Sharron Angle/Husband Receive Government Health Care

[Truthmatters]

She claimed that government healthcare was shitty care

 

[boedicca]

It's not government health care.

It's a health insurance benefit program in which federal employees choose from over 200 competitive health insurance offerings with a defined amount to spend on their health care choices.

Exactly the opposite of the One Size Fits All Mandatory ObamaCare.

 

[Truthmatters]

The Plum Line - Sharron Angle suggested we should privatize Dept of Veterans Affairs

Angle wants healthcare privitized even for her father whos on VA


Here's yet another data point for those looking to paint Sharron Angle as a female, right-wing Rand Paul: In a recent interview Angle suggested we should privatize the Department of Veterans Affairs.

The key exchange comes halfway through this interview Angle gave to an NPR affiliate in Nevada on May 19th. In it, Angle discusses the plight of her father as follows:

ANGLE: He's 87 years old and has Parkinson's and we have to pay more and more for his healthcare. I know he pays over 800 dollars a month in prescription drugs that we can't get through his VA nor through Medicare -- they just wont cover those things. And I know lots of seniors --

BECKER: Should they cover those things?

ANGLE: No, not if you're working towards a privatized system. And he can pay for them. That's my whole point. Even with the system we've got, it's broken, its not covering for every cost that he has. And if he were dependent upon that, he wouldn't be getting the healthcare he needs and that's why we need to fix the system.

 

[del]

The Plum Line - Sharron Angle suggested we should privatize Dept of Veterans Affairs

Angle wants healthcare privitized even for her father whos on VA

wow, i certainly won't vote for her on nov 2.

idiot

 

[Truthmatters]

Public health insurance option - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


READ something besides right wing crap



The public health insurance option is a proposed government-run health insurance agency which competes with other health insurance companies. It is not the same as Publicly-funded health care. Called the public insurance option or public option, for short, it is a proposed health insurance plan that could be offered by the federal government of the United States. It has been featured in two bills considered by the U.S. House of Representatives: the proposed Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.R. 3962), passed by the House in 2009, and its predecessor the proposed America's Affordable Health Choices Act (H.R. 3200). Another bill, the Public Option Act, also referred to as the Medicare You Can Buy Into Act, (H.R. 4789), would allow all citizens and permanent residents to buy into a public option by participating in the public Medicare program.

 

[boedicca]

TM doesn't understand what Wikipedia is.

And pointing out that someone would like government services privatized doesn't mean she is a hypocrite for using the services for which she is forced to pay via taxation.

 

[del]

TM doesn't understand what Wikipedia is.

TM is an anaerobic life form.

 

[Truthmatters]

TM doesn't understand what Wikipedia is.

And pointing out that someone would like government services privatized doesn't mean she is a hypocrite for using the services for which she is forced to pay via taxation.

She claimed it was not good healthcare and that the private sector is better at delievering healthcare.

Why then does she use this inferior healthcare option?

 

[boedicca]

TM doesn't understand what Wikipedia is.

TM is an anaerobic life form.

Or she could be the recently discovered life form that lives on Arsenic.

New Life Form Lives on Arsenic - Technology & science - Science - DiscoveryNews.com - msnbc.com

 

[Claudette]

TM doesn't understand what Wikipedia is.

And pointing out that someone would like government services privatized doesn't mean she is a hypocrite for using the services for which she is forced to pay via taxation.

She claimed it was not good healthcare and that the private sector is better at delievering healthcare.

Why then does she use this inferior healthcare option?

Because her husband payed for it.

Jesus. Get your head outta your ass TM.

BTW BO, I don't think even arsenic could produce her. LOL

 

[Truthmatters]

Then why were you people against the public option if you like this system?

 

[boedicca]

Then why were you people against the public option if you like this sytem?

You nattering nabob of nothingness.

Understanding Angle's husband's right to accept his compensation package is not anything remotely similar to Liking That System.

That said, the FEBH is far better than ObamaCare. It incorporates interstate competition among more than 200 health insurance offerings with a defined benefit the beneficiary uses to fund his choices. That is quite different that the One Size Fits All ObamaCare choice, and not a Public Option.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Then why were you people against the public option if you like this sytem?

We are against FREE entitlement programs given away at OUR expense. And Obama care provides JUST that Government paid health care free of charge to people that can not afford it and make below a certain amount.

