Yes, the gang of six is working real hard to pay back the insurance industry for all the money they have given them. They have taken something that should have been good for all America and made it into more Corporate welfare:
His small group of three Democrats and three Republicans has been laboring for weeks in hopes of finding a bipartisan path toward guaranteeing coverage for all and trying to control the rise in health care spending. Staff aides on both sides said Monday the negotiators are close, but it's unclear if they'll get agreement.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200...
What is so disasterous about the bill being negotiated in the Senate is that it kills the public option, which after single-payer was scrapped was the only hope for real reform. Ah, but of course TORT Reform is boiling hard on the front burner:
On medical malpractice, Conrad said the negotiators agreed that the federal government should provide funding for states to experiment with a range of alternatives to lawsuits.
Yes, that is the solution!! The insurance companies are not the problem, it is all these pesky people who have been screwed over by the medical industry and seek redress in the courts. How dare they!! They should just shut the hell up and accept that someone sewed some hymostats up in their guts!!
But the true evil that springs from this bill and the true goal of creating it and getting it passed is yet more Corporate Welfare. You see, more important than driving down costs is making sure that a mandate is included that will give the insurance companies millions of new, forced costumers. Of course, they will be forced to trust the insurance companies without the benefit of a robust public option to keep them honest:
Baucus' plan would require all Americans to get health insurance, either through an employer, a government program, or on their own. New consumer protections would prohibit onerous insurance companies practices, such as denying coverage because of a prior health problem, or charging more to those who are sick.
Even if Baucus can't get Republican support, the plan already reflects some major GOP priorities. For example, Baucus opted not to include a government insurance plan to compete with private carriers.
So, despite the fact that many Republicans may not come on board and they have a paltry minority enabled by traitorous Democrats such as Baucus and Kent Conrad, they will be catered to much more than the folks who desperately need real reform and much more than the folks who did the groundwork to bring about huge majorities.
Am I the only one that sees something wrong with this picture?? I BEG anyone, President Obama, Progressives in the House and Senate, and my fellow Democrats to join me in opposing any Healthcare bill that forces a mandate without providing a robust public option. This bill was not supposed to be more Corporate Welfare. This bill was supposed to help folks who are preyed upon by big insurance, not big insurance themselves. We are rewarding folks yet again for creating a crisis to protect their profits with, you guessed it more profit. Only in America.
How can we trust a Senator who has been bought and paid for to regulate his corporate masters??:
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