Health Insurance

Speaking at the White House’s health care summit today, Sen. Dick Durbin asked his Congressional colleagues to step back and take a moment to think about those less fortunate. “Shouldn’t our health insurance but good enough for the rest of America. Why do we continue to discriminate against people when we know that each one of us is only one accident or one diagnosis away from being one of those unfortunate few who can’t afford or can’t find health insurance,” said Durbin.

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The average American family today pays twice as much for its health care as it did a decade ago. Democrats are committed to lowering skyrocketing costs and bringing stability and security back to health care.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senators Durbin, Schumer and Murray held a press conference Thursday with Kathy De Vincentis and Regina Holliday, two individuals who have struggled due to the high cost of health care.

Kathy is a retired hospice nurse and breast cancer survivor who resides in Washington, D.C. She and her husband, Armando, who suffers from the debilitating effects of a stroke, have had to spend much of their retirement savings on life-saving medications because of inadequate health insurance coverage. Congress needs to pass health reform so no woman has to die from breast cancer because she cant afford care, said De Vincentis. I call on you today to do the right thing for hardworking Americans like Armando and me.

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Bill O’Reilly asked White House senior advisor David Axelrod about rationing under President Obama’s health reform proposal, citing a fact from a Dick Morris book.

“I don’t know what medical school Dick Morris went to,” Axelrod said.

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Hey President Obama how’s that bipartisanship working for you with . . . the Birthers, the Fanatics, the people running around in Right Wing militias, and Arian support groups?

Stop turning the other cheek and shove it down their christian republican throats.

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That PoS g. w. bush gave Wall St. $1.5 Trillion Dollars from Aug. 9, 2007 to Oct. 6, 2008. http://cbs5.com/business/credit.crisis.timeline.2.818699.html

Aug. 9, 2007 – $24 Billion
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Feb. 12, 2008 – $30 Billion
June 17, 2008 – $75 Billion
July 23, 2008 – $300 Billion
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So 1 in 6 Americans don’t have health insurance, but did you know Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) was once one of them?

At the Center for American Progess, Durbin recounted his personal experience as a young father without health insurnace and how Children’s Hospital in Washington, DC helped care for his infant daughter through a program they have to assist uninsured Americans.

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Individuals who dont purchase health insurance may lose their tax refunds according to IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman. After acknowledging the recently passed health-care bill limits the agencys options for enforcing the individual mandate, Shulman told reporters that the most likely way to penalize individuals that dont comply is by reducing or confiscating their tax refunds.
Speaking at the National Press Club on Monday, Shulman downplayed the IRSs role in enforcing the recent overhaul of the health insurance industry by claiming the agency would not aggressively target individuals who dont purchase coverage. He noted that the health-care bill expressly forbids the agency from freezing bank accounts, seizing assets or pursuing criminal charges, but when pressed said the IRS would most likely use tax refund offsets to penalize those that dont comply with the mandate. The IRS uses refund offsets to collect from individuals that owe the federal government a delinquent debt.
These are not the kinds of things we send agents out about, Shulman said. These are things where you get a letter from us. Congress was very careful to make sure there was nothing too punitive in this bill.
Many reports have claimed that enforcement of the individual mandate will be non-existent, but Shulmans answers indicate differently. According to BusinessWeek, starting in 2015 Americans who dont purchase insurance will be subject to a fine of $325 and that sum increases to $695 in 2016. However, the commissioner seemed confident that in most cases individuals would either receive subsidies to purchase insurance or simply do so on their own in order to comply with the law.
The vast majority of American people have a healthy respect for the law and want to be compliant with their tax obligations, Shulman said, mentioning letters, collection notices and offsets as among the various ways the IRS will reach out to people without coverage.
During his speech Shulman said threats against the IRS have not risen despite media reports to the contrary. He disagreed that it has become more dangerous to work for the IRS following the February incident in which a disgruntled pilot flew his plane into the agencys Austin, Texas office, killing one employee.
Theres been a lot of stuff in the press around increased threats, which is actually inaccurate, Shulman said. What there has been is increased chatter on the Internet that has an anti-government sentiment.
He also said it is too early to know what additional resources or how many employees the IRS will need to enforce compliance with the mandate and clarified his reasons for using a professional tax preparer.
I wouldnt read into anything about me doing it now, Shulman said. Im just a busy guy and have had good service for the past 15 years.

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