making out of the hands of the patient and the physician by creating more federal regulations and installing some sort of oversight committee to set standards of care.

Obama is to the point that he just wants something passed for the sake of saying he was able to get health care reform passed.  Even some of his fellow left wing loons are against this bill.

What this will effectively do is decrease the # of physicians that will take medicare.  The fact is, physicians have to hre extra office staff just to handle all the damn regulations and paperwork that has to be dealt with as a result of medicare.  If they cut reimbursement, physicians will just stop taking it because it isn't worth it to make less money while adding to your overhead due to the extra staff needed.  I'm just a resident right now, so I have no choice, but if I were in private practice, I would probably not take medicare if this passed.

The things that are needed such as tort reform and insurance porability aren't in this bill as far a I know.