Any plan that does not put the public’s interest front and center, that does not make both “health” and “care” the standards, is a non-starter with me.

Since any for-profit insurance company has to put the interests of its shareholders first — it’s their fiduciary responsibility to do so — that would make public option a “non-starter,” right? Exactly because it’s only an option, and the for-profit insurance companies are still in place?

This public option thingy is repugnant to me. I think they should just leave everything as it is of that’s the best they can do and see what happens to America if they put US in the position of BEING FORCED to buy crappy insurance.

I watched my brother, who’s made a pile off health insurance sell his company a couple of years ago and the buyers said it wasn’t worth anything until he got rid of all the insurance bennies for the people who had helped him build it. So he did, to make a little more moolah. He’s gone over to the dark side, completely, prolly doing cartwheels at the thought of the gov turning US over to the likes of himself. Bleh.

Anyway, I found this article after hearing about on Hartmann the other day. I thought I’d share it with you folks:
CHINA: Experts urge stimulus package on social welfare

America is a laughing stock right now for what it’s done and is doing to it’s citizens. Even the Chinese know the well-being of their population is the way to pull themsleves out of the ditch of the economic crisis engineered by our American corporations.

I can’t BELIEVE there is even a debate on this let alone all this political compromise and posturing. They should be figuring out how to do it, not fighting about WHAT to do to to let the predators screw US over some more . Esp. after they sold US down the river to the banksters and the IMF, and , of course, more war.

They sure don’t have any trouble with THEIR publicly funded health care!

How we wound up with a government like this after all these years of fighting it is totally beyond my comprehension.

“A majority of Americans see government action as critical to controlling runaway health-care costs, but there is broad public anxiety about the potential impact of reform legislation and conflicting views about the types of fixes being proposed on Capitol Hill, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News Poll”.

“Most Want Health Reform But Fear Its Side Effects Most respondents are “very concerned” that health-care reform would lead to higher costs, lower quality, fewer choices, a bigger deficit, diminished insurance coverage and more government bureaucracy. About six in 10 are at least somewhat worried about all of these factors, underscoring the challenges for lawmakers as they attempt to restructure the nation’s $2.3 trillion health-care system”.