This is the problem when Congress places profits...

[SHRED]

...in the health insurance industry above the needs of the people that voted for them.
You get legislation that is cumbersome and ridiculously bloated.

Take for instance the "mandated" clause to purchase insurance. They had to place that in since they removed the "pre-existing condition" discriminatory practices of insurance companies. If they just removed the pre-exisitng then everyone would wait until they got sick to purchase and the cost would skyrocket many times faster.

Personally, I think they should have left the private sector insurance alone. Fuck 'em. All they had to do was phase in a "buy-in/opt-in" to an expanded Medicare like program. Work on all the details with the same ferocity they did with the latest piece-of-shit (HR 3962) to develop a true public insurance program that people could purchase.

Hell, they didn't even get a CBO actuarial study nor did H.R. 676 even make it to the House floor.


Mad as Hell

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[AndyA]

1. Expanded Medicare was the way to go.

I suspect there will be changes to the mandatory purchase/fine if you don't stipulation. That is raising a lot of eyebrows, and the Republicans will eviscerate the Democrats if that stands. It is a new tax, and we were promised no new taxes, so this could very well have negative repercussions for Obama as well.

Obama's credibility is already being questioned over the lack of transparency, rights for gay people, covering up Bush's crimes, his support of the people who oversaw the financial melt down last year, etc. I don't think he can afford to give away much more, and he knows that.

[SHRED]

2. excellent points...and well taken

[Double T]

3. So true. The 'talk' is the opposite of the 'walk'.

BO already has NO cred.