I want a la Carte, not the buffet

Our lives are in the balance

By Ian Jay Germaine
Saturday, December 12, 2009

Currently on the floor of the Senate sits a 2074 page Health Care Bill euphemistically called The Reid Bill. You need to remember a lot of what is said here in my opinion.

My thoughts are, it brings us to the path of a one payer system, in this case, Socialized Medicine. Raising Medicare taxes, altering the current Medicare coverage by removing funds and services (Medicare is already scheduled to be insolvent in the near future) and expanding the current broken system of Medicaid which shares funding with State treasuries increasing our cost, the Democrat Senate still says in spite of Republican claims to the contrary, that removing $1/2 Trillion from Medicare would not increase Health Care premiums or cut Medicare services.

Although both Democrats and Republicans have ideas that purport improvement to our system and lower cost, the only soliloquy I make are on the version as it evolves from the Democrat controlled Senate as the Republicans, are frozen out.

The Democrat Senate says in spite of Republican claims to the contrary, that removing $1/2 Trillion from Medicare would not increase Health Care premiums or cut Medicare services. Along with Medicare tax rate and cap increases, the Democrat Senate wants to use those funds to start new entitlement programs.

The cost is said to be $2.5 Trillion over the next 10 years. The CBO (Congressional Budget Office) has finally come out with their report on projected result. Now the CBO is very busy as it projects unbiased cost on all Bills. The CMS which only has the responsibility of Medicare and Medicaid has come with their report. Both results are essentially the same with increased medical premiums, increased taxes and cuts in Medicare services.

Senator Harry Reid in a try to obtain enough votes on the Senate floor to pass a Health Care Bill has a revision but not all the details have been released. The new plan does include a “Buy inâ€