Harry Reid Makes His Mark With Health Care Bill

The GOP is counting on American's forgetting about the 8 year reign of greed and big business. Now the GOP is spinning how they are "Looking Out" for the taxpayer by "Just saying NO." As legislators they should be crafting a Bill for Health Care, instead they are pimping for insurance companies and outright lying to the American people. Death Panels?? Insurance Companies stand between you and your Doctor right now, but all the GOP says is the Gov't will. How did the Insurance industry get the power to "Reject" procedures your Doctor ordered???? Every American knows insurance is a great thing to have...as long as you don't need to use it.

Doesn't matter what's driving Harry Reid, as long as it keeps driving the fossil out of Washington

Yesterday I called Blue Shield to apply for the conversion of my $1950.00 a month PPO coverage from COBRA.They told me that they would not write me. I told them that I have been on Blue Shield from birth 60 years ago as my wife has 59 years ago.The reason was that I have hypertension and so does she.119 years of premiums AND THEY WON"T COVER US...

THIS IS REALLY WRONG.

We need to do something before all of us hard working tax paying middle class go broke .

Middle class means being stuck between the ones who don't pay anything for health care and the very wealthy who have an extra $1950 a month to pay. middle Class means being the ones who pay for ourselves and the uninsured.

Middle class sucks badly.

Fix it ,please.

This guy has to be voted out of office. come on Nevada!
THEN CONGRESS NEEDS TO:
PUT THE DOLLAR BACK ON THE GOLD STANDARD.
PAY OFF THE NATIONAL DEBT.
STOP DEFICIT SPENDING.
AND THEY NEED TO AUDIT THE FED.
then THEY can make whatever reforms their constituents want and need within those confines. Until they do that, we have a false and insecure economy!

Democrats have touted government run health care as "The Public Option."

One of the many problems with our health care system today is government regulations and price fixing result in hospitals and insurance companies shifting costs to those who DO pay premiums.

The government regulates insurance companies, leaving you the consumer, a limited number of companies with which to do business. Imagine what could happen to your premiums if you could get quotes from scores of insurance companies instead of the handful the government allows to write policies in your area.
Premiums would go DOWN as MORE insurance companies compete for your business.

It is government regulations that FORCE hospitals to see and treat ANYONE. All this free medical care is simply passed on to the bills of those in the hospital who DO have insurance, COST SHIFTING.

The power of government Medicare/Medicaid allows them to dictate to hospitals and doctors the prices they can charge for a given service. Government regulated prices for Medicare/Medicaid patients are significantly lower (20-30% lower) than the going rate sooooo, many doctors limit the number of Medicare/Mediaid patients they see. Rationing. Doctors and hospitals that DO see Medicare/Mediaid patients COST SHIFT lower government reimbursement rates on to................ the insurance companies through the bills of patients who do have insurance!!!

Since NAFTA Immigration, both legal and illegal immigration has EXPLODED in the past dozen years. More and more people than ever before are showing up at hospitals and clinics for their FREE government mandated medical care.
Hospitals are complying with government regulations and treating these people. Since MOST hospitals are in business to MAKE MONEY they HAVE TO play HOT POTATO with government mandated regulations and SHIFT COSTS by passing the buck for all this free medical care to the insurance companies. Hospitals simply pad the
bills of those who DO have insurance to cover the cost of all this FREE care they are required to give by the government.

Insurance companies are easy targets for the government to demonize. Medicare/Medicaid price fixing along with the explosion of immigration, both legal and illegal, as well as government regulations to treat them leaves the insurance companies taking the bad rap by raising prices to COMPLY WITH GOVERNMENT regulations.

THE GOVERNMENT IS NOT EAGER TO share the reasons for EXPLODING insurance premiums and medical care costs is all their vote buying regulations, much easier to blame the insurance companies.

Now Democrats believe some marketing manipulation will convince people the "Consumer Option" is something different than the "Public Option" that most Americans oppose.
Democrats KNOW government price fixing of reimbursement rates for the "Public Option" will put even MORE COST SHIFTING pressure on consumers and insurance companies.

FACT: Obama spoke to a union crowd in 2002 stating he believed in a "Single payer system."

The "Public Option" or "Consumer Option" is NOTHING MORE than a liberal smoke screen to socialize medicine in the US.

You and Harry Reid are nerds---the man cannot see past his eye glasses----he will not be re-elected----voters need to send Reid, Plosi and Obama packing and they will.

REID WILL BE SELLING REALESTATE IN LATE 2010 --THATS WHERE HE BELONGS --SO LONG HARRY----------------

Goodbye Harry, enjoy your lifelong Senate health care package!

Harry is an IDIOT !!!! Don't worry, Nevada will take car of his job......he will be home forever next year

harry reid obama's sacrifical pig

What truely angers me is that we do need healthcare reform badly but this proposal by the Democrats wont fix anything. It's a thinly disguised take out of Healthcare by the Government. We need to closely examine everything that Congress trys to pass.

I agree Reid has to go,

WE THE PEOPLE have to show the government they work for us, not themselves.

and we have the power to do it.

and it is not just Reid who has to go, every state that has elections this year, needs to be shook up,

first get rid of every single incumbant, and vote for the unknown, the newcomers,

we need fresh faces,

Mr Smith goes to washington, is as relavent now as it was 70 years ago, we need people who know if they don't do the job WE THE PEOPLE expect them to do, then they don't get to keep the job, it is as simple as that.

THEY WORK FOR US.

and it is not the PUBLIC OPTION anymore

Fancy Nancy has renamed it, it is now the

COMSUMER OPTION,

she feels giving it a gentler, kinder name, will encourage Americans to come on board, they will want it now that she has given it a better, a sweeter, more seductive name.

a skunk by any other name, still stinks.

what a joke,

and what an insult to the AMERICAN PUBLIC.

see what she really thinks of us, that we can be duped, by just calling it something else.

they are getting very desperate ren't they.

For a retired Family Practioner's perspective on Health Care Reform go to (a Part 1 of 3 series):

http://www.medpie.com/politics/featured-articles/forsyth-retrospect.html