New Hampshire Republican Senator Judd Gregg, who was almost President Obama’s commerce secretary, thinks he has a solution to America’s healthcare crisis. Watch him explain the plan below:
This video is from Fox News Sunday, published to YouTube on Sunday, July 19, 2009.
If you didn’t catch that, here’s what the senator just proposed:
Force the poor into buying “high-deductible” policies. But don’t call them poor. Call them “illegal” or “young people” with wonky spending priorities.
Throw in a subsidy of unknown value to somehow “incentivize” folks who have not seen a doctor in years to suddenly vanish a valuable several hundred dollars from their monthly income for individual or family plans.
Don’t mention any way to “incentivize” insurance companies to cover the “uninsurable” due to pre-existing conditions or chronic illnesses, of whom there are many. In fact, ignore them. They’re not much concern at the ballot box.
Finally, Gregg’s masterstroke: Don’t mention that ‘high deductible’ means insurance which will refuse payment on needed care unless the holder can pay a lump sum to initiate treatment, usually $5,000 – $30,000, or more, which of course is Absolutely No Good to someone who cannot afford decent insurance in the first place. (At which point, many Republicans would suggest “health savings accounts” to fill in the gap, which is also no help to the poor.)
Way to go, Senator. Healthcare crisis = solved.
When he said he wasn’t “110 percent a part of the team” with President Obama after his brief nomination to commerce, he sure wasn’t kidding.
A New York Times poll in June found that 72 percent of Americans support a taxpayer-funded, optional public healthcare plan, and a full 57 percent are willing to pay higher taxes to get it.
President Obama plans a Wednesday prime-time speech to advocate his healthcare reforms.
– Stephen C. Webster
What don’t you pinheads get? Some people do not want to be a part of the healthkill system………we could reduce healthcare costs to almost a negligible amount if we stopped CAUSING dis-ease by ending the beastly practice of VACCINATIONS which are the CAUSE of ALL autoimmune disease and cancer in people and pets…go to dr.carley.com
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Yes, Mary!
Notice at 1:10 of the video, Gregg wants to “eliminate the deductability of high-end insurance premium plans”. That means, high monthly premiums required of the poor and at the end of the year or on April 15th, whether you saw a doctor during the year or not, ZERO of the money that was paid-in is tax-deductible… So, these poor must now pay again via higher tax payments.
Brilliant idea! (Sarcasm). How about we eliminate Gregg’s Pension? How about we change ALL ELECTED Government Positions state and Federal to 2-year terms and return to paper ballots? How about we eliminate non-Constitutional Federal Government Programs and Personnel? How about we Audit then End the Fed?
These are answers “for the People” and not for the Federal Government’s Greater Control.
No, we cannot realistically expect 100% ignition, participation and activation of the sheople but even if we had 20%, we could do like those brave 20% did in the Revolutionary War.
Start educating anyone with ears! The pen CAN and must be viewed as mightier than the sword. Get people calling their state and Federal Reps and Senators and INSIST that they support an Audit if the Federal Reserve – HR 1207 and S 604!
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