Reply #6: Kennedy-Sanders inside ObamaCare goes up to 45,000,000 served at CHCs [View All]

[vets74]

Ted Kennedy's existing CHC program expanded with ObamaCare along lines developed by Bernie Sanders and Ben Cardin.

The single best thing to happen for America's working poor since food stamps:

-- 14,000 nationwide Community Health Clinics

-- Expand CHC capabilities to match VHA technology

-- 45,000,000 people served

-- $$$$$ to attract 20,000 primary care physicians, nurses, etc.

-- Drugs at VHA prices

-- Dental care

-- Patient billing scaled to income

-- No profit motive.

-- 40% saving for chronic care, 1/5th the cost for ER.

This is going up -- by 1,500 in the most recent roll outs.

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Alan Frumin, the Senate Parliamentarian, showed that non-budgetary insurance sections would not qualify for reconciliation. Filibusters would have doomed any Senate so-called Private Option. The P.O. was for drunks and fools. It would also have covered roughly 3,000,000 in the form put forward -- far short of the 45,000,000 that will eventually be using these CHCs.

Harry Reid concealed Sanders-Cardin till the last hour, literally, then popped it into the Senate HCR Managers Amendment. Harry's a genius.

Parts of America will become rather larger versions of Vermont. Lots of parts of America.