You lie SO much Bill. The democratic majority was at its best razor thin and very short-lived partly due to a twisted maniac shooting Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords January 8, 2011.
No reliable and filibuster proof majority was achieved in either house by the Democratic Party’s leadership. A goal of the accountable care organizations, part of the 2010 U.S. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), is to move from Fee For Service to integrated care… getting to incentives for healthy outcomes and increasing the scope of providing good health care WILL lower costs AND increase the general health and welfare of the nation... It makes insurance more affordable by providing the largest middle class tax cut for health care in history, reducing premium and out-of-pocket costs for tens of millions of families and small business owners who had been priced out of coverage in the past. This helps over 32 million Americans afford health care who do not get it today – and makes coverage more affordable for many more. Under the plan, 95% of Americans will be insured. In 2013 over 15% of Americans are without insurance. It sets up a new competitive health insurance marketplace giving tens of millions of Americans the same choices of insurance that members of Congress will have. It brings greater accountability to health care by laying out commonsense rules of the road to keep premiums down and prevent insurance industry abuses and denial of care. It will end discrimination against Americans with pre-existing conditions. It puts our budget and economy on a more stable path by reducing the deficit by more than $100 billion over the next ten years – and more than $1 trillion over the second decade – by cutting government overspending and reigning in waste, fraud and abuse. On Nov 3, 2013, at 11:53 PM, William H. Magill <[email protected]> wrote: > The Democrats absolutely CONTROLLED government in those days -- the House > (Pelosi), the Senate (Reid) and the White House (Obama). Republicans had no > say in anything. > It was not until Reid and Pelosi realized that they could not force their > fellow Democrats to "compromise" with "their plan" that they finally began > discussing things with Republicans -- and got the "3 votes" they needed. > Then Democrats began demonizing Republicans again. "Compromise" is defined by > the Democrats as "Do it my way." They make the Tea Party look like pikers -- > but the Democrats have better PR people. > > The Democrats, led by Reid and Pelosi, are the ones who perverted "Health > Care Reform" into "Feed our Insurance company campaign donors." > > As Health Care leader after leader, from the Mayo Clinic on down, has stated > since its pasage -- there is no reform in the ACA it only hands Insurance > Companies a massive customer base for free. There is NOTHING in ACA which is > intended to cut the cost of Health Care -- it only deals with getting more > people to buy Insurance, not cost of care.
