I'm at work, so I'm going to have to keep this brief. From Markos at the front page:
My take is that it's unconscionable to force people to buy a product from a private insurer that enjoys sanctioned monopoly status. It'd be like forcing everyone to attend baseball games, but instead of watching the Yankees, they were forced to watch the Kansas City Royals. Or Washington Nationals. It would effectively be a tax -- and a huge one -- paid directly to a private industry.
Without any mechanisms to control costs, this is yet another bailout for yet another reviled industry.
No. It's not like being forced to watch baseball at all. This is people's health, and this bill would be a dramatic positive reinforcement to the insurance companies that the way they define "care" is the way it's going to be. BASEBALL GAMES DON'T KILL PEOPLE.
So no, Kos, it's not baseball, it's not a bailout- it's giving the keys to the hen-house to the fox, and we are all the hens.
Yours truly,
Uninsured small business owner,
Kumar Plocher,
Ukiah, CA (where you can only purchase plans from Blue Cross or Blue Shield, and where, even at my above poverty line salary, it just doesn't make any sense whatsoever to do so, considering how awful those plans are)
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