Congress clears historic health care bill

[mawilson 2,133]

You currently pay for the uninsured through higher premiums.

Yeah and I'm only paying for emergency treatments. Imagine the bill when these people

start running to the doctor for every little sniffle.

[JimandChristy 1,689]

I don't feel like paying for your health care either, so if something happens to you, please die quickly, k?

You are already doing that right now under the supposedly "Best Health Care system in the world"

[Darnell 8,478]

a high five with Rahm Emanuel ? ####### ? whoop !

lets see wot happens this week.

[TOM&Riz 4]

I dont live in the US but i will be forced to buy US based insurance that will be useless where i live = raw deal - thanks barack

[one...two...tree 2,762]

This is quite inaccurate.

It is accurate.

People who were uninsured during any part of the year received $98.9 billion in care, of which $34.5 billion was “uncompensated care” (that is, not paid for either out of pocket or by a private or public insurance source). This represents 35 percent of the care received by the uninsured but only 2.8 percent of total personal health care spending of $1,235 billion in 2001.⁹ The other 65 percent was paid for out of pocket and, mainly for the part-year uninsured, by private and public insurance sources.

Uncompensated care accounted for 60 percent of the care received by the full-year uninsured, with almost all of the rest ($14.1 billion, or 35 percent) paid for out of pocket. The part-year uninsured also received a substantial amount of uncompensated care, $9.9 billion, which accounted for 17 percent of their overall care.

Even taking uncompensated care into account, the full-year uninsured received about half as much care ($1,253 per person) as the privately insured received ($2,484). While some of this difference is attributable to differences in age and health status between the two groups, research that takes these factors into account still finds about a 50 percent differential.¹⁰ Thus, even though uncompensated care is the primary source of care for the full-year uninsured, it does not make up for or offset the effects of being uninsured on access to and use of care.¹¹

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[one...two...tree 2,762]

Yeah and I'm only paying for emergency treatments. Imagine the bill when these people

start running to the doctor for every little sniffle.

How much will this change your current premiums?

[mawilson 2,133]

How much will this change your current premiums?

No idea - I'll find out next year.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

No idea - I'll find out next year.

So why the fuss?

[Martyshk 137]

I don't feel like paying for your health care either, so if something happens to you, please die quickly, k?

Yeah, how about no? Don't feel like it.....um.... too bad

[mawilson 2,133]

So why the fuss?

Why the fuss about global warming, it doesn't affect you today at all.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Why the fuss about global warming, it doesn't affect you today at all.

You're fussing over a health care bill that you have no idea how it will effect your own private insurance in terms of premiums. If your premiums go down, are you going to change your view about it?

[mawilson 2,133]

You're fussing over a health care bill that you have no idea how it will effect your own private insurance in terms of premiums. If your premiums go down, are you going to change your view about it?

There's more to it than my insurance premiums - the bill affects me in other ways.

For example, the government's ability to finance the deficits and having to print

more money to pay for it will directly affect my savings.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

There's more to it than my insurance premiums - the bill affects me in other ways.

For example, the government's ability to finance the deficits and having to print

more money to pay for it will directly affect my savings.

This bill reduces the deficit, verified by the CBO report.

[mawilson 2,133]

This bill reduces the deficit, verified by the CBO report.

I don't believe that report and neither should you.

[mawilson 2,133]

The Democrats have been very easy to accept almost any projection because

what they really want isn't to fix the system, but to further entrench

government's role in providing health care.

All the original projections regarding Medicare came off wildly inaccurate,

but by that time, it was too late as the entitlement program was already

in place.