Justin2,
Helping over thirty million Americans without insurance, most of whom are uninsurable, is a good thing. As I keep repeating, arguments over rationing are irrelevant to all of them when they can’t get any kind of coverage at all. That is why we should all support the bill.
Ben Levi,
We have rationing now. Private insurers deny coverage all the time. And don’t even think about applying for insurance if you have a pre-existing condition. If that isn’t “rationing” I don’t know what is. For pikuach nefesh we need to get those 30 million Americans covered!
A600KiloBear,
And you have no sympathy for someone who has worked all his life, loses his job at age 58, and gets sick? To tell this person he must die because he can’t pay for medical treatment or medicines is morally deficient!!! This bill is the closest we have come to helping folks like this in the 97 years since Theodore Roosevelt first proposed national health insurance. It is high time we do this.
Haifagirl,
The Medicare cuts are for home care which is only supposed to be covered by Medicare under very limited circumstances. The cuts are to eliminate the fraud. It is possible for any elderly American to buy supplemental coverage to cover home care, and poor elderly Americans have it covered under Medicaid.