By House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD)
Washington, DC — How’s this for a health care plan? It will make your premiums go up—in fact, it will double health costs over the next ten years. It will strip millions of Americans of their coverage. It will send our deficit through the roof.
That, as President Obama recently pointed out, is the health care plan we choose by doing nothing. That is the status quo, and it will be the health care plan we end up with if health insurance reform fails.
And although no one will come out and argue for a plan that doubles costs and cuts coverage, we are being pushed in just that direction by transparent attempts to kill reform for partisan gain. As one Republican Senator put it, “If we’re able to stop Obama on this, it will be his Waterloo. It will break him.” Another said this about efforts to cover millions more Americans: “We can stall it. And that’s going to be a huge gain for those of us who want to turn this thing over in the 2010 election.”
Failure to reform health care might be a boon for some members of Congress, but it would be a disaster for middle-class families, for the 47 million uninsured Americans, and for small businesses across America.
That’s why Democrats are working hard to get a health care bill to President Obama’s desk this fall. The details of that bill are still under strong debate—which is healthy considering the historic challenge we face. But Democrats are unshakably committed to four driving principles: health insurance stability, affordability, quality, and patient choice.
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10 comments:
Many of our public officials believe they are a god. Now, they want to act like one and allow a government appointed 25 member board decide when we live or die. This reform is not about healthcare or even health insurance. It is about power and giving DC the unlimate power over our health and lives. Once they control our healthcare, they can control everything we do and every decisison we make.
Health Insurance without Healthcare is worthless. Progressive socialism will destroy this country.
Obama's healthcare plan will be a disaster for this country. Put that with the stimulus package, cap and trade, the hate crimes bill and you can see all your freedoms and liberties go out the window.
I like the way the writer refered to the "47 million" uninsured as if this in itself causes a crisis. 300 million Americans get healthcare when they need it, only 12 million or so are uninsured and really need some type of coverage, another 10 million plus are illegal and receive care anyway, and the rest of the uninsureds can afford insurance but choose to pay their own way. I paid my own way for at least 5 years while I was going back to school and in between jobs-I'm not rich and I saved alot of money which helped me pay my tuition and cover other bills. It was my choice.
8:38
Hear here.
cry me a river
This plan has nothing to do with health care. Don't be lulled into further state of sleep with this pablum from the pit.
Ask why we have to rush into a plan that we know little about and all we do know about it is bad.
please, wake up friends
Steny Hoyer thinks insurance companies are bad because they deny coverage but that would be what the gov't does when they tell an elderly person it's not worth saving them as younger people deserve to live more than they do. This system may suck for some of the people but a gov't system will suck for everyone-that's not good enough for me to agree to let them revamp the system. Healthcare reform is easy and doesn't 1700 pages and two lawyers.
1. Caps on non monetary awards-or also called Tort Reform.
2. Loser pay system-see Litigation go down for all but serious cases of malpractice.
3. Cut the fraud out of medicaid and medicare-It's already been identified. Stop paying on companies that abuse the system.
If nothing changes do you think insurance premiums will not go up? How much have your premiums changed since we had this debate in the early 90's. Is your coverage better or worse?
9:06
At the moment, my families health is between us and our Doctor. Under health reform, your healthcare and treatment will be determined by a 25 member board who is appointed, not voted in. under Obama's health reform, your value will be determined by government.
Chris-With all due respect,healthcare is already rationed and determined by "board members".It is not between you and your doctor,but also between a bunch of bureacrats who decide what treatment you deserve.We have Blue Cross,supposedly the best coverage one can get and they continually deny claims,and micromanage our healthcare.I am not for the plan Obama wants but something has to be done soon.We are supposed to be the greatest country in the world but yet countries like France are ranked higher than us in healthcare access and affordability.A large percentage of bankruptcies that go through the courts are due to medical bills ALONE,and its people who HAD insurance that are filing to get out from under crushing debts.I do not think Obama-anything is the answer,but I am not going to delude myself into thinking the system we already have is any better-because it sucks.
Totmom-it's between your doctor and you, unless you require a specialist, but even then you'd have to really outspend a family of six (which Chris has and Blue cross as well) to get them to deny coverage. Oldest needed physical therapy, there it is, no denials no phone calls, just a doctor's referal. Daughter needed braces, there it was-didn't even need the referal, the dentist gave us one anyway. This has been over the last 2 years, not to mention we have an 18 month old with all his immunizations and seeing the doctor every 2-3 months for well checks. We're happy but we're lucky. Mom has to have state of MD health insurance for pre-existing conditions and a shoulder surgery, physical therapy, etc, but she wasn't denied for most things even though her premiums are almost our mortgage-
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