We need that coverage. Too many people have lost too many grafts because they couldn’t afford the immunosuppressant medications on their own and nobody would insure them.

I’m personally counting on it.

mcconnell $3.3M, hatch $2.9M, baucus $2.8M, grassley $2.7M,
lieberman $2.6M, burr $2.4M, ensign $2.4M, cornyn $2.2M, kyl $2.1M,
conrad $2.1M, cantor $1.8M boehner $1.7M, coburn $1.2M, j wilson 800K
were paid by the Medical Industrial Complex to kill Health Care Reform.
(Source: OpenSecrets.org)

Researchers from Harvard Medical School say the lack of coverage can be tied to about 45,000 deaths a year in the United States. 12 Million Americans were denied health care coverage by the Medical Industrial Complex because they had a pre-existing medical condition. 12K Americans are denied insurance coverage everyday by a for-profit Insurance bureaucrat. (Source: WaPo Article 05′ by Harvard Prof. E. Warren)

Medical malpractice lawsuits are a hot topic but, are they? Tort Reform is such a “red herring” and is easily disproved. A 2004 report by the Congressional Budget Office said medical malpractice makes up only 2 percent of U.S. health spending. Even “significant reductions” would do little to curb health-care expenses, it concluded.

Citizens for Tax Justice pointed this out. The tax legislation enacted under President George W. Bush from 2001 through 2006 will cost $2.48 trillion over the 2001-2010 period. This includes the revenue loss of $2.11 trillion that results directly from the cheney/bush tax cuts as well as the $379 billion in additional interest payments on the national debt that we must make since the tax cuts were deficit-financed. Over the upcoming decade (2010-2019), the costs of the health care proposals approved by three committees in the U.S. House of Representatives are projected to be around $1 trillion and deficit neutral(that means they’re paid for). In 2010, when all the cheney/bush tax cuts are finally phased in, a staggering 52.5 percent of the benefits will go to the richest 5 percent of taxpayers. The cheney/bush tax cuts were deficit-financed, which increased the national debt and resulted in greater interest payments on that debt. cheney/bush administration never even tried to pay for their tax-cuts. So, for the price of cheney/bush’s tax-cuts for the wealthiest 5%, we could have had Health Care for every American. Instead Americans got bupkus and cheney/bush’s republican campaign contributors/golf buddies got filthy rich off of the Blood Money from No-Bid, Cost-Plus Federal Contracts.

Follow the Money: Link

Call Congress and demand, Single-Payer Health Care for All!

(Toll Free # House and Senate)
1-866-338-1015_______________1-866-220-0044
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Don’t let the Medical Industrial Complex steal your Health Care from you and your family by donating huge sums of money to Crooked Politicians in order to maintain the Status Quo. Keep up the good fight.

SEMPER FI!

christianity died on the cross

how sad this day has arrived in america

it had to happen just like communism had to fail capitalism has to self destruct

americans worship at the altar of capitalism not fair capitalism but corp fascism

if snowe and baucus are christians they have read little about what jesus taught. very little

greed and arrogance must self destruct

it is written in the infinite

If there were a national public option, it would have to meet a federal standard for what it covers — the basic coverage requirements. If there were private competitors in the exchange, then they too should have to meet the same basic coverage requirements, otherwise, you’ve got prunes competing against apples.

Add to the this the concept of subsidies, which need to be tied to standardized products across the relevant market. If the feds subsidize low- to moderate-income folks purchasing policies on the exchange, then the subsidies need to be tied to standardized insurance plans. The argument is even stronger when you throw in the risk-allocation scheme from moving money from insurers with lower-risk enrollees to insurers with higher-risk enrollees. This suggests national standards would be needed.

It’s true Baucus doesn’t include a public option, unless you count his local co-ops, but it would still seem to make sense to have national standards for what the basic plan(s) included, even if the competitors were only private insurers. It wouldn’t make sense to allow states to say, “well, in South Carolina, the basic plan can include very little coverage.” So you’d need preemption at least on the down side.

It might be possible to allow states to set higher minimum coverage standards than the federal standard; that would imply that when you move from one state to another, your “national” plan actually might change.

As in Le Médecin Malgré Lui…oh wait, that’s French. We’d never emulate their system!

http://progressnotcongress.org/?p=2933

In education, Texas has an outsize influence on books and such due to their size, so it’s not just Texas students having to deal with the education interference.

I don’t think we want to give the Senate and the insurance companies an opening to bring “Texas style” insurance policies to the rest of the country.