Health Care Bill Summary

This year ends the Bush Tax cuts. She how this health care passage will make your taxes even higher. How can he say he is not going to raise taxes on 95% of the people? Is this what we need when we can barely get by as it is?? www: thomas.gov enter HR3590 in the > search Box and look for summaries. > > Starting in 2011 (next year folks) your W 2 tax form sent by your employer > Will be increased to show the value of what ever health insurance you are > Given by the company. It does not matter if that's a private concern or > Governmental body of some sort. If you're retired ? So what; your gross Will > go up by the amount of insurance you get. > > The dollar value (cost of what the company pays for your insurance) will be > considered income and added to your gross pay. You will be taxed on the > total. > > You will be required to pay taxes on a large sum of money that you have > never seen. > > Take your tax form you just finished and see what $15,000 or $20,000 > Additional gross does to your tax debt. That's what you'll pay next year. > For many it also puts you into a new higher bracket so it's even worse. > > This is how the government is going to buy insurance for 15 % that don't > Have insurance and it's only part of the tax increases.

Answer: the healthcare bill is a tax on people with insurance to pay for people without insurance the problem is that Lieberman and weak democrats took out the public option so there is nothing to control costs, so when insurance companies raise rates, they also have to raise taxes, because the taxes are going to private insurance companies who are raising rates Its a downward spiral of taxation that cant be stopped

(sorry, I messed up the links previously) Tyranny always goes after control of agriculture. http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-875&tab=summary http://www.jbs.org/health-care-freedom-blog/6233-update-mccains-dietary-supplement-has-new-life http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/04/ethic-cleansers-lovefest-slaughters-on-parade.html Zimbabwe link is just to show the usual train of events. Of course we haven't got to the inflation part here yet, but does anyone remember that they took the farmland away from the farmers and gave it to non-farmers, then everyone starved? With hyperinflation looming in our own future, Zimbabwe is a lesson we should pay more attention to. Did anyone notice when recently our Federal government removed the word "navigable" from the waters they control? That links directly with control of agriculture. It's coming. Do you produce food in your back yard? Prepared for tons of Federal regulations to bury you? The Bill: "(1) administer a national food safety program; and (2) ensure that persons who produce, process, or distribute food prevent or minimize food safety hazards. Sets forth requirements for the Administrator to carry out such duties, including: (1) requiring food establishments to adopt preventive process controls; (2) enforcing performance standards for food safety; (3) establishing an inspection program; (4) strengthening and expanding foodborne illness surveillance systems; (5) requiring imported food to meet the same standards as U.S. food; and (6) establishing a national traceability system for food. "

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I'm unsure about if i'm a republican, or democrat...a summary is that i'm pro gay marriage, pro war and pro life in most cases. I'm undecided on some other things, and am fairly positive on the new health care bill. I'm young and am just trying to figure out this kind of thing. Thanks.

Answer: Sounds like youi lean Libertarian, but that "pro health care" throws a wrench in it. 1. REPEAL the 16th Amendment!! 2. Those who voted for Obamamama… YOU OWE US! Republican since before she was born… and PROUD of it.

I need a summary of this article. I always have trouble summarizing things. Or does anyone else have tips on how to easily summarize something? Thanks! Here's the article: NEW YORK -- Verizon Communications Inc., the largest wireless carrier in the country, is finding there's an end to the number of people who'll sign two-year contracts for cell phone service. Verizon said today that it signed up a net of just 423,000 customers under contract in the first three months of the year. That was the lowest number in years, and below analyst expectations. Its chief competitor, AT&T Inc., also reported a relatively low number of contract customers for the first quarter when it reported first-quarter results the day before. But AT&T did somewhat better, signing up 512,000 with help from the iPhone. The results demonstrate that the engine that has kept the wireless industry booming for more than a decade is now running out of steam, as nearly everyone has a cell phone. To keep revenue growing, the carriers are now looking at other avenues. One is prepaid service, which is usually cheaper than contract plans and available to consumers without credit. Verizon lost 139,000 prepaid customers under its own brand in the quarter, but added 1.3 million through resellers. In total, Verizon added 1.55 million wireless customers in the quarter, comparable to the 1.3 million it added in the same quarter last year. But since far fewer signed contracts, they're worth much less to Verizon. It ended the quarter with 92.8 million subscribers. Wireless service revenues still grew 5.9 percent from a year ago, to $13.8 billion, helped by the fact that more people are signing up for data plans. But AT&T managed to grow revenues by 10 percent, again with help from the iPhone, which comes with hefty service fees. Overall, Verizon said its earnings fell by three-quarters in the first three months of the year, brought down in large part by the one-time tax effect of the health care reform bill. The New York company earned $409 million, or 14 cents per share, in the quarter, down from $1.645 billion, or 58 cents per share, a year ago. The results included a previously announced a charge of 34 cents per share, to reflect a change in the health care reform package regarding the tax treatment of benefits. Excluding that and other one-time items, Verizon said it earned 58 cents per share. That was two cents above the average analyst estimate as polled by Thomson Reuters. Revenue rose 4.4 percent to $26.9 billion, matching analyst expectations. In pre-opening trading, Verizon shares fell 51 cents, or 1.7 percent, to $29.05.