Comparing EARNED and PAID for coverage with that is disingenuous at best and an out right lie in my opinion. Claiming that people that PAID into a retirement plan are getting something for free is ignorant and fucking STUPID. Claiming that people that EARNED a retirement plan via work rendered per a CONTRACT for retirement is ALSO ignorant and fucking stupid. And it makes YOU look even more ignorant then most of us thought you were.

 

[Cecilie1200]

She claimed that government healthcare was shitty care

And she wasn't talking about the health insurance they offer their employees, so she was correct.

 

[Claudette]

I think your going to find that Obamacare is nothing like what the Fed worker is receiving right now.

I'm just wondering if all the all Fed employees, to include our illustrious Senators and Congressmen, will be getting what we the masses will be getting??

Wanna take a few bets there TM??

 

[boedicca]

As the Obama Administration has already granted 222 waivers, it's pretty safe to assume that Federal Employees and Politicians will receive the larges waiver of all.

 

[Truthmatters]

Public health insurance option - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


READ something besides right wing crap



The public health insurance option is a proposed government-run health insurance agency which competes with other health insurance companies. It is not the same as Publicly-funded health care. Called the public insurance option or public option, for short, it is a proposed health insurance plan that could be offered by the federal government of the United States. It has been featured in two bills considered by the U.S. House of Representatives: the proposed Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.R. 3962), passed by the House in 2009, and its predecessor the proposed America's Affordable Health Choices Act (H.R. 3200). Another bill, the Public Option Act, also referred to as the Medicare You Can Buy Into Act, (H.R. 4789), would allow all citizens and permanent residents to buy into a public option by participating in the public Medicare program.

Why did you rail againt this ??????

 

[RDD_1210]

Then why were you people against the public option if you like this sytem?

We are against FREE entitlement programs given away at OUR expense. And Obama care provides JUST that Government paid health care free of charge to people that can not afford it and make below a certain amount.

Sounds like you are against Medicaid and not "Obamacare". Do you even understand what the Public Option is/was or what was in the Health care proposal? It certainly doesn't look like you do.

 

[Greenbeard]

It's worth noting that GOP voters don't think anti-ACA members of Congress should accept their FEHBP benefits:

Most Americans think incoming Congressmen who campaigned against the health care bill should put their money where their mouth is and decline government provided health care now that they're in office. Only 33% think they should accept the health care they get for being a member of Congress while 53% think they should decline it and 15% have no opinion.

Democrats are actually the most supportive of anti-health care Congressmen taking their health care, with 40% saying they should accept it to 46% who think they should decline. But Republicans and independents- who put these folks in office in the first place- strongly think they should refuse their government provided health care. GOP voters hold that sentiment by a 58/28 margin and indys do 56/27.​

I think your going to find that Obamacare is nothing like what the Fed worker is receiving right now.

I'm just wondering if all the all Fed employees, to include our illustrious Senators and Congressmen, will be getting what we the masses will be getting??

Federal employees--with the exception of Congressmen and Senators--stay in their existing employer-sponsored group plans under ACA, like most Americans. Senators and Congressmen, however, will no longer be eligible for the FEHBP and will have to buy individual insurance policies through state health insurance exchanges.

What are using the word "ObamaCare" to mean? Exchanges?

If ObamaCare were modeled on a nationwide exchange with a defined benefit similar to FEBH (and voluntary to boot), we'd all be better off.

The more liberal House bill was modeled on a national exchange. Ultimately the more conservative Senate bill's state-based exchanges (which look very similar Paul Ryan's proposal) won out.

Did you support the House bill?

That said, the FEBH is far better than ObamaCare. It incorporates interstate competition among more than 200 health insurance offerings with a defined benefit the beneficiary uses to fund his choices. That is quite different that the One Size Fits All ObamaCare choice, and not a Public Option.

The FEHBP isn't a defined benefit model (Medicare would be an example of them). But that's not even what you're describing; the correct term you're looking for is defined contribution. And that's not what the FEHBP is, either. The FEHBP pays a set percentage of plan costs. Which is not unlike how the exchange subsidies work, the difference being that the exchange subsidies are means-tested and the percentage paid varies along a sliding scale. By the way, OPM-negotiated national plans (that sure sounds similar to something, doesn't it?) will be available through state exchanges.

 

[IHI4eva]

The FEHB, is, in fact, a choice of the best for-profit health care plans around, because they know what works.

The FEHBP is an insurance exchange overseen and regulated by a federal agency. In principle, it's no different than the centerpiece of the ACA.

Actually just read an article about this on a health insurance info site - at http://www.individualhealthinsurance.com if you want to check it out ( in the articles section) hope that helps if anyone needs clarification