[opendtv] Re: Off topic: climate change
- From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 07:54:56 -0400
> On Apr 14, 2014, at 10:56 PM, Bob Miller <robmxa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> We will most likely have a surplus or close to it by the time Hillary takes
> office. 2% less white voters each two year cycle. Looks like the Dems will
> control the White House for at least a generation or until the collective
> ultra Right head explodes.
>
> Obamacare allowed my daughter to get insurance with a pre-existing condition,
> NOT just another transfer scheme, it is saving lives already. It is allowing
> my other daughter to look for a better job, something she was not willing to
> do since her current low paying job has decent health insurance included. Now
> she can be assured of insurance. This attribute alone is a big deal for our
> economy IMO. I have known lots of people stuck in jobs for health insurance
> reasons or working a job JUST for the health insurance. A friend who worked
> at a nursery school because by law they had to offer health insurance, the
> pay was incidental.
>
> Obamacare is a great Republican Idea whose time has come. I expect Vermont to
> make it a single payer system and most states to follow within 10 years.
Nobody was claiming that the health care system was perfect before Obamacare.
With respect to pre existing conditions, this could have been dealt with via a
two page bill, not 381,517 words in the Obamacare law and 11,588,500 words of
current Obamacare regulations. And by the way, the pre-existing condition risk
pools ran out of money:
> High-risk pools were projected to cover 375,000 people, and cost about $5
> billion between 2010 and 2013. Instead they enrolled just over 107,000
> people, but still managed to run out of money in early 2013, when the
> administration was forced to halt enrollment.
You can get coverage under the new exchange policies now, but in many cases
these policies have large deductibles and do not cover the essential
medications that are needed to treat chronic conditions.
And the new law does nothing to curtail the biggest problems we have with
health care:
1. Medical malpractice abuse by lawyers
2. Rampant corruption and mismanagement of existing programs like Medicare,
where it is possible for a politically connected doctor to bill Medicare $24
million in one year...
Regards
Craig
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