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The President's Proposal: Health Care Plan (oh boy here we go!)
WhiteHouse.gov ^ | Monday February 22, 2010

Posted on 02/22/2010 7:30:55 AM PST by Bigtigermike

The President’s Proposal puts American families and small business owners in control of their own health care.

* It makes insurance more affordable by providing the largest middle class tax cut for health care in history, reducing premium costs for tens of millions of families and small business owners who are priced out of coverage today. This helps over 31 million Americans afford health care who do not get it today – and makes coverage more affordable for many more.

* It sets up a new competitive health insurance market giving tens of millions of Americans the exact same insurance choices that members of Congress will have.

* It brings greater accountability to health care by laying out commonsense rules of the road to keep premiums down and prevent insurance industry abuses and denial of care.

* It will end discrimination against Americans with pre-existing conditions.

* It puts our budget and economy on a more stable path by reducing the deficit by $100 billion over the next ten years – and about $1 trillion over the second decade – by cutting government overspending and reining in waste, fraud and abuse.

The President’s Proposal bridges the gap between the House and Senate bills and includes new provisions to crack down on waste, fraud and abuse.

* Eliminating the Nebraska FMAP provision and providing significant additional Federal financing to all States for the expansion of Medicaid;

* Closing the Medicare prescription drug “donut hole” coverage gap;

* Strengthening the Senate bill’s provisions that make insurance affordable for individuals and families;

* Strengthening the provisions to fight fraud, waste, and abuse in Medicare and Medicaid;

* Increasing the threshold for the excise tax on the most expensive health plans from $23,000 for a family plan to $27,500 and starting it in 2018 for all plans;

* Improving insurance protections for consumers and creating a new Health Insurance Rate Authority to provide Federal assistance and oversight to States in conducting reviews of unreasonable rate increases and other unfair practices of insurance plans.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/health-care-meeting/proposal/whatsnew/overview


TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bhofascism; bhotyranny; deathcare; deathpanels; democrats; election; healthcare; obama; obamacare; obamcare
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To: BP2

I have a dream.

I want to see this SOB in a jail cell with dirty walls, a toilet and a steel frame bed.

This is what I pray for.


61 posted on 02/22/2010 8:28:49 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (Half of the population is below average)
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To: dpetty121263
* It will end discrimination against Americans with pre-existing conditions.

Discrimination - There we go, the new Civil Right. And the end of the private insurance industry. Got cancer? Buy 'insurance' tomorrow.
62 posted on 02/22/2010 8:29:13 AM PST by Daus
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To: Lazamataz
This is a bunch of platitudes and talking points.

Kennedy got private health care. Even with a serious brain tumor, it prolonged his life months if not years.

Murtha got government health care for a simple operation. He's dead.

63 posted on 02/22/2010 8:29:51 AM PST by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: RockinRight

awesome comment


64 posted on 02/22/2010 8:30:46 AM PST by Arec Barrwin
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To: denydenydeny
"No hoochie baby-mama's gonna' keep me from my food desserts in the name of health care reform!"


65 posted on 02/22/2010 8:33:19 AM PST by twister881
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To: Bigtigermike
White House Endorses Sen. Landrieu's 'Louisiana Purchase'...

but nixes Ben Nelson's 'Cornhusker Kickback' deal

66 posted on 02/22/2010 8:35:41 AM PST by kcvl
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To: OBXWanderer
All these lies coming out on the REAL birthday of George Washington....Happy Birthday, Mr. President...what do you think of this place now???

Isn't that (tragically) ironic!
67 posted on 02/22/2010 8:39:42 AM PST by Deo volente (January 19, 2010...the Second American Revolution begins, right where it all started!)
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To: RockinRight

“I’m holding out for the hope that he just completely self-destructs”

Yup, that’s my plan too.

Stranger things have happened.


68 posted on 02/22/2010 8:40:50 AM PST by keats5 (Not all of us are hypnotized.)
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To: Sequoyah101; All

I have a dream.

I want to see this SOB in a jail cell with dirty walls, a toilet and a steel frame bed.

Until he's led away in shackles, here's an image to help keep that dream alive:



69 posted on 02/22/2010 8:42:48 AM PST by BP2 (I think, therefore I'm a conservative)
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To: Bigtigermike
Eliminating the Nebraska FMAP provision and providing significant additional Federal financing to all States for the expansion of Medicaid;

That is not eliminating it, that is expanding it.

70 posted on 02/22/2010 8:45:24 AM PST by Between the Lines (AreYouWhoYouSayYouAre? Esse Quam Videri - To Be, Rather Than To Seem)
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To: dpetty121263

Do Words Matter, You Decide...

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71 posted on 02/22/2010 8:46:53 AM PST by TheDailyChange (Politics,Conservatism,Liberalism)
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To: Bigtigermike
That's not a plan. That's a marketing brochure for a product and a process that cannot possibly exist in the real world.


72 posted on 02/22/2010 8:47:27 AM PST by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality.)
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To: concerned about politics

* It puts our budget and economy on a more stable path by reducing the deficit by $100 billion over the next ten years – and about $1 trillion over the second decade ++++

......and just where are the CUTS ??? (in other words: “We’re gettin our REVENUE through this anyway, any-how, anywhere, and anytime, from anyone (but us).” STEAL-CARE


73 posted on 02/22/2010 8:58:00 AM PST by Varsity Flight
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To: Bigtigermike

74 posted on 02/22/2010 9:02:28 AM PST by xeno
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To: Bigtigermike

Fillibuster and shut it down.


75 posted on 02/22/2010 9:24:54 AM PST by GEC (We're not drilling in ANWR because....)
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To: Sequoyah101

I want to see them “duck walked” out of the White House. My dream.


76 posted on 02/22/2010 9:34:44 AM PST by elephant
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To: Man50D
It’s time to get back on the phones, send those emails and faxes folks! Keep hammering away at them just as we have for the past year. Don’t let up!

I want to call my Senators and tell them to kill this bill but I live in the state of New York. Both of my representatives love this garbage. I think it is a waste of my breath and time.

77 posted on 02/22/2010 9:38:02 AM PST by 2nd_Amendment_Defender ("It is when people forget God that tyrants forge their chains." -- Patrick Henry)
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To: Bigtigermike

Laughs!

Laughs!

Laughs!

How would you like to be Senator Ben “Cornhusker Kickback” Nelson today? He’s in big trouble with his voters for supporting healthcare and the reason he did it is now being tossed out. :)


78 posted on 02/22/2010 9:50:23 AM PST by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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To: Bigtigermike

Sociailist Bernie Sanders says healthcare just the tip of the iceberg thru reconciliation.

NakedEmperor @hannityshow Healthcare just the beginning!! Sen Sanders lays out the far left Reconciliation Legislation Landslide http://bit.ly/bB7rGY


79 posted on 02/22/2010 9:53:50 AM PST by OafOfOffice (W.C:Socialism:Philosophy of failure,creed of ignorance,gospel of envy,the equal sharing of misery)
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To: Bigtigermike

And the rapists go on raping, now getting the blackmailed population to rape with them. This is homosexual-islamo-leftist agenda.

These sbirs of hell, once denounced, turn on the denouncers and murder them. A holocaust is coming.

Obama and his media f@g machine need to sh#t the heck up, and it will happen through mass chaos if we do not screw our heads right and dump/purge of this feminism for good.


80 posted on 02/22/2010 9:57:43 AM PST by JudgemAll (control freaks, their world & their problem with my gun and my protecting my private party)
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