Keith Hennessey has analyzed the House version of the Democratic Party’s health care reform bill, and compared and contrasted it with Senator Kennedy’s health care bill.
The parallels are significant, and while Senator Kennedy’s bill has very few specifics, it does give the Executive Branch, specifically the Secretary of HHS, a blank check to re-write your health plan and any other health plan you will be allowed to buy.
The striking thing about the U.S. House bill is that it is even more devoid of details and more empowering to the Executive Branch.
Your health care plan will change radically, and you will have no choice or say so in the matter, nor will Congress, unless it passes a new law, which is a really high bar.
If you give a bureaucrat the power to interfere in your health plan, they will. The House bill does that writ large.
Click here for Keith Hennessey’s analysis of the U.S. House bill.
Insurance mandate
llgm Tuesday, June 9th at 4:02PM EDT (link)This post is not news. It is clear that Democratic proposal this year will include a mandate that everyone in some group purchase health insurance. Obviously there needs to be some minimum standard on what this insurance provides. If your present insurance provides less, it will have to improve. That’s what this post seems to say.
Senator Daschle's strategy
Dan Perrin Tuesday, June 9th at 4:18PM EDT (link)written out in his book on health care reform, was to take the decision making power away from Congress and put it into the hands of the executive branch, because Congress was too subject to petition by the population.
This is not a regulatory lets make sure the health plans meet a minimum standard.
This is a prescription to make decisions for everyone about what type of health coverage they will have, all subject to the approval of folks who want and are working towards a single payer, Canadian style health care system.
This is the line in the sand
E Pluribus Unum Tuesday, June 9th at 4:59PM EDT (link)This cannot be allowed to pass. Frankly, anything remotely LIKE it cannot be allowed to pass.
This is such an egregious incursion into the freedoms of every American, that if it is put into play, it will signal the point from which there is no return to a free society.
Carthago delenda est
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You will not decide
Dan Perrin Tuesday, June 9th at 5:15PM EDT (link)how your health plan is designed or who designs it, and will be subject to decisions about what kind of treatments or drugs will be paid for or covered
The First Step to Total Dependency
farstar99 Tuesday, June 9th at 5:12PM EDT (link)It is the line in the sand, but the GOP isn’t standing against it.
If they allow this to happen without a fight, even if they lose, the only way to restore America will be through blood.
sad but true
molybdanthan Tuesday, June 9th at 11:48PM EDT (link)Because no Government has the right to do this. And because we have every right to tell them to go visit the Proctologist, to remove the boot we give them.
I understand the passion
Dan Perrin Tuesday, June 9th at 5:16PM EDT (link)if you tell employees their health care plan will change, they immediately suspect that they are going to get the short end of the stick, and they are right, especially in the case of this bill
Honest
Dencal26 Tuesday, June 9th at 8:19PM EDT (link)I am not trying to bash Ted Kennedy with a low blow but lets be honest. The man is terminally ill with brain cancer . My brother in law died of brain cancer. By this point Senator Kennedys thinking cannot be coherent . I do not want him playing with the healthcare bill.
It Hasn't Changed Enough That TK Has Any Input
farstar99 Sunday, June 14th at 1:32PM EDT (link)It’s still the same plan Josef Stalin put together and has his crib notes in the margins.