Your Healthcare Cost Will Rise, Congress Exempt

Before the election we were told that healthcare reform was needed to keep down the cost of healthcare.

Before the election we were told there was $500 Billion in waste, fraud and abuse in the medicare system that could be eliminated and used to pay for the healthcare reform.

Before the election we were told that all healthcare reform negotiations would be done in public, televised on CSPAN.

Before the election we were told that all healthcare reform would allow us to keep our doctors and insurance companies.

We are told that medicare and medicaid will soon be bankrupt. Yet the healthcare reform legislation being discussed seeks to add the number of people covered, and reduce payments. It doesn’t add up.

High Premiums in Senate Democrats’ Health Plan

WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats have provided few details about their latest health care proposal, but this much seems clear: Anyone who wants to buy the same health benefits as members of Congress, or to buy coverage through Medicare, should be prepared to fork over a large chunk of cash.

According to the Congressional Budget Office, a family of four earning $54,000 in 2016, when the health legislation is fully in effect, would be eligible for a subsidy of $10,100 to help defray the cost of insurance under the health legislation being debated by the Senate. By then, one of the most popular federal plans, a nationwide Blue Cross and Blue Shield policy, is projected to cost more than $20,000.

That could leave the family earning $54,000, slightly more than the current median household income, with monthly premium costs of more than $825.

Where is the money for the “subsidy” supposed to come from? Budget-busting taxes.

Medicare cuts could hurt hospitals, expert warns

A Senate plan to cut Medicare to pay for an overhaul of the health system would threaten the profitability of roughly one in five hospitals and nursing homes over the next decade, according to a new analysis by the government official responsible for monitoring the popular health program.

Forcing hospitals and hospitals and nursing homes out of business. How’s that working for you, Harry Reid! On top of that,  with less supply and more demand, guess what? Prices go up!

US health care tab to keep growing under overhaul

WASHINGTON — Democrats trying to push President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul plan through the Senate got a sober warning Friday that costs will keep going up and proposed Medicare savings may harm the program.

A new report from government economic analysts at the Health and Human Services Department found that the nation’s $2.5 trillion annual health care tab won’t shrink under the Democratic blueprint that senators are debating. Instead, it would grow somewhat more rapidly than if Congress does nothing.

Before the election we were told that healthcare reform was needed to keep down the cost of healthcare. That was the reason for “healthcare reform.” Looks as if “The Plan” is a FAILURE!

Department of Health and Human Services Estimated Financial Effects of the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2009″

I guess we can’t put anyh stock in believing that we can keep our doctors and insurance companies.

I guess we can put as much stock in believing that healthcare reform will reduce cost as we can believe that “all healthcare reform negotiations would be done in public, televised on CSPAN.”

Great. Hospitals going bankrupt, the price of healthcare going up even with less supply. During a recession.

Why isn’t Congress forced to be covered by Medicare?

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