America Deserves a Debate and a Vote on Health Care - No Excuses
Posted on November 13th, 2009 by Jason Rosenbaum in Congress Watch
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The Senate is about to unveil its health care bill, and with that, the process of legislating will move forward. As explained earlier, the Senate will immediately face a series of procedural motions which will essentially ask two questions:
- Should the Senate debate health care reform?
- Should the Senate vote on health care reform?
Senators will need to answer each of these questions, and it will take 60 votes to answer them affirmatively.
Reasonable people can differ on the question of whether the health reform bill in the Senate is worth passing. Certainly, I'd strenuously disagree with people who believe health reform won't solve our country's health care crisis, or that the status-quo is worth preserving. However, it's hard to put together a reasonable argument that the Senate shouldn't at the very least talk about health care reform, or allow it to come up for a simple vote.
Now, there are forces out there that would like to block debate or a vote on health care reform - the insurance companies and their allies. Why? As Goldman Sachs recently concluded when evaulating health reform plans, the status-quo would be best for the insurance industry and their stock prices. If a version of health reform like the House version passes - very much like what Reid is planning to introduce in the Senate - their stocks could drop as much as 39%.
Put simply, the insurance industry would like Senators to obstruct health care reform in any way possible to protect their profits and stock prices.
And so, the effort to get Senators to answer these procedural questions is underway in earnest, with two new ads going up today, one in Nebraska and one in Arkansas. The ads exhort Senators not to stand with the insurance industry for the status quo, and to give us a debate and a vote. It's the right things to do.
Watch:
We have been debating health care in this country for months, if not well over a year (not to mention the great debates about health care that have gone on in this country since the 1800s).
The election of 2008 was about health care reform, and President Obama's campaign plan to control costs, regulate the insurance industry, and give us a public health insurance option won. Congress has been holding hearings and debating health care since January, with over 100 hours of hearings and 83 hours of debate in the House alone, and similar numbers in the Senate. And in towns and cities across America, people have been talking about this issue.
While the insurance industry hopes otherwise, it's time for the Senate to take up the debate, and it's only fair to allow a majority vote on the issue.
The only way to reduce costs is to give people the tools to take responsibility for their own health. The best plan I've seen is "Citizens in Charge" by Mike Adams.
We've been debating this issue since before the original Tea Party. Here's the link to a story by the Boston Globe.
It's time to take action. I will campaign vigorously against any representative of my state who stands in the way of passing a bill unless he or she has substantive concerns.
Once the insurance companies spending millions of dollars to lobbying against the reforms and flood the American TV with false advertisements, there is no turning back for millions of millions of Americans. Because now should the insurance companies won the battle, they get to PASS ON ALL THE COSTS SPENDING AGAINST THE REFORM FOR THE AMERICANS to the Americans….
…as if it were not enough already for the American to pay higher premium NOT for health coverage BUT for bearing the costs incurred by these companies through frauds and wastes, uncompetitive and unsustainable business models and unethical business practices.
With this plan its not the right kind of socializeed I have seen in other nations. If you are over 55 you're considered too old and if you need emergency treatment you may have to wait months. Canadians have been coming over here to get treatment.
Health care can be rationed and if youu disagree there is no appeals process.
A Health Choice Commisioner will decide if you get treatment or not. No more the doctor treating you,he swipes your RFID Chip from your body or card and that relays your info(probably your location too)and sends it to the board and they decide what treatment and prescriptions you can get if any.
Healthcare for illegals
Govt has access to your acct and takes out whats owed.
My mothers country had socialized medicine and everybody gets treated.This crap of not receiving health care because you're too old and not receiving treatment because the Board says so and can't sue or appeal.
Pgs 16,29,42,50,58,95
Almost nothing in the above is true. Very odd…