I don’t know what the Republicans are smoking these days, but they’re acting crazy enough for it to be LSD. And by crazy I mean psychotic and certifiably insane. When you can’t get anywhere by just saying no, you have to make up lies to scare people so they’ll feel okay about it when you screw them royally.
GOP Health Care Reform Myths
Health care reform with a public option won’t save money and is a secret plot to make the elderly sign papers on their choice of how they want to be euthanized. The money for taking care of everyone else will be paid for by the early deaths of our elderly citizens, since end-of-life care is usually very expensive. Oh, and it will encourage more women to have government-paid abortions. — GOP Wing-Nut Deathers
Reality
The deathers are putting forth such a big lie it’s ridiculous! Euthanasia of humans is illegal. There is nothing in any legislation to make it legal.
The only thing everyone is encouraged to do is to make a living will so their families don’t have to make really tough, heart-wrenching decisions when a patient can no longer speak for him or her self. Just like everyone 18 and over should have a will, everyone 18 and over should have a living will and appropriate powers of attorney.
An overwhelming majority of Americans want real reform. What pisses me off the most is nearly all Republicans are sitting in Washington NOT representing what their constituents want and need. That’s not why they were elected and not what we’re paying them to do.
The President demands the following on health insurance coverage for all Americans:
- No discrimination for pre-existing conditions
- No exorbitant out-of-pocket expenses, deductibles or co-pays
- No cost-sharing for preventive care
- No dropping of coverage if you become seriously ill
- No gender discrimination
- No annual or lifetime caps on coverage
- Extended coverage for young adults
- Guaranteed insurance renewal so long as premiums are paid
Bills being worked on in the House and Senate have these items and will also include help for many middle class families to pay premiums and will continue to make sure millions of children remain covered under SCHIP.
The cost of all health care for everyone is increasing at alarming rates. Only 38% of Americans are covered by employer health insurance plans today. Forty-eight million Americans are uninsured and the number of uninsured increases by 14,000 people per day. Another 35-40 million Americans are under-insured. These people are one serious illness away from financial disaster.
The U.S. population is currently about 306 million people. The number of uninsured and under-insured consists of roughly 1/3 of the American population. We are the richest country in the world and we can’t afford to take care of our peoples’ health care? Bullpuckey.
We are the only industrialized country in the world that doesn’t have universal health care. We spend far more on health care than any other country and we are not getting our money’s worth. We have far more negative outcomes compared to other industrialized nations. Our people live sicker and die younger than they have to because they can’t afford adequate preventive and managed care, along with better care for sick people.
In 1993, 68% of people were insured by their employers with better benefits and far fewer Americans were uninsured than today.
If we require everyone to be insured, costs will decline and risk will be evenly spread through the entire population. It would be illegal to deny coverage, and a public option along with non-profit options will control insurance premium costs and keep the private insurance companies from making a killing off the American people like they are now.
Government-run health care is so horrible and so expensive that all Senators and Representatives, federal employees, the President and his family, the elderly, and veterans are well covered by it and very much like the cost and the benefits they have. The VA costs 2/3 of what private health care costs and provides better outcomes. These government-run plans cost less because they are non-profit. They also have more streamlined delivery of health care to its members, which lowers costs.
Elderly people have written President Obama letters against government-run health care, and say by the way, don’t mess with their Medicare! Uh…Medicare is a government-run health care plan.
Why aren’t the rest of the American people entitled to the same benefits as our Senators and Representatives, federal employees, elderly, veterans and President? Because the private insurance companies who are in the wallets of the GOP would lose a ton of money if they had to compete with a government-run plan that doesn’t buy politicians, pay its executives huge salaries and shoulder the costs of marketing and advertising to get the few people they are willing to insure.
The system is broken and we either fix it now or it will be kicked down the road for us to fix in 5 or 10 years when we may be in a far worse economic crisis. Without health care reform, insuring everyone and reducing costs, our economy won’t recover as much as it needs to. When 5-10 years gets here with no changes, we will spend $1 out of every $5 on health care costs. If we get a plan like the President wants, we will save $2-$3 trillion over the next decade.
While you mull that over in your mind, remember these bozos who are debating your health care future and spreading lies and myths have great insurance paid for by YOU!
At least Harry and Louise are for health care reform this time…
Sources: Healthcare Reform Myths
Who’s behind the attacks on a health care overhaul? McClatchy
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written by Sherri Joubert \\ tags: deathers, GOP fearmongering, health care reform, living will, right-wing nuts
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