On the same day that a Cabinet member signaled the administration’s willingness to forego inclusion of a public health insurance option in the final version of health care reform legislation, a Texas Democrat who is also a registered nurse suggested that the public option might be a deal breaker for at least some House Democrats.
“It would be very, very difficult,” to support a bill that lacked a public health insurance option, Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson said Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union, “because, without the public option, we’ll have the same number of people uninsured. If the insurance companies wanted to insure these people now, they’d be insured.
Johnson added that “an option that would give the private insurance companies a little competition” is “the only way” to be sure that insurance is available to low income people and people without employer-provided coverage.
Johnson also told CNN Chief National Correspondent John King that House Democrats have already expressed their desire for a public option to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and even suggested that Pelosi inform the White House that the absence of the public option could be a deal breaker for the House Democratic Caucus.
Georgia Republican Rep. Tom Price, a medical doctor, called “simply false.” the notion that there are only two choices – between government-provided insurance and private insurance. Instead, there is a “patient-centered way” of providing health insurance, “to put patients in charge.” Price also said Sunday that creating a public health insurance option will “crowd out” individuals from the private insurance market and into the government insurance option.
When the corporate board members in the medical industry dictate the bill they want, we have corporatism. Corporatism is Fascism. The ultimate goal of the corporates is to insure the illegals. In the process, we lose our freedom of choice. The choice to choose not to have insurance. The bill proposed would mandate all to pay into the “plan.” Retired people need their medicare and this plan would take from that system and pay for illegals. If one member of a marriage is retired he or she can use the others plan. But, on the government plan that would stop. They are complicating this thing just to pick your pockets. Call Congress and tell them to stop this now!!!!!!
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chiefosage Reply:
August 17th, 2009 at 6:58 am
Get the illegals out of this country!
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typical of colored people who want something from the producing white sector of the economy
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