LIES about the new healthcare bill!

This is such an important issue to those people who can't get coverage for pre existing conditions. If you've receied some of the same emails as I have then you would use the word "lie" too.

Thanks or putting your pnion out there Jonelle.

I agree with Shirley, calling every thing a lie is going around to much we need to soften this up a bit.

Thank you for this great post. It is amazing how we are being bamboozled by the insurance lobby on this issue

It is so refreshing to see someone share the other side of this issue. Thank you and I agree with you!! Sandy

Jonelle - There is way too much confusion regarding the healthcare bill, and one of the main reasons is we have no single bill yet which we can evaluate.  Until that happens, all the talk of what is in the bill or not is purely academic. 

I would make a couple of points, however.  Healthcare will have to be "rationed" once any bill passes providing coverage to millions of people not currently covered.  There are a limited number of physicians and facilities, and a dramatic surge in demand would create a shortage. 

While the bill fails to properly address coverage for illegal aliens, according to federal court rulings, we cannot deny any benefit to any group that is offered to the country as a whole.  Therefore, we must make health care coverage available to everyone, citizen or not.  The Supreme Court has refused to review this ruling, allowing the lower court ruling to stand.

Congress does need to act and resolve many issues in health care, such as the pre-existing conditions problem.  And what I would like for them to do is to use reasonable judgment, not political expediency, to create legislation from which we will all benefit and  which we, as a nation, can afford.

Triage is a common medical practice----all health care in that sense is rationed----it has nothing to do with the intent of what is proposed for changes to health care in this country.

Jonelle

I am a guy without health insurance now and has had some serious health problems in the past; this whole health care reform thing going on is a bad nightmare.

Hi Jonelle ~ I find it absolutely appalling how *everyone* is falling all over themselves bleating about how undocumented immigrants won't get health coverage. It is simply disgusting. How did it become socially acceptable to be so ugly?  There won't be a day on this earth when I celebrate somebody being denied health coverage.  What a country.

Liz