Political suicide
According to the Baucus plan, people who are currently unable to afford health insurance will soon be fined for being too poor to afford health insurance.
That makes sense.
That makes sense.
posted by mikevotes at
4:49 PM
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There will be no health care reform in America. Ever. Our political establishment has jumped the shark. We no longer have the spine to do great things in the name of "the general welfare." Oh, there'll be a bill called health care reform. But it will essentially be a insurance industry, corporate health services industry profit enhancement program....
The politicians will slap each other on the backs in congratulations of a job well done and head to the next fundraiser...
Not that I'm cynical or anything.
Or maybe Obama really is a Roosevelt-ian, sea-change kind of a leader that comes along once or twice in a century... Nah.
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-epm, at 6:38 PM
Proposed logo for the Baucus plan: a stick figure with an attached IV bending over & grabbing his ankles.
It's beyond insulting.
As for Obama - I'm trusting him on this. He hung his entire campaign on health care. He, himself, has made it THE issue of our time. If he fails that - - nothing else he does will matter. And he's smart enough to know that.
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Mickey, at 9:37 PM
Mickey, that's pretty funny.
The only consolation I have is that Baucus has managed to push himself so far outside the Dem mainstream that he has next to no sway.
They can always run a non-Baucus deal through another committee.
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EPM and Mickey. I'll stay with what I've been predicting for almost two months. A bill will be passed that will enable the Obama folks to claim a "first step towards reform" victory. It will be reforms on the current system, pre-existing conditions, cancellations, etc, and maybe some increase in coverage through SCHIP/Medicare type expansions and some increased employer mandates.
But no reworking of the system.
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mikevotes, at 10:13 PM
Mandatory payment is the trade-off for Insurance companies being forced to cover everyone.
There really is no way out of that if you want everyone covered.
Still, the truly indigent should be covered by the state. The guy who can't afford his insurance because of his car payment, mortgage, and gap credit bill is just going to have to suck it up.
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Praguetwin, at 12:59 AM
" A bill will be passed that will enable the Obama folks to claim a "first step towards reform" victory."
Yes. It will have some pretty buzz words and make the insiders fell all good about themselves, but it won't help my 20-something kids one bit if, god forbid, they encounter a medical emergency.
Praguetwin, this is a strawman.
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-epm, at 8:24 AM
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