Three of the five Congressional committees working on legislation to reinvent the nation’s health care system delivered bills this week along the lines proposed by President Obama. But instead of celebrating their success, many Democrats were apprehensive, nervous and defensive. Full Story »
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Lacks showing any of the positives, nor are there any quotes from some of the positives that are being worked.
Mr. Polis said these taxes, combined with the scheduled increase in tax rates resulting from the expiration of Bush-era tax cuts, would have a perverse effect. “Some successful family-owned businesses would be taxed at higher rates than multinational corporations,” he said.
This is just another case of the need for tax revision, but it is not a valid excuse to stall. Work on the problem instead- offer suggestions, do not just complain.
A budget office analysis released Friday said the House bill would “result in a net increase in the federal budget deficit of $239 billion” over 10 years, partly because of an increase in Medicare spending to avert sharp cuts in payments to doctors.
This SMALL amount should not be any kind of deal breaker.
Others worry that a government-run health plan, to be created under the House bill, would underpay doctors and hospitals by using Medicare reimbursement rates. “I have a serious problem with the public plan in this bill because it’s based on Medicare rates,” Representative Earl Pomeroy of North Dakota said. “North Dakota is underpaid by Medicare.”
Two points; first we must have a special non congressional body setting rates on this plan, Secondly we must stop having Congress and their politics setting the Medicare base rates, it’s expensive and unfair.
We must get the Medicare rate setting removed from the politics of congress, it is unfair and very costly: An example the 35% raise in costs made for Alaska. There has to be a tax on business and for now there should be a higher exemption then that being discussed.