Now that the proposed healthcare reform bills are available for public consumption, folks are reading the fine print and some disconcerting details are surfacing are surfacing.
Fortune has a nice summary article with some of the “give-ips” …
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Fortune, “5 freedoms you’d lose in health care reform”, June 24,2009
“Read the fine print in the Congressional plans and you’ll find that a lot of cherished aspects of the current system would disappear.
- If you prize choosing your own cardiologist or urologist under your company’s Preferred Provider Organization plan (PPO) …
- If your employer rewards your non-smoking, healthy lifestyle with reduced premiums,
- If you love the bargain Health Savings Account (HSA) that insures you just for the essentials, or
- if you simply take comfort in the freedom to spend your own money for a policy that covers the newest drugs and diagnostic tests
You will lose all of those good things (and more) under the rules proposed in the two bills that herald a health-care revolution”
Full article:
http://money.cnn.com/2009/07/24/news/economy/health_care_reform_obama.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2009072410
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The Homa Files 
July 29, 2009 at 11:21 pm |
Universal healthcare sounds great in theory as long as it is just all talk. The quickest way for Obama to lose reelection is to f*** up people’s healthcare. Republicans should be encouraging all these changes because Obama will be the fall guy when medical service and customer sat is negatively impacted. This is a really sensitive area that Obama is messing with. Obama will get the boot if healthcare quality declines.