The Senate has just passed their version of the health bill. The estimated cost of the bill is estimated to be over $800,000,000 over the next ten year. That is only eight hundred billion dollars. Just shy of one trillion.

The arguments for the healthcare reforms include the following:

1. Provide healthcare for the uninsured
2. Lower the cost of healthcare
3. Provide better healthcare
4. Not to eliminate private insurance options (i.e.public option)

Many current bill falls short of these goals by the following:

1. Will have a short coming, so taxes will need to be increased.
2. Insurance rates are predicted to increase
3. Everyone must buy health insurance, or pay a fine over two thousand dollars. If you do not pay the fine, a larger fine, up to twenty five thousand dollars and up to two years of imprisonment.
4. Predicted that twenty-five million people will not have health insurance coverage.
5. Medicare benefits will be reduced
6. No public option

First of all, I presently have health insurance provided through my employment, where a pay about two hundred dollars a month for my portion, and my company pays the rest. An equivalent policy for me and my family would run about eight hundred dollars a month.

So no one has yet talked about what all of this means to me. I take it that I will lose my company covered insurance and I will need pay for this myself. Therefore, I lose six hundred dollars a month. If the is true, then the health bills actually help corporations and hurt the common person - contra the stated stand of the libs, who are counter big business and for the common person. Well, this will turn out to be a lie. I do not thing the corporations will give all of their employees a six hundred dollar a month pay increase. This wage increase would be taxable and we would lose fifteen percent or more to taxes. This does not make sense, except they are throwing the big health insurance companies under the bus.

The bill increases the deductible level from 7.5 percent to 10 percent. Therefore the sick who is paying the bills, will have a tax increase. The people who are supposed to benefit from the bill, will actually have to pay more!

Government agencies will dictate what is covered and not covered. The less expensive option may out way the best treatment.

Public option is not in the current bill. Obama promised a public option. Is he lying. Will he veto it if it does not contain a public option?

At last, the government will be in charge of health care. A question for the libs. If George Bush is so evil, would you want him in charge of health care, and given this much more power? In the future leaders that the libs do not like will be in charge of this. Do you actually want them in charge of this? If the tables were reversed I feel the libs would not George Bush in charge of the health care, and would be screaming as we screaming about not wanting Obama and gang in charge of this.

The worst thing is we do not know how this will actually effect healthcare. Will there still be ;plenty of doctors, and will health care be as readily available?

So you can see, there are a lot of points that are not adding up for me on the health care issue.

Yes we need reformation of healthcare, and things need to be improved. But there are a lot of things that are great and should not be tampered with. The present healthcare bill messes up a lot of the good aspects of our present system and do not fix the problems.

This is driving me nuts!