On January 20th, 2009 the White House promised to publish legislation on their website “for five days, and allow the public to review and comment before the President sign it.” Nine months later, the President has not lived up to his promise. Since the President has failed to live up to his word, today I am making H.R. 3200 available for public comment through a new technology called Sharedbook.
H.R. 3200 will directly affect every constituent in my district. They must have the ability to read the bill and provide me with their feedback. I hope that by making this bill available for public comment, we will set a precedent for future legislation and restore the public trust in government by raising the level of openness, order, and discourse.
I think that health reform is a topic that needs to be addressed and worked with, I am all for reform but completely against socialized medicine, there has to be another answer, thanks for the hard work.
william l swint jr subtitle B section111 says that there will be no preexisting condition exclusions not will the new health bill affect every constituent in your district but every citizen of the USA I Know that it passed
but we have to keep this from going the route of socialized medicine..
what does the health care bill say about preexisting condition concerning the older citizens?
Keep up the good work!
I am for ‘health care’ reform. But not socialized medicine.
We need to limit the frivolous law suites, that requires insurance
for doctors, hospitals, medicine, instruments, down to a aspirin or
a comb you may use while in the hospital.
Also removing the law suites besides removing the overhead of all
the insurance costs. Also will move US medicine back to diagnostics,
listening to patients versus doing series of tests so they can be
protected from a law suite.
And finally the insurance change would be move insurance to be
personally purchased and do not encourage (tax breaks) for getting
insurance through ones employment.
This would mean you can choose and keep your insurance even if you
change jobs. If the company chooses to give you either extra salary
or money specifically for health care that is fine.
This would lower costs, since customers would be the ones negotiating
with insurance companies and with doctors.
Also paying cash should not cost you 5x more than what the insurance
company (or medicare) would pay the hospital. I was laid off when my
wife was pregnant, and COBRA for me was $1500/month, and we could not
qualify for insurance since my wife had a ‘pre-existing condition’
(meaning she was healthy, normal and was pregnant… sigh…).
It would be cheaper for us to move to India for a few months and get
the C-section there and recover, than stay in the US since the hospital
would charge us $22k – $30k for a C-section where insurance would only
have to pay $5k – $8k.
Mark
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Never give up.