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[EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>]

Ok, maybe some of you can clear this up.
The President keeps saying that we can keep our insurance plans if we 
want to and are satisfied with it.
To me, that is just a weird thing to say...
We pay over $600/month for medical insurance-our portion of the 
premium-his employers pays the other half.
Of course, we pay taxes like everyone else.

So here is my question...
We could sure use that 600 bucks elsewhere-maybe even a medical savings 
account, so if the government will provide, I would certainly drop the 
plan we have for a less expensive or free one, after all, I am a 
taxpayer who is paying for that plan, too.

Why *should* I keep my BCBS plan when it is outrageously expensive?
If I ditch my plan, and others do the same, it won't take long until 
private insurance will be a thing of the past, and we will either 
overwhelm Obamacare or bankrupt the government.

What am I missing here?
Why would anyone keep their insurance if there is a free program that 
will insure me?

B


Leslie wrote:
> I was invited to participate in a local area town hall via phone meeting on 
> health care.
>  
> FYI, the Rep. took a poll.................. and learned that 49% of the people "invited" completely object to Gov't-Care.
>  
> Poll Results, Question was what is your priority....
>  
> In favor of Gov't providing health care for everyone - 21%
> In favor of Gov't cracking down and forcing all healthcare providers and 
> related to lower costs - 21%
> In favor of Gov't improving heatlh care - 9%
> In favor of keeping the system as it is........... 49%
>  
> Not lying.
>
> Rep. Harry Teague's conf call 8/11/2009.
>  
>  
>  
> The way I read portions of the bill on end-of-life... it seems the gov't will force doctors to basically perform a legal service,,, i.e. advise patients to get a living will, etc.  And the questionable parts of the bill that seem to be the source of the government mandated end-of-life issues is, to me, it reads that IF one doesn't have a living will or there is no Proxy (a person legally acting on the behalf), then the authorized medical staff gets decide, but only in accordance with state laws................. Push in the plug, or pull the plug.  (page 429 of the 1017 page bill).
>  
> The alleged "Representative" didn't know about the clause on real-time access to personal financed and electronic transfer to pay (see pages 58-59).  His answers led me to believe he is only representing the party line.......... not the people in his area.
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> --- On Sun, 8/9/09, Lynda <lurine AT com-pair.net> wrote:
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> From: Lynda <lurine AT com-pair.net>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] The future of eldercare in the US
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Sunday, August 9, 2009, 1:43 PM
>
>
> I don't think there should be any umbrella bills.  PERIOD! One premise, one 
> bill.  We need insurance reform.  It needs its own clear and concise bill. 
> We need Medicare/Medicaid reform with heavy emphasis on closing loopholes 
> and prosecuting WITH stiff penalties (loss of license if born here, deported 
> if not born here [btw scream profiling but the facts are the facts, the % of 
> foreign born "profiteers" is far higher than the % of "natural born" citizen 
> fraud).  We need a network of well-staffed (not graduated 303 in a class of 
> 304 or a bunch of FNPs and PAs) clinics with a sliding scale for folks who 
> don't have insurance.  Everyone gets Medicaid or Medicare who don't have 
> insurance, if they should os choose, with a buy in and share of cost 
> depending on ability to pay.
>
> We don't need 53 new bureaucracies.  We don't need stupid things like 
> marriage counseling by a psychiatrist or psychologist for folks in a convo. 
> We don't need, we don't need, we don't need about covers the whole bill.
>
> Lynda
> The press corp is fact-adverse but very fable friendly.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com>
>
> > That too.  But the amophisms, says I, are not so much in individual
> > vagueries but rather in saying one thing in one section and the opposite 
> > in
> > another.  You are probably familiar with Claire Wolfe's 'You are Probably 
> > and
> > Outlaw' series in Backwoods magazine.  The premise being that there are so 
> > many
> > Byzantine and contradictory laws, you cannot help be be breaking some of 
> > them
> > just in your day to day affairs.  Then the aurthorities have the option of
> > selectively enforcing them or not giving them carte blache to harass you 
> > if
> > they choose .... or not.
> >
> > Like that, the purpose of a 1000 page bill like this one is so that once 
> > it
> > is passed, you can call up and enforce whatever bits and pieces of it you
> > want and ignore the rest.  It's like a big box of Legos, once you have 
> > such a
> > convoluted bill passed, you can build whatever reality out of it you 
> > choose.
> >
> > Not gonna happen, but my take would be to allow the Prez and Congress to
> > write whatever sort of health care bill they like ..... you have fifty 
> > pages
> > of no less than 10 point type and that's it.  Thirty maybe.
>
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