Health Care Reform is STILL not passed. It only passed in the House, you still have the Senate and a possible Conference Committee. That being said, remember the POTUS' promise of no new taxes? WRONG!

There is a mandate in the bill for the states to increase the amount they pay on Medicare. This means a raise in Medicare Taxes FOR ALL in the State of Missouri! Not just the "rich," which I STILL can't get people like Claire McCaskill or Russ Carnahan to define.

My own physician has stated that he sees a number of Medicare patients. The reimbursement rates provided by the state/fed is barely enough to meet his expenses. With student loans to pay back, and other overhead like office staff, machines and so on, just how can a physician stay in business?

Has anyone else noticed the number of private physicians that have joined SSM or BJC lately? Surely I am not the only one that has noticed this. I believe it is because they are going to be given, by contract, a reimbursement rate for services w/o having to rely on a beauracrat(sp) making that decision.

All this craziness to address three things, accessability, affordability and portability!

There are not enough savings in the $500 billion in medicare cuts, lets call them what they will be, to pay for this bill. Do any of you in favor of this have an answer?

Health Care Reform is STILL not passed. It only passed in the House, you still have the Senate and a possible Conference Committee. That being said, remember the POTUS' promise of no new taxes? WRONG!

There is a mandate in the bill for the states to increase the amount they pay on Medicare. This means a raise in Medicare Taxes FOR ALL in the State of Missouri! Not just the "rich," which I STILL can't get people like Claire McCaskill or Russ Carnahan to define.

My own physician has stated that he sees a number of Medicare patients. The reimbursement rates provided by the state/fed is barely enough to meet his expenses. With student loans to pay back, and other overhead like office staff, machines and so on, just how can a physician stay in business?

Has anyone else noticed the number of private physicians that have joined SSM or BJC lately? Surely I am not the only one that has noticed this. I believe it is because they are going to be given, by contract, a reimbursement rate for services w/o having to rely on a beauracrat(sp) making that decision.

All this craziness to address three things, accessability, affordability and portability!

There are not enough savings in the $500 billion in medicare cuts, lets call them what they will be, to pay for this bill. Do any of you in favor of this have an answer?

The last time the House of Representatives tried to pass health care reform was at the beginning of the Clinton administration. That effort failed miserably, as committees squabbled over jurisdiction. This time, three committees produced nearly identical versions of legislation, putting those turf battles (mostly) aside. They got their work done quickly--well in advance of a self-imposed August deadline. And, most important, the legislation they produced was good.

Do not be fooled by the Beltway conventional wisdom, which has repeatedly treated House legislation as inferior to its counterpart in the Senate. If anything, the opposite is true. Should the House bill or something like it become law, the vast majority of Americans would have health insurance--protecting them from financial calamity and giving them access to medical care when they need it.

Republicans have repeatedly mocked the House bill because of its length. But there is a reason the bill needs so many pages: It's the product of thinking carefully about how best to design a health care system. The legislation has its problems; all legislation does. But at the level of detail--like, for example, the all-important question of how to design insurance exchanges--the House bill holds up extremely well.

And the bill pays for itself--not just in the first ten years, as the original version did, but in the future, as well. It may not do as much to reduce the overall cost of health care as the Senate bill would; in the view of most experts, that's the House bill's chief weakness. But it at least makes moves in the direction of cost-control.

It'll be funded the same way Bush's 3 wars were funded. BORROW beyond the ability to pay it back. DUH! Because of this the right wing partisan hacks have zero room to complain about the left wing partisan hacks. However, us 'normal' and sane people stuck in between each pile of rotting, decomposing whaledreck who'll pay the most.

www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/106xx/doc10688/hr3962Rangel.pdf

According to the CBO, after ten years the budget deficit will BE REDUCED BY OVER 100 BILLION DOLLARS.

Seems like it is paying for itself, and then some. So what is your worry?