We have one bill passed in the House, and second one about to be voted on in the Senate. But I have no real idea what each bill does. For that matter I don't know all the things tucked away in 10000 pages of Obamacare. Nobody does really. Nobody can read and understand 10000 pages of legal gobble-de-gook.
The health care bill I like would repeal the Obamacare requirements that have forced a lot of workers into part time work. It would spell out who gets government subsidies and how much. It would allow the sale of "hospitalization only" insurance which is a quarter the cost of "Obamacare covers everything" insurance. It would require insurance companies to maintain coverage on insured patients who get sick, and allow such "pre existing conditions" patients to even change insurance companies should they need to (say like they took a new job) . Uninsured patients who get sick would have to pay something more to get insurance than ordinary patients. Medicaid should be reserved for mothers, children and the truly disabled. Able bodied grownups should get a job with health insurance or pay for their own. Health insurance premiums should be deductible on federal income tax to even things up between the self employed and the company employee who gets tax free health care thru hisher job.
I have no idea if either of the Congressional health care bills have any of these things. Neither do the newsies.
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And furthermore, federal health care subsidies should be paid out to individual citizens, not insurance companies, not hospitals.
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