Originally posted by nixie_nox
I knew it was gonna end up in the middle of the road. One step closer. Whether you agree with it or not.
I don't think it's "middle of the road" at all. It's a huge multi-billion-dollar giveaway to the insurance industry. No wonder Olympia Snowe
voted for it.
If Congress mandates that everybody in the country must have health insurance, but there are no curbs on what the insurance companies can charge, they
can raise their rates to whatever they want and people will have to pay them. And then, of course, they will have the additional bonanza of millions
of new customers on top of greater revenues.
The only way to keep the insurance companies honest is to offer a not-for-profit option--a "public option" funded by the government. Then the
insurance companies will have to compete with the government for cost and coverage and they will have to keep their rates lower and cover more people
and conditions.
I do not support any bill that will force me to buy whatever the insurance companies want to offer.
Without the "public option" health insurance reform will only benefit the mega-corporations, not the American people. I will not support
legislation that doesn't have one.