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Open Question: how many lies has the RNC told about health care reform?
how many lies has the RNC told about healthcare reform?
(http://www.newsweek.com/id/214254/output…
The Five Biggest Lies in the Health Care Debate
By Sharon Begley | NEWSWEEK
Published Aug 29, 2009
From the magazine issue dated Sep 7, 2009
To the credit of opponents of health-care reform, the lies and exaggerations they’re spreading are not made up out of whole cloth—which makes the misinformation that much more credible. Instead, because opponents demand that everyone within earshot (or e-mail range) look, say, “at page 425 of the House bill!,” the lies take on a patina of credibility. Take the claim in one chain e-mail that the government will have electronic access to everyone’s bank account, implying that the Feds will rob you blind. The 1,017-page bill passed by the House Ways and Means Committee does call for electronic fund transfers—but from insurers to doctors and other providers. There is zero provision to include patients in any such system. Five other myths that won’t die:
You’ll have no choice in what health benefits you receive.
The myth that a “health choices commissioner” will decide what benefits you get seems to have originated in a July 19 post at blog.flecksoflife.com, whose homepage features an image of Obama looking like Heath Ledger’s Joker. In fact, the House bill sets up a health-care exchange—essentially a list of private insurers and one government plan—where people who do not have health insurance through their employer or some other source (including small businesses) can shop for a plan, much as seniors shop for a drug plan under Medicare part D. The government will indeed require that participating plans not refuse people with preexisting conditions and offer at least minimum coverage, just as it does now with employer-provided insurance plans and part D. The requirements will be floors, not ceilings, however, in that the feds will have no say in how generous private insurance can beNo chemo for older Medicare patients.
The threat that Medicare will give cancer patients over 70 only end-of-life counseling and not chemotherapy—as a nurse at a hospital told a roomful of chemo patients, including the uncle of a NEWSWEEK reporter—has zero basis in fact. It’s just a vicious form of the rationing scare. The House bill does not use the word “ration.” Nor does it call for cost-effectiveness research, much less implementation—the idea that “it isn’t cost-effective to give a 90-year-old a hip replacement.”
The general claim that care will be rationed under health-care reform is less a lie and more of a non-disprovable projection (as is Howard Dean’s assertion that health-care reform will not lead to rationing, ever). What we can say is that there is de facto rationing under the current system, by both Medicare and private insurance. No plan covers everything, but coverage decisions “are now made in opaque ways by insurance companies,” says Dr. Donald Berwick of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
A related myth is that health-care reform will be financed through $500 billion in Medicare cuts. This refers to proposed decreases in Medicare increases. That is, spending is on track to reach $803 billion in 2019 from today’s $422 billion, and that would be dialed back. Even the $560 billion in reductions (which would be spread over 10 years and come from reducing payments to private Medicare advantage plans, reducing annual increases in payments to hospitals and other providers, and improving care so seniors are not readmitted to a hospital) is misleading: the House bill also gives Medicare $340 billion more over a decade. The money would pay docs more for office visits, eliminate copays and deductibles for preventive care, and help close the “doughnut hole” in the Medicare drug benefit, explains Medicare expert Tricia Neuman of the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Illegal immigrants will get free health insurance.
The House bill doesn’t give anyone free health care (though under a 1986 law illegals who can’t pay do get free emergency care now, courtesy of all us premium paying customers or of hospitals that have to eat the cost). Will they be eligible for subsidies to buy health insurance? The House bill says that “individuals who are not lawfully present in the United States” will not be allowed to receive subsidies.
The claim that taxpayers will wind up subsidizing health insurance for illegal immigrants has its origins in the defeat of an amendment, offered in July by Republican Rep. Dean Heller of Nevada, to require those enrolling in a public plan or seeking subsidies to purchase private insurance to have their citizenship verified. Flecksoflife.com claimed on July 19 that “HC [health care] will be provided 2 all non US citizens, illegal or otherwise.” Rep. Steve King of Iowa spread the claim in a USA Today op-ed on Aug. 20, calling the explicit prohibition on such coverage “functionally meaningless” absent mandatory citizenship checks, and it’s now gone viral. Can
Open Question: how many lie has the RNC told about healthcare reform?
