Bean on healthcare plan

Just in from Melissa Bean. What planet is she on?

She writes, "I am confident that these reforms will provide Americans with the health care security, affordability and choice they seek, while yielding an historic federal budget deficit reduction of $1.3 trillion.

"...here’s the truth about who benefits:

*32 million uninsured Americans (31,500 8th District Families) will finally have access to affordable coverage choices

*Families with insurance will have healthcare security by prohibiting health insurance companies from denying coverage based on pre-existing conditions, dropping insurance when a family needs it most, or capping lifetime benefits.

*Taxpayers will benefit from the most significant deficit reduction in more than 10 years, cutting our federal deficit by $1.3 trillion over the next 20 years (according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office)

*Seniors will benefit from protections and extensions to the Medicare system, while reducing costs in the “doughnut hole” thus lowering the overall cost of lifesaving prescription drugs

*Small business owners and employees will be able to pool together to access lower rates and a wider choice of insurance plans."

OK, so here's what I want to know. When you get more, for less?

As a product of the insurance business, I still am under the belief that to get something, you have to pay for it.

Doctors will stop taking Medicare patients. Doctors are already being ripped off by Medicare, which pays them too little to stay in business and then makes them wait one heck of a long time to get paid even that pittance.

Dumping pre-existing conditions? Sure, those folks need insurance. They are the ones with the biggest bills. Who will pay for that?

There is no way that the healthscare bill will save $1.3 Trillion.

Mellisa Bean is confident. Good. OK, I say, "Put her family and her under the new government plan and dump the wonderful healthcare plan that U.S. Senators and Representatives have."