Health Care Reform updates. Anyone care to discuss this some more?

I get updates on the Health Care reform, thanks to a link that a friend sent me a long time ago. Got this today:

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“Yesterday, the White House released President Obama’s health insurance reform proposal. It bridges the gap between the House and Senate bills,
includes ideas from both parties to crack down on waste, fraud, and
abuse, and puts American families and small business owners in control
of their own health care.

And it creates a major new authority to help states crack down on
insurers who propose unreasonable and unfair rate hikes—like the
ones we saw just last week in California and Maine.

It’s a proposal that combines feedback from the health debate with the
President’s longstanding principles on reform—and it’s a bill that
any member of Congress can support. But we know Big Insurance won’t like it one bit.

Before too long, their attack ads will be back up on TV and their
misinformation campaign will be up and running. They’ll have one goal:
convince members of Congress that its bad politics to support reform.

The President’s bill is a combination of new provisions to crack down on insurers and eliminate waste and abuse, and targeted changes to the
Senate bill to include ideas from the House and the President’s own
priorities.

It makes insurance more affordable, sets up a new competitive health
insurance market, lays down commonsense rules to bring greater
accountability to health care, ends discrimination against Americans
with pre-existing conditions, and cuts the deficit. And it strengthens
the Senate bill, adding new provisions to cut down on waste, make sure
middle-class families are protected, and closing the Medicare Part D
“donut hole” coverage gap.

But health insurance companies don’t care what’s in the bill.
They’re fighting to preserve the status quo that benefits them—even
though it’s disastrous for our nation.”