Answer: Verizon is getting apparently getting hit by the recession. They had the lowest number of people signing up in years, 423,000 customers. At&t, verizons competitor is low also but doing better, mostly because of the iphone, but still low. In the end of the quarter Verizon got 92.8 million subscribers.................. please help me with the concluding sentence i suck thar

Hi, I was wondering how this article relates to public opinions, political parties, politics, media, campaign or elections. Please help me on this one. Thank You A broad cross-section of House Democrats unveiled a new comprehensive immigration reform bill Tuesday, laying down an early marker for what they hope will be a major 2010 debate. More than 80 co-sponsors have already signed on to the legislation, which is authored by Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) and titled the Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America's Security and Prosperity Act of 2009, or "CIR ASAP" for short. The bill includes provisions strengthening border security, creating a streamlined employment verification system, altering the visa program to promote the reunification of families and establishing a commission to recommend changes to the current system of H-1B and H-2B visas for skilled workers. The measure, a summary of which is available here (PDF), also contains an "earned legalization program" for current undocumented workers, giving them the chance to get legal status if they pay a $500 fine, pass a criminal background check and show that they have made valuable contributions to American society "through employment, education, military service or other volunteer/community service." Gutierrez and several members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus as well as the Congressional Black Caucus and other groups jammed into an overstuffed, sweltering House committee room Tuesday to release the bill and demand action. Standing before a cadre of activists chanting "Si, se puede," and a group of children wearing shirts that said "future voter," Gutierrez said that years of hard work and negotiations on the issue had brought them "to this bill and to this meeting, which marks the final push toward comprehensive immigration reform." Gutierrez added that the bill was "pro-family, pro-jobs and pro security ... and the time to pass it into law is right now." Immigration reform was one of the most contentious issues of the 110th Congress, when a concerted effort to reach a compromise bill failed in the Senate despite the support of key members of both parties and President George W. Bush. Neither the House nor the Senate has addressed the topic in a substantive way in the 111th Congress, as health care, climate change and the struggling economy have all taken precedence. And with unemployment over 10 percent, there has been little political will to revisit such a controversial issue. Reform advocates hope that calculus changes in 2010, even though Congress is often loathe to tackle tough issues in election years. "As a candidate for president, Barack Obama promised comprehensive immigration reform, and we have brought him the road to success here with this bill," Gutierrez said. Gutierrez is one of several House Democrats who have complained at times this year that the Obama administration was insufficiently committed to timely consideration of an immigration measure. He said in May that Obama had been "eerily silent" on the issue. The White House did send a signal to reform advocates in November, when Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano delivered a speech predicting "we will see legislation beginning to move" in the first part of 2010. Napolitano said Obama wanted a "tough but fair" mechanism to allow illegal immigrants to apply for legal status, and said border security had already been improved significantly. In the Senate, Sens. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Lindsey Graham (R-N.C.) are among those who have been working on reform measures for consideration in 2010. Democratic leaders expect immigration reform to be on the agenda, but it's not first in line. "The administration has laid out several priorities including financial regulatory reform and clean energy legislation," said Jim Manley, spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.). "We hope to consider comprehensive immigration reform in addition to these issues in the first half of next year." While Tuesday's unveiling was designed to showcase a wide range of support for the new reform bill, the measure quickly drew criticism from some quarters. "Any bill without a temporary worker program is simply not comprehensive," said Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) a reform supporter who has worked on legislation in the past with Gutierrez. Flake added that he was "troubled by the weakened legalization requirements in the Gutierrez bill," which does not include the tougher penalties for illegal immigrants applying to become legal that some previous legislation did, such as larger fines and the "touchback" requirement that undocumented workers go back to their home countries and then return. Rep. Lamar Smith (Texas), the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, was much more scathing.

