How will it do that? (My son’s background can be found here.)
By removing the private insurance option from anyone who changes jobs and seeks individual policies:
When we first saw the paragraph Tuesday, just after the 1,018-page document was released, we thought we surely must be misreading it. So we sought help from the House Ways and Means Committee.
It turns out we were right: The provision would indeed outlaw individual private coverage. Under the Orwellian header of “Protecting The Choice To Keep Current Coverage,” the “Limitation On New Enrollment” section of the bill clearly states:
“Except as provided in this paragraph, the individual health insurance issuer offering such coverage does not enroll any individual in such coverage if the first effective date of coverage is on or after the first day” of the year the legislation becomes law.
So we can all keep our coverage, just as promised — with, of course, exceptions: Those who currently have private individual coverage won’t be able to change it. Nor will those who leave a company to work for themselves be free to buy individual plans from private carriers.
As I’ve described before, my son has a very tricky condition that will most assuredly require absolutely top-flight neurosurgeons to retain as much functionality as possible through life. As my wife and I both work in IT and I float in and out of the consulting realm, individual insurance availability is essential to us to get those top-flight doctors. And there is certainly no guarantee that my son will be able to get adequate coverage on his own, since the government is taking the same approach it has taken with education by ‘dumbing down’ the coverage.
Add to this the fact that a huge part of the tax burden for this will fall on the doctors themselves, as part of the ‘rich’ category (which we’ll all end up joining, as current policies produce hyperinflation that will render $250K an average salary). several of these top doctors are refugees from other socialized systems who came to this country to prosper; they very easily could pick up and leave as we socialize this one.
So, by the time my son faces his make or break surgeries (hopefully, several years from now), this current bill very likely will reduce his options and the available quality of the surgeons. And that could very easily land him in a wheechair , in a diaper and a permanent feeding tube implanted. Nothing makes the government insistance in meddling with what currently is working for many of us more personal than that.
Filed under: Politics | Tagged: Health Care, Health Care policy
From your picture I would guess that your son is White. From your comments I would guess that you’re all middle-class, maybe near the top of that range.
This Bill isn’t about you and your and your son. It isn’t about providing anything for him. It’s aimed at subsidizing other sorts.
…Now get back to making taxable income / reparations funding.
My son is Asian-American; as such is a non-underprivileged minority. The wife is a legal immigrant, so we have to be forced to give up our wages and our hard work to support those that fall into different categories.
I son’t want them to provide a thing for my son; that’s our job, not the government’s. I just don’t want it to take so much away from us that we can’t do our job.
We take personal responsibility for our own situation and what the Fates toss our way; we only ask that the government not forcibly take from us those resources we ourselves have earned that can do that.
Welcome to being the new 2nd-class citizen, Mike.
It could be worse though. Apparently my income, race, and circumstances places my – albeit barely – into the new pariah class.
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below are the unadulterated ravings of a 100% pure unadulterated asshole.
If we want to anecdotal ping-pong, you could trot out a US-based horror story for every Canadian one you’ve heard lately, just replace the term “government bureaucrat” with the “insurance company clerical worker”.
The only facts that are truly germane are these:
1 – We have the world’s highest per-capita health care costs.
2 – The overall delivered quality of our health care is slightly worse than Cuba’s.
Don’t blame the president for the fact that millions of people like Mike are obfuscating the debate. I can only guess Mike either works for an insurance company, a for-profit hospital corporation, or is so wrapped up in his confused political leanings that he has joined the millions who would rather we stick with a system whose #1 priority is the financial health of corporations rather than the physical and mental health of Americans.
Lamont: All of your assumptions, naturally, wrong.
1) I work for a database marketing firm with no medical clients (one small project for the pill-pushers; not involved with that one);
2) I have seen insurance company clerical errors you can’t even imagine; still fighting over a $7,000 bill on one. Ironically, this had to do with an ‘elective’ procedure for TMJ; we were out only $700 for my son’s $90K radiation treatment (a treatment available in only 2-3 places outside the U.S.; 15-20 places in the U.S.)
3) I have had highly qualified doctors tell me pure crap when it comes to medical advice.
4) The incorporation of medicine has massively reduced the care on patient care. The only thing that could be worse would be government medicine; and it will be worse by an order of magnitude (ask Native Americans on the reservation).
Not one of these takes away from the fact that we have the highest availability of advanced medical technology of anyplace on the planet. That and the unprecedented number of lawyers and Medicare administrators and bureaucrats already leaching off of the medical community are the sources of the high costs.
Slightly worse than Cuba’s? What a joke! I work with some Cuban refugees and they find those ‘assessments’ by left-leaning world bodies who primarily measure access to ‘doctors’ laughable (the average Cuban ‘doctor’ with about the same training as an LVN in this country). I do indeed hope you’ll book your medical care there.
And since you’ve provided the last straw with me by attacking something quite personal for me, I will be taking an author’s privilege with this site and appending what I feel like to your posted comments or deleting them as I see fit. So keep it up and see if your next comment doesn’t end with a discussion of how you’re taking a break from humping your pet monkey.
Hey Mike,
Can you share the code you used to get the digg button. I cannot get it to work on my page.
hey Americanidiot
I’m going to be digging peoples stuff here
you do it like this
[digg=urlofthediggpageafteryousubmit]
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