Rep Ryan is quoted above by Jennifer as saying : “The public option is not designed to keep private insurance honest but to make private insurance go away.”
This is my current opinion as well. However, I have lately begun seeing ads BY INSURANCE COMPANIES supporting the sick care insurance bill. If Ryan is correct, why would insurance companies want to finance ads for a bill that would spell their own doom? I am afraid something is going on that we do not yet know about.
#17 This is correct. The first ones to be put under the bill’s provisions on a five to ten year trial basis should be the U.S. government, elected and unelected.
Finally: Capretta and Yuval: “So, now, at the eleventh hour, the president is hailing a new approach — vast new powers for a board of experts in Washington to set rules and calibrate fees — as the secret to cutting costs and bringing the system under control, first within Medicare and then beyond.”
This is a truly terrible idea. Think of someone like “Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald” in charge of a sick care insurance panel with no government supervisor, an unlimited budget, and unlimited power over your treatment decisions .
Some might say we have this now, but we don’t. Now we have competition to some degree. With this setup we would be completely powerless over our own treatment.
Sorry for the length, but…”
