WP- Bush Health Care Plan Seems to Fall Short

[Rose Siding]

If the Republican-controlled Congress enacted President Bush's entire health care agenda, as many as 10 million people who lack health insurance would be covered at a cost of $102 billion over the next decade, according to his campaign aides.

But when the Bush-Cheney team was asked to provide documentation, the hard data fell far short of the claims, a gap supported by several independent analyses.

Projections by the Congressional Budget Office, the Treasury Department, academics and the campaign's Web site suggest that under the best circumstances, Bush's plans for health care would extend coverage to no more than 6 million people over the next decade and possibly as few as 2 million.

"There's little reason to expect that there would be any reduction in the overall numbers of Americans without health insurance," Brookings Institution health policy expert Henry J. Aaron said. "We're swimming against a rather swift current in our efforts to reduce the number of uninsured, and the power of President Bush's proposals to move against that current is, it seems to me, very, very limited."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21929-2004Aug21.html?nav=rss_politics

[aquart]

1. He doesn't care if we suffer and die and never has.

[mhr]

2. Unemployed Four Years, Uninsured Four Years

I don't believe anyones plan will address the needs of those like myself.

This nation has declared war on itself and its citizens.

The disgrace of national healthcare is but one example.

[Old and In the Way]

3. We need to change the definitions of our priorities.

If national security means 1st taking care of the nation's needs, the answer is simple. Take 200 billion out of the Defense Department and put it towards social welfare, alternative/renewable energy, and jobs.

Protecting this country against outside threats while this country's citizens go to hell in a handbasket seems analogous to putting a $100,000 security system in a house that's been abandoned.

[hatrack]

4. A Bush proposal that, on closer examination, doesn't add up? No!!!

Impossible! :evilgrin:

[DeepModem Mom]

5. kick

[The Zanti Regent]

6. Bush beleives if YOU get sick, well, it's "GOD'S WILL"!

Remember, Bush's "faith-based" version of health care is that YOU give $$$$$ to TV Preachers when YOU get sick and THEY will PRAY FOR YOU...

UNLESS

Robert Tilton throws your prayer request away and keeps the $$$$$....