In your own word's, what's her plan and do you think that it will work? As someone who works for the health insurance company, her plan looks nice. We all know that she's not going to get everything she wants. Mandatory coverage in itself suggests that everyone will have to purchase health insurance. If you're required to buy something, it's called a tax.
She should also throw some money to the nation's medical schools, because the higher demand that will be created by requiring insurance for all will result in a health care shortage. Everyone will have health insurance, but with no incentives for consumers to stay healthy and save the system money, it will just increase our costs year after year. Americans are bad in saving, and we have racked up a lot of debt resulting in the home mortgage mess and the economic downturn.
Obama wants to create competition for insurance companies, which is the only way to bring costs down in addition to creating consumer driven plans. Similar to how Congress created credit unions to compete with the banks. The whole system is cracked, and I will admit that insurance companies are as inefficent as big government. The complicated mess of how we bill charges can be streamlined. Hillary Clinton unveiled the third part of her plan to ensure that all Americans have affordable, quality health insurance. Building on her proposals to rein in costs and to insist on value and quality, her American Health Choices Plan will secure, simplify and ensure choice in health coverage for all Americans. This Plan covers every American - finally addressing the needs of the 47 million uninsured and the tens of millions of workers with coverage who fear they could be one pink slip away from losing their health coverage - with no overall increase in health spending or taxes. For those with health insurance, the plan builds on the current system to give businesses and their employees greater choice of health plans - including keeping the one they have - while lowering cost and improving quality. Specifically, the American Health Choices Plan will:
The American Health Choices Plan gives Americans the choice to preserve their existing coverage, while offering new choices to those with insurance, to the 47 million people in the United States without insurance, and the tens of millions more at risk of losing coverage.
* The Same Choice of Health Plan Options that Members of Congress Receive: Americans can keep their existing coverage or access the same menu of quality private insurance options that their Members of Congress receive through a new Health Choices Menu, established without any new bureaucracy as part of the Federal Employee Health Benefit Program (FEHBP). In addition to the broad array of private options that Americans can choose from, they will be offered the choice of a public plan option similar to Medicare.
* A Guarantee of Quality Coverage: The new array of choices offered in the Menu will provide benefits at least as good as the typical plan offered to Members of Congress, which includes mental health parity and usually dental coverage.
Americans who are satisfied with the coverage they have today can keep it, while benefiting from lower premiums and higher quality.
* Reducing Costs: By removing hidden taxes, stressing prevention and a focus on efficiency and modernization, the plan will improve quality and lower costs.
* Strengthening Security: The plan ensures that job loss or family illnesses will never lead to a loss of coverage or exorbitant costs.
* End to Unfair Health Insurance Discrimination: By creating a level-playing field of insurance rules across states and markets, the plan ensures that no American is denied coverage, refused renewal, unfairly priced out of the market, or forced to pay excessive insurance company premiums.
Relying on consumers or the government alone to fix the system has unintended consequences, like scaled-back coverage or limited choices. This plan ensures that all who benefit from the system share in the responsibility to fix its shortcomings.
* Insurance and Drug Companies: insurance companies will end discrimination based on pre-existing conditions or expectations of illness and ensure high value for every premium dollar; while drug companies will offer fair prices and accurate information.
* Individuals: will be required to get and keep insurance in a system where insurance is affordable and accessible.
* Providers: will work collaboratively with patients and businesses to deliver high-quality, affordable care.
* Employers: will help financing the system; large employers will be expected to provide health insurance or contribute to the cost of coverage: small businesses will receive a tax credit to continue or begin to offer coverage.
* Government: will ensure that health insurance is always affordable and never a crushing burden on any family and will implement reforms to improve quality and lower cost.
Senator Clinton鈥檚 plan will:
* Provide Tax Relief to Ensure Affordability: Working families will receive a refundable tax credit to help them afford high-quality health coverage.
* Limit Premium Payments to a Percentage of Income: The refundable tax credit will be designed to prevent premiums from exceeding a percentage of family income, while maintaining consumer price consciousness in choosing health plans.
* Create a New Small Business Tax Credit: To make it easier-not harder-for small businesses to create new jobs with health coverage, a new health care tax credit for small businesses will provide an incentive for job-based coverage.
* Strengthen Medicaid and CHIP: The Plan will fix the holes in the safety net to ensure that the most vulnerable populations receive affordable, quality care.
* Launch a Retiree Health Legacy Initiative: A new tax credit for qualifying private and public retiree health plans will offset a significant portion of catastrophic expenditures, so long as savings are dedicated to workers and competitiveness.
* Most Savings Come Through Lowering Spending Due to Quality and Modernization: Over half the savings come from the public savings generated from Senator Clinton鈥檚 broader agenda to modernize the heath systems and reduce wasteful health spending.
* A Net Tax Cut for American Taxpayers: The plan offers tens of millions of Americans a new tax credit to make premiums affordable-which more than offsets the increased revenues from the Plan鈥檚 provisions to limit the employer tax exclusion for health care and discontinue portions of the Bush tax cuts for those making over $250,000. Thus, the plan provides a net tax cut for American taxpayers.
* Making the Employer Tax Exclusion for Health Care Fairer: The plan protects the current exclusion from taxes of employer-provided health premiums, but limits the exclusion for the high-end portion of very generous plans for those making over $250,000. If Karl Marx was still alive he could explain it!! Take out your wallet and pull all your money out and throw it into the air. Whatever stays in the air is for you to keep and whatever falls to the ground will go to Hillary care. tax the rich and claim to fund programs for the poor Thankyou tricky for your lesson on cut and paste.
you left out the garnished wages, pre-assigned medical facilities, and of course, the hammer and sickle added to the flag.
Its tax everyone and say it goes to slackers, not the poor. The poor work, largely unassisted. Under Hillary's plan your paycheck will be garnished even if you don't buy into her health plan. This is a form of communism in that I am paying for healthcare for some deadbeat. |
