The Truth About The Baucus Health Care Bill

[Bolo Boffin]

Run time: 02:13 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj6GyFEA3FI   Posted on YouTube: September 28, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: September 30, 2009 By DU Member: Bolo Boffin Views on DU: 771

 
Found this at Crooks and Liars:

http://crooksandliars.com/dday/everything-you-need-know-about-baucus-bill-tw

As Flanagan explains, without a public option, insurance companies can set their own rates, set their own level of benefits, and force the uninsured to pay them under penalty of law - you're talking about a forced market where people will be fined for not giving money to private health insurance companies. Max Baucus would say that there are safeguards to limit the amount of out-of-pocket spending or premium spending as a percentage of income, but he wants those rules to be set by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, an industry-friendly group without open meetings or public hearings, making the potential for loopholes and abuse very ripe.

Flanagan also takes on the bad employer provisions in the Baucus bill, which will allow them to drop health care for their customers and throw them onto the exchanges. He says that employers could pay only a couple hundred dollars a year per employee under this plan.

Flanagan further explains that the co-op alternative in the Baucus bill could lead to the gutting of state consumer protection laws on health insurance. This is a key point, and could lead to the insurance market looking like the credit card market, with every issuer moving to states with virtually no regulations or restrictions on how they manage their credit card business.

[tomm2thumbs]

1. Does anyone really think the blue dogs aren't just Republicans with a different label slapped on ?

Time to return these imposters to their previous state of unemployment and find new candidates to replace them. They are 100% liabilities and beholden to corporate interests.

[Ironman3476]

7. Why does the DNC continue to fund these DINO's?

I shot them an e-mail asking them not to fund these clown-shoes,but got no response.I also asked the DNC to send the DINO's notice that the DNC would be funding primary opponents if they refuse to get on board with the democratic platform.I don't think they value my opinion.Apparently if we just give the Blue Dogs some time to ponder the issue,the correct path will become clear to them.

[stlsaxman]

2. Can someone explain the GM similarity to me?

I tried a few times through and it doesn't make sense.

[Bolo Boffin]

3. GM sells cars, the insurance companies sell policies.

The law according to Baucus would be the equivalent of telling GM everyone had to buy their car and they had a lock on controlling the standards of that car. Whatever crappy car GM wanted to build, everybody in America had to buy one.

That's what Baucus is proposing (and getting) for the insurance industry. Individual mandates, control of the standards board.

[pundaint]

4. Is there anything less useful than the Democratic Party?

Without policy coherence it's just a random collection of mostly bought off co-conspiritors. It's time to find another address for these poseurs, The Honorable just doesn't fit anymore, for politics its time has passed..

[Bolo Boffin]

6. I told friends worried about the Democratic control of both Congress and WH, "No worries."

"You can trust the Democrats with this, because we'll never do anything with it."

I tried to pretend to be kidding.

[bobbolink]

5. Look what you've done, DINOs. You've sold out to the point where we have to pay for ads to

campaign AGAINST you.

Shame on you assholes!