How Pharma and Insurance Intend to Kill the Public Option, And What Obama and the Rest of Us Must Do

They don't want a public option that would compete with private insurers and use its bargaining power to negotiate better rates with drug companies. They argue that would be unfair. Unfair? Unfair to give more people better health care at lower cost? To Pharma and Insurance, "unfair" is anything that undermines their profits. Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Jun 8, 2009 - 5:22 PM PDT
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by Dwight Rousu - Jun. 8, 2009

Excellent insight and inside information about what is astir in congress on this bill.

Argue with your congress critters about this now, or forever argue with your "anti-care" insurance company.

One of their proposals is to break up the public option into small pieces under multiple regional third-party administrators that would have little or no bargaining ... More »

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by Gary Holcomb - Jun. 9, 2009

This is journalism because it describes three roadblocks that the conservatives are thinking about erecting so as to gut Universal Health Care.

Nobody said that it would be easy to bring Universal Health Care to the people of America. That said, Pharma & Insurance have a strangle hold on the ... More »

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by Louise Auerhahn - Jun. 9, 2009

The individual mandate (requiring every American to obtain health insurance) combined with lack of a real public option would effectively be an ... More »

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by JPINSATX JOHN P - Jun. 8, 2009

Hmmm... Health Care for ALL Americans is Simple! 1) MERGE Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIPS into one single "Income Based" system for children, poor ... More »

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by W. MacKenzie - Jun. 9, 2009

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