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Are we ever going to get TRUE health care reform?

The bill passed in the Senate is a weak, watered down piece of legislation. It really is a gift to the health insurance industry. Mandate without public option? No increased competition? I'll make this simple for you teabaggers. The gov't mandates you buy a bag of chips. In the current system, there is only one brand you can buy where you live. If you have to buy it, the chip companies can take a few chips out and jack up the price. If you can't afford the chips, you DIE. Now if we increased competition you can switch from Doritos to Ruffles. Hopefully, Doritos will lower the cost to get back it's customers (capitalism <3). Now if we threw in the generic chips (public option) you can switch to the generic chips and get a bit less quality but save more money. Hopefully other chip companies will lower their prices to compete. Thats how a stronger bill would work. Even better, we can get a simplified computer system thrown in. EVEN BETTER we can have singlepayer health care, but thats another story. You get it now? See lobbyiests weakened the bill, Republicans fueled by lobbyests money weakened it more, Obama being a pushover weakend it more and the weak Dems couldn't fight for a good bill.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Do you think anything will get passed beyond a pork barreled frenzy of gimmies? It has nothing to do with Tea Baggers or Obama or anything although I admit Obama looks like just the rest of them voting for this mess that he would approve it. The congress and house need to be voted OUT. This is politics at its worst. And guess what the president is cool with this.

  • Daniel
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    1 decade ago

    We are headed for a medicaire buy in this presidential term and a public option passed with reconciliation after the healthcare bill framework is passed. If he gets a second term we will have single payer medicaide for everyone. It only makes sense. Read Bernie Sanders Bill he had read partly, it was amazing.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I agree the current bill is pretty weak, but there's a silver lining. However you want to spin this, people have more control over politicians than corporations, so logically we now have more control over healthcare than we used to.

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