In fact, it is perhaps one of the most significant business issues to be addressed in our time. It is even more significant than debates on taxes and regulatory burdens that business and the government perpetually engage in year after year.
Why? Because the escalating costs of health care and health care coverage consume more business resources annually than the most onerous tax or regulatory environment possibly imaginable.
Small businesses are disproportionately affected. They are the economic engine that fuels the growth of employment opportunities, the country's gross...
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medicare= socialism - 2010-03-16 07:50:13
All I know is that I pay for my medical care and disabled and elderly should have to pay for their medical care as well. Why should I have to shoulder the burden for this weaker types ?
Yes , sure it would be nice if we could all have medical care, but we do not live in a socialistic Utopia, this is America.
And right now we can not afford it.
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Fred - 2010-03-16 07:13:01
are you joking? What do you think the sole purpose of medicare is?
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Headline does not match content - 2010-03-15 13:57:06
Reform is needed, as indicated by the headline, but the question is whether this overhaul is the proper methodology. There are many less intrusive, less expensive, more productive ways to move forward in achieving the same results. See Paul Ryan's proposal for an easy reference.
We saw government jumping into the housing market to 'benefit' the people by providing low interest rates and relaxed lending standards through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. That brought us to the financial crisis from which we are still trying to gain freedom. There is no reason to believe that this brand new government intervention sold as a mechanism to help 'the people' would wind up any differently.
Social Security: Unsustainable. Medicare: Unsustainable. Medicaid: Unsustainable.
Why would we add another to this list of entitlement programs that are facing failure?
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medicare - 2010-03-15 13:36:37
I am so sick of seeing old people getting medicare. We must end all types of entitlements immediately.
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This Bill is a poor excuse at chang - 2010-03-15 13:20:24
"...Opponents of health care reform say it is a government takeover that will bankrupt our country. They disregard the very real consequences of maintaining the status quo..."
This is the biggest fallacy foisted upon the public - that those that dare speak out against this Bill are in any way in favor of the "status quo". The vast majority of those of us who are against this Bill beleive it is incumbant upon us to have meaningful Health Care change - not stuff like this Bill which has required brides written into to buy vote of Congress members (LA Purchase for example).
"...Under the current proposal, all people are required to have health-insurance coverage of some form or pay a penalty for being uninsured..."
Does this not smack of something that the Federal Government might be crossing the line to force Americans to do? Where in the Constitution does the Federal Government get to force a citizen to have to buy something they might or might not wish to buy?
"...Pre-existing conditions would no longer disqualify an individual from obtaining health insurance coverage at a reasonable cost..."
OK, I understand that with a fixed set of assumptions the CBO has said it will not add to the Deficit, but nobody to date has been able to explain how everyone is going to be able to get affordable health insurance when not everyone is going to have to pay "market costs" for that insurance. I mean, come-on, how does a company provide affordable health insurance to someone who has excessive risk - IE: Cancer or Morbid Obesity? Unless of course, the Gov't will pick up the tab.
"...Granted, it's not perfect, but then again nothing ever is in real life..."
True, but this Bill isn't even good enough to convince the all the members of the Party in Power to vote for it without bribes and pork deals.
Can anyone name any Government Program that was ever initiated that did not end up costing more than it was suppossed too? Why would it be different with this one?
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Health Care Reform - 2010-03-15 10:21:48
does not automatically mean Government controlled/run Health care. I know some want this. I support common sense health care reform. However, we can not afford National Health with this current economy and tax structure.
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IF health cae reform - 2010-03-14 22:55:51
is going to save money, why does it cost trillions? That is a simple business question. Any business that doesn't have health savings accounts is wasting money.
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