In the tradition of i did not have sex with that women our current
president is being less than truthfull. I wonder if he actually read
HR-3200 ?

Freedom to keep your existing plan
This is the freedom that the President keeps emphasizing. Yet the bills
appear to say otherwise. It's worth diving into the weeds -- the territory
where most pundits and politicians don't seem to have ventured.

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.3200:

The Senate bill requires that Americans buying through the exchanges -- and
as we've seen, that will soon be most Americans -- must get their care
through something called "medical home." Medical home is similar to an HMO.
You're assigned a primary care doctor, and the doctor controls your access
to specialists. The primary care physicians will decide which services, like
MRIs and other diagnostic scans, are best for you, and will decide when you
really need to see a cardiologists or orthopedists.

Under the proposals, the gatekeepers would theoretically guide patients to
tests and treatments that have proved most cost-effective. The danger is
that doctors will be financially rewarded for denying care, as were HMO
physicians more than a decade ago. It was consumer outrage over despotic
gatekeepers that made the HMOs so unpopular, and killed what was billed as
the solution to America's health-care cost explosion.

As with the previous example, the Obama plan enshrines into federal law one
of the worst features of state legislation: community rating. Eleven states,
ranging from New York to Oregon, have some form of community rating. In its
purest form, community rating requires that all patients pay the same rates
for their level of coverage regardless of their age or medical condition.

Americans with pre-existing conditions need subsidies under any plan, but
community rating is a dubious way to bring fairness to health care. The
reason is twofold: First, it forces young people, who typically have lower
incomes than older workers, to pay far more than their actual cost, and
gives older workers, who can afford to pay more, a big discount.

http://money.cnn.com/2009/07/24/news...obama.fortune/

Best Regards

Tom.

"azotic" wrote in message
...
In the tradition of i did not have sex with that women our current
president is being less than truthfull. I wonder if he actually read
HR-3200 ?

Freedom to keep your existing plan
This is the freedom that the President keeps emphasizing. Yet the bills
appear to say otherwise. It's worth diving into the weeds -- the territory
where most pundits and politicians don't seem to have ventured.

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.3200:


I can't get this link to load?

Richard W.