Sept. 1, Sen. Richard Burr is hosting a big meeting on health care in Charlotte, and youre not invited. Unless youre a Carolinas Medical Center employee or one of the elite special guests, you wont get to hear Burr, along with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Sen. John McCain, talk about the GOPs proposal for health care reform, aka the Snowballs Chance In Hell Bill OK, its actually the Patients Choice Act.
Why McCain? Because the GOP bill is based on McCains health care proposal during the 2008 presidential campaign. Why McConnell? He needed to get out of town after losing the Men Who Look Like Turtles competition in his home state of Kentucky.
The Patients Choice Act allows employees to keep the same insurance when they change jobs. Trouble is, it also does away with employer subsidies for providing health care, so under this plan, you can probably forget about getting health insurance through work anymore. The bill also offers up to $5,700 per family to buy health insurance, which sounds good until you realize that health insurance rose to $12,680 annually for family coverage in 2008, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. Besides those problems, the GOP bill would still leave over 30 million of Americans uninsured, and does nothing to lower health care spending.
The meeting starts at 9 a.m. tomorrow at Carolinas Medical Center.
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