[Peace-discuss] Fw: [cchcc-l] Saturday's Health Reform Update &Take Action!

[C. G. Estabrook]

If the bill(s) pass, the Democrats will say, "We've taken care of healthcare,"
and nothing more will happen.  The bills have all the flaws that Nader described
on Democracy Now last week.

If the bills are defeated, expectations have risen high enough that a serious
cross-party demand for Medicare for all can be mounted, against the furious
resistance of the insurance companies.  --CGE


Laurie Solomon wrote:
> 
> CCHCC feels that, despite all its limitations (which are too numerous to 
> mention and quite profound), it is the best that we can get; and it will help
> a large number of their clients.  I, for one, seriously question that 
> assessment given that the devil is in the details of how it is going to be 
> interpreted and implemented and not in the written details of the bill itself
> as well as its lack of any real enforcement provisions.
> 
> For example, there is nothing in the bill that I can tell which establishes a
> standardized set of criteria and methods that  (1) define the underwriting 
> policies and decisions that an insurance company makes regarding individual 
> claims, which currently are deemed by the companies as proprietary so as to 
> be kept from customers and state regulators;  (2) no provisions for making 
> said policies, criteria, and processes transparent and challengeable 
> non-proprietary information; and (3) no provisions for monitoring, enforcing,
> or punishing non-compliance with said stipulated provisions.  It does no good
> if insurance companies can establish and implement their own secret
> proprietary rules, criteria, methods, procedures, and practices which they
> then use to deny claims and reject the full payment of the claims of 
> claimants.  It is meaningless to have a set of statute driven standards and 
> criteria if regulators have no authority to control, monitor, and enforce 
> them on a practical everyday basis with respect to their implementation in 
> daily organizational practices.
>> 
>> -------------------------------------------------- From: "Karen Medina"
>> <kmedina67 at gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2010 1:02 PM To:
>> "Peace-discuss List" <Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> Subject: Re:
>> [Peace-discuss] [cchcc-l] Saturday's Health Reform Update &Take Action!
>> 
>>> I am with you, David. This is not reform. This bill will hurt people and
>>> help the insurance companies. The people need universal health care.
>>> 
>>> I am surprised and confused as to why the CCHCC supports the bill.
>>> 
>>> I am pretty sure Jim Duffet's group members (for health care reform) do
>>> not support the bill.
>>> 
>>> -karen medina


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