Das ist ja fast ein kleines Wunder wenn er diese Gesundheitsreform durchbringen kann
die Amerikaner werden sich mehr wundern wenn die Versicherungstarifen hoch gehen
dann bekommt er demnächst den Nobel-Preis im gesundheitswesen
als die Nomination fuer Friedensnobelpreis ist nicht laecherlich genug
The finance committee bill would extend health insurance coverage to an estimated 30 million Americans and would for the first time in US history come close to providing health coverage for all. Excluded would be an estimated 20 million illegal immigrants, even though they form an integral part of the US economy.
The bill will disappoint liberals because it does not contain a public health option offering a government alternative to private health insurance. It proposes instead individuals gathering in cooperatives to use their muscle to negotiate lower prices from insurance companies.
The Senate and House disagree on how to pay for the reform. Democratic senators favour a tax on high-value health insurance policies to raise revenue. The House wants to charge millionaires.
The vote was the focus of a last-minute onslaught from the US health insurance industry. Yesterday a report by America's Health Insurance Plans, an industry trade group, claimed that proposals in the bill would see the average cost of health insurance policies for families rise from $12,300 to $25,900 by 2019.
John Kerry, the former Democratic presidential candidate and a member of the finance committee, described the report as a disgrace, coming as it did at the last minute with claims that did not stand up to scrutiny.
Snowe echoed this, saying: "I don't think it was based on any valid assumptions."
Jay Rockefeller, a Democrat from West Virginia, said: "The misleading, and to me, harmful claims made over the weekend by the profit-driven health insurance companies are politicking for corporate gain at its worst."
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