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| Reid: More funding needed to prevent ObamaCare from becoming 'train wreck' |
| 2013-05-03 |
 [THEHILL] Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) says he shares colleagues' concerns that the Affordable Care Act could become a "train wreck" if it's not implemented properly.Reid warned that people will not be able to choose health insurance plans on government health exchanges if federal authorities lack the resources to set them up and educate the public. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #14 More $$$? The only way to keep this from being a train wreck is to find something bigger than a train to wreck. Enjoy the bed you made, libtards. |
| Posted by: gorb 2013-05-03 22:37 |
| #13 ObambiCare is just another bone thrown to the Insurance companiesÂ… Bull Hooyie! The Health Insurance industry is total panic right now. Their contingency flow-charts look like Rube Goldberg on Acid. DonÂ’t fool yourself; theyÂ’re the intended goat of the ACAÂ’s Creative Destruction. |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2013-05-03 19:54 |
| #12 So-o-o instead of borrowing US$85.0Bilyuhn per month per annum for Monetary Easing, the Fed clearly needs to borrow US$100.0Bilyuhn or more a month??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2013-05-03 19:41 |
| #11 I agree with you Glenmore. But there is a solution to the inevitable shortage of doctors as the 50+ doctors retire and the top students choose non doctor professions. "Doctor Singh and Doctor Reddy will be happy to see you" |
| Posted by: Airandee 2013-05-03 19:24 |
| #10 BC, I suppose SOME doctors are getting rich (I see a house being built by one just down the street from me...) but I can state emphatically that not all are. Young ones just coming out can barely make student loan payments and rent - if they can get a job at all. Son-in-law is working 'contract' covering off-hours shifts, with 'self-employed' social security taxes and no benefits. He tells me he's not alone in saying if he had it all to do over again he would not go into medicine. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2013-05-03 13:46 |
| #9 Oh, one more thing don't worry about nationalized health care. As long as the doctors, lawyers, and pharmaceutical companies throw money at the Dems, we will not have national health care. Both the doctors and lawyers are vehemently opposed to nationalizing health care. |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2013-05-03 13:35 |
| #8 I'm studying for my doctorate in health administration and we've spent the better part of 16 weeks studying the PPACA. On a first time strafing run gloss over read, ObambiCare has a lot of good ideas in it. However, when you read deeper, the same flaws that have contributed to the astronomical cost increases in health care are still there. We have no national health care policy and all we do is pile more regulation on top of more regulation. The NIH says over $700 Billion is wasted due to over regulation, over treatment, and defensive medicine. ObambiCare is just another bone thrown to the Insurance companies, the AMA, and the Trial Lawyers. Any "reform" of health care intended to address cost that does not include meaningful reforms in malpractice tort is not a reform. The physicians are getting rich and no matter what Obambi says, health care will soon be a luxury of the affluent. Heck I make almost $200K a year (household income) and we CANNOT AFFORD insurance under ObumbleCare. The legislation is not meaningful health care reform. |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2013-05-03 13:33 |
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| Posted by: junkiron 2013-05-03 11:07 |
| #6 20% of the US economy and they "spent months" on it. A bottomless pit of bureaucrats and graft. FUD |
| Posted by: newc 2013-05-03 10:31 |
| #5 Costs for both group health plans and individual plans will increase dramatically this fall as the exchanges are launched. Individual plans for those under age 50 will see premiums double and either opt for purchasing a subsidized inferior plan under the exchanges or dropping insurance altogether. Those in group health plans will see their premiums and deductibles increase and blame ObamaCare. I can't see how this translates into a demand for national health care. |
| Posted by: regular joe 2013-05-03 09:36 |
| #4 It was known from the start it (ACA) would not work nor could it work; it was not intended to work, but rather to fail. After it failed the intended true National Health Care would be brought forward as the solution - and would likely pass. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2013-05-03 08:42 |
| #3 Soviets eventually concluded that, theoretically sound, solutions don't work due to sabotage. Now, I wonder ... |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2013-05-03 08:14 |
| #2 Reid: More funding needed to prevent ObamaCare from becoming 'train wreck' ..all the King's |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2013-05-03 08:08 |
| #1 Appears the stage is being set to blame the Congress for the program's failure due to lack of proper funding. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-05-03 02:39 |