Reply #6: And let's not forget this is just ONE of the unacceptable points in this bill [View All]

[unaffiliated liberal]

Along with reduced Medicare and Medicaid funding there is the Stupak amendment, limiting reproductive rights, a public option that is little more than window dressing and would be, according to reports I've read, be administered by one of the very same insurance companies that is has created the health care fiasco our nation currently faces, a give-away to the drug industry in the tens of billions of dollars because our legislators are so indebted to the true drug cartels that they cut a deal to allow drug companies to determine prices instead of forcing them to negotiate prices with the federal government, and the entire bill is a failure before it even starts because it keeps the same insurance and drug cartels that have been bleeding the American health care system for decades in place with only an almost non-existent public option as their so-called competition to reduce rates. LOL

Kill this bill, then start over and write a REAL health care reform bill that lets the insurance and drug cartels know that their long and obscenely profitable run is over and is being replaced with single payer or Medicare for all or whatever you want to call it.

This bill makes things worse, not better. Because it was paid for and written by the same insurance and drug cartels that created this mess of a health care system in the first place.

If this bill passes in its current form THEY WIN. WE LOSE.