Posted on 03/28/2010 6:22:16 AM PDT by jimjohn2458
Slowly over the next four years, health care reform in America will move from rhetoric to reality — and virtually every American will feel the change.
But if you think the debate over the bill Congress passed last week was complex, just wait until you watch the law take effect.
The law, rather than being an instantaneous reinvention of the American health system, is more like a slow-motion reconstruction process that will take nearly a decade to finish.
But you better be watching, because, one way or another, you are bound to be affected.
(Excerpt) Read more at buffalonews.com ...
I still can’t get my head around the whole “doughnut hole” controversy. This is referring to the Part D benefit that just started in 2006, which covers drug costs (but not 100% of them for every Medicare beneficiary). It’s like you give me a free car and offer to pay for some of the gas, but I’m like “hey, you’re not paying for all of the gas, it’s an onerous burden you’re putting on me!” What has happened to this country?
Its like this:
You pay x number of dollars to a certain point for medications that were prescribed. This would tend to mean you are sick. Your bills are NOT completely covered. You can still be paying some amount depending on the drug and its place in the insurer’s drug list. They are tiered. And they vary per insurer, depending on the insurer’s perceived liability. They can also change yearly.
Anyway, you reach a certain level, about $2500 out of pocket and your benefit stops and you pay for ALL the drugs out of pocket. Welcome to the donut hole. Now if you are sick enough to need that many drugs, it seems that taking AWAY the benefit is just akin to cruel.
Then after you pay more, the benefit kicks in again since you have proved that, dayum, you really ARE sick.
Not many folk hit the donut hole but for those who do, its a real burden. I have had numerous arguments about how necessary it is to protect insurers. But its the people who end up hurting, imho.
One problem is that when the courts rule that they can't force people to pay into it, because the rest of the law is in place, they will just have to raise everyone else’s taxes.
This is no problem to Obama as when you add this trillion dollar expense to the other trillion dollars he tagged on for education (while everyone was distracted) he is almost assuring a collapse of the American economy.
When he wants everyone playing on a level playing field, he really means a FLAT playing field. It's his way of shaking the ladder of success to make room for more to get on at the bottom.
Obama is to the rebuilding of America as World War II was to the rebuilding of Europe.
This is typical of Buffalo News...
Staff writers like Jerry Zremski have been pushing hard for this disastrous legislation since day one.
I know a young lady in nursing school who is interning at a hospital. She tells me that a lot of immigrant women come in and have their babies on the government dime. When they are discharged, they are given a gift pack that contains some diaper samples and so forth. The recipients of this largess are frequently ungrateful, telling her “This isn’t enough! I need more than this.”
And the most sloppy authors ever wrote the bill, CONgressional Democrats
“And the most sloppy authors ever wrote the bill, CONgressional Democrats”
This Congress is worse than anyone could have ever imagined. Barnum & Bailey would be proud!
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