Senators Agree on an Open Public Option Amendment
source: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/68897-sen-wyden-wins-big-healthcare-concession
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“As I have long said, empowering Americans to choose the health insurance that works best for them and their family is the single best way to hold health insurance companies accountable,” Wyden said. “While this is just one step in the direction of guaranteeing choices for all Americans, it is a major step because, for the first time, it introduces the concept of individual choice to a marketplace where it has long been foreign. This is a significant step toward real reform.”
This opens up the proposed insurance exchange to considerably more people. The CBO estimated this type of option opens up health care to an addition one million. Yet the U.S. has over 50 million without health care coverage. It seems we are chipping away at the number ever so slowly. Why not implement medicare for all Americans. That would solve everything.
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kennymotown
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Senator Wyden is fighting hard and playing the senate game well.
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kennymotown
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iPedro
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"Why not implement medicare for all Americans?"
It works here in Canada (and countless other countries)... and I still see insurance companies thriving. They simply switched to other products such as life insurance, covering non-covered medical services, offering additional perks like single bed hospital rooms, etc.
I have a family doctor who when I choose to see, I simply drop by and wait no longer than 20 minutes (often less than 10).
When I needed a specialist, I waited no more than a few weeks and it wasn't urgent.
How the largest super power cannot implement this is a testament to how the insurance companies have grown to be more powerful than the government.
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iPedro
