| To those of you who believe that a single payer plan is only fair, after all, why shouldn't the poor have the same care and benefits as the rich, I ask: Will the poor be getting the basic plan, or the premium plus plan? Premium plus includes dental work for adults and a gym membership Looking around online, I don't see where anyone is pointing this out, and I'm a little surprised. You can find these facts on Steny Hoyer's Office of the Majority Leader website, in a pdf file, page 18. He clarifies the plan...30 pages to help break it down. I've been wondering what the differences were between the plans, just as I have been wondering about what many other statements in the plan mean. This is the problem: Until democrats clearly define what each line means (and I realize that's difficult when you've not read it all), we are not informed consumers. I never sign up for insurance plans, or anything else, without fully understanding what I'm getting for my money. I am offended at the mentality that takes away this right to be a fully informed consumer...or maybe I am not a consumer under this plan? Maybe I am considered a dependent? Steny Hoyer lists the reforms that will come into place under the new plan, one being transparency, "so families know what benefits their plan covers and what it will cost them." Ummm...I don't see this kind of transparency in the new health reform plan. Senators cannot speak on specifics when asked to do so. Hoyer says that the reform demands that insurance companies put their plans "in everyday language so that consumers can make informed choices about their medical care." Where is the everyday language in the health reform proposal? And furthermore, when a consumer buys an insurance policy, there are agents available to explain anything the consumer might not understand. In this case, the agent is the president, and he says that he has "a lot of really smart people" working on it with him, but he has also said that he is "not familiar" with the specifics. He asks us to trust him, while he trusts "really smart people." I have to wonder, who are these really smart people? Heaven help us if Joe Biden is considered one of the "really smart people." Nah! Rahm Emanuel is one of the advisors to the president on health care, and also the one who wrote the book, The Plan: Big Ideas for America. The Plan is all about Rahm's plan, Rahm's values, and Rahm's ideas of what we owe the govt. Obama thinks Rahm is a really smart person, one whose word is to be trusted. I guess we need to adapt the reasoning that decisions regarding our own health care are best left to the really smart people. Those of us who demand to know what the nation is getting out of this government health care experiment (that would be those of us who pay our own way and have learned to ask questions before we sign up for something) are being maligned. We are just people holding signs that say "mean things" and we need to stop holding signs that say mean things and begin trusting really smart people. Hello??? Guestbook www.redbluffismytown.com |
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