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memestryker1 month, 1 week ago
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I agree the repub version is pretty stinky. And I'm disappointed that the dem version just focuses on insurance instead of healthcare. And both are hiding some of the deeper issues (what would we do if we lay off all those hired as middle-people in the "managed care" segment? I'm appalled at how many errors they make and how much they cost as doctors fight to get needed diagnostic tests, even when the individual met all the criteria and it was an oversight by the reviewer. It's frigenening, really, but having them "gainfully" employed is considered more important
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Beau78901 month, 1 week ago
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The House bill does not force anyone into the public option that appears to offer less. I'm not sure that this is a defense of the bill, but it doesn't spell out what's offered. Better is the fact that while everyone is required to buy insurance (and many will receive affordability tax credits to do it), no one is forced into the public option.
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In fact, the subtitle describing the public option ends with this section, on p. 224:
SEC. 329. ENROLLMENT IN PUBLIC HEALTH INSURANCE OPTION IS VOLUNTARY.
Nothing in this division shall be construed as requiring anyone to enroll in the public health insurance option. Enrollment in such option is voluntary.-
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Beau78901 month, 1 week ago
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Knock yourself out. You can be certain they won't be making the public option mandatory for anyone. That would kill the bill.
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But it doesn't matter all that much what slight differences there may be between the final version of the House bill and the one they released two weeks before. The Senate will pass its own bill, then members of both houses will have to negotiate to arrive at a bill that can pass both the House and the Senate and be sent to the president. The one that gets through both houses will undoubtedly be even more compromised than the House bill.
That said--still better than the status quo.-
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memestryker1 month ago
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I see one area that is still slithering. They can still hire people with no choice but the government option unless the individual pays 100% out-of-pocket (which few can afford). So I'm still counting on the Senate to clean it up.
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I think no tax money should go to anything extremely controversial (faith-based funding, school vouchers, abortion) and that non-profits should raise their own money for these. (I'm pro-choice, btw, so I'd be willing to privately donate so poor women could obtain abortions.)
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