Quote Originally Posted by Lemur View Post
I don't understand this line of reasoning. At its most radical, the Dem proposal would put maybe five million people into a government sponsored insurance exchange. The much-dreaded "public option."
Um, the House bill included the option to throw people in jail for not buying insurance - not buying insurance for yourself is to be a crime.
And complete government control over what insurance companies must offer and charge.
And forcing people through regulation into using the government option.
And control over what Doctors can prescribe in the way of treatments.
And forcing insurance companies to except everyone, including the people who waited until they got sick until buying insurance, and charging everyone the same price.

I think you are severely understating the scope.

If they had wanted to insure five million people, they could have put together some subsidy for people who can't afford insurance. And if they wanted competition and cost cutting, allow people to buy out of state insurance and allow companies to charge people doing unhealthy things more. And government price fixing always (@&$(s things up.

But they don't care about reform; it's about control, by having the government force itself into another huge facet of people's lives.

CR