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Originally Posted by medicineman
Uhhh, I guess you all missed the public option part of the discussion, Eh? I'm still not sure how it will work. My impression is that it will not be that public, in other words, you will still have to deal with the Insurance companies and profit. Untill they get profit out of medical, there will be no true public option. Did you notice the petrified look on that Insurance CEOs face when the Public option was brought up? He could see billions leaving the building, his mega-salary and bonuses going out the door. Single payer is the only answer. It would disolve all corporations and businesses of any responsibility for employees medical, insure all, and still leave the private for profit medical for idiots that want to pay big bucks for similar care. If a true public option was created, the Insurance companies and the ruthless HMOs would be a thing of the past. Doctors could get on with treating patients and not dealing with CEOs that want to deny medical procedures.
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A public option doesn't necessarily equal a free (or even low cost) option. Just because they're throwing the term "public" out there, don't let it fool you into thinking they're talking about socialized medicine like they have in say, Canada or Sweden. We're talking government subsidized health insurance for the poor. You still have to pay for it, and it might not be that much cheaper than private coverage AND you'd have to qualify (be poor enough, according to someone's arbitrary standards).
So, in the long run, this "public" option probably won't do much to help the average family who is struggling to keep their family covered under an employer sponsored policy but makes too much to qualify for the subsidies.
Same old fuckin' bullshit politics. They spend all their time arguing with each other and very little time actually getting anything important done. Heard on the radio today that Congress actually took time in memory of Michael Jackson this morning. I mean, the guy was pretty famous and all but SERIOUSLY?