House Healthcare Reform Bill: Just Plain BAD

Let’s be clear, I am for healthcare reform, I am not for Republicans, Democrats, Liberals, Conservatives or Progressives. I am for reform that will benefit the American people. I am definitely not for this bill, it is a terrible bill. It is very costly and does nothing to improve the system.

Yesterday we looked at several specific things that were clearly not beneficial to the American people. There are so many moving parts to this bill it will be difficult to get to all of them so I will try to highlight several that should concern the American people.

The big lie is that the insurance companies have a larger overhead than a government equivalent. I wonder how that is possible considering the 111 to 119 commissions and boards that will be established by this bill. I wonder what the increase in federal employees, necessary to support the requirements of this bill, will cost in payroll.

This bill is a grand experiment that provides for demonstration programs because no one has any idea how to build the new healthcare system. I can only imagine the hidden cost associated with this provision. I know that the government has done many demonstration programs in many other areas over the years. This generally leads to a patchwork of programs that continue to be demonstration programs for years. No one ever analyses them or implements the best one.

This bill contains language that provides for preventive care. Wonderful concept but one wonders why we continue to try to legislate the behavior of the American people. What is hidden in this bill that will force people to stop personal harmful behavior. What are the consequences for not changing that behavior. You think there are none? I don’t believe for one minute that this administration or progressive driven congress will miss a chance to add controls to the American people. Just wait for it, it will become clear in time.

The Medicare/Medicaid reform portion of this bill are just to difficult to review. They way bills are written requires the reader to go to a multitude of existing laws and compare the changed references. I just don’t have the resources to look at all of them, however, if the news media is to be believed there will be large cuts in these programs. I am sure these cuts will affect most of our senior population in a negative way. I believe the Medicare Advantage program will not exist in it’s current form or at all.

One humorous part of the bill concerned electric driven wheel chairs. In the future they will be called “Complex rehabilitative devices”  and only government certified doctors will be able to write a prescription for these devices. I imagine this is a shot at controlling the sales of the “Scooter”.

This bill provides monetary aid to education to help more people enter the medical field. Nice gesture, they are still loans. I am not sure if this will really increase the number of doctors but the loans do have to be paid back.

I found it humorous that this portion of the bill provided the same benefits to veterinary doctors. I guess the animals need a revised healthcare plan too.

This bill is just to much government control and spending. It will raise the taxes and insurance costs to the American people regardless of your income. Please don’t support this bill, they can do better than this. Contact your representative. NOW!

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