House plan for healthcare reform

From what I can see, this looks like a horrible plan for health care reform. I do not understand what our congressmen could be thinking in creating this. All I can figure is they are creating a bill for self serving political gain and really don't care about "fixing" our health care system.

What I see so far is a killer though. Never mind the majority of the problems with a bill that will tax small employers who cannot provide health benefits to their employees killing jobs in a time when unemployment is going through the roof. Never mind a plan that punishes healthy young individuals who chose to go without a health care plan because they never go to a doctor and chose to save their money.

This plan will in effect make it where we all have insurance but nobody has a doctor. It is already difficult to nearly impossible in many areas to find a doctor that accepts government run health care plans like Medicare, Medicaid and Tricare. What this plan does is dramatically increase the number of patients on that plan while cutting the amount that doctors will get paid to see those patients. Nobody will be able to find a doctor.

I already have to limit the number of patients I can see on the government plans. Medicaid for example pays me less for an office visit than I pay in overhead for the same visit. I wind up paying the government to treat these patients. I cannot see more without going out of business.

There is now a shortage of primary care doctors in the United States. This is a plan that will ensure that this problem becomes infinitely worse. You can feel happy that 97% of Americans will have health care insurance. Just ignore the fact that none of them can actually find health care providers.