The Baucus Bill's Bad Math »
Posted By Progressive 4 months ago in Political Opinion
So there's not a public option in the Finance Committee's bill -- which should come as no great surprise to anyone who's been following this debate. Instead, there's Kent Conrad's plan for regional, non-profit cooperatives. The real fight over the public option will take place when the HELP Committee's bill, which does include a public option, is reconciled with the Finance Committee's version, and/or when the Senate's version is ultimately reconciled with the House version.
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Progressive4 months ago
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...the CBO estimated that 15 million people would lose their employer-provided coverage. Most of these people are likely to be lower-to-middle income persons with somewhat tenuous employment situations, a group that tends classically to be swing voters.
Now, how are those 15 million people going to feel about health care reform when they find out that:
a) Although the bill was supposed to guarantee access to health insurance, they've in fact lost theirs;
b) They're required to buy an expensive, private plan on their own, or to pay a fine;
c) They're probably not getting any government assistance;
d) They certainly don't have any Medicare-like alternative to fall back upon;
e) All of this cost the country about $1 trillion dollars.
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Radiofreeeuropa4 months ago
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I am very concerned! The insurance industry is spending a million dollars a day trying to defeat any reform. Pressures from voters are pushing for a public option of some kind. Who are the recipients of all that money? It was the Republicans and certainly the ones we see shilling for the insurance companies are still on the dole but since the shift of power most lobby money is now directed at Democrats. Politicians being generally what they are, will likely cave to lobbyists but try to fool the public into believing they did something on their behalf. With Democratic control of both legislative and executive branches, there is no one else to blame. More time? Go Slow? A national health policy was considered urgent by Truman...isn't over 50 years slow enough? No public option? Then there is no real change! Ridiculous.
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