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President Obama and Democrats are pushing for the creation of a public option, a government-run insurance plan to compete with private insurance companies for the health care business of nearly 50 million people who are without insurance. A vast majority of Americans favor a public option.
The American people want health care reform, they want a public option. President Obama and the people recognize the moral imperative. Republicans seem unable to acknowledge the moral imperative, the simple fact that everyone deserves healthcare.
Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) guaranteed a public health care option on CBS' Face The Nation. Schumer, Finance Committee member and one of the major health care players on Capitol Hill, guaranteed that there will be a government-managed health care insurance option in any legislation that emerges from the Senate.
Schumer on CBS' Face the Nation:
“Make no mistake about it, there will be a public option in the final bill – some form of it,”
“We want it to be a fair level playing field, but you need something to keep the big boys honest. And the only thing that really is out there is a public option. We don’t trust the private insurance companies left to their own devices, and neither do the American people.”
"Without a public option, you're going to have no competition,"
Congress should create a government-run insurance plan to compete with private ones. It is time to upset the sleazy relationship insurers and providers have devised for harvesting money from the companies that pay for health care. Private insurers operate in an industry like none other: Each year their costs rise 10% or so, and yet they still can hike profits simply by passing these costs along. A public plan would pressure them to cut their own costs and those of their providers.
Republicans claim private insurers would have difficulty competing with government. They complain the government doesn't need to make a profit like they do. Republicans worry the public option would put the insurers out of business. And that is the essence of the problem: Republicans worry more about the health of insurance companies more than the health of American citizens.
If private insurance companies can not compete with the public option the system may evolve into a single payer system. A public run single payer health care system is socialized medicine or universal health care, and this is what some fear. Yet the current system is broken. The byzantine bureaucracy of the health insurance companies are inefficient and expensive. Perhaps the world would be a better place without private health insurance companies.
Support the public option and acknowledge the moral imperative.
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Comments
Why are you all afraid to use the term GOVERNMENT OPTION? There is nothing PUBLIC about it.
Headline: Obama and Dems push for public option
Just what is this plan? Have you read any of it Mike? Where can I find it to read myself?
How can you push something that has yet to be written?
"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) will not give the public a week to review the final text of a health-care reform bill before it is voted on later this year.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D.-Nev.) has also declined to commit to giving the public a week to read and consider the final health-care bill."
Have you found what you are writing about and promoting yet?
Where can we ALL read what you are writing about?
Bwahhahaha!! EXPOSED AGAIN!!!!
Everyone wants anyone who is sick to get medical help... but it is not a basic right, doctors are in business to make a profit, just like the plumber or electrician. Health insurance was introduced after WWII to get workers. Then the damn lawyers got involved in suing doctors for fun and lots of profits. That is where the inflation came from. There is also a lot of new technology.
My mother got all her health care in Mexico and the cost was less than her Medicare deductable. She had two surgeries there and she had to show them the money before they'd do the surgery, but those doctors are good and the hospitals are excellent.
There are other ways to fix health care before handing it over to the government. I promise you if we let the government run that show no one is going to like it, at all.
Now the Obama's are pimping out their young daughters, Sasha and Malia.
www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/06/j-crew-markets-obama-girl_n_226666.html
Using the girls names and pictures WOULD NOT HAPPEN WITHOUT THE APPROVAL of the President and First Lady. NO WAY.
Is it OK to use taxpayer funded trips on Air Force 1 for personal gain? For the children?
www.harpers.org/archive/2008/09/hbc-90003564
"Palin Using Her Child as Political Prop
By John R. MacArthur"
No word from Mr. MacArthur today.
Mike, have you found Obama's health care bill for all of us to read about yet? I am still looking for it. I figured since you are all for it and promoting it you MUST have read it and are willing to share with us what you read.
Hey Mikey,
When are you goin' to put out the next MJ article?
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