Dick Durbin gives Top Ten list of what we can expect within 6 months:

[gateley]

1. Small business will be eligible for small business tax credit.
2. Immediate options for people who can't get insurance today.
3. Within 6 months, whatever health insurance you have will be required to cover your child (under age 18) regardless of any pre existing condition.
4. Recision comes to an end 6 months.
5. Out of network? Ensures access to emergency care in or out of network.
6. Freedom to choose your doctor.
7. Will bar insurance companies from limiting lifetime benefits and imposing annual limits.
8. Requires preventative services without a co-pay.
9. Sr citizens will have dramatic discounts on prescriptions with Medicare Part D
10. Seniors eligible for one free wellness visit per year without charge.

I was typing this as he was speaking so it's full of holes but I think I got the gist.

[NJmaverick]

1. This is the sort of change I voted for

[Stinky The Clown]

11. You voted for Durbin?

[graywarrior]

2. Franken just listed the same

:thumbsup:

[silverweb]

3. A very good beginning.

To scuttle the whole bill because it's "not good enough" is not acceptable.

The conference committee will hopefully be able to make it even a little better.

Once people realize there are no death panels or such nonsense, they actually like it, and the reTHUGs lied to them and manipulated them (again!), more will join us to pressure our reps to add to and improve it over time.

:thumbsup:

[monmouth]

4. #10. Seniors eligible for one free wellness visit a year without charge

is huge. I presently go to the doctor every 2-3 years, he knows I pay him out of pocket and thank goodness no health issues. This alone is very important for the most people who can least afford high priced insurance..

[T Wolf]

5. OK. Come July 1 (I'll give you an extra week) let's revisit this list. How many of these ten

additions/improvements will actually be enacted?

With an N of ten, the percentage is easy to figure out.

I say maybe 10 or 20%, just because I refuse to totally give up hope.

But if I were betting, my money would be on NONE.

[tridim]

6. All of them. The Bill is practically a done deal.

Your pessimism doesn't matter, these things will happen. It will be THE LAW.

[ThomWV]

7. Well, isn't that a wonderful list - not a single bad thing there.

Like people who can't not possibly afford insurance being required to buy it. And don't think that some immediate relief in the form of subsidies to the poor will endure - there will always be another Ronald Reagan hunting for welfare queens, and this subsidy to the poor will be just as easily attacked as any have been in the past.

[old guy]

8. I'm going to wait for the final bill to see what is actually is in it.

I'm also going to bookmark this and revisit it in 6 mo to check for accuracy. Most often the devil is in the details so I'll wait and see.

[ThomWV]

10. Yeah, I'm going to wait until its passed to see how badly I got fucked too

Why say anything about what should and should not be in it now? What good could possibly come from that?

On Edit: Corrected the spelling of the word "Fucked"

[gateley]

13. Ha! I think that's probably the only word I've never misspelled! nt

[Faryn Balyncd]

9. & (if Senate gets its way) Americans will be locked in to buying corporate insurance FOREVER.....

.....regardless of what the premiums work out to be.


It sure is nice to get a few transient trinkets for the price of giving up our only real bargaining lever forever.

[blindpig]

12. Funny how he left out the mandate...n/t

[gateley]

14. Yeah, it certainly doesn't paint the whole picture -- I was just taking dictation.

It's good, though, that we can see some of the good things that are included, I've only been focused on what we've given away. Reminds me that nothing is cut and dried. I'll stand by to see if we've lost more than we've gained, or vice versa.