Politicalliness

[heraldotbadger]

So I'm actually reading the health reform bill.  Not all of it, most of the Purpose sections, and then skimming to make sure that the body

It doesn't really seem to ... DO much.

The poor get a (larger) credit for their Medicare.
It puts a cap on increasing premiums.
It excludes discrimination for pre-existing conditions.
Establishment of a "Public

Comments

[blitzneko]

East Germany??

[heraldotbadger]

I was going with random communist countries and driving that train of thought home by listing something owned by the USSR that no longer exists.

[blitzneko]

Except you refer to Russia as Russia not the USSR.... Germany's current health care system is very close to what is being proposed here. Which is still very very good in comparison to our current "system".

[heraldotbadger]

I have no knowledge of Germany's current healthcare plan. I was being more satiric, pointing out countries that either a. have socialized healthcare, b. have had a socialist state, or c. no longer exist. My point was that our plan is different from all of them, because it is far less socialized.

[altivo]

You covered it with "doesn't do anything." The big money is behind keeping the status quo, and the public are too apathetic or else too frightened of any kind of change to force anything different to happen. Like Medicare Part D, all that will come of this thing is more profit for the insurance companies, and more paperwork and pain for the victims. Guess who the victims are.

[heraldotbadger]

Well, the general idea it seems to be going for, what what I gathered, is an expansion of Medicare such that people under the age of 65 can buy into it.

So yea, the current plan is a pretty minor change.