Dean's Right: Kill the Bill

by: 220 South

Thu Dec 17, 2009 at 22:26:13 PM EST

Any measure that expands private insurers' monopoly over health care and transfers millions of taxpayer dollars to private corporations is not real health-care reform. Real reform would insert competition into insurance markets, force insurers to cut unnecessary administrative expenses and spend health-care dollars caring for people. Real reform would significantly lower costs, improve the delivery of health care and give all Americans a meaningful choice of coverage. The current Senate bill accomplishes none of these.

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Instead, it fines Americans if they do not sign up with an insurance company, which may take up to 30 percent of your premium dollars and spend it on CEO salaries -- in the range of $20 million a year -- and on return on equity for the company's shareholders. Few Americans will see any benefit until 2014, by which time premiums are likely to have doubled. In short, the winners in this bill are insurance companies; the American taxpayer is about to be fleeced with a bailout in a situation that dwarfs even what happened at AIG. (My emphasis)

More after the flip...

Lieberman and 75% of Health Care

by: Tiderion

Mon Aug 24, 2009 at 02:23:22 AM EDT

From another perspective, when you give a mouse a cookie he'll want a glass of milk. You give three quarters and suddenly the deal is for three fifths. Three-fifths has not worked out so well for us. I am much more satisfied, like many others, with the full one over one. There be no fractions here. It'd be nice if this country could commit to solutions to domestic problems like we seem to do foreign wars.