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On 3/23/10 8:16 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:20:33 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
wrote:

For the righties... which of these things do you not like?

Provisions of the health care overhaul that will take place in 2010:

90 days after enactment - Provide immediate access to high-risk pools for
people with no insurance because of pre-existing conditions.
180 days after enactment - Bar insurers from denying people coverage when
they get sick.
180 days after enactment - Bar insurers from denying coverage to children
with pre-existing conditions.
180 days after enactment - Bar insurers from imposing lifetime caps on
coverage.
180 days after enactment - Require insurers to allow people to stay on their
parents' policies until they turn 26.
this year - Provide a $250 rebade to Medicare prescription drug
beneficiaries whose initial benefits have run out.

Nobody has said, or even said they will limit, what the insurance
companies can charge for all of these new liabilities. The real
showdown will come when our insurance options and prices show up this
fall. The CEO of Caterpillar is estimating this will cost his company
$100 million in additional health care insurance costs. That will get
passed on to the employees, one way or another..

Where is all of the extra medical capacity going to come from to deal
with 31 million new patients?
Supply and demand says the cost of providing care will go up.

The obvious answer is to get insurance companies out of the basic health
insurance business, and limit them to providing supplemental packages
only. The private, for-profit health insurers add nothing to the mix but
their profits.

Employees already are paying for their health insurance...it's just
buried in their comp package.

I know exactly what my health insurance costs, because the premiums come
out of my pocket, as they do for most all who are members of
construction unions. Our principal local officers and business agents
negotiate an hourly rate, and *we* decide what portion of that goes into
"pay" and what goes into health and welfare.

Where do you get the idea there will be 31 million new patients?