This is what change looks like....

[kpierce]

Congrats to President Obama and all Americans. This is certainly "change we can believe in". Good riddance to the insurance agency policies of the past.

[Bob Elliott]

Originally Posted by kpierce

Congrats to President Obama and all Americans. This is certainly "change we can believe in". Good riddance to the insurance agency policies of the past.

We will all join you in that feeling ,once it becomes policy in place for a few years.

[James H. Bushart]

It's a chink in the armor. The insurance lobby has owned Congress for many years. You can bet they will intensify their efforts...but the momentum is certainly in our favor.

[kpierce]

It's a great start of historic proportions. I'm proud of our president for doing what's right instead of worrying about what's popular.

[Nick Gromicko]

Good news:

• Kids can stay on parents policy till age 26. I have a 21 year old son who lives with me so I like this one.
• Pre-existing condition issue resolved. I had 2 back surgeries this year and so I like this one.
• Uninsured poor kids will be insured. I like this one.
• Moral taxpayers aren't forced to fund the murder of our fellow unborn citizens.

Bad news:

• Spending a trillion dollars we don't have requires more paper money printing which is a tax on savers. We can't afford the government we have much less a bigger one.
• Putting the government in charge of anything is another step toward socialism. Our government already took over insurance companies, car companies, and now our government took over the medical profession.
• Law gives the IRS (of all agencies) 10 billion dollars (that's 10 thousand, million dollars) to enforce the requirement that we all purchase a product, satisfactory to the government, from a third-party, for-profit insurance company. What will the IRS demand we buy next?

[kpierce]

Originally Posted by gromicko

Good news:

• Kids can stay on parents policy till age 26. I have a 21 year old son who lives with me so I like this one.
• Pre-existing condition issue resolved. I had 2 back surgeries this year and so I like this one.
• Uninsured poor kids will be insured. I like this one.
• Moral taxpayers aren't forced to fund the murder of our fellow unborn citizens.

Bad news:

• Spending a trillion dollars we don't have requires more paper money printing which is a tax on savers. We can't afford the government we have much less a bigger one.
• Putting the government in charge of anything is another step toward socialism. Our government already took over insurance companies, car companies, and now our government took over the medical profession.
• Law gives the IRS (of all agencies) 10 billion dollars (that's 10 thousand, million dollars) to enforce the requirement that we all purchase a product, satisfactory to the government, from a third-party, for-profit insurance company. What will the IRS demand we buy next?

More good news:
-Insurance companies can't drop you when you get sick.
-No lifetime dollar caps on coverage.

[Christopher Currins]

Congratulations!

[Nick Gromicko]

Gold... to da moon!

[Joseph Burkeson, CMI]

Lookin' like that hopey changy thingy is workin' out pretty fine tonite.


"I got your Hope & Change right here!"

[Nick Gromicko]

The problem for the Dems, as I see it, is that tonight means that unemployment stays high for the foreseeable future. There is a direct correlation between what happened tonight and the job problem lingering.

[Bob Elliott]

Details will work themselves out over time.
Health is the most important part of life.

[Joseph Burkeson, CMI]

Originally Posted by belliott

Details will work themselves out over time.
Health is the most important part of life.

True dat, but we could never have gotten here if it weren't for the corrupt health care system that rewarded management and shareholders by denying claims.

[Nick Gromicko]

True dat, but we could never have gotten here if it weren't for the corrupt health care system that rewarded management and shareholders by denying claims.

True. In small defense of for-profit insurance corporations... corporations by law (they have no choice in the matter) MUST act solely in the shareholder's best interests. I sit on may corporate boards and it is not at the discretion of the management or board of a corporation to do anything else but what is in the best interest of the owners (stockholders).

[Nick Gromicko]

Anyway, the pre-existing condition problem was what tipped the scales against insurance companies IMHO. It was too brutal to tell consumers that they could buy health insurance but not health insurance that covers their most pressing health concern.

[Joseph Burkeson, CMI]

Originally Posted by gromicko

True. In small defense of for-profit insurance corporations... corporations by law (they have no choice in the matter) MUST act solely in the shareholder's best interests. I sit on may corporate boards and it is not at the discretion of the management or board of a corporation to do anything else but what is in the best interest of the owners (stockholders).

America doesn't operate for-profit courts, law enforcement, fire departments or military and those systems work fairly well, I see no reason for health care to be run on a for-profit business plan either.