Comments on: Baucus Unveils Universal Health Care Initiative

By: jps

jps — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:58:08 +0000

stateofthediv: If there’s an option to join a new “Medicare-like” non-employee version of the federal employee’s health plan which figured so prominently in the debates, and it’s at no net cost to the enrollee, then I will forgive Baucus for accepting those donations.

WaPo: I agree; there is no reason this couldn’t be a 1.5-year plan. We have the technology, and we need the jobs.

By: stateofthedivision

stateofthedivision — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:39:00 +0000

WaPo says:

The Baucus plan outlines an ambitious path for providing health coverage to every American in less than 10 years. Eventually, his approach would impose a mandate on every individual and large employer to participate in the system.

That puts us on the same timeline as China for providing health care to citizens.

By: stateofthedivision

stateofthedivision — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:23:47 +0000

Wow, Max mixed aspects of the Wyden plan with McCain’s and added a few ideas of his own.

American industry wants badly to shed that pesky health insurance benefit. I don’t see enough details in the NYT piece as to employer requirements and if they are time limited, as they were under Ron Wyden’s proposal.

Rest assured, Max’s for-profit hospital donors will come out ahead. He gets donations from eight for-profit chains with no facilities in Montana.