Do you want to pay their bills?

The poor will get it for free. The middle class will pay.

You’re not even trying to get the facts straight, are you?

Just like right now the poorest people are eligible for Medicaid. It is free.

For low – earning workers the new bill will include tax rebates or assistance to help pay premiums.

Please only ask informed questions. This isn’t a newspaper, it’s a debate and discussion forum.

heh, under your plan, they don’t get any….

Out of one side of your mouths you call for personal accountability and out of the other you say they should have personal accountability…make up your mind hayseed.

Yes, make the poor pay for being wretched!

The only thing that will force the poor to buy health insurance is their employer dropping them because the costs are out of control.

I guess the PO will wait til then. Too bad too, because the whole thing could have been prevented.

I hate when the government force me to pay less for insurance…

they all know the powers that be will find a way to GIVE it to them. take from the middle to make the top money give to the bottom to buy a vote.

yes
because the rich won’t help pay

It is an excellent idea, those who cannot afford it will be given tax credits to cover the cost. We already pay for the poor to have health care. The difference is it will be much cheaper to pay for insurance than to constantly be paying for ER visits.

It has been proposed that people who earn less than a pre-defined income will either receive tax credits and/or “hardship” discounts. The poorest of our poor will likely get it for free…that’s what makes this Country great is we care enough that we find ways to make it work for EVERYONE.

You do realize under NO PLAN (the GOP proposal/solution?) everybody pays more and more and more…for less and less and less. Tell me why you think this is fair?

Every year insurance premiums go up and payments to doctors go
down. Essentially consumers are paying a lot more for a lot less.
There are some plans out there with premiums and deductibles so high they’re useless unless you’re dying. At that point it is a “preexisting” condition. I’ve spoken to doctors about this. Hardly fair. That’s where the public option comes in.

Let’s be honest here Americans constantly want something for nothing.
Expensive military but no taxes, nice schools but no taxes, smooth roads but no taxes and then seemed surprised at a high deficit. California is a prime example. Feel free to pick up the tab. Furthermore without a public option nothing will change. Also where is the incentive to cure cancer or anything if companies can charge thousands monthly keeping people alive?

As cliched as it seems “Everyone wants to go to Heaven but no one wants to die”

This “reform” is nothing but huge subsidies for poor people.

The middle class is about to get anialated.

Healthcare insurance is just part of a broader agenda and public concerns have very little influence on it’s adaptations.

Haven’t your heard? The Sheriff of Nottingham has been named the new Health Reform czar……….

Let me clarify the situation with Medicaid. The states have had to cut back on Medicaid. More hard working poor (say, someone self employed like myself) are not being given Medicaid. I had Medicaid in Michigan and moved and was not approved in my new state ( many, many seriously ill people are in the same situation besides myself). I cannot afford health insurance and would not be considered by an insurance company because of 2 pre-existing conditions. As it is now, I have to pay for everything including very expensive medications and regular blood work which is ridiculously expensive too. Saying the poor get everything for free is just ignorant. Get your facts straight and let’s work on cutting the cost of health care by limiting outrageous malpractice suits and regulating insurance companies.