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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
Sat Mar 24, 2012, 01:02 AM Mar 2012

Here Are Some Good Questions About Health Care

The GOP wants to end Medicaid, abolish Obama care, end Medicare and give vouchers to seniors while raising the age of eligibility to 67 and end employer paid health care. Now granted the GOP is going to let the individuals own their own health plan. Now with the end of Obama care that will restore denial for pre existing conditions as defined by the health care industry, end the prohibition of dropping coverage when you get sick, reestablish life time limits on amount of money paid, restore the donut hole in Medicare, and end prescription drug plans for seniors. I place of these programs you will buy your own insurance and you will be able to establish a tax deductible "health savings account.

What are their plans for seniors who cannot get any insurance anywhere due to pre existing conditions even with a voucher?. How will the 50 million already uninsured and the newly uninsured of 50 million because of the end of Medicaide be taken care of and who have no money to "own their own plan? And what about the disabled and unemployed?

I see nothing in their plan to take care of perhaps 120 million uninsured Americans. They say that the charities and churches will take care of those people like they did in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Their plan is complete insane nonsense. You might as well find a "witch doctor". Better yet become a Christian Scientist and just pray because that is their new public health system.

Dissecting this rhetorical bull exposes their plan for death panels. And what do we do if a contagion breaks out or something similar like the influenza that killed millions in 1918? To wit at Longmont High School scores of students were exposed to TB and many now test positive for the bug in their system. And they will have to be monitored or treated for many months.

And yet the public hates Obama care due to the propaganda machine. If there is a major contagion I hope that it only infects Republicans, but that would be too much to hope for because sickness and disease is bipartisan.

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