Bush's new Health care proposal?

Question

Too little way too late! What we need is not a tax deduction, we need reform. There are people that can not buy any insurance because of pre existing condidtions and if they buy it is a personal guaranteed issue with at least 1 year waiting period with extreme premiums.The country needs the health insurance itself. Why is he waiting now at the end of his presidency to bring this up after the democrats are in control? Is he looking for credit for his party or helping for the republicans campaign? This won't work people, it only keeps the insurance companies in control and all they have to do is increase their premiums to maintain the same profits and gain. Contact your congressmen, enough is enough, we need reform and to give a damn about our citizens! What do you think?

Answer 1

All analysts have already dismissed it as a joke.

Answer 2

This "plan" was just a smokescreen to try to divert the public's attention from other issues. he knows this plan will be rejected by both parties, but he had to make it look like he has been doing something for the last 365 days since the last speech.

This "plan" will make all insurance benefits that Americans get from their employers taxable. It does nothing to the poor that don't have enough money to afford health insurance in the first place.

Bush knows that all the policies he proposed will not get a second look except maybe the ridiculous immigration reform. He just wanted to make himself look good in front of the public and especially the Democratic Congress. He wanted to not have to deliver a 1 hour speech defending his stance on the Iraq war.

It will be 2 more do nothing years from a do nothing administration.

Answer 3

Your post is more rhetoric than question, and I would caution you, as this is not the intention of Yahoo Answers.

Health Insurance is a privelege, not a right. None of us should be entitled to it. What happened to the days of self-sufficiency? I pay for my own health insurance. It's expensive. In fact, I couldnt afford it with my other job, so I SWITCHED CAREERS! That's called personal responsibility, which is a concept that Americans have lost sight of thanks to democrats. We need to go back to taking care of our own business and not looking for handouts from the government. The less government is involved in our lives, the better off we will be. We do not want nationalized health care like Canada. I personally know of 3 people who crossed the border into this country to have an operation that they would have had to wait 6 months or more in Canada. Its a mess up there. The President has been weakened by the loss of the Republicans (a loss they deserved), and some of his proposals are obviously going to be different in order to have a chance of them passing through Congress.

What do I think? I think the Government should do what they are famous for, and thats investigate why the insurance costs are so high. When premiums go up 25-50% every year, thats a problem. What I would like to see is some insurance companies go non-profit. Look, the premiums they collect are invested, and invested well. They are making tons of money off that invested dough. Sure, they pay out claims thousands of times a day, but they are making way more than they are paying. Id like to see a few companies stay within the confines of their interest income. They need to find ways of advertising that are cost-effective (such as not advertising during the Superbowl at 10 million for 30 seconds). If a company could figure out how to do this, I believe a majority of people would switch to it, and it would force the other companies to lower their rates to re-capture market share.
There is an answer that didnt include government involvement.

Above all else, I believe Mr. Bush is a decent human being and I believe that he has the country's best interest at heart. I think we need to step back and give the man some room to work. If anything, call your congressmen and tell them to back off the President. Enough with the hate. You lost in 2000 and 2004. Time to stop being babies.

Answer 4

Making coverage deductible is a competent thought. association plans exist already. advertising technologies is solid. The "epidemic of junk scientific lawsuits" is truthfully a crock of bull, a conversing factor, that's somewhat approximately preserving enormous Pharmaceutical companies, wellbeing middle firms and HMO's from criminal accountability for negligence and malfeasance. playstation I ignored coverage firms "it may take the President below a minute to locate the variety of physicians is on the upward push, no longer declining, and that the reason at the back of inflated malpractice coverage quotes is straight away by way of fact of coverage industry greed. Bush carelessly throws around words like 'junk lawsuits.' however the civil justice gadget he's attacking protects families who lose toddlers by way of fact the effect of scientific negligence and sufferers who go through devastating injuries -- all of whom deserve accountability. So it seems that the 'plethora of lawsuits' the President stated could be buried obtainable someplace with the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq."

Answer 5

America is just about the only industrialized country without health care for it's citizens.
They feel like there's something socialistic about National Health Care so on principle, they will never have it.
So when another outbreak of SARS or Avian Flu hits, the folks at home will be suffering the consequences but America will be winning their "War on Terror".

The good news this week.......Americans will be allowed to buy their prescription drugs from Canada.........If there's enough. Think of the savings!!

Answer 6

My husband and I would benefit from this plan.
We both have pre-existing conditions and have to pay through the roof "just in case" since our insurance has a really high deductible.

I sure don't want a government run agency deciding what meds I can have, since I use some less common ones and as it is now I have to fight every few months to remind the insurance company that it is up to the doctor to prescribe my meds, not their adjusters!

There are many drugs available here in the US that you can't get in Canada or England.

Answer 7

I think it goes so much deeper than that..the health care expense is out of control. What is charged by the hospitals are a travesty. I understand it is because of uninsured people who use the system as a personal physician..which is another "soap box" issue for me. There are too many law suits against Physicians and health care facilities. Law suits are out of control too... O Lord I am getting into so many different issues...
I think it is so complexed it will take years to unravel.

Answer 8

Bush is being president and doing his job until the end. He has nothing to lose, he cannot run again. He is only doing what is good for Americans. As for the question "Why is he waiting now" well, he cannot do everything at the beginning of his term. Ideas come along the way.

dluv1126......you are misinformed. This proposal is not taxable, but rather tax dedectable. It benefits us!

Answer 9

Bush has come to realize that dead people don`t require a good standard of affordable health care. His policy of killing off his own people through neglect, is working just fine, and of course, cheap. Just like the man himself. F*cking pointless loser.

Answer 10

It's a carrot for bipartisan cooperation from the Dems.
You know, Lip service........