Momentum shift favors real health care reform
July 16th, 2009 by John Grooms in Boomer with an Attitude
Never thought I would read the following in a news report: “Democrats are becoming less tolerant of dissent from their supposed allies in the health care industry.” But there it was, in a Los Angeles Times story picked up by Charlotte’s daily paper.
The story was about the strong health care reform legislation approved by the Senate Health Committee yesterday, which would “provide nearly every American with insurance regardless of income or medical condition … create a government program to compete directly with private insurers … [and] place new requirements on many employers to provide coverage.”
Apart from concern over how the bill would impact small businesses (something that can hopefully be worked out to small business owners’ satisfaction), it is very encouraging that the momentum in Congress is on the side of reforming health care delivery in America and making it into a more humane system. Particularly if Congress adopts the House of Representatives’ idea of largely paying for the program with a surtax on wealthy Americans. What it will take to truly revamp health care is, incredibly enough, exactly what has been happening: Democrats telling insurance companies, AKA “the tick that’s sucking America dry,” to take a hike. Kudos to Sen. Kay Hagan of North Carolina, who voted for the bill in committee yesterday.
July 16th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
Typlical Democrat wishful thinking.
“something that can hopefully be worked out to small business owners’ satisfaction”
The little guys are going to get screwed and you know it. Taxing small companies that dont offer insurance up to 8% will be an incredibly large hit. Many jobs will be lost due to this.
“if Congress adopts the House of Representatives’ idea of largely paying for the program with a surtax on wealthy Americans.”
Anyone with an economic bone in their body knows that if you tax an employer (AKA wealthy Americans) that tax will ultimately fall upon the little guy. It may come in the form lost jobs or reduced wages but the hammer will fall.
Just these two items will insure a jobless recovery. These silly ideas squeeze are nothing more than a shell game that rearranges how and where costs are extracted. The people who end up flipping the bill will always be the same. It will be paid by the little guys. Obama has even came out and said there is no free lunch to his offer of free health care.
July 16th, 2009 at 3:44 pm
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July 30th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
Think again.