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Should You Count Obama Out On Health Care Reform?
Time’s Mark Halperin says You Betcha…NOT — and here he gives seven reasons why not.
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But Halperin's take doesn't really say anything about whether “reform” will actually be reform if enough changes are made to make Grassley and Snowe happy. As a matter of fact, by the time they're happy real reform would have to be dead and the existing health care industries will have had to carry the day.
The current biill is not reform. Halperin's list enumerates various players who need to be satisfied.
No doubt Barack Obama will once again use his Alynsky training to satisfy the personal interests of the list members.
Satisfying these interests does not reimagine or implement a reform. Where are recommendations and plans to reform for example ERISA? Where are the embodiments of years excellent General Accounting Reports on the real effects of the so called Managed Care Insurance Industry takeover of care provision…
even as their contracts over and over say they do not decide care provision?
The United Health Care Insurance Co for example …the underwriter for the AARP massive and lucrative set of health insurance policies to the elderly submits to Obama their ideas to cut costs…make sure elderly patients spend less time in hospitals….and AARP supports this…Why? Money ..not reform.
This underwriter is one of the very largest insurers (read providers ..regardless of their contract statements)
in the country…They as others under their suggestions will expand their coverage under Obama's plan and will as they and others have done continue to “cream” the elderly ..i.e. sign up those who are not yet sick …receiving millions of millions of premium (under the plan..our dollars as well) ..and when chronic illness comes…they will..what?
according to their own suggestions …have less elderly in the hospital? I guess they do love the bill and so does AARP who long ago chose money over advocacy of substance…
These kinds of approaches are not new. They have been going on for years. ..and the rationing of care re the elderly is an old issue if one has followed it as I have for almost 20 years as a working advocate and planning for Age related entities of social service.
Barack and the Insurance Industry will on the backs of the elderly not reform but refuse care for chronic disease states for the elderly and those younger under this approach.
Caregivers and baby boomers better open their mouths NOW to their Congresspeople and if they do not hear then turn them all out in Nov 2010.
This is a very dangerous proposition…Obama's so called reform….
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