Add a “Medicaid Part B” to expand access to health care
With a visionary expansion to the existing system it could and should be. A new program, “Medicaid Part B” should be integrated into the current system. This addition would allow every citizen not currently eligible for Medicaid to purchase coverage from the same system that currently excludes most Americans from the benefits this program offers.
Any citizen who has failed to acquire coverage by the date any mandate requiring ownership of a policy might go into effect, should be automatically, and by mandate, enrolled into and covered by provisions contained in the new “part B” pay plan. Then, as opposed to facing penalties for non-compliance, they would instead be billed by Medicaid.
This affordable, universal Medicaid program would, by design, guarantee with no exceptions true universal health care for every citizen.
Ken Denning
Ken,
“Any citizen who has failed to acquire coverage by the date any mandate requiring ownership of a policy might go into effect, should be automatically, and by mandate, enrolled into and covered by provisions contained in the new “part B” pay plan.”
The bill that passed the house relies significantly on folks “not” buying coverage. You know, the mandate tax? Also, who pays for your “universal” plan? Oh yeah, the rich! Would sure like to know what the fed considers “rich”.
Bud,
“The bill that passed the house relies significantly on folks “not” buying coverage.” More inane supposition! Remind us all again what your proposal for health care would be??
Sam,
My post is not insane supposition. The mandate tax is one of the vehicles that would be used to help finance the house bill! That’s why the language is in the bill. Since you asked, my approach would be:
- End recission unless fraud is determined
- Interstate commerce
- Meaningful Tort
- Provide a health care exchange for folks with pre-existing conditions, run by the states
- Include a Federal “trigger” to a PO in case the insurance companies refuse to change their ways.
Standing by for ensuing barrage on why nothing but universal care is acceptable!
Since Obama became President there has been a significant increase in US Military casualties in Afghanistan. If you watch the mainstream media you may not know this as troop casualties are not as highly reported as in the Bush days so not to embarrass the Obama administration. But the current administration has also once again put the blame on Bush saying that he didn’t pay enough attention to this war as the reason for this increase. There is most likely another very valid reason. A soldier just returned from Afghanistan.
This brave US soldier says that since Obama has been the “Commander and Chief” US military moral is at the lowest it has been since the Clinton days. He says the biggest reason for the increase in Military casualties in Afghanistan is the largely unreported immediate change in the rules of engagement that Obama insisted on the first week he was in office. No longer are US troops allowed to return fire on suspected terrorist insurgents if any so called civilians are in the area and could come under fire. If they are being fired upon by snipers from a village they are not allowed to return fire especially if any women and children are present.
The Muslim and Taliban insurgents know of this change in our rules of engagement are now using women and children as shields in fire fights with US troops knowing that they will not return fire. One of this recently returned soldier’s best friends was killed in a fire fight by snipers firing from a building in a village where the Taliban had positioned women and children standing in plain view on the roof of the building. His unit was prohibited by Obama’s new orders from returning fire at the snipers. I don’t care how you feel about the war in Iraq or Afghanistan or Bush but to put our brave soldiers in harms way like this and then tie their hands to defend themselves is just wrong!!!