Democrat Admits Pelosi Health Care Bill Won't Lower Costs

http://is.gd/4Mpn5 | Rep. John Yarmuth (D-KY) admitted to Fox News today that Speaker Pelosi's government takeover of health care won't lower costs for families and small businesses, saying, "Nobody ever believes we can actually bring costs down..." Speaker Pelosi has claimed that her bill which radically increases government spending and imposes crippling tax hikes on families and small businesses is focused on "lowering health care costs for all of us."

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[OffensiveBehaviorTV]

You would be surprised! Most of the people on TV are morons! LOL

[mark1m]

maybe if i had a bit more political expertise... nobody wants to hear what an average moron like myself has to say.

[OffensiveBehaviorTV]

Maybe you should wright a blog. You seem like you have allot to say!

[mark1m]

sorry i think i just hit a stride there, i know i sound a little preachy. But the business world is complicated. I know i can spend my money better than the government can. Things just never are that simple... even though im sure everyone wishes they were (myself included).

[OffensiveBehaviorTV]

@mark1m Damn wright a book!

[micontrols]

You really should have watched the hearings and listened to what the CBO actually said.

What they scored is what the Democrats actually gave them to score. What was left out?

Sentences such as "Such funds as is necessary" that shows up 3 times in the bill.

The CBO, when questioned, admitted that there was really no way to score what they were given realistically.

Shame that you relied on what you were told rather than what really happened.

The "status Quo" is a straw man argument.

[CollegeLyfe23]

well another concept we can also do is expand employer-based coverage. we can let small businesses band together to help pay for health care coverage for there employees. 65% of ppl in the work force are employed by small businesses so that would help significantly. i personally think expanding employer-based coverage, letting the insurance companies compete nation wide, and tax credits for the poor would solve the problem. we dont need a massive expansion govt to solve it for us.

[mark1m]

the free market is a great tool. Harnessing human greed as a motivator is a brilliant concept.

The problem is insurance is a do nothing industry. There is nothing to be invented, or created.

The only innovation that comes out of the insurance industry is innovative ways to deny claims. Insurance industries compete to find ways to give you less money back than you give them. In that sense the free market is very counter productive in the insurance industry.

[mark1m]

(cont)

so now you look at it through the plight of the government... they know they have to insure people. They can hand the money directly to the people via public option and charge 3% overhead... or they can go your route and hand their money to the private insurers to give to us... knowing the private insurers will charge 30% overhead. But cutting out the middleman they can save a fortune. And wasting 100s of billions of dollars to preserve an ideal, is idiotic.

[mark1m]

(cont)

At this point medical bankruptcies will be through the roof because so few can afford insurance... and taxes will have to increase for the government to pay them. Hospitals and doctors will be unchecked in charging whatever they want, and they will charge a fortune because they know you have to pay them or you die.

Its a very complicated system of checks and balances.. the government is the only thing keeping our healthcare system alive.