>We have Medicare for the elderly and Medicaid for the poor, so our neediest are covered.
No one is denied healthcare in this country. If you are poor, and you need treatment, you will get it.
So where are the Republican health care suggestions? Here are a few that could easily pass congress as separate bills with Republican votes.
No one can be denied health insurance because of pre-existing conditions.
Allow the public to buy insurance across state lines.
Allow individuals to deduct health insurance costs, no matter what their income levels.
Reduce government and state mandates on what should be covered. (Why can’t you buy health insurance that doesn’t cover fertility treatments or pregnancy if don’t plan on having children?)
Cap the dollar amount of awards for malpractice cases & create separate courts for malpractice suits.
As to Tea Party folks, of whom I consider myself aligned, they are trying to tell you that Obama and congress is spending, spending, spending and spending and the bills will come due soon.
You can tax every person in the country making 250K and over 100% and it won’t make a dent in the deficit.
So we will never be able to retire because in our highest income earning years leading up to retirement, we will be taxed at an over 50% marginal rate. (Remember, we don’t just pay federal taxes; there are state income, property taxes & sales tax.)
Our children will be taxed at even higher rates since entitlements will grow, and they will never be able to achieve the middle class life style we have had.
How do you not see this?
