Five things Health Care Grinches don’t want under your tree this year

2 Comment(s) Posted December 23, 2010 at 12:38pm by Erin Kelly

Bah humbug! From their newfound perch on The Hill, Anti-Health Care Reform Republicans are honing their thieving ways this holiday season. And their target is your health care rights: They’re determined to take your new health care protections and benefits away from you.

Here are just five of the things that the Grinches want to steal from under your health care tree this holiday season.

1. Healthcare for Kids: That’s right. If your 10-year-old gets cancer and you don’t have insurance, there’ll be no sympathy from John Boehner. And if your kid just graduated from college and can’t find a job in this economy, a stocking full of Purell may become their health care plan, because they won’t be able to stay on your health insurance plan anymore.

2. Preventive Care: The Health Care Grinches would rather Americans spend more time and money being sick, than allow one free visit with a doctor each year.

3. Prescription Drug Help: Anti-Health Care Reform Republicans don’t seem to care if your grandmother is going into debt to pay for her diabetes drugs. Continuing to charge her 100 percent for her prescriptions while she’s in the doughnut hole is their gift to her.

4. Tax Breaks: If you own a small business and want to provide health care to your employees, good luck finding a fairly priced plan. The Grinchy Republicans are set on bringing you high premiums and inconsistent care in the New Year.

5. Family Financial Relief: They don’t care about the harsh financial reality that so many Americans are facing today. While we stay up at night worrying about how to pay our doctors bills, anti-Health Care Reform Republicans spend their time strategizing ways to keep themselves in office—at your expense!

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Jim Dawson

January 4, 2011 at 7:38am Permalink

Your comments are very interesting. First of all, most Americans do not support the ObamaCare Law as it siots on the books. With the Novmber 2009 mid-term elections, Americans overwhelminly spoke to the issue with their vote. Everyone agrees there needs to be change in the health care industry, but soley attacking the insurance industry and doing nothing to control the cost of health care makes no sense. Let me give you an example: Hospital "A" performs a simple appendectomy. Let's say there are no complications; in other words, all things are the same.
Insurance carrier "1" pays $6,800. Insurance carrier "2" pays $9,800. John Doe who owns a business and a home but has no health insurance is billed $16,000 (He has assets to attach and will be sued if he does not pay) John Smith has no assets, no insurance (no prospect of collection) is billed $26,000 for the same procedure and the hospital writes off the debt at the inflated amount.Keep in mind, all things being the same, the health care provider charges 4 different amounts with different strategies for financial compensation. In reality, it should not matter who pays, the hospital should charge the same fee to each entity wheither it is an insurance carrier or a private individual. This happnes all the time.
My point is telling insurance companies that the product they offer MUST look and perform one way AND you can only make this much money, then allowing the health care provider to run amuck, charge whatever they want makes no sense (or cents). That is one of the problems with the current health care law. Another problem is HOW the law is written. HHS determines the strucutre of coverage you buy and has to have (literally build and fund) 116 different agencies to implement the law.
This piece of legislation should be repealed and replaced with a new law that not only guarantees coverage for individuals AND controls the cost of healthcare. There are many more bad parts of this new legislation than there are good parts. So far, it has driven the cost of health insurance up over 40% in the period of March 20th, 2009 when it was passed to December 31st, 2009. Most employers will stop offering coverage and pay the penalty ($2000) when the new law fully takes effect rather than pay $7,800 per year to cover an employee. Get your facts straight before you jump on Republicans about repealing this truly bad piece of legislation that was not well thought out, debated and tested. In the states that have similar legislation like MA, the healthcare law has nearly caused the state bankruptcy and has driven individual premiums out of reach for the average family.

Jim Dawson

January 4, 2011 at 7:41am Permalink

Sorry for the typos I meant the November 2010 midterm elections and the new law was passed March 20th, 2010.

Jim Dawson

January 4, 2011 at 7:38am Permalink

Your comments are very interesting. First of all, most Americans do not support the ObamaCare Law as it siots on the books. With the Novmber 2009 mid-term elections, Americans overwhelminly spoke to the issue with their vote. Everyone agrees there needs to be change in the health care industry, but soley attacking the insurance industry and doing nothing to control the cost of health care makes no sense. Let me give you an example: Hospital "A" performs a simple appendectomy. Let's say there are no complications; in other words, all things are the same.
Insurance carrier "1" pays $6,800. Insurance carrier "2" pays $9,800. John Doe who owns a business and a home but has no health insurance is billed $16,000 (He has assets to attach and will be sued if he does not pay) John Smith has no assets, no insurance (no prospect of collection) is billed $26,000 for the same procedure and the hospital writes off the debt at the inflated amount.Keep in mind, all things being the same, the health care provider charges 4 different amounts with different strategies for financial compensation. In reality, it should not matter who pays, the hospital should charge the same fee to each entity wheither it is an insurance carrier or a private individual. This happnes all the time.
My point is telling insurance companies that the product they offer MUST look and perform one way AND you can only make this much money, then allowing the health care provider to run amuck, charge whatever they want makes no sense (or cents). That is one of the problems with the current health care law. Another problem is HOW the law is written. HHS determines the strucutre of coverage you buy and has to have (literally build and fund) 116 different agencies to implement the law.
This piece of legislation should be repealed and replaced with a new law that not only guarantees coverage for individuals AND controls the cost of healthcare. There are many more bad parts of this new legislation than there are good parts. So far, it has driven the cost of health insurance up over 40% in the period of March 20th, 2009 when it was passed to December 31st, 2009. Most employers will stop offering coverage and pay the penalty ($2000) when the new law fully takes effect rather than pay $7,800 per year to cover an employee. Get your facts straight before you jump on Republicans about repealing this truly bad piece of legislation that was not well thought out, debated and tested. In the states that have similar legislation like MA, the healthcare law has nearly caused the state bankruptcy and has driven individual premiums out of reach for the average family.
Jim Dawson

January 4, 2011 at 7:41am Permalink

Sorry for the typos I meant the November 2010 midterm elections and the new law was passed March 20th, 2010.

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