Pelosi vs. GOP Healthcare Bill

Well people today we are going to have a look at our horrible healthcare problems. I think everyone agrees that we have a severe problem, but how to deal with it is the trick. We pay the highest in the world. That directly effects the cost of our doing business anywhere. When a huge chunk of your overhead goes to paying for healthcare and taxes being raised to pay for it as well, it can only lead to more trouble and debt. I am going to post 2 bills today, neither of which is perfect but I am sure you can figure out which is more feasible. Have a good read as this is your great grandkids bill as it stands:
Do you trust House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to do what’s best for YOU on health care?
In the House of Representatives, Speaker Pelosi is fast tracking her 1,990-page government-run health care plan and hoping to bring it to the floor for a vote as soon as this week. Concerned citizens are desperate to understand how this monstrosity of an overhaul will impact them and their families.
But don’t look to the media for answers.
They have made little to no effort to explain key elements of the proposed government health care takeover.
Instead, they have focused their efforts on attacking anyone that dares to question the wisdom of this TRILLION dollar experiment that will result in higher premiums, higher taxes, massive Medicare cuts, and more government control over personal health care decisions.
Here are just a few of the things in Nancy Pelosi’s 1,990-page bill that the media are hiding from us:
$729.5 billion in new taxes on small businesses, individuals who cannot afford health coverage, and employers who cannot afford to provide coverage that meets Washington bureaucrats’ standards …$1.1 trillion in new federal spending according to the Congressional Budget Office …$150 million in cuts to the Medicare Advantage program …111 additional offices, bureaus, commissions, programs, and bureaucracies ...
A study by the non-partisan Lewin Group indicating 114 million people could lose their current coverage and be forced into the government-run plan … and like all the previous bills, Pelosi’s bill still allows for federal funding for illegal immigrants!
Republicans’ Common-Sense Reforms Will LOWER HEALTH CARE COSTS
Americans want a step-by-step, common-sense approach to health care reform, not Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s costly, 1,990-page government takeover of our nation’s health care system. Republicans’ alternative solution focuses on lowering health care premiums for families and small businesses, increasing access to affordable, high-quality care, and promoting healthier lifestyles – without adding to the crushing debt Washington has placed on our children and grandchildren. Following are the key elements of Republicans’ alternative plan:
• Lowering health care premiums. The GOP plan will lower health care premiums for American families and small businesses, addressing Americans’ number-one priority for health care reform.
• Establishing Universal Access Programs to guarantee access to affordable health care for those with pre-existing conditions. The GOP plan creates Universal Access Programs that expand and reform high-risk pools and reinsurance programs to guarantee that all Americans, regardless of pre-existing conditions or past illnesses, have access to affordable care – while lowering costs for all Americans.
• Ending junk lawsuits. The GOP plan would help end costly junk lawsuits and curb defensive medicine by enacting medical liability reforms modeled after the successful state laws of California and Texas.
• Prevents insurers from unjustly cancelling a policy. The GOP plan prohibits an insurer from cancelling a policy unless a person commits fraud or conceals material facts about a health condition.
• Encouraging Small Business Health Plans. The GOP plan gives small businesses the power to pool together and offer health care at lower prices, just as corporations and labor unions do.
• Encouraging innovative state programs. The GOP plan rewards innovation by providing incentive payments to states that reduce premiums and the number of uninsured.
• Allowing Americans to buy insurance across state lines. The GOP plan allows Americans to shop for coverage from coast to coast by allowing Americans living in one state to purchase insurance in another.
• Promoting healthier lifestyles. The GOP plan promotes prevention & wellness by giving employers greater flexibility to financially reward employees who adopt healthier lifestyles.
• Enhancing Health Savings Accounts (HSAs). The GOP plan creates new incentives to save for current and future health care needs by allowing qualified participants to use HSA funds to pay premiums for high deductible health insurance.
• Allowing dependents to remain on their parents’ policies. The GOP plan encourages coverage of young adults on their parents’ insurance through age 25.
Scorecard: Speaker Pelosi’s Government Takeover vs. GOP Common-Sense Solutions
Speaker Pelosi’s Bill:

Job Losses            Up to 5.5 million
Medicare Cuts      $500 billion
Tax Increases        $729.5 billion
GOP alternative:
Job Losses             0
Medicare Cuts       0
Tax Increases        0


In this day and age of outrageous debt, which way do you want to go?
Have a Healthy Day All,
Cheers, Stiffroot