By a on 03-21-10
We pay twice as much for our health care as other nations and insure less people. I wish this article would have also talked about the cost cutting measures the new bill will create.
By BillWatson on 03-21-10
Only government’s low costs can fix health care.
Sales tax funded Public Option care woud be free with no restrictions primary, inpatient, outpatient, long-term, mental, ophthalmology and dentistry including medications.
If you are in the United States and you show up for Public Option care it would be given free.
If all federal, state, and local government employees and care recipients including Medicare and Medicaid were switched to Public Option health care costs would be cut in half saving $1trillion annually.
States could get out of paying for or being involved in health care.
Employers could optout of paying for or being involved with health care which employees would receive for free from the Public Option.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2005/0501.longman.html
Everyone could choose, either Free Public Option care from government hospitals, or users could continue to purchase private insurance and receive private care from private hospitals.
By hammer on 03-21-10
The govt doesn’t have to make money. How can the insurance companies compete with the govt. If you don’t have to worry about losing money, you won’t have competition. Lack of common sense bill watson
By Vud on 03-21-10
Americans and American business paying for American healthcare reform ?! Really ?
That’s soooo unAmerican.
By By and By on 03-21-10
And so ends the American Dream of Freedom and Liberty!!!
By JB on 03-21-10
The only thing Obama, his cabinet, and this Congress has done today is bring shame upon themselves. This legislation is epic in its assumptions and its lies, and it represents the epitome of a government gone wrong. It does not represent the American people, the American dream, or the American ideals of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It represents a government out of control.
By hotfishmt on 03-23-10
Well…m..the main thing I worry about is…..run away fraud??? Look at Medicare now…...the government is being ripped off by con men with a computer, the medical code numbers, billed for some phony service? This is being done and it takes years for the Feds to catch…..a few people?
So how is this new medical service going to be different? Just more open doors for crooks to rip off some office clerk in D.C. It won’t just give the crooks more doors to walk in an steal $$$$.
By jennifer on 03-25-10
Who do you all think has been paying all along for all the uninsured that go and get free medical care, have babies, get food stamps , rent subsidies etc…..the working tax payers.
By Whitefish on 03-26-10
How health care reform will affect Montana residents.
http://www.healthreform.gov/reports/statehealthreform/montana.html
By hammer on 03-27-10
Whitefish, who is going to pay for all of this? Me and you through hihger taxes. It is a flat out lie to think that people making over 200K are the only ones that will be taxed extra. Try 35K and higher. It is the only reality.
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