Failing to fix the U.S. health-insurance system - where the government insures the elderly and the very ill and employers are expected to insure their employees - is so difficult that every Democratic president since Harry Truman has tried and failed.
The Health care reform was one of Obama's key election promises. 1. The bill will provide health insurance to some 32 million Americans who are currently not insured, either because they can't afford the fees or because they are already ill (pre-existing condition(s). 2. Insurance companies will not be allowed to drop subscribers when they get ill and may not refuse to insure children because they are ill. 3. Insurance companies must allow children to remain on their parents' health insurance plan until they are 26. Currently most insurance companies age limit is 19. (post graduation/higher studies may not enable these to work). 4. Ill, uninsured adults are eligible for insurance through a new program that will expire in 2014 when insurance companies have to start accepting customers who are already ill. Insurance companies will cover everyone when everyone subscribes. IRS will be involved to make sure every one complies. Auto insurance is compulsory to cover personal injury/third party injury/property damage claims and that is accepted, so is health coverage less important than auto insurance?. Next issue will be 'foreclosures' Without prejudice. MD. Message: 4 Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:09:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Santosh Helekar <[email protected]> To: " estb. 1994!Goa's premiere mailing list" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Goanet] win 'humbles' Obama. Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Gilbert and others have made a very good case for why people of America, including many Goans who live there, badly needed health care reform. But I believe Viviana and other genuine and honest opponents of the reform law that has just been enacted, have some valid criticisms. She has tried to articulate some of them. Let me tell you what I think the most reasonable of these criticisms are, even though I support the law that has been passed, provided some additional reforms and corrections are enacted at a later stage. Reasonable concerns regarding this law are: 1. The government is forcing people to buy health insurance, even if they don't want to do so. It is imposing a fine on those who refuse to buy insurance. Such a practice goes against the principle of individual liberty in a free democracy. 2. The government is expanding health and tax administration bureaucracy by a significant amount. To those who believe in small government this violates one of their most important ideological principles. 3. The government is increasing the tax on rich people and on those who buy or receive high-end expensive insurance plans through their employers. To those who believe in reduced taxation this violates one of their most important ideological principles. 4. The government is making promises to pay for the reform program by cutting spending and from increased tax revenue projections, predicting a reduction in the overall deficit. It is reasonable for people to be skeptical about any government being able to keep promises, and realize all its long term predictions. 5. The government is imposing new taxes and limits on insurance companies and health care device manufacturers, which might force them to raise the prices for their products, and reduce their ability to compete in a global free market. To those who believe in capitalist free market economy and in maintaining America's competitive edge this violates one of their most important ideological principles. Cheers, Santosh --- On Thu, 3/25/10, Gilbert Lawrence <[email protected]> wrote: Conclusion:?Providing care is not caring for an individual when they are sick.? There is a lot achieved?in Preventive and Maintenance care.? And there has to be?a system of someone supervising these aspects of care.? It is the absence of Preventive and Maintain care that results in expensive care at a more advanced?stage of the disease.? This is the one of the main problems with the current healthcare system, specially in a society which has less and?less social support at home to ensure the individual is prompt in their medical appointments and following-up the doctor's advice.?
