OBAMACARE? WHAT DIDN'T GET INTO THE HEALTHCARE BILL

Henk Ruyssenaars + Kaiser Health News

March 28th 2010 - Of course this so-called 'healthcare bill' is a hoax, and 'Kaiser Health News' again describes the shortcomings. And of course the big pharmaceutical firms wrote the bill, giving them still more profit. It was, as I wrote, a victory for Big Pharma, and this so called healthcare bill still leaves 23 million people out in the cold with no coverage at all. But paying more and more to the 'haves'...

This is part of what I wrote last March 22nd 2010: "This so called 'health care' is a hoax. It's 'wealth care'! Because contrary to what is said by the propaganda-media, all citizens of the U.S. are now, som 200 years later, obliged to pay premiums to Big Pharma. And most of those - and in reality it's at least fifty million neglected people - even couldn't pay the sky-high premiums for so called 'health care' one way or the other. Now they must, or get a fine... Victory? For whom? Who profits?

So now, thanks to Obama who's the 'front man' for the criminal cartel and the rest of the collaborators in the US, everybody must pay or get a fine. What a 'victory'! How the hell can this the world over be 'sold' as 'an overhaul'? As 'a reform for the better'?

People must wake up more and more to the ugly reality. Know that they are ruled by psychopathic murderers, thieves and robbers. The pharmaceutical firms - which are, and always have been, part and parcel of the criminal cartel - are killing the people which they first make sick, and making a lot of money on it, that's what. And nothing else." - [end quote]

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WHAT DIDN'T GET INTO THE HEALTHCARE BILL:

The death of Sen. Edward Kennedy and the tenor of tea party protests resulted in significant reductions.

BY JORDAN RAU

KAISER HEALTH NEWS - 28 March 2010 - WASHINGTON - In the year it took Congress to write and pass a healthcare overhaul, turbulent political shifts - including the Democrats' loss of the seat long held by the late Sen. Edward Kennedy and the rise of the tea party movement - forced critical compromises on the scope of legislation.

The downsized ambitions of the final package mean that 32 million more people - not the 37 million in the original proposals - will end up insured by 2019. Others will face greater financial strain than lawmakers originally envisioned.

The political developments are well-known: A group of six Democratic and Republican senators, led by Finance Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., failed to forge a bipartisan agreement. Concerns about the federal deficit swelled. Grass-roots conservatives filled congressional town hall meetings in August and helped to propel Republican Scott Brown to victory in Massachusetts. That deprived Democrats of a filibuster-proof Senate majority and transformed them from confident victors of the 2008 elections to nervous incumbents.

Less widely understood are the adjustments the healthcare overhaul legislation underwent from July 2009, when Democratic leaders of the House of Representatives first introduced their ambitious proposal, to this past week, as the House passed the Senate bill and a related package of changes.

Those modifications will have major effects on Americans in years to come:

• The final package will leave 23 million people without coverage, nearly six million more than originally intended.

• Low-income workers receiving subsidies will end up paying more in premiums than they would have under the original House proposal; they also may have to pay more out of pocket on deductibles and co-insurance. However, the final version offers people significant financial protections that they don't have now.

• The final package will experiment with dozens of ways to slow the growth of medical costs, but lacks the most aggressive measures proposed during a year of negotiations.

WHAT PEOPLE WILL PAY

Under the final package, people earning twice the poverty level will have to pay 6.3 percent of their income toward premiums -- 1.3 percentage points more than they would have had to pay under the original House bill. That means a family of four earning $44,100 a year will have to pay $2,778 a year in premiums, $573 more than they would have under the initial House bill.

``There was a political calculation that they could raise this much revenue and have it be palatable politically, but that raising more would be too difficult,'' said Linda Blumberg, a senior fellow at the center-left Urban Institute.

While the original House bill limited out-of-pocket costs to $5,000 for individuals and $10,000 for families, the final version uses the Senate thresholds of $5,950 for individuals and $11,900 for most families. Some families receiving subsidies could end up spending as much as 22 percent of their incomes on healthcare premiums and costs. These financial protections -- as well as the premium subsidies -- will become weaker in future years if medical costs continue to outpace inflation.

