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House Dems Water Down Public OptionPosted on Oct 28, 2009
If the point of health care reform is to do something about skyrocketing medical costs, then the House reform bill just got a little more pointless. Although the speaker and other House liberals had hoped to hitch the public option’s negotiating power to Medicare’s wagon, conservative Democrats successfully defeated the idea. Still, the House bill will include a public option, if weakened. According to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the whole thing will cost less than $900 billion over 10 years, or, to think about it another way, less than what the U.S. spends on defense in just one year, if you include things like the Department of Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs. —PZS
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By Chris R, October 29 at 4:31 pm #
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Nearly 2,000 pages? I’m sure I’ll get the distorted highlights any minute now.
Report thisBy Jim Yell, October 29 at 10:52 am #
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It is apparent to anyone who listens that for profit insurance cheats their subscribers at every opportunity. The cost of medical care has not gotten cheaper with privitization and every dollar that goes for profit does not go for health care.
We need National Health Care Insurance and price control of what the Healthcare Industry can charge and that includes Pharma.
Report thisBy MarthaA, October 29 at 5:04 am #
WE THE PEOPLE, the PUBLIC, the Common MAJORITY, need a Public Option for medical care, as there are too many young people falling through the cracks during their college years and when parents lose their jobs and cannot afford to get medical insurance for themselves and their children leaving leaving many college students and children without medical care of which a public option is an absolute necessity.
Conservatives and Moderates on the Left represent big insurance and big pharma instead of the Public that they have been sent to Congress to represent, therefore, WE THE PEOPLE must vote them out at the first available moment. We can get a bunch of them in 2010 and we must, if the Public Option is left out so that all citizens of this Democratic Representative Republic will be actually represented in Congress. When the Conservatives and Moderates on the Left are the same as the Conservatives and Moderates on the Right, there is no representative Republic, because all are not represented.
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