Health care now costs 16 percent of our GNP. What will be the effect on this percentage if Obama’s health care bill is passed?
The CBO says it will add to health care costs. They are nonpartisan and have studied the health care plan. That is why it will hopefully be defeated.
Are there provisions in the health care bill that will actually reduce health care costs?
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My guess is it will double. I have seen projections that 33% of the Federal budget will be spent on healthcare, and that is based on the NEW budget (the one with the 1 Trillion dollar defecit.
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The CBO says it will add to health care costs. They are nonpartisan and have studied the health care plan. That is why it will hopefully be defeated.
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Health care costs will decrease. Obama wants to make the system more efficient.
By offering a government option alone the private insurance market will be forced to lower their premiums by several percent in order to stay competitive, that comes out of their net profit.
Getting people who can’t pay out of the ER and into private clinics will cut the cost of health care for the poor in half.
Then they are pushing for counseling sessions to get people to make the correct medical choices with as little hassle as possible, electronic records that will cut the duration of many hospital checkups in half, and similar improvement that will help all the medical system save on costs.
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If it’s a tad bit higher, so what. At least it’s for a good cause. I know people think it’s a horrible atrocity that the percentage is that high. Our defense budget accounts for over 50 percent. If people want to lament about something, it should be all these corporate fat cats profiteering off this war. I call that "blood money" because that’s basically what it is. For all the money we’ve squandered on this war, we could have built a universal health care plan and rebuilt the entire country’s infrastructure twice over already.
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http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ar4LF65SmqlcrDmN4UBtgtjsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20090717193409AAoygM4
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ahf66vrY7yovjMDtzzaU5d7sy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20090718093721AAA5qT6
Costs are always going to be part of life. Do not be misdirected with "reducing health care costs" for you can always fire a doctor and that will save health care costs in the short term.
The price of health care would be more competitive if we enabled individuals to buy their own health care — care that they need and want.
A single male does not need to subsidizes pre-natal care. Elderly people should not be paying inflated premiums to subsidize an 18-20 yo partygirl’s "free" birth control or SDT treatments.
The government’s requirement to have all medical data online by 2014 is being touted as a savings — but it will save more from the intelligence agencies’ budget then it will from our physician’s offices.
Debts must be paid by someone.
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It is amazing that the health care costs debate does not factor in how past government projects have doubled or tripled beyond their estimated initial costs. I would say costs will climb to 30 percent of GNP in four years of current plan being enacted.
To advance the discussion further and better address the problem, why not create a health care plan to cover the 8 million that critically need coverage ? See article at address noted below.
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http://liberty.pacificresearch.org/press/patients-not-lawmakers-should-control-health-care-reform
The gov is going to rope everyone into getting their plan eventually. They want socialized medicine and socialized gov. There is no plan in there eyes to let the insurance companies compete against eachother without the gov option, because that is where they want EVERYONE TO END UP ON GOV health care.
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ok guys i am originally from the uk so please do not believe everything you see on thoses news channels. health care is free there. does not matter if you work or not. you have to wait a bit for an operation, but if it is an emergency you will be treated straight away.
the system hear seems to be that if you do not have health insurance we are not interested or you are not covered, my wife even tells me there are people here who have a choice eat or pay for there meds. i love this county but i feel the drug companies and hospitals are taking us for a ride. a friend of mine who’s mother is a RN made 120,000 dollars last year would she have made that working at family dollar or walmart i doubt it. at the end of the day if you can afford health your ok if not hard luck. we need to start helping the poor people of this country and stop listening to these people on these news shows who do not know what it is like to be on the breadline. what is more important giving millions of dollars to iraq ect or having a healthy nation. charity begans at home. god bless america.
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