Answer: Immigration reform makes strange bedfellows. Many Democrats and Republicans find themselves not in their normal party lines. Because of that, the normal result is to loose too many votes in the President's party to be made up by votes coming in from the opposing party. The last time we had significant immigration reform was under a popular Republic President with a Democrat dominated House and Senate, under Reagan. Many now see that effort as a failure because it did nothing to help the long-term situation. Bush came close to passing something, again with a Republican President and Democratic Congress. We'll see if Obama can pass anything significant. I have my doubts. It's a tough area. I don't think he'll push it seriously unless he thinks it has a shot, but if he does, the political implications would be that any bill that passes would be bipartisan. That's a benefit. It will also attract the latino vote, which tends to be a swing group (really it's many groups, some of which lean left, some right, and some, like Florida Cubans, have been in flux lately).

I am looking for a very objective summary of the Obama Health Care Bill...followed by your personal feelings towards it. And does the government provided Health Care include abortions? Thanks!

Answer: Look to China, they have something similar to Obama's Health Care Act of Tyranny China Tries to Sterilize 10,000 Parents Over One-Child Rule Times of London Family planning authorities have detained hundreds of people against their will in a campaign to sterilize 10,000 men and women suspected of trying to violate China’s strict birth control policies.

My girlfriend is a senior in high school, and she was looking forward to medical school to become a surgeon. She lives near Washington D.C., and protested the Health Care bill. She said due to it passing, or some other bill, I'm not sure, she is rethinking getting that particular PHD because they now require medical students to perform one abortion to pass medical school. In summary, my question is, is there a law out there that says you HAVE to perform an abortion to pass medical school, or something along those lines? Certain schools require it? I've googled my brains out, and haven't come up with much. Someone, please, enlighten me? Please no flamming or bashing, it's not nice, and doesn't earn you 10 points.

Answer: No. A medical student would never be required to perform an abortion - this is a surgical operation that would be performed by a qualified surgical consultant or registrar. Medical students may be given the opportunity to watch or assist in the operation but would not be performing the operation themselves. Also, if medical students do not believe in abortion they are not forced to take part in something which runs against their beliefs. However, they are required to know about the basics of the operation and about referring patients on to clinics which offer abortions. Doctors are not allowed to impress their own personal beliefs about abortion onto patients (eg it is NOT acceptable for a doctor to tell a patient not to get an abortion if the patient wants one).

I have to write an essay for my government class on the new health care bill. I already have a summary of the bill down and my opinion on it. They only part left is to provide some of the critiques that both Democrats and Republicans have of the bill. I'm not real into politics and I hardly if ever watch the news so I wouldn't know what to say for both sides. I've tried searching for this online but all I get is individual opinions instead of more general ones. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

Answer: Republicans are wholly pretty against it, because they feel it violates their constitutional rights, they feel this will spark more "Marxist" ideals to be implemented, and also that the Dems. weren't truethful in the way they went about this bill and what will come from it. Democrats... I'm not as sure. I only know most of the Repubs. cause my rents are Repubs. (me, not so much.)

People keep screaming about the health care bill saying its the worst thing ever and what not.. I haven't read it yet, but i would like to decide for myself. So if anyone could send me a link to the full thing,not a summary. That would be awesome

Answer: http://docs.house.gov/rules/health/111_ahcaa.pdf If you go to house.gov you can also find it from there & look into info about who supported it. btw, it says 2009 because that is when it was written.

Health care reform bill would provide immediate benefits http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1914020220100319 Timeline: When health care reform will affect you http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/03/23/health.care.timeline/index.html Health Care Reform Bill Summary http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20000846-503544.html reform bill details & summaries http://dpc.senate.gov/dpcdoc-sen_health_care_bill.cfm WITHIN THE FIRST YEAR OF ENACTMENT *Uninsured adults with a pre-existing conditions will be able to obtain health coverage through a new program that will expire once new insurance exchanges begin operating in 2014. WHAT HAPPENS IN 2014 *Health plans no longer can exclude people from coverage due to pre-existing conditions. How soon will the premiums on the "new program" become unaffordable, and it will need regular bailouts to keep it afloat? After 2014, will insurance companies exit the free market for health insurance (and sell other kinds of insurance instead), or will they start gettng regular bailouts "in exchange for a government stake in their business?" How soon will these bailouts become habitual, and all health insurance is nationalized? How will this be different from universal health insurance? Cinner, that's what I said. He will TRANSFORM existing insurance companies into socialism by NATIONALIZING them with bailouts. Dennis, that's what I said. He will transform insurance companies into socialism by nationalizing them.

Answer: It would be my best guess that the private health care insurers will start to abandon the health care policies before the new limitations go into full effect. The public option will have to be addressed to cover the vacuum left by their removal of private policies. That will eventually become the only option available. The public option was abandoned with the knowledge the private insurance companies could not withstand the added costs of the new requirements and that it would eventually have to be added. The only other option would be for the government to cover the cost variance and guarantee the insurers a limited profit. That would require more bureaucratic involvement in private industry and more costs incurred by the administration of those funds.