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Thread #123258   Message #2716294
Posted By: heric
04-Sep-09 - 02:42 PM
Thread Name: BS: US Health Care Reform
Subject: RE: BS: US Health Care Reform
Repeat: Under Wyden-Bennett, instead of getting Medicaid, the poor now would get:

(1) Medicaid;
(2) The Blue Cross/Blue Shield (FEHBA) Standard Plan;
(3) A primary care provider to devise and monitor a care plan (with expert understanding of the benefits now available, even if the patient isn't up to speed on them), for free wellness care, comprehensive disease prevention, early detection, disease management, chronic pain treatment, and chronic condition management;
(4) Guaranteed participation in any standarad plan without discrimination based on health status (or genetics); and
(5) Peri-natal care as good as anyone's.

Under HR 3200, with the public option as it was written, and as it is still written, they would get:
(1) Medicaid.

For children up to age 18, even if their parents are crack-heads or illegals, the state would be required, with federal assistance and funding, to actively seek them out and provide all of the above.