vivo:
1) You will have choice in what health benefits you receive. – Of course, if you want more you’ll pay more. And the “richer” the plan you choose to pay for, it has been suggested these rich plans be taxed. And it is not how the healthcare debate has been presented. It has been presented that those not insured will recieve – in not so many words of congress – something very close to what they have.
2: You can’t take a healthcare system that right now has finite resources and add to it ~40M people and say nothing is going to change. It’s impossible NOT to make accomodations to one “group” and not take it from somewhere else.
3: There is NO mechanism to check for being legally here. Hell, we argue about checking ID’s at the voting booth for which you could argue based on 120M votes, doesn’t cost you anything and you get nothing tangible in return. You really think they’re going to include a mandatory, let’s see if they’re here legally and ENFORCEABLE mechanism to make sure they’re legal? I didn’t think so. Therefore, by default (meaning if they’re not excluded they’re included) illegal aliens will be eligible.
4: There are no death panels. But any organization sending out pamphlets or has reading material they direct you to regarding end of life counseling is really trying to make sure you’re not a “drag” on the system. Various diseases (typically terminal ones) do have reading material available. I’m pretty sure AARP doesn’t send one out with you’re enrollment. The implication, if they did, would be to include it for the mere reason that your have attained a certain age.
