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CONGRESSMAN ENCOURAGES COLLEAGUES TO ADOPT PLAN THEMSELVES IF THEY LIKE IT SO MUCH
Members of Congress are trying to force a massive bureaucratic overhaul of health care on hard-working Americans by imposing a flawed system that they themselves would not be willing to accept.
That’s the charge by Congressman Joe Wilson and other leading members of the Republican Party.
And he is challenging those who support implementing President Obama’s trillion-dollar proposal by introducing an Amendment that would force members of Congress and the Administration to adopt the exact same plan. This “intricate” plan, to be exact.
“Despite the cost to taxpayers and the bureaucratic maze that will be part of a government-controlled health care plan, if Members of Congress and the Administration are still confident in the quality and flexibility of care they claim will come with this public plan then they should lead the way by enrolling in it,” Wilson said Friday. “This amendment gives our colleagues an opportunity to tell the American people if they believe a government takeover of their health care is the best they can do.”
The Wilson amendment inserts a “Sense of Congress” into the Democrats’ health care legislation that urges senior Administration officials and those Members of Congress who vote for a public plan to forgo their existing health care coverage under the Federal Employee Health Benefit program in favor of this new government-run system.
The cushy FEHB program is coveted by federal employees for its easy access and extensive coverage. That stands in large contrast to what many Americans will likely be forced into under the plans introduced by Congressional Democrats.
Obama’s health care proposal, dubbed “Obamacare,” has been heavily criticized for taxing the uninsured, cutting Medicare, and essentially ending private insurance.
Joe Wilson’s not a leading member of the Republican Party Adam. Never the less I favor what he’s attempting to do.
HEY JOE, HOW COME THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA IS SUBSIDIZING A FRAUDULENT MEDICARE PART D ACCOUNT ON ME AT COMMUNITY CCRX???
HEY JOE, HOW COME I CANNOT USE MY MEDICARE TO GO TO A DOCTOR?
HEY JOE, HOW COME I SPEND EVERY CENT OUT OF MY POCKET FOR MEDICAL CARE EVEN THOUGH, SUPPOSEDLY I AM ON SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY?
I’ll tell you why. You let an INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL SECURITY ACCOUNT persist on me the entire eleven years that I worked…. and THERE ARE TWO OF ME IN EVERY GOVERNMENT SYSTEM.
Until you clean up your yard, leave the President alone please.
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I am elderly and I am afraid of this new healthcare. They claim also that anyone with a serious illness and those born with disabilities , and the elderly, will be the ones who will die because the cost is to high for them to live. Then why should we have insurance, if they are going to take our money but deny us help.
I am a business manager for a medical office. I wonder how many of President’s Obama’s healthcare team visted private practice physicians to see exactly what is going on in the healthcare system. I assume exactly zero. Lets start with Medicare which pays little to the physician and continues to kill a tree every time there is a issue wtih a claim. Just in that one sentence we have hit on the economy and the enviornment. Medicaid is next, where do I start, first you have to make sure you have no income whatsoever and all of your assests are disposed of including the home you live in and then you have to met eligibility restrictions. Remember these are structured and run by the government. Now we come to private insurance which continue to cut costs to physicians. Most people are under the illusion that a physician can get paid what ever he wants for an office visit or procedure. That is not true what so ever all companies including Medicare and Medicaid set a fee they will allow the physician to be paid. To me that is interesting the one person that can diagnosis you problem and probably save your life a fee has been set for himor her. Isn’t it odd that not one single attorney is regulated that way, whoops I forget the government is made up of nothing but attorneys. My point is this I do not want any one person or government to tell me who I can see or when I can see them or how I will be medically treated. I am a human being and I am not a statistic that can be manipulated by the government.