Last week, Hillary Clinton presented her health care plan; Everyone is required to buy health insurance. If you can’t afford it, you get a tax cut.
This is brilliant, but it could do so much more. I expect her next plan will address the homeless problem. Under her plan, everyone will be required to buy or rent a home. When everyone acquires a place to live, the problem is solved. Naturally, if you fall below a certain standard of income, (which will steadily increase) you will get a tax cut. And no worries about the rising cost of housing either, with all the efficiencies that will automatically appear, costs will rise more slowly.
Oh boy! Just think of all the necessities of life I can now buy with all my tax cuts. I can buy health insurance, housing, food, and maybe even afford the copays so that I can use my great health insurance plan. With all those cuts, I’ll bet that my tax cuts will be higher than my income.
And choices, we get choices. You can choose a cheap worthless plan (substandard housing), an expensive decent plan (average home), or try to figure out which mid-priced plan will exactly cover the tests you will need next year (roof don’t leak if the rain isn’t too hard).
No more need for any of those inefficient government programs. Just add another tax cut, and problem solved. It puts “the consumer in the driver’s seat”, as long as they use the government-approved list of private contractors. The government-approved list will guarantee a level of quality (or maybe a level of campaign contributions, I keep getting those confused). Note, that the system will require a new improved bureaucracy to certify private contractors, but it will be “fiscally responsible”, no civil service, or labor unions, or anything like that. And she’s still working out the details of how tax cuts can be used to finance the Iraq occupation. But the basic premise is that “it’s going to take shared responsibility. Everyone with a stake in our health care system will have to step forward and do their part.”
This is the part where her honesty slips through. Corporations don’t have a stake in our health care system, or our country. They don’t eat, breath, or get sick. But if they did, they would deduct it from their taxes as an expense. In other words, don’t treat corporations like people, treat people like corporations.
One more thing, Hillary. The only people that like the health plan they now have, HAVEN’T USED IT YET.
Once required the health insurers will start to systematically deny claims based upon fine print, plan “options” and or secret provisions or lists of approved vendors. They have studied this and find most people won’t fight or argue.
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They can tie this up in court until they dissolve the United States.
http://www.augustreview.com/
The “list”. What a scam.
Conversation with insurance company:
“The doctor is not on our list”
“Yes he is. You paid him last month”
“I don’t see him listed anywhere. You’ll have to resolve this with the doctor.”
Conversation with doctor’s office:
“The insurance company says you’re not on the list.”
“We’ve been on the list for years. You’ll have to resolve this with the insurance company.”
Repeat forever.
The only reason I got this one resolved, is that I am insured through my employer. They had enough pull to find out what happened.
My insurance card has two addresses on the back. The doctor’s office filed with the wrong one. The claim entered the system out of sequence, so it got spit out. This problem was not expected at the insurance company, so they have no way for one department to talk to another. They also think that this is the only time it has happened.
I think most of us are looking for leaders who are not focused on our role in society as consumers.
You can say that again.
I’ve already got my retirement bridge abutment all picked out.
Tell me about it. I have to call a collection agency today about a $24 bill that I don’t owe. I’m caught in a three-way between the hospital, the doctor that read the test, and the insurance company.
Heeheeheeheehohohohohahahahahooohooohooo!
Yeah, everybody in America is earning six figures, and all they need to afford health insurance is a TAX CUT!
NOT.
No, I don’t say the Democrats are just like the Republicans.
I do say it is Professional Wrestling.
Why don’t you say it? At least as Hillary is concerned, you should say it.
Hillary concerned? Oh my. she’ll do/say anything to be Madam President. But she won’t get that key to the front door although W. would like to give her a quiet hand-off.
Don’t count on Dems capturing the White House.
for some very good background on hillary’s health care proposal history, going back to 1994, her position[s] in the senate, and a bit of insight into the GQ quid prop quo, l recommend josh greens nov 2006 atlantic article, Take Two: How Hillary Clinton turned herself into the consummate Washington player.
with a closing sentence like this:
one might surmise that he’s not particularly well thought of at the clinton campaign.
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but if you are making such a low income that you don’t pay taxes anyway, how will this help?
It won’t. But budget deficits this time around will at least help the poor as well as corporations, even though deficits and the National Debt has obviated the possibility of furthering our liberal-socialist agenda, which has been stymied since Reagan.
So how can any liberal Democrat support Hillary? Can’t. Republican Lite is still Republican and I am wondering if Bill Clinton has lost his touch in this new era of antiRepublicanism.