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Tom S
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Tom S asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 1 decade ago

New Health care plan?

Once passed, if the new Government Health care plan is as bad as we fear, what do we do then? Once private insurers are gone and the public universal plan is in place do we really have an option?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Well, if they can pass it, it is just a step toward universal single payer health care, which would probably be better than the plan they are working with now. The public option will not cause competition, because the government will always be able to offer a better deal than a private insurer, because there is no cost contraint, the government can just go into debt to pay for whatever it needs to. A private company can't do that.

    Reform is needed, but they aren't looking at anything that is going to work at this time. They have the wrong mindset about what is needed to bring down costs so that insurance is affordable, and where they have the right mindset, their solution will not not work.

  • Fred K
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    it would be If it was a health care plan it health Insurance Private Insurers have just Posted Record Profits they dictate what services you can get and who provides them they need some Competition the only thing you have to Fear is a life saving operation they refuse to cover

  • 1 decade ago

    our options will be to die waiting in line or taking it into the street

  • barbie
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    Well, I would say we've been scr**ed--and we didn't even get a kiss with that.

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  • 1 decade ago

    impeech Obama, then biden, then elect palin and then we'll be good.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Enjoy it.

  • 1 decade ago

    that's exactly what they want!

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