An eviscerated "public option" that allows no one to join for several years and only if they fall outside the parameters of any existing locally available "affordable" junk insurance scheme that has little to no effective controls or regulation...is that what the bill the Democrats have cobbled together amounts to?
A large number of the unaware public (me included)gets the impression there will be a sea change in coverage and health care options and availability IMMEDIATELY after this bill passes. NOT SO!!! (More below the break/intro)
They will be furious and angry when they find out it its benefits are pushed out to 2013,2014 AND only apply to a small segment of America, the remainder, the vast majority are stuck with the insurers they have now or losing coverage even if that happens next year since 4 to 6 million (out of 305 million!) people are all that will get the new, "affordable coverage".
What sort of bill is it that went from "health care transform" to health care "reform" to "slightly reformed insurance company policy"?
THAT'S ALL FOLKS? Looney tunes! And the Democrats want to show this off as a VICTORY! for their voters. I don't want a "subsidy" to pay the extortion to a private insurance carrier.
I want open, aboveboard, honestly accounted for coverage with full disclosure reporting, ability to disclose the fixing of prices and steering of patients to preferred channels, and break open secret pacts and sweetheart deals, kickbacks and scamming that goes on all over the place now.
I want the freedom, an untrammeled option to buy into a decent, non profit well run plan like several different groups in our nation already have because they belong to the military, or Congress, or the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Where will it be possible to get access to such plans regardless of where one lives, and more importantly be able to afford them? where is the beef in this bill?????
Where is this being done in this current bill? Comments?
There are some serious pieces of transform missing: such as added manpower to staff and handle the increase in utilization, and the lack of preferences to encourage intelligent use of resources in public health and favoring generalists and family care practicioners instead of burying them in favor of specialists in exotic diseases and techno/pharma driven care over all else. Whose plan is this, anyway?