Sorry, I didn’t make myself clear. I wasn’t talking about house calls. I was talking about the fact that the plan is supposedly going to be providing healthcare to every American. My point was, the govt does so badly at managing so many agencies that NO, I don’t trust them to manage my healthcare plan. I do have insurance and I still can’t afford to have some of the medical care that I need and can barely afford the meds that I must have (inhalers for one thing, breathing is just something I selfishly need to have :D). I do NOT trust the govt to do right by either me, or millions of other Americans with this proposed plan.
If, as stated by the poster above, the Post Office can’t make money because of how many people they have to provide service for, how does this plan, in which so many Americans don’t even have to subsidize it in any way (at least with the Post Office users have to pay for stamps and other services), have any chance of making it financially? If you don’t like the USPS example a much better one is the failure of the stimulus package. Obama kept claiming "we have to have this or UE will go above 8%, now it’s above 10% and we’re losing, not “creating and saving” jobs as he claimed.
The math does not work. There is no way that only taxing so-called “rich” people who make above a certain amount (used to be 250k, I don’t know what he’s lowered it to these days) will cover every American PROPERLY, not even if they were taxed at 100%. And that’s a whole 'nother question here, how much is fair? 40% of “rich” people’s income? 50%? 70%? when does the amount they pay earn them the right not to be called selfish and greedy?
Anyway, as to the other plan to raise funds for the plan, that of fixing fraud and abuse in Medicaid and Medicare, why are they NOT doing that now? Another example is the bank bailouts. I heard one news report several weeks ago that the govt didn’t want banks to pay back the loans for some interest reason or another. Then Thursday night on my way to teach class, I heard that the govt is hounding banks to pay back NOW, loans they were supposed to have 12 years to pay off. Of course, to be fair, those were media reports and all you ever get is a little snippet and never a good complete report.
With the government managing the funds for healthcare, they WILL be managing the services and therefore will be deciding what services you can and cannot have. That’s just one problem with this plan. It’s not that A plan for non-covered people needs to be made, it’s THIS plan. It’s a badly thought out, ponderous, secretive (so much for transparency in govt) plan.
The panicked frantic rush to push it through makes me VERY suspicious. Can we not start assisting those poor in desperate medical need NOW without forcing the entire country into a plan they disagree with? That is what medicaid is for after all.