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How Health Car Bill Will Affect (some of) You

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Posted by Bobby 2010-03-24 06:46|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Any chance of a so called Flat Tax is certainly gone forever along with tens of thousands of pine trees. This has nothing to do with health care and everything to do with increased income taxes.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-03-24 07:30|| 2010-03-24 07:30|| Front Page Top

#2 MOAA Legislative Update
19 March 2010

House Armed Services Committee Chairman Ike Skelton (D-MO) says he will
include a provision in the FY2011 Defense Authorization Bill to amend
national health care reform legislation to explicitly state that TRICARE
"meets all requirements for individual health insurance."

Committee staff members indicate this is a technical correction to make
doubly sure TRICARE beneficiaries don't suffer any inadvertent penalties
under the language of national health care reform legislation currently
pending in the House.

According to staff, the new House language cites Medicare, TRICARE For
Life, and VA care as meeting the requirements, but didn't explicitly
include TRICARE.

Skelton tried to amend the bill to include TRICARE, but House rules
governing reconciliation bills like the national health reform bill bar
amendments that don't involve funding.

But the lack of funding issue means Skelton will be able to make the fix
in the defense bill instead.

While it would be incongruous in the extreme to consider TRICARE as
failing to meet any reasonable requirements for health insurance, the
technical fix will make doubly sure TRICARE beneficiaries won't be
subject to financial penalties applicable to people who don't obtain
qualifying insurance.

It would also require that TRICARE make a change to allow continued coverage of non-dependent children until age 28 if they don't have
qualifying employer-sponsored coverage. Details on how to accomplish that would have to be worked out in the defense bill if the national
health reform legislation passes.

http://www.moaa.org/lac/lac_issues/lac_issues_update/lac_issues_update_1
00319.htm#issue5

Other NEWS

Congress needs to act by April 1 to prevent a 21% cut in Medicare and TRICARE payments to doctors. Last week, the Senate approved a 6-month
fix (until Oct. 1) as part of its jobs bill, H.R. 4213.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-03-24 07:51|| 2010-03-24 07:51|| Front Page Top

#3 This bill affects all of us. We all lose. Freedom is precious and that is the price of this legislation. The bill provides for a lot of government intrusion in our lives. The IRS will have expanded power. It is a skid down a slippery slope. The country can't afford it. Anyone who believes the costs estimates provided by the Donks and CBO are foolish. Can anyone think of any government program that has made the estimated budget or come in under budget? Can anyone think of any Federal government social programs that are not broke? If people think they have gotten health care out of this sham; think again. There is no money for these "cash for votes" programs now or later. It is a sham to gain 30 million votes. Next up is amnesty for illegal immigrants; another 15-20 million undocumented, unregistered Democratic voters.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-03-24 09:16|| 2010-03-24 09:16|| Front Page Top

#4 Anyone who believes the costs estimates provided by the Donks and CBO are foolish.

CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf met with Obama at the White House on 21 July 2009. Following that meeting, the CBO's attitude toward all things Obama took a very sharp course change. I wouldn't believe any data coming out of the CBO.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-03-24 09:26|| 2010-03-24 09:26|| Front Page Top

#5 By the time O and the traitorous congress get done with their socialistic pet legislation, the acceleration to bankruptcy will pick up some real steam, and that will be the end of the Socialist dream. We will be more like Zimbabwe.

That is exactly what O wants.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2010-03-24 10:32|| 2010-03-24 10:32|| Front Page Top

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