“To be effective, health care reform must include insurance coverage for everyone, encourage prevention measures, and reform the inefficiencies in our system to ensure the future strength of our economy. CPR—Coverage, Prevention, Reform—is a plan I have proposed that sets up a system where every American will be required to purchase MEANINGFUL health insurance to ensure each family will be protected against bankruptcy if a family member becomes seriously ill or injured.”

How is the Government going to define “meaningful”? Seriously?

Is everyone supposed to get the same “healthcare” that Bill Gates can afford? If not, why not?

Where’s the line between “meaningful” and “luxurious”?

Where’s the line between “meaningful” and “not enough”?
I say follow the Constitution. And there is not a word in it that says the gov’t can mandate that I be forced to pay for something they get to define in terms of me.
Are we going to have sliding scales based on salary and will I be forced to pay for someone else to get better than what I have?

Here is an analysis of the bill by Keith Hennesy:

http://keithhennessey.com/2009/06/08/kennedy-health-bill/

Here is a funny cartoon….
http://www.tobydials.com/td/

True health care reform in this country will need to do three things that cannot be done by our current politicians:
1. tort reform–take medical malpractice and medical injuries out of the tort system.
2. Implement a patient safety system that uses a “no-fault” error reporting system similar to that used by the airlines.
3.Ration health care according to well-publicized criteria and insulate providers from liability when they follow these criteria.

“Health care reform” sounds great doesn’t it? Obama is a smart guy who is using this smoke screen of “health care reform” to jockey for re-election.

And, am I not understanding this? OPEN WOUND OF EAR DRUM – TYMPANOPLASTY is covered, but the associated MEDICAL THERAPY is not? Oregon will pay to glue or stitch the eardrum back up, but not cover the associated antibiotics?

It looks like a bright young economics intern came up with a really nice spreadsheet, that somehow got published as a standard, without anyone checking to see if it would pass the political stink test. The first time some (well-off) kid is left deaf, or otherwise scarred by this list, it will just dissolve … into what it really is. The hospitals will still have to treat these conditions, under threat of EMTALA and lawsuit, but won’t be paid.

Gee, citizen, better not to get any of the conditions past line 503. They’re “never events”, don’tcha know.