Comparison of House & Senate Health Bills

[Bill Wallace]

Yeah, how about those health bills? The politicos decry 18% of the gnp being spent on health care but have done nothing in either version of these bills to limit coverage to catastrophic coverage. Instead, they will continue to allow states to pile on mandates so taxpayers have to pay for "services" provided by doctor wannabees, euphmistically described as "allied health professionals" in the trade (social workers, marriage counselors, naturopaths, homeopatchs, midwives, etc. etc.).

Secondly, the bills do little to refom the payment system, which enables service suppliers to create demand for their services. If fire fighters and policemen were paid like physicians and nurses, then some of them might very well start fires and create crimes in order to generate more income.

Fortunately Cobra owners are used to puckering up. Those skills will prove very useful when the final legislation takes effect. We'll need to rely on those skill so we can stay fixed to our seats in the waiting rooms while all the previously uninsured folks see our doctors to insist upon receiving their preventive care services that we will all be paying for.

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by Bill Wallace

Secondly, the bills do little to refom the payment system, which enables service suppliers to create demand for their services. If fire fighters and policemen were paid like physicians and nurses, then some of them might very well start fires and create crimes in order to generate more income..

Some firefighters do start fires.

Anyways, doctors and nurses are paid like firefighters and policemen, it's called hourly wage.