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Post by agito on Dec 9, 2009 20:29:54 GMT -6
matt miller has a piece up on the daily beast that casts a new ray of hope on health care reform without coming across as too much of an apologist. www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-12-09/liberals-rejoice/?cid=bs:archive3At first I wasn't to keen on what he was saying until he wrote this line: (authors emphasis) and I have to admit he has a point, that is an important change. I still think the whole thing is going to end up scrapped when the legal battle goes to the supreme court over forcing a citizen to purchase a product.
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Post by unlawflcombatnt on Dec 9, 2009 22:53:38 GMT -6
NO, access to group health insurance won't do a thing to bring costs down or increase affordability, especially when combined with the fascist individual mandate. How hard is this for "progressives" to figure out? If you FORCE 40 million more Americans buy insurance, you increase the demand and therefore increase the price. If you don't have any more competition in the market, such as a public option, there is nothing to suppress prices--or even keep them from rising. An individual mandate without a public option is the worst of all worlds. It's a bonanza for health insurers who gain 40 million new customers, without any lower cost competition to keep prices (premiums) from rising. This is real, simple basic economics. Increasing the demand without any countervailing element to suppress prices, causes an increase in price. This bill is a 100% sell out to health insurers and Big Pharma, already the 2 most profitable industries (after Goldman Sachs and the Financial Industry). The Public Option wasn't just important. It was the most important thing in the bill. In fact, it was THE WHOLE bill. The remainder of it is worse than nothing. The new rules are completely circumventable by health insurers--by design. Americans will now pay more for their health care than ever before, and receive even worse medical care.
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Post by jeffolie on Dec 10, 2009 9:10:26 GMT -6
US bad politics results in the theft of Americans money by the government to give to the undeserving.
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