I know it was abandoned early on for lack of Congressional interest, but I'd like to know if it was ever or will ever be scored by the CBO?
I wanted to bring folks back to reality. We must reject the mandated, un-Constitutional gift to the insurance companies that is today's revelation.
I would like to direct everyone to re-read not2plato's August journal:
HR 676 or The Health Care Tyranny will Continue...
I have to agree that we are getting the bait-and-switch. We can't lay the failure of Congress to act on just Joe Lieberman.
The essential flaw is that the Democrats started the negotiations from a weak standpoint. I sure hope it was unintentional. (yes, I know it is not)
I know many of them took HealthInsCo and Phrma money, so the weaker they start it off, the more they get in donations the next election cycle.
If they had started out with Single Payer - Medicare For All, then the end result would have been much more acceptable to the population than the donors.
From not2plato:
HR 3200 is mostly a scam: it pays more and more for private health care insurance, and blocks most people from using the so-called "public option". Indeed, passing HR 3200 is just passing a law that transfers wealth from the lowest to the highest income brackets.
If they had taken all of the subsidies from the insurance companies, reformed Medicare, and generally cleaned up the act, it could have gotten traction.
Hell, even if they had the guts to have CBO score it and have that score see the light of day.
Aside from that, move HR676's timelines up and USE RECONCILIATION! 10 years of a successful program will make it hard for either side to destroy. Put it to a real vote after a decade of make-or-break time.
I do not believe healthcare is a place for for-profit industries to thrive more than their customers. My favorite part of HR676:
SEC. 104. Prohibition against duplicating coverage.
(a) In general.—It is unlawful for a private health insurer to sell health insurance coverage that duplicates the benefits provided under this Act.
I would like to see an outright ban on "health insurance" and "dental insurance"
Is that a "socialist" point of view? Maybe. Is it really a "threat of socialism" to bring about the destruction of our Great Democracy? Hmmm...bullshit question to divert our attention from burgeoning fascism, maybe?
These organizations have proven their qualities over the last year and I, for one, still find them lacking.
Their point of view, now the Congress' point-of-view, is blatantly un-democratically, Fascist...IMHO.
Maybe it is time for the American Citizens to request a General Referendum, since Congress is unable to act on their behalf?
Read HR676 online