The GOP Health Care Bill: Insurers Win, You Lose
Posted on November 3rd, 2009 by Jason Rosenbaum in Profits Before People
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The Wall Street Journal, of all places, had the most accurate headline on the new Republican health care bill set to be unveiled by John Boehner, after months of waiting. The headline was: "GOP Health Bill Gives Insurers More Leeway."
The Wall Street Journal apparently thought that headline was too honest, and the article has subsequently dissapeared from their website, but the Internet has preserved it for us, in a slightly edited form, and the facts speak for themselves:
A House Republican health-care bill wouldn't seek to prevent health insurance companies from denying sick people insurance, Minority Leader John Boehner (R., Ohio) said Monday.
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The bill would allow insurance firms to sell policies across state lines, permit small businesses to pool together to bring down costs they face, implement changes to medical malpractices, and give state governments more flexibility to pursue rule changes in their states.
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Boehner also said Monday that the Republican plan wouldn't include tax credits for people who buy insurance individually rather than through their employer. He cited the cost of providing those credits as a reason why they wouldn't be included.
Apparently, the forthcoming GOP health care bill operates on the principle that if it's good for insurance companies, it must be good for us.
The Republican bill runs the table on provisions that will increase insurance company profits.
- Make more money by denying care? Check.
- Make more money by ending insurance policies when someone gets sick and actually needs to use the care they paid for? Check. (At least according to the original version of the Wall Street Journal article.)
- Allowing insurers to move to the least-regulated states and sell their junk insurance to the rest of the country? Check.
There's no attempt to expand coverage to people who are dying without it, that would be too costly. And no attempt to shield people from insurance company abuses like denial of care.
I'm not sure what this bill does do, beyond funnel more money to insurance companies. As Speaker Pelosi's blog illustrates, in comparison to the plan on the table in the House, this new plan is just a bunch of no:
The Republican health care plan: Where the insurance companies win and you lose.
This Bill totally suck, plus we are way past the point of them participating in this discuss with what amounts to be a "Bull Shit" Bill. I am sorry, this is how I feel!
The GOP Health Care Bill is a study in how to create terrorists. That is the person that discovers in the emergency room that they have terminal cancer and will be dead within a few months, because he/she did not have access to diagnostics early enough to save his/her life. They have a choice to hang around and die slowly in pain or strap a bomb around their chest and have a quick end and a bit of revenge at the same time.
This is only one of the possible results from uncontrolled capitalism.
It will also in time result in a Black market organ market that is the result of kidnapping your children to harvest their organs for resale.
Keep going as you are, you have enough rope to hang thyself.
John
This reform is crap. It will take everything away from the elderly, and the poor. We do not want socialism. All this is doing is making this country less of a free country then it already is. Not like it is a free country anyway, but it is becoming more like communisim. Just ask yourself do we really want this. I don't think so. I know we have to do something about our budget, but this is not it.