From Pine View Farm

Republican Health Care Reform Proposal . . . 1

. . . will re-form the status quo into something worse than it already it is:

And it is already pretty bad:

Americans are more likely than people in 10 other countries to have trouble getting medical treatment because of insurance restrictions or cost, an international survey of primary care doctors released on Wednesday found.

While the United States spends more than twice as much as other developed countries on healthcare, it lags well behind in key measures of quality, the annual survey found.

Here’s what the Congressional Budget Office’s preliminary analysis finds: It won’t cost as much as some other proposals and it pretty much accomplishes nothing.

The proposal would reduce the rolls of the uninsured by about 3 million in 2019, leaving about 52 million people without medical coverage, the CBO said. Also, the CBO said that premiums for some people, mostly the less healthy, would go up, feeding into Democratic criticisms that the Republican plan would allow insurers to “cherry pick” and enroll healthier, less costly people.

It will reform the status quo into the status quo antiquated.

But that’s what can be expected from those who think of the 1950s as some kind of golden age.

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  1. Karen

    November 6, 2009 at 7:27 am

    When people can actually go see a doctor if they’re sick & need to, or go get the exam he’s harping about without worrying something will be found & will have to be left untreated, then we can relax.

    But as long as people with chronic conditions go only once a year for refills & ignore repeated requests that a test be done, there will be room for massive improvement. 

    Unlike the mentality of the republicans, things are not stagnent. Before they try to decide what’s best, they should all walk in regular people’s shoes.