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Simple question: Would you support a health care bill without a public health insurance option?
Poll is up, please read the options and vote for the one you most agree with.
The problem with the public option is that it could be used as a method to undercut the insurance companies and drive the private insurers out of business.
Anything less than a public option will be like Bush's Drug bill,
it'll be just a giveaway to the insurance co's.
Anything less than a public option will be like Bush's Drug bill,
it'll be just a giveaway to the insurance co's.
This is why I say "it depends". The regulations and reforms would have to be pretty stringent, but if they were, I could go without the public option. The reforms I would need to see would NOT be a giveaway to the insurance industry. If it were, it wouldn't be enough to convince me.
I strongly disagree. The main purposes of health care reform, as I see them, are 1) Cost control, 2) Universal coverage, 3) Ending insurance company abuses, 4) Portability.
Goals #2 and #3 (and possibly #4) could be accomplished with or without a public option. Goal #1 probably cannot, but if we can't get it, that's no reason to abandon the other goals.
Thank you, but cost control is critical to any measure.
No plan, public or private, is going to survive without it.
We cannot afford another decade of 20% a year rises in HC costs.
This is why I say "it depends". The regulations and reforms would have to be pretty stringent, but if they were, I could go without the public option. The reforms I would need to see would NOT be a giveaway to the insurance industry. If it were, it wouldn't be enough to convince me.
Anything less than a public option will be like Bush's Drug bill,
it'll be just a giveaway to the insurance co's.
Howard Dean is launching a campaign for passing the bill w/ 51 votes. His organization, Dean For America (I think?) is pushing hard for the public option.
He says we have the votes in the house and the senate for the public option.
Simple question: Would you support a health care bill without a public health insurance option?
Poll is up, please read the options and vote for the one you most agree with.
Edit: I was not clear enough, so let me be clear what I was getting at. Is a public option, for or against, a deciding factor in health care reform. In other words, would you support reform without a public option, or would you oppose reform without a public option? This is meant to be a general question, not in specifics of what those reforms would be.
I would support "a" health care bill, but that support is obviously dependant on what, exactly, is in the bill.Simple question: Would you support a health care bill without a public health insurance option?
I would support "a" health care bill, but that support is obviously dependant on what, exactly, is in the bill.
Anything that requires people to pay for goods and services they do not receive is out, as is anything that requires people to buy insurance for themseves, with or without some penalty for not doing so.
I'd have to think about specifics, but, as my position is that the runaway costs of health care are directly linked to the insulation of the consumer from those costs, I'd create something that reduces this insulation, even going so far as the elimination of the insurance providers in toto.Can I ask a followup? What would you support in a health care bill? If you could design the bill, what would you put in it?
I'd have to think about specifics, but, as my position is that the runaway costs of health care are directly linked to the insulation of the consumer from those costs, I'd create something that reduces this insulation, even going so far as the elimination of the insurance providers in toto.
This will reduce prices and increase quality, through free-market competition.
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