Saturday, June 20, 2009
Thursday, June 18, 2009
The Single Issue on Health Care
Regarding the public option, I see today that Tom Daschele says "We've come too far and gained too much momentum for our efforts to fail over disagreement on one single issue".
He is getting this all wrong. It is not "one single issue", it is THE single issue.
If there is no public option then what will be the incentive for the private sector to lower costs? You can do a hundred things to lower costs but if you really want these bloated insurance companies to suck it up and compete for real. Then they need to have a giant government plan out there as the benchmark. As their competition.
I would tell my insurance to take a hike in a second if there was a good public plan to choose from. Just like I told my cable TV company to take hike when I got a dish. Now, the cable company has innovated and offers a ton more cool products and why? Because of meaningful competition.
The real deal on why it must be public. People are trapped in jobs because they do not want to lose health care benefits. So rather then go off and start a new company, be a consultant and infuse innovation in our economy; they don't. And we all lose. If there was health care for everyone, no matter what. We all win.
He is getting this all wrong. It is not "one single issue", it is THE single issue.
If there is no public option then what will be the incentive for the private sector to lower costs? You can do a hundred things to lower costs but if you really want these bloated insurance companies to suck it up and compete for real. Then they need to have a giant government plan out there as the benchmark. As their competition.
I would tell my insurance to take a hike in a second if there was a good public plan to choose from. Just like I told my cable TV company to take hike when I got a dish. Now, the cable company has innovated and offers a ton more cool products and why? Because of meaningful competition.
The real deal on why it must be public. People are trapped in jobs because they do not want to lose health care benefits. So rather then go off and start a new company, be a consultant and infuse innovation in our economy; they don't. And we all lose. If there was health care for everyone, no matter what. We all win.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Dumb F@ckers in GOP
So Tiller is dead by the hands of a right wing extremist. What idiots in the GOP criticized Napolitano for releasing the Bush-era report about left and right wing nut jobs... silence? Anyone? The GOP is full of fools and it makes me sick.
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