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Lawrence Exe
This bill will place an enormous and unfair Federal Tax cap on cigars. This would cripple small tobacco retailers. Slap this tax on fast food purchases and kill two birds with one stone. Getting revenue from a fast food tax for this bill would relate it to the biggest factor in childrens health today. This might also cause lower intake of fast foods by children in the US. Think about it- fast food has a greater impact on childrens health than me sitting on my front porch smoking a cigar. It doesnt take a genius to see that taxing the fast food would be a more stable and greater source of income for the bill.
Ken from so. Cal.
I agree that this bill would be totally unfair and VERY detrimental to the tobacco industry as a whole, not only to the independent shop owners, but the ripple effect down the road, I.E. the countries of Nicaragua, Equador, the Dominican Republic etc. who's economy is already a mess, but would suffer greatly at the loss of this income. This is not even addressing what the black market would do. As Lawerence said tax fast food and disposible diapers that are filling our land fills and maybe the population growth would slow down.
Heather
ABSOLUTELY OUTRAGEOUS THAT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS COULD BE COVERED. DOES IT MATTER IF WE ARE CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTRY ANYMORE? IS THERE NO BODY IN CONGRESS THAT WILL ENSURE THERE IS NO BENEFIT TO THOSE WHO ILLEGALLY ENTER THIS COUNTRY?
Jennifer
It states legal immigrants, but either way, immigrant children are in American schools and we need for them to be healthy, if for no other reason than that resident children stay healthy. Please keep in mind that this will correct some aggregious problems with Medicare Part D. I work with this stuff and there is nothing worse than seeing someone who has been lied to by the insurance company and stuck in a plan that will not cover their life sustaining medications without recourse! We need for Part D to protect Americans, not big Pharma and Humana!
G. Allen
Sec. 609 removes payment for oxygen services for seniors after only 13 months to pay for illegal immigrants to get health care? Seniors who are prescribed oxygen only get worse and need more in home service as time goes on, eliminating payment is going to put "our greatest generation" at further risk. Do they care?
MaplePoint Pete
Great Bill!!
*Eliminates subsidy for Medicare Advantage - less corporate welfare
*Eliminates scheduled cut in physician pay - who's going to take care of granny if the cut wasn't removed?
*Preferentially allows promary care physicians' pay to increase - again, who's going to take care of granny if her primary care physician drops out of Medicare?
Rebecca Salko
I work in the quality dept of a rural hospital and see an ever increasing amount of physician care that is not based on best practices or even evidence based reasearch. I thing the physicians should have to show quality care to get their 'cut' as MP Pete put it. Granny doesn't want to be taken care of by a physician based on the amount of money they will receive from Medicare but by the quality of care they demonstrate.
M. Menzies
This bill increases taxes by 23% to 2300% on legal tobacco products, that have nothing to do with chidren's health - INSANITY! Also, it extends the cut-off for benefits to those under 21 years of age, as states see fit. INSANITY, I thought this was for children!!? Also, it allows coverage for "legal residents" (read: non-citizens who fall into whatever gevernment-contrived category makes them legal) and their children. All this with no incentives to reduce the trend of dependency on the "nanny" state. On the contrary, it does the opposite. AND, as an added government bend-over, I get to help pay for this, to the tune of $1134/yr, as well as pay for my own coverage!! Meanwhile, the government remains firmly in the pocket of big pharma, and the medical and insurance industries. When will the feds over give us a break on this? Never - the government is in the business of TAKING, not giving.
Colleen
Please remember when immigrants have no health care coverage, they do not receive health care. Do you remember the guy with the multi-drug resistant TB flying around and endangering everyone around him? Do you want immigrants with untreated TB near you? Do you want migrant workers with hepatitis picking your food? In being compassionate, we are also protecting ourselves. Stop being so short-sighted.
Bruce
Takes money away from elderly care and redistributes it to care of children. With our population growing older every day, that might not be the way to go.
Also, reduces the ability of JCOAHO and AAAHC to do medicare inspections. Puts the state inspectors back in charge. So instead of one agency's rules, you have to deal with two. Job security for the State inspectors, More work for the hospitals.
Pattie Stroud
I have a son with renal kidney failure who served in Vietnam and has no income. He must have in-home dialysis every 4 hours. He i a legal citizen. I feel that only legal citizens should have government aide, and speak our language. Please don't let my son die from lack of help.
Bob
Whats the difference between this boll and the one that just got Vetoed?
Is it just an attempt to make it get passed again? or an attempt to give the media and to try and give President Bush a bad headline.
Either way I hope it dont pass..