Louisiana Healthcare Plans

Archive for March, 2010

There’s obvious no consensus in Congress over health care reform so, today, on News Talk Online on Paltalk.com I proposed my own plan which I believe to be more palatable than any other that’s thus far been offered.

First, I note that the health insurance industry does not want the government competing because it fears a federally funded option would put them out of business.

I also note that unless you are employed by a company that offers health care benefits or very poor – in which case the federal government already pays for your health care, you don’t qualify for health insurance. Hospitals still have to treat you though. So the cost of health care for the rest of us goes up.

The problem is that people who are self employed, working for companies that don’t offer health insurance, work part time or are students can’t afford health insurance at current rates. So here’s what I proposed for them.

Every medical insurance company in the United States will have to provide an affordable basic plan for those who can’t afford coverage now but are not so poor that they qualify for government funded plans. A premium cap should be set by law to ensure that everyone in this group can get in. Basic coverage should also be defined by law.

Under my plan, the federal government would not get involved in health care, with the exception of regulating the private insurers to ensure compliance.

In return, Congress should pass tort reform to reduce the risk of medical practitioners and bring down health costs. Patients who are victims of medical malpractice should still have some recourse, but a reasonable cap should be established.

Also, the FDA should loosen some restrictions on the pharmaceutical industry to reduce the costs of prescription medicines and make them affordable and accessible to all. The costs of pharmaceuticals in the United States far exceeds that in other parts of the world.

My plan protects the private insurance companies, provides health care for all and doesn’t cost the taxpayers a cent.

I know this is way too simple and represents common sense which is terribly lacking in Washington but I believe it would work.

What do you think?

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Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-20) was on Fox News Channel with Megyn Kelly on February 10, 2010. The interview focused on reforming our health care system, specifically why Democrats wont consider starting over from scratch to create a health care bill.

If Republicans say that they agree with 80% of the existing health care bill, then why do they want to start over? Why don’t we just sit down and work through the remaining 20%?

Duration : 0:6:3

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FOX Senior Judicial Analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano weighs in on the legality of the health-care legislation.

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One of the main selling points of health care reform was that it would cut the federal deficit by a supposed $143 billion over the next decade and a trillion-plus dollars in the one after that.

But not only will the legislation not cut one thin dime from the deficit, it will also certainly cost far more than the $940 billion in new spending already on the table for at least three reasons.

These include:

1. Legislative Trickery. Congressional Democrats have pledged support for “the doc fix,” a permanent upward adjustment to the rates at which Medicare providers are reimbursed. As Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said, “We have made a commitment to do this. This is very important.” The cost of the “doc fix”? Some $247 billion over the next 10 years, wiping out any deficit reduction from health care reform.

2. HIgher Premiums. In 2006, Massachusetts passed health care reform very similar to what President Obama just signed. The result? The Bay State now has the highest premiums in the country and cost about 33 percent more than expected.

3. Bad Accounting. The government is terrible at predicting how much programs will cost, especially when it comes to medical care. Initial 1960s’ projections of Medicare’s costs in 1990 had the program costing about $12 billion; the actual result was almost 10 times that amount. As a Joint Economic Committee report notes, “Major health care proposals have almost always cost more…than the highest cost estimates published while the legislation was pending.”

Approximately 2.19 minutes. Written and produced by Meredith Bragg, Dan Hayes, and Nick Gillespie, who also hosts.

Read more about health care reform and its costs at http://reason.com/topics/health-care

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Rep. Brad Sherman, (D-CA), on why health-care reform is necessary.

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Does health care reform expand the IRS without extra funding?

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Rush Limbaugh takes a call from Stacy, an expert in the health insurance industry, who expresses her concerns about the new Obama health care legislation. Aired on 3/23/2010.

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A simple majority could pass most of the health care reform bill in the US Senate. That’s a procedure often referred to as reconciliation. President Obama today made a veiled threat to use that process should Republicans not come up with a way of covering more Americans for health care. The GOP proposal covers 3 million Americans. The current house/senate bills cover 30 million Americans. The President mentioned a month or several weeks as a time line. Distributed by Tubemogul.

Duration : 0:20:52

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President Obama speaks moments after the historic passage by the House of Representatives of the Senate’s health reform legislation.

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