MTP BlogHealthcare Reform - "Pass The Taxes Please"
Healthcare reform support has substantially degraded over the past week among likely voters. The implications of the Senate bill that has just passed to debate are beginning to be understood by the public and they simply don't like what they say. Mark A. Skoda, the host of Memphis TEA Party Live!, comments on this legislation and the implications for our state with respect to jobs and taxes.
Healthcare Reform Commentary 
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Posted by The Memphis TEA Party at 23 November 2009, 11:43 AM 
Categories: Taxation,Deficit Spending,Healthcare
Tags: Taxation Deficit Spending Healthcare
Categories: Taxation,Deficit Spending,Healthcare
Tags: Taxation Deficit Spending Healthcare
Healthcare reform can start now with no high price tag
Obama and Congress are taking the entirely wrong approach to healthcare reform. We can be doing so much right now to improve healthcare without suspicious price tags. There is nothing wrong with carrying out reform in two phases: the immediate and low price-tag phase, and the longer-term, let's-find-the-money-first phase.
What can be done now, with little public opposition:
One group plan
Everyone would have access to insurance if all insurance companies were required to offer a plan to individuals as though they were all in one large company group plan, with the same rate and no exclusions. There is no cost to taxpayers; premiums are paid by the insured.
Guaranteed coverage and insurance market reforms
Few would argue with such provisions. The health insurance industry has been such a Wild West that companies could promise anything and provide nothing. They suffered no bad consequences when they blatantly breached contracts with subscribers. Other than enforcement, there would be no cost to taxpayers.
Essential benefits
An independent committee would define an "essential benefit package" as a minimum quality standard. It would include preventive services with no co-pays or deductibles, mental health services, and oral health and vision for children. It would cap the amount that consumers have to spend per year, and cost taxpayers nothing. Insurance companies could add features to this basic package. Now they can get away with not paying for basic services because most people do not have a choice of plans, and insurance plans are far too complicated to easily compare.
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These no- or low-cost changes would greatly improve care and save millions. They are the first step. There is no reason to delay them in order to get a “comprehensive” healthcare reform. No reform can possibly work without them in place first.
Patty Zevallos
media producer – web, video, print
www.pbzproductions.com
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Tea Party Patriots: Representative Steve Cohen and Representative Jim Cooper from Tennessee voted for the Health care Bill, we need to get together and recall these representatives or to vote them out of office. Also we need a bill passed in Tn like the one passed last week in Virginia, making it unlawful for the federal goverment to madate purchse of health ins or anything else.
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