They don't want a public option that would compete with private insurers and use its bargaining power to negotiate better rates with drug companies. They argue that would be unfair. Unfair? Unfair to give more people better health care at lower cost? To Pharma and Insurance, "unfair" is anything that undermines their profits. Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu
Argue with your congress critters about this now, or forever argue with your "anti-care" insurance company.
One of their proposals is to break up the public option into small pieces under multiple regional third-party administrators that would have little or no bargaining ... More »
This is journalism because it describes three roadblocks that the conservatives are thinking about erecting so as to gut Universal Health Care.
Nobody said that it would be easy to bring Universal Health Care to the people of America. That said, Pharma & Insurance have a strangle hold on the health care industry & they aren’t going to give up their shack-down till they have all our money & hear our collective death rattle. Sign up now to help Obama push through Congress a Health Care Bill that really works for the people of America.
The individual mandate (requiring every American to obtain health insurance) combined with lack of a real public option would effectively be an enormous subsidy to the insurance industry at the expense of the public. There is simply no rational argument to be made that a public option would somehow undermine the workings of the free market when the individual mandate is handing insurers a captive market.
Hmmm... Health Care for ALL Americans is Simple! 1) MERGE Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIPS into one single "Income Based" system for children, poor and elderly citizens. 2) REQUIRE insurance companies to provide the same basic coverage for EVERY Uninsured citizen, regardless of health status, at REGULATED Affordable rates. 3) ALLOW insurance companies to "Profit" by offering additional benefits and options to those who qualify and are willing to pay the difference. As for ... More »
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