pending health care reform

The latest proposals are broken down and available here for anyone who wants to take a look

http://www.kff.org/healthreform/sidebyside.cfm

http://docs.house.gov/gopleader/House-Democrats-Health-Plan.pdf

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.3815/pub_detail.asp

http://www.defendyourhealthcare.us/houseandsenatebills.html

Congress exempt from the Public option?

any plan that allows Congress to exclude themselves should be refused by the people

If it’s not good enough for Congress to take it as their own coverage, it’s not good enough for the people

you should all wonder why Congress does not take it for their own coverage, just like they do not take Medicare

if they have their way, the elite government worker will have a super plan, and the masses will be stuck with something doctors already do not like - Medicare

How can anyone expect Congress to fix and maintain a program they do not live by

they have no skin in the game, and so really do not care how poorly or well it works, compared to if they actually lived by the laws of the land

after all - they are the Government, there to help you

right!

with friends like that - who needs more enemies.

Universal / National health Care and health Care reform are touted as saving money

Universal / National health Care and health Care reform are touted as saving money

why then are these NEW TAXES being researched by the current administration?

"HOW TO PAY FOR IT - Here, of course, is where the "rubber meets the road." It looks like the Senate Finance Committee will take the lead on developing strategies to pay for health care reform. Possibilities include:

* Limiting the income tax exclusion on employer-provided health care coverage.
* Either repealing the itemized deduction for medical expenses or raising the floor from 7.5% of adjusted gross income so fewer taxpayers can claim it.
* Curbing HSAs and FSAs.
* Requiring all state and local government employees to pay the Medicare tax.
* Clamping down on nonprofit hospitals.
* Hiking the tax on alcoholic beverages.
* Imposing a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages.

VAT TAX – The Administration has launched a trial balloon for a new national Value-Added Tax (VAT) to pay for health care. Ezekiel Emanuel, whose book on health care uses a VAT to fund the new government program and brother of White House chief-of-staff Rahm Emanuel, has been hired by the White House budget office to help design the health care plan."