Committee Passes Baucus's $829 Billion Healthcare Bill

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This has been an interesting research topic for me - not so much this particular bill(s)(plural when you count the original committee bill which was merged with the senate version and recently voted into debate for the week following Thanksgiving), but the whole idea of entitlement. I'm slightly amused when I see the little news stories about isolated cases supporting this extreme overwrite of the healthcare system (thanks CNN). In one of the videos, a small business owner is speaking about his inability to afford his diabetes medicine, so he only takes half of the suggested dosage. These news stories serve, for the most part, as emotional appeal to promote ideas.
I think entitlement is a dangerous concept. It's a mindset that says to those in political power, "I really want to take care of myself, but it's a little too hard, so I'ma let you do it for me..."
Is the government tacking on billions to an already staggering national debt to create a "public option" really what we need? What about antitrust loopholes that enable current healthcare providers to somewhat monopolize certain geographical areas (I would appreciate more good references and explanations on these loopholes, if anyone cares to provide)?
I guess the main question in my mind is, why not do the less extreme path? Why not fix what's messed up instead of creating even more of it? Why create artificial competition from a seemingly endless masked budget instead of fixing the core problems that make health insurance so expensive?
I would love to know - thanks for reading.

Chuck of UT 3:18AM November 29, 2009

Freedom isn't free first of all. But if we want to be free then we need to tell this so called government to stay the hell out of our business! And have the morons actually read our Constitution and then make them abide by it instead of acting like it doesn't exist! If someone doesn't want healthcare then by all means that should be up to them not up to our government! SOCIALISM it's here!!! Y'all want your freedom back then it's time to fight for it! But hell there are so many brainless people in the USA that they just go along with anything that sounds like it will be free for them when that isn't the case at all. But the way these politicians sugar coat everything how can braindead stooges see past the BS. If this healthcare bill goes through every american can kiss their freedoms goodbye and they can kiss our beloved Constitution goodbye as well. Who has done their homework on socialism here? How about Adolf Hitler and the socialism in Germany? Well enough said!

Freedom reigns of ID 5:31PM November 10, 2009

It's amazing what the politicians do with numbers... But am I to believe, that if I do not purchase health insurance, I am going to be fined by the US Government. Isn't that a direct infringement of the US Constitution, Tenth Amendment. How can the US Government force citizens to purchase anything?

Concerned... of NJ 12:43AM October 21, 2009

"You Do Not Cut Deals with the System that Has to Be Replaced" -- Ralph Nader on Secret White House Agreements with the Drug Industry
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/8/14/you_dont_cut_deals_with_the
Single-Payer Healthcare -- Bill Moyers Journal
Bill Moyers speaks with advocate Donna Smith about how our broken system is hurting ordinary Americans.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUVzwXrbRYI&feature=player_embedded
Money Talks: Profits Before Patient Safety (film)
Audio portions of the film:
http://kpfa.org/archive/id/55066
Healthcare Reform? We need healthcare honesty. End the gouging and gangster profiteering of the corporations.
Single Payer Action: everybody in. nobody out.
http://singlepayeraction.org/
CBO Report on Medical Malpractice Flawed
by Ralph Nader
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/10/13-13
Drugmakers, Doctors Rake in Billions Battling H1N1 Flu
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/10/14-1

Primate Healer of CA 6:51PM October 19, 2009

What is wrong with you people? Join in the ranks of the thinking,please! Bill Clinton's administration had many SURPLUSES in yearly budgets, then came your savior, George W., had it all melted away. How can you logically blame anyone else for this mess? Wake up! Smell the failure you voted for TWICE!How can you dump on a thinking Republican?

RJH of VA 6:00AM October 17, 2009

Let's see ALL the facts so the public can determine what this really means to them. Someone says this won't increase the deficit --prove it, give us the $'s/calculations used, there are many CPA's out there including myself. I am so tired of being taxed, the deficit increasing and no signs of true economic recovery -enough already
Bt NJ

Bt of NJ 12:19AM October 15, 2009

"Preexisting conditions must be covered by all insurers, and their pool of covered individuals with preexisting conditions must be consistent with the percentage basis of all other insurance companies."
Americans do not understand insurance any more. Forcing health insurers to take on folks with preexisting conditions is no different than forcing auto insurers to take on folks with multiple DUI offenses. That isn't insurance at all, it is forced socialism, and it will force premiums through the roof. At that point there is no longer any purpose in the existence of insurance - the risk pool has no reasonable limits any more.
Insurers cannot pay out more than you pay in without going bankrupt. Insurance should cover only unlikely and financially catastrophic illnesses. This is not what Americans want, however. It is unfortunate that the majority of Americans are so ignorant of basic mathematics.
It is sad that some people suffer from life-threatening maladies. Insurance will not cure them. Spreading the misery is not the answer. Criminalizing the behavior of perfectly healthy Americans that choose to save money against the future rather than pad the profit margins of insurers is absurd. Why do so few see how wrong this is? Why do twenty-year-olds need insurance, for example? Gouging the incomes of those whose employers are too small to be able to provide a health insurance policy is profoundly and morally wrong. It will also remove disposable income from our already ailing economy.
Wake up, America. Your Liberty has been prostituted for the illusion of Safety.

Chris of WA 8:41PM October 14, 2009

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Andy Tucker Jesus 1. of IN 7:27PM October 14, 2009

I would like to recycle an old Republican saying that came about around the the time of Regan. Love or leave it pal. Better yet, move to a country that has a health care system exactly like ours. Happy traveling.

JDZ57 of WI 6:58PM October 14, 2009