(http://www.newsweek.com/id/214254/output/print)
The Five Biggest Lies in the Health Care Debate
By Sharon Begley | NEWSWEEK
Published Aug 29, 2009
From the magazine issue dated Sep 7, 2009
To the credit of opponents of health-care reform, the lies and exaggerations they’re spreading are not made up out of whole cloth—which makes the misinformation that much more credible. Instead, because opponents demand that everyone within earshot (or e-mail range) look, say, “at page 425 of the House bill!,” the lies take on a patina of credibility. Take the claim in one chain e-mail that the government will have electronic access to everyone’s bank account, implying that the Feds will rob you blind. The 1,017-page bill passed by the House Ways and Means Committee does call for electronic fund transfers—but from insurers to doctors and other providers. There is zero provision to include patients in any such system. Five other myths that won’t die:
You’ll have no choice in what health benefits you receive.
The myth that a “health choices commissioner” will decide what benefits you get seems to have originated in a July 19 post at blog.flecksoflife.com, whose homepage features an image of Obama looking like Heath Ledger’s Joker. In fact, the House bill sets up a health-care exchange—essentially a list of private insurers and one government plan—where people who do not have health insurance through their employer or some other source (including small businesses) can shop for a plan, much as seniors shop for a drug plan under Medicare part D. The government will indeed require that participating plans not refuse people with preexisting conditions and offer at least minimum coverage, just as it does now with employer-provided insurance plans and part D. The requirements will be floors, not ceilings, however, in that the feds will have no say in how generous private insurance can beNo chemo for older Medicare patients.
The threat that Medicare will give cancer patients over 70 only end-of-life counseling and not chemotherapy—as a nurse at a hospital told a roomful of chemo patients, including the uncle of a NEWSWEEK reporter—has zero basis in fact. It’s just a vicious form of the rationing scare. The House bill does not use the word “ration.” Nor does it call for cost-effectiveness research, much less implementation—the idea that “it isn’t cost-effective to give a 90-year-old a hip replacement.”
The general claim that care will be rationed under health-care reform is less a lie and more of a non-disprovable projection (as is Howard Dean’s assertion that health-care reform will not lead to rationing, ever). What we can say is that there is de facto rationing under the current system, by both Medicare and private insurance. No plan covers everything, but coverage decisions “are now made in opaque ways by insurance companies,” says Dr. Donald Berwick of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
A related myth is that health-care reform will be financed through $500 billion in Medicare cuts. This refers to proposed decreases in Medicare increases. That is, spending is on track to reach $803 billion in 2019 from today’s $422 billion, and that would be dialed back. Even the $560 billion in reductions (which would be spread over 10 years and come from reducing payments to private Medicare advantage plans, reducing annual increases in payments to hospitals and other providers, and improving care so seniors are not readmitted to a hospital) is misleading: the House bill also gives Medicare $340 billion more over a decade. The money would pay docs more for office visits, eliminate copays and deductibles for preventive care, and help close the “doughnut hole” in the Medicare drug benefit, explains Medicare expert Tricia Neuman of the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Illegal immigrants will get free health insurance.
The House bill doesn’t give anyone free health care (though under a 1986 law illegals who can’t pay do get free emergency care now, courtesy of all us premium paying customers or of hospitals that have to eat the cost). Will they be eligible for subsidies to buy health insurance? The House bill says that “individuals who are not lawfully present in the United States” will not be allowed to receive subsidies.
The claim that taxpayers will wind up subsidizing health insurance for illegal immigrants has its origins in the defeat of an amendment, offered in July by Republican Rep. Dean Heller of Nevada, to require those enrolling in a public plan or seeking subsidies to purchase private insurance to have their citizenship verified. Flecksoflife.com claimed on July 19 that “HC [health care] will be provided 2 all non US citizens, illegal or otherwise.” Rep. Steve King of Iowa spread the claim in a USA Today op-ed on Aug. 20, calling the explicit prohibition on such coverage “functionally meaningless” absent mandatory citizenship checks, and it’s now gone viral. Can we say that none of the estimated 11.9 million illega
Open Question: Question: Do you mind paying tax on some items that used to be tax-free?
