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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

I did back up my statement. Try reading a bit beyond your own words.

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The Senate health care bill would cost New York between $1.1 billion and $1.25 billion a year, according to Gov. Paterson's office. Gov. Paterson, Mayor Bloomberg and other officials warned the Senate plan would:

- Force the city to close 100 health clinics.

- Blow a $1 billion hole in the state's budget.

- Threaten struggling hospitals, nursing homes and other facilities.

- New York State, which covers half its Medicaid costs now, will keep covering half under the Senate bill.

- Most other states will get 100% federal aid for three years and 82% to 95% thereafter. Nebraska gets 100% forever.

- New York City would lose funding for about 100 community health clinics and would have to close them, Mayor Bloomberg says.

- The Medicaid cuts would force a 15% reduction in payments to providers - including hospitals, nursing homes, home health agencies and community clinics - New York House Democrats say.

- The House plan would cut $2.6 billion over 10 years from reimbursements to New York hospitals for treating people who cannot pay their bills.- The Senate bill cuts $5.5 billion, according to the Health Care Association of New York.

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And while Congress has specified deep cuts in Medicare reimbursements for medical service providers, if implemented as intended, the cuts in physician payments will induce more doctors to treat fewer Medicare-funded patients. Conversely, if the cuts in doctor pay are rescinded, the new law will provide another huge addition to the national debt. And many of the proposed tax increases may also prove politically infeasible, such as the hike in the Medicare payroll tax, and an array of taxes on medical devices, prescription brand drugs and insurance companies which will only inflate insurance premiums.

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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

Concessions are still coming, willbe, the final bill is not drafted. Tell me... do you have a star or not?