Bill Nelson, a Democrat from Florida and member of the Senate Finance Committee, wants to create legislation that covers the one in 5 uninsured people in his state. He also wants to protect the benefits that senior citizens are currently enjoying.
The thing is, the proposals that Mr. Nelson outline could cost $40 billion over the [...]
Time and time again, legislators have assured seniors that Medicare coverage would not change. At the same time, Senate and House bills would carve out $500 billion from Medicare over the next 10 years to cover the segment of the population currently unemployed.
Incidentally, this would occur concurrently with as much as 30% more people [...]
An anti-immigration group, The Federation for American Immigration Reform, is correct when they state that illegal aliens could participate in the national health insurance exchange that is being formulated in President Obama’s bill.
This insurance exchange compares health insurance plans and informs everyone which is the most economical for them with the features that are most [...]
Legislators voted to apply taxes on insurance companies to keep health programs for indigent children which California could no longer support in its budget. The program had been slashed by $175 million by Governor Schwarzenegger in the recent past due to the state of California’s deficits.
The increase in money realized will be matched by federal [...]
For all those that have missed Mike Roger’s opening statement on Health Care reform, which was aired on YouTube Videos, it is definitely worth looking at.
The following is from Congressman Roger’s speech in Washington D.C.:
Abraham Lincoln said that you can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak.
So what we have decided [...]