(For those who report folks as a hobby, please be advised an actual question has been asked).
We all heard that the plan is to tax fruit juice, soda, snack foods, fast foods, higher taxes on cigarettes and alcoholic beverages – but if the Pelosi Healthcare reform bill is passed (regardless of what is added to it by Senator Reid over in the Senate), then you must realize that some products usually purchased tax-free, will now be taxed as “medical devices”; in addition, some products that we do have to pay a tax on will NOW BE LEVIED WITH AN ADDITIONAL TAX.
Examples:
Tampons, Kotex pads, pad belts, athletic supporters for men, toothbrushes, over-the-counter medications that usually are not taxed because they are technically medicines, WILL NOW BE TAXED; example:
Tylenol, toothpaste, vitamins, medicated foot powders, flu medicines, toothache relief stuff, eye drops and eye wash, sleep aids, diet aides, bandaids; heck, almost anything can be contributed to be either helpful to your health (thus taxed higher) or to be UNHELPFUL to your health (thus taxed higher).
Think about it: Every single thing you do in your life, everything you eat or drink, every product you use, every hobby or sport your participate in, can all come under “health care”.
Healthcare reform has nothing to do with your health, or your care. In fact, the Pelosi bill is almost
two trillion dollars but does not cover everyone who truly needs financial help to buy insurance, and the Bill also does NOTHING to improve the medical care we receive. SO WHY DO IT? If we need to bring health costs down and help some folks afford insurance coverage, we can do those things for a fraction of the cost of this healthcare reform idiocy. Instead, we chose to run up more debt as we are barely making it economically as it is, and we chose to bankrupt ourselves without coming one step closer to solving either of the two problems given as the reasons for needing this reform in the first place. SO WHAT ARE WE DOING? THIS IS WHAT WE ARE DOING:
We are allowing this Administration to pass a 400,000-word, 1900 page, 19.2 lb BILL that is full of
Affirmative action law, rules and regulations that will destroy the private insurance industry as well
as the private sector jobs market. We are allowing a bill to pass that would give access to private citizen bank accounts to withdraw money from them for any approved medical treatment – they can electronically transfer money out of your private bank accounts as easily as you can. A bill that will
give legal permission for “evidence based intervention” teams to come to your house and innoculate you and/or your children; no opt out; no appeal. A Bill that will force you to buy insurance or pay a huge fine and spend time in jail. Small businesses will have one choice: lay off workers or go out of business. The job loss will be so severe that all that will be left is government jobs, which is what Obama wants. He does not like the free market economy of America and plans to get rid of it.
He wants to destroy the part of our economy that provides over 90% of the jobs in America.
Do you mind paying tax on those items that used to be tax–free? And those items that used to carry a tax on them – will you mind paying an ADDITIONAL TAX on them for being medical items or
medically-related items?
AND….when you go to the Cashier to pay for your purchases, do you think they will be asking you if you make more than $250,000.00 per year? Didn’t Candidate Obama promise that anyone who
earned less than that would not be taxed? In fact, where is the TAX BREAK PROMISED TO 95% OF THE PEOPLE? Looks like if you earn minimum wage, you are still gonna have to pay that darn medical tax on your tampons, unless we are supposed to haul around our tax returns with us to the supermarket or something.
Does anyone know the answer to any of these questions which are cleared and approved by the
Yahoo Community guidelines? In case you still think there may not be an actual question presented so far, here’s one more:
DID YOU KNOW THAT THE DEATH PANELS TO DECIDE WHETHER YOU GET TREATED OR
A PAIN PILL IS NOT IN THE HEALTHCARE REFORM BILL BECAUSE IT WAS ALREADY PASSED INTO LAW AND FUNDED WAY BACK IN THAT $787 bILLION DOLLAR STIMULUS BILL?
No wonder they wanted it passed before anybody had a chance to read it……..
ARE WE BEING SCAMMED, FLIM-FLAMMED, HOODWINKED AND CONNED, CHICAGO-STYLE,
or is the black print on the white paper that we’re reading just an early April fool’s joke?
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