Warner: More cost containment needed in Senate health-care bill
Sen. Mark Warner said he wants to see more cost containment in the Senate's health care bill before he can support it.
The Senate version is better than the bill narrowly passed out of the House of Representatives on that grounds, he said.
"I think it's gotten better but it's still got a ways to go before I get to yes," he told a group of small business owners gathered this morning at Can Can in Carytown.
Warner said he thinks the Senate will move forward to debate the legislation. He said he would vote to proceed to debate.
He fielded questions and comments from the group on a range of concerns, from health care to credit for small businesses.
-- Olympia Meola
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Health care costs in the United States exceed those of any other nation. Millions of Americans aren’t insured, partly due to the high cost of premiums, and end up resorting to payday loans to finance emergency and routine medical expenses. With health-care reform issues taking the political center stage, is this not a good time to step back and assess the problem from a more basic point of view?
If Senators Webb and Warner are going to vote “yeah”, at least demand some kickback like Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) is getting for her vote.
She is being bribed with $100 BILLION from Harry Reid (actually from you and I and our children and grandchildren, etc).
If Senators Webb and Warner hold out for the same sweetheart deal, by my calculations they can redistribute $200 BILLION of America’s private sector wealth to Virginia’s bureaucratic coffers.
Well how about voting NO! This thing will make our weak economy even weaker. We need to find ways to help business and taxpayers survive. The mandates in this thing, plus the taxes it is going to cause will kill any recovery that is happening.
HEY, how about creating some jobs before we even think about more socialism and a takeover of 1/7 of the economy! We are watching, and if you jerks pass this thing against the will of the people, there is going to be a big price to pay next election!
Big government spending and regulations is what got us into this mess. We want NO government run health care that will lead to higher taxes and rationing.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/11/the-100-million-health-care-vote.html
Even the liberal ABC is on this one.
A rarity.
If you or I did this, we would be in jail.
I have an idea for cost containment: Don’t vote for this boondoggle.
Or cut out the payola corruption in the bill that bribes Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) for her vote. Representative William Jefferson (D-LA) is going to jail for taking kickbacks and before the jail cell door even closes, Senator Landrieu was offered a $100 BILLION dollar illegal bribe from Harry Reid (D-NV) in exchange for her vote.
If Senator Warner stands up for Virginians he will be the only Democrat in the Senate with any morals.
And he will leap to the head of the “class”, if I can use that term to describe these people.
Mark Warner can run for president in 2012 if he separates himself in the next day or week. There would be a juggernaut of support for Senator Warner, from both the majority of non-radical Democrats and of all Republicans, if he distances himself from Obama/Pelosi/Reid now.
I’ll be watching closely tomorrow to see if Warner puts his vote where his mouth is.
Anon has part of the answer. The other part is to refocus medicine on evidence-based versus fee-based practice. The notion that the comsumer is entitled to coverage for any treatment that he wants or is ordered, regardless of the data surrounding its efficacy, is absurd. But that is the culture we have.
The easiest way to reduce costs is to repeal McCarren-Ferguson. Re-introducing competition into the insurance industry would create lots of new competitors for my insurance dollar. Insurance companies have had duopolies and tri-opolies in so many states for so long, they treat them as their private fiefdoms.
If someone like Geico were allowed to sell health insurance nationwide, it would rock the boat.
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