Older people who are too young for Medicare -- those in their 50s and early 60s -- will face higher costs than under the House's initial bill, which proposed prohibiting insurers from charging this group more than twice what younger people pay. The final package allows them to charge three times as much. Still, that's much better than the higher premiums some older people face now.

23 MILLION LEFT OUT

Overall, 23 million people will still lack health coverage in 2019, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Many are illegal immigrants who would not have been covered under any version of the legislation. Others will choose to pay a fine rather than buy insurance. The rest will be excused from the mandate because it would cost them more than 8 percent of their incomes.

At the same time that lawmakers scaled back the financial protections for Americans, they also jettisoned several major provisions to control the ever-rising costs of health insurance.

Back in May, when lawmakers were drafting the healthcare bill, economists of differing perspectives told the Senate Finance Committee they agreed on one idea: making employer-sponsored healthcare insurance taxable. Not only would that generate $226 billion a year, the economists argued, but it also would give employers and consumers great incentive to choose cheaper insurance plans, pressuring providers to bring their costs down.

``It is the one thing, if we had been able to get some bipartisanship around it, that could have had a significant effect on cost,'' said James Capretta, who was a top budget official in President George W. Bush's administration and is now at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, a center-right research organization.

Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan healthcare policy research organization that isn't affiliated with Kaiser Permanente." - [and end]

Source: Miami Herald - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/ygtvn3k

'HEALTHCARE' BILL: LIES AND PROPAGANDA

And then of course there was more propaganda, amongst others via the broadcasting company al Jazeera: Video: "US passes landmark healthcare reforms." - Via YouTube too. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/ydu6suv

The totally unreliable propagandistic Washington Post, as all others, wrote last week on the front page: "Obama lauds House for passing health care bill." And to the shame of those involved, there's a lot more the world over about this bad hoax to force even those people - who can absolutely not pay the inhuman premiums - to 'give' 'health care insurance.'

Look at the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle - Kansas City Star - Philadelphia Inquirer - The Guardian - all 'news' articles concerning the killers and profiteers! Some 'victory'! - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/yeewf3c

THE QUACKS OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Did you know, by the way, that the AMA, the so-called American Medical Association which also is part and parcel of the criminal cartel and Big Pharma, was funded by David Rockefeller? Who put the biggest and most rotten quacks in the USA up front? Sick, sicker and sickest? And then turned the whole AMA into a money-making machine? Have a look. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/ygpqgxn

But it's all long-term planning, this 'health' and 'wealth' care too, and done on purpose. As the late excellent researcher Eustace Mullins decades ago showed also in his book "Murder by Injection" concerning those 'butchers in white coats' which screwed and keep screwing the US populace. - Eustace Mullins - Google - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/yghu5as

The 'presstitutes' in the propaganda-media know that also this so-called 'healthcare' bill is a hoax, but globally they just go on with their brainwashing and indoctrination. People the world over must think that - contrary to reality - the Führers and the rest of the criminal cartel is 'civilized.' That's why this scam and hoax is so exaggerated.

It's not true, it is all the usual deception and omissions, but this criminal cartel and its media collaborators don't care how many more human beings will suffer and die.

The cartel's robbing, killing and plundering thieves think they 'own' the world as some kind of jewelry shop, and those money madmen 'run' what they see as a world asylum.

Those 'humanoids' who try to control and rule the world only think of slaves, power and profit. That's all what is on their inhuman and feeble minds. And most of those criminals are clearly psychopathic. They are: 'Beyond Insanity' as Amos M. Gunsberg wrote. - Url.: http://www.serendipity.li/bush/beyond_insanity.htm

* Obama/ Soetoro - Or whatever his name is: "Hey! Look! The CIA 'emperor' has no clothes!" - 'emperor' (In translation: German 'emperor' is 'Kaiser') - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/o55tpv

* TIME Poll - The global and malignant criminal cartel which tries to realize its hegemonic pipe-dream of power and profit's war machine poses the greatest danger to world peace. - Url.: http://www.time.com/time/europe/gdml/peace2003.html

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