32,000,000

[ProSense]

• 32,000,000 -- that’s the number of Americans who will get health insurance under the President’s plan. (Source: Congressional Budget Office)
  
  
• That’s also a little more than the populations of Ohio, Virginia, Kentucky and Arizona --- COMBINED. (Source: U.S. Census Bureau)

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For the last number in the series – we wanted to showcase what you get from health insurance reform:

• It expands health insurance coverage to 32 million Americans, guaranteeing that 95% of Americans will be covered.
  
  
• It makes health insurance affordable for middle class and small businesses -- including the largest middle class tax cuts for health care in history -- reducing premiums and out-of-pocket costs.
  
  
• It strengthens consumer protections and reins in insurance company abuses.
  
  
• It gives millions of Americans the same types of private insurance choices that members of Congress will have -- through a new competitive health insurance market that keeps costs down.
  
  
• It holds insurance companies accountable to keep premiums down and prevent denials of care and coverage, including for pre-existing conditions.
  
  
• It improves Medicare benefits with lower prescription drug costs for those in the ‘donut hole,' better chronic care, free preventive care, and nearly a decade more of solvency for Medicare.
  
  
• It reduces the deficit by more than $130 billion over next ten years, and by more than one trillion dollars over the following decade; reining waste, fraud and abuse; overpayments to insurance companies and by paying for quality over quantity of care.

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[daa]

1. That sure is a lot of money for the insurance industry

too bad the people won't be able to afford to use it or are the copays subsidized too and the prescriptions you get, who pays for that?

[ProSense]

2. Here

Think again

[impik]

4. Naaaa, Krugman is long gone under the bus

[RaleighNCDUer]

7. Hey, I've got a GREAT deal on famous landmark - a bridge in NYC!

Interested?

[phleshdef]

3. I've had about enough of people who don't know everything thats in the bill criticizing it.

And your questions give you away as someone that hasn't looked at everything in the bill as a whole, or else you wouldn't be asking them.

[NYC_SKP]

8. I'm Concerned About the Streetlight Building Industry. Let's nationalize it.

They're making money.

That's wrong.

The truth, my friend, is that yes, the HC Industry and Financial Sectors and oodles others have gone unregulated.

Apparently, congress doesn't have the will right now to nationalize these.

It scarcely has the will to increase regulation.

That being the reality of the matter, we must push for greater regulation as we encourage greater competition and the introduction of non-profits, co-ops, and a public option and expansion of Medicare as we are able to accomplish these.

Some of this is in the bill, some is not.

Not yet.

So, instead of crying about what we aren't getting and couldn't get anyway (so what's the point of crying), let's take what we have and build on it.

I know it takes work, but at least it's withing the realm of the possible.

:patriot:

[RaleighNCDUer]

5. Sucks to the be 16 million STILL left uncovered.

But what the fuck, if they would die then let them do so, and decrease the surplus population.

[NYC_SKP]

6. A familiar refrain of late: "Well This Bill Does Nothing For ME."

And I don't think this attitude needs to be addressed.

The absurdity of it speaks volumes.