On the Eve of Health Care Reform

CBO Score On Health Care Bill Released: Boosts Democrats’ Hopes Of Passing Reform – Comprehensive health care reform will cost the federal government $940 billion over a ten-year period, but will increase revenue and cut other costs by a greater amount, leading to a reduction of $138 billion in the federal deficit over the same period, according to an analysis by the Congressional Budget Office, a Democratic source tells HuffPost. It will cut the deficit by $1.2 trillion over the second ten year period.

Say it ain’t so … Health Care Reform will actually save us money in the long run? I have always told folks that "facts" have a liberal bias and this report from the Congressional Budget Office does not lie. Now let us wait and see how Republicans will spin this.

New England Journal of Medicine says it didn’t publish or produce health care "survey" – Right-wing media have seized on a dubious, three-month old email "survey" that purports to show that physicians are concerned about health care reform and that 46 percent of the primary care doctors surveyed "indicated that they would leave medicine – or try to leave medicine – as a result of health reform." Many media figures have falsely attributed this survey to the New England Journal of Medicine. For example, on Fox & Friends, co-host Brian Kilmeade said: "The New England Journal of Medicine has published a report and did a survey, and they said the impact of reform on primary care physicians, 46 percent, they say, feel reform will force them out or make them want to leave medicine."

I am actually shocked that Republicans would resort to fear and lies … not really but this is what happens when you can’t win based on facts. One question you have to ask yourself … why are they so against health care reform … follow the money is all I am going to say!

Insurer targeted HIV patients to drop coverage – In May, 2002, Jerome Mitchell, a 17-year old college freshman from rural South Carolina, learned he had contracted HIV. The news, of course, was devastating, but Mitchell believed that he had one thing going for him: On his own initiative, in anticipation of his first year in college, he had purchased his own health insurance. Shortly after his diagnosis, however, his insurance company, Fortis, revoked his policy. Mitchell was told that without further treatment his HIV would become full-blown AIDS within a year or two and he would most likely die within two years after that.

This is what happens when you let greedy corporations put profits over health care. There is no valid excuse for the shenanigans that these corporations have practiced due to the monopoly they hold on an industry that needs reform now. Remember when Republicans said that Health Care Reform would mean that there would be death panels deciding who would live and who would die … wake up folks … that already exists … they are referred to as stock holders and board of directors.