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Oh yes, this is also in the Bill....one should ask why...especially in light of the other mandates I've noted
SEC. 321. ESTABLISHMENT AND ADMINISTRATION OF A PUBLIC HEALTH INSURANCE OPTION AS AN EXCHANGE-QUALIFIED HEALTH BENEFITS PLAN.
(1) EXCLUSIVE TO THE EXCHANGE- The public health insurance option shall only be made available through the Health Insurance Exchange.
(2) ENSURING A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD- Consistent with this subtitle, the public health insurance option shall comply with requirements that are applicable under this title to an Exchange-participating health benefits plan, including requirements related to benefits, benefit levels, provider networks, notices, consumer protections, and cost-sharing.
(3) PROVISION OF BENEFIT LEVELS- The public health insurance option--
(A) shall offer basic, enhanced, and premium plans; and
(B) may offer premium-plus plans.
Would it be possilbe for you to repost in a fashion that doesn't make our eyes bleed???
Nope, you folks are getting what you wanted...you just didn't know it.
Now you do.
You mean posts we don't bother to read because they make our eyes hurt! You've got it!
You say that like cutting out the middlemen would be a bad thing.
You'd be replacing a lightly competitive middle man insurance market with a monopoly middle man.
Couldn't think of anything worse than our government, who can't even balance it's own budget, managing my medical care.
That's a big if that you're resting your assumptions on here.
Nationalize medical care is not a magic genie, a silver bullet or any other fanciful creation it's proponents make it out to be.
The budget isn't balanced because we keep coming up with spending ideas, like foreign wars... and then cutting taxes to pay for them....
As far as health insurance, it has to be an upgrade over one of the least efficient healthcare delivery systems in the free world. How do we manage to spend far more per capita than anyone else, have such mediocre results and still have 1/6 of our population shut out of the system. All Americans that believe in decency and compassion for our fellow man should be deeply ashamed.
I don't think that is what people are making it out to be. They are simply saying it is a superior system to what we have.
You say that like cutting out the middlemen would be a bad thing.
Oh yes, this is also in the Bill....one should ask why...especially in light of the other mandates I've noted
SEC. 321. ESTABLISHMENT AND ADMINISTRATION OF A PUBLIC HEALTH INSURANCE OPTION AS AN EXCHANGE-QUALIFIED HEALTH BENEFITS PLAN.
(1) EXCLUSIVE TO THE EXCHANGE- The public health insurance option shall only be made available through the Health Insurance Exchange.
(2) ENSURING A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD- Consistent with this subtitle, the public health insurance option shall comply with requirements that are applicable under this title to an Exchange-participating health benefits plan, including requirements related to benefits, benefit levels, provider networks, notices, consumer protections, and cost-sharing.
(3) PROVISION OF BENEFIT LEVELS- The public health insurance option--
(A) shall offer basic, enhanced, and premium plans; and
(B) may offer premium-plus plans.
Aside from cost, the evidence to that has not been presented.
Evidence that it is a superior system?
Yes. 10chars
Ummm...if we had single payer, then your health care would be payed by your taxes just as your use of roads is now. You can't have it both ways.
If you have health insurance, you are paying for another person's hysterectomy or dialysis, just as other people will be paying for yours when your turn comes along.
You keep repeating these jingoistic soundbites that don't have any real content or basis in reality.
You say that like cutting out the middlemen would be a bad thing.
I support a single payer healthcare system. Insurance companies do not have patients as their goal. I think for profit healthcare is wrong. The goal should be to help and heal those that are sick, not squeeze them for money and leave them to die if they can't afford it. I completely understand that doctors and staff need to be paid and that procedures cost money, but insurance companies aren't in it to help people or look out for their consumer. I'm sick of being dependent on insurance companies that can do whatever they want to and charge whatever they want to while we are the ones who lose in the long run.
Health care cost per capita is over $6,000 in the US, far higher than any other nation, and that figure is from 2007. It is certain to be a lot higher now.
The bottom line is that the US can no longer afford the health care system it now has. It is bankrupting not only business, which pays for employee coverage, but the government as well. It is a negative force in the creation of jobs, and a big part of the current deficit.
Not only do we have the most expensive health care system on Earth, but we don't get what we pay for. People here are no healthier than they are in other modern nations, and may be less so.
There is no question about it: We need to have a real national health care system and soon.
The budget isn't balanced because we keep coming up with spending ideas, like foreign wars... and then cutting taxes to pay for them....
As far as health insurance, it has to be an upgrade over one of the least efficient healthcare delivery systems in the free world. How do we manage to spend far more per capita than anyone else, have such mediocre results and still have 1/6 of our population shut out of the system. All Americans that believe in decency and compassion for our fellow man should be deeply ashamed.
Single payer doesn't necessarily mean no private health care.
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