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<DIV>If our Health Care System was about health care, not we could afford quality health care. </DIV>
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<DIV>However, since it is a $900 profit for a two minute ambulance ride, and $5000 profit for a trip to ER, health care has to be rationed. Greed is expensive. </DIV>
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<DIV>Mandating the purchase of Health Insurance from companies that don't provide health care and let people die, is as ignorant as going after Saddam for 911. </DIV>
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<DIV><BR><BR>--- On <B>Fri, 9/25/09, Sue Hovey <I><suehovey@moscow.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Hear, hear.....Other industrialized nations with universal health care, provide care first, then deal with residency.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4"><B>From:</B> <A title=bear@moscow.com href="http://us.mc447.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=bear@moscow.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:bear@moscow.com">Wayne Price</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=ophite@gmail.com href="http://us.mc447.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=ophite@gmail.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:ophite@gmail.com">Andreas Schou</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com href="http://us.mc447.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=vision2020@moscow.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> ; <A title=donovanjarnold2008@yahoo.com href="http://us.mc447.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=donovanjarnold2008@yahoo..com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:donovanjarnold2008@yahoo.com">Donovan Arnold</A> ; <A title=NGIER@uidaho.edu href="http://us.mc447.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=NGIER@uidaho.edu" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:NGIER@uidaho.edu">NicholasGier</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, September 25, 2009 12:22 PM</DIV>
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<DIV>And just what is wrong with:"Next, it would provide free medical care to anyone that could crawl, climb, walk, roll or drive, legally or illegally, into the United States<SPAN> "? IF someone needs medical care do you think they should just be left on the curb to die?</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV>Lets not mix up failed border security issues with health care. IF someone needs medical care, they need medical care and it shouldn't matter HOW they got here, legal or illegal.</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>Donovan --<BR><BR>You are wrong. The subsidy in the Baucus bill, which is by far the most conservative, is set at 300% of the poverty threshold, or around $33,000 for an individual. The more reasonable subsidy level set in the House is around $44,000, or 400% of the poverty threshold. <BR><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><BR>You are wrong. The bill tinkers with Medicare reimbursement rates (more for primary care, less for specialist care), rolls back reimbursement for Medicare Advantage to the Medicare reimbursement rate, and establishes comparative effectiveness research boards. Though I doubt the "waste, fraud, and abuse" savings will be as high as they say it is, there are no Medicare "cuts."<BR><BR>Yes, you tell me, but what about Medicare Advantage? Medicare Advantage is a program that reimburses private insurers for medical care. It reimburses at 114% the rate that Medicare does. There is absolutely no reason for this to be the case. <BR><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><BR>You are wrong. Illegal immigrants are ineligible to receive the subsidy. Insofar as they might be able to obtain health insurance through a health insurance exchange, they join the risk pool without subsidy, reducing insurance rates for everyone else. This is comparable to the way things work today; illegal immigrants will be no more able (but also no less able) to pay for health care health insurance than they are today.<BR> </DIV>
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<DIV><BR>You are wrong. The majority of the savings come from diluting the insurance pool in two ways. First, the individual mandate (which requires people to buy health insurance) adds healthy people to the health insurance pool. Second, the insurance exchanges broaden the risk pools across several insurers. Third, a public option or co-op option would cram down insurance companies' profit margins by forcing them to compete with a nonprofit option.<BR><BR>Literally no point you made has any foundation, as per normal.<BR></DIV></DIV>=======================================================<BR>List services made available by First Step Internet, <BR>serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <BR> <A href="http://www.fsr.net/" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://www.fsr.net</A>
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