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Obama pushing public option behind closed doors

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Posted by 2009-10-05 07:19|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 The national economy cannot provide top quality health care to everyone unless costs per unit care come down. It won't even be able to provide the current quality to the currently insured for long - aging baby boom is going to increase demand. I have seen little in the proposed Dem plans that addresses the real problem (unit cost) honestly. Rather, it looks like a way to ration care by bureaucracy (rather than the current method of rationing by ability to pay.) It will make health care more uniform, but poorer overall. And it will stifle advancements. The two proposals I have seen from outside the Dem plans that actually might address unit costs (tort reform and supply expansion) have been dismissed immediately.

Posted by Glenmore 2009-10-05 07:52|| 2009-10-05 07:52|| Front Page Top

#2 Oh, and those who say the insurance companies are inhumane - even inhuman - are right. But I expect the far more massive government replacement will be a lot more inhumane and inhuman. NOTHING that big can work well. Especially monopolies. Including government monopolies.

Posted by Glenmore 2009-10-05 07:56|| 2009-10-05 07:56|| Front Page Top

#3 This has nothing to do with insurance or health care and EVERYTHING to do with establishing huge bureaucratic agencies. It's Chicago style patronage at the national level.

Posted by Besoeker in Duitsland 2009-10-05 08:21|| 2009-10-05 08:21|| Front Page Top

#4 That has Democratic leaders looking for ways to insert some form of the concept into a Senate bill without jeopardizing centrist support.

Tie a public option clause into a bill to send more troops to Afghanistan. That way when Republicans oppose it, they can accuse them of not supporting the troops.

Sounds like a 'behind-closed-doors' policy to me.

Posted by Woozle Uneter9007 2009-10-05 15:23|| 2009-10-05 15:23|| Front Page Top

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