House Democrats Unveil Plan for Health Care Overhaul

[babsbunny]

House Democrats Unveil Plan for Health Care Overhaul

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/19/house-democrats-unveil-plan-for-health-care-overhaul/?hp

By David M. Herszenhorn AND Robert Pear

House Democrats on Friday answered President Obama’s call for a sweeping overhaul of the health care system by putting forward a 852-page draft bill that would require all Americans to obtain health insurance, force employers to provide benefits or help pay for them, and create a new public insurance program to compete with private insurers — a move that Republicans will bitterly oppose.

The bill was unveiled by a trio of committee chairman, George Miller of Education and Labor, Henry Waxman of Energy and Commerce, and Charles B. Rangel of Ways and Means, who have worked jointly for months to develop a seamless proposal. But the chairmen said they still did not know how much the plan would cost, even as they pledged to pay for it by cutting Medicare spending and imposing new, unspecified taxes.

[newfie11]

1. I wonder what cutting medicare spending entails. n/t

[onethatcares]

2. I'm not sure what that entails but my first thoughts

were to wonder how the unemployed, the underemployed, the unemployable are going to be able to pay for health "insurance". Anyone with half a brain, including repukes, know that healthcare is the largest employment tax in the country, when you include workers compensation the costs are phenomenal.

As far as cutting medicare, no one ever thinks they might have to use it. When the defecation hits the twirling blades, the shock is mindnumbing.