09-03-2009, 12:46 AM
I would not go for that plan for a public option unless its for ten years, not five. A five year window is really not enough time to see if the program is working. I'd far rather have a single-payer system. The costs of health care are not, as some would have you believe, driven by out-of-control lawsuits or overweight Americans, or, in one of Rush Limbaugh's more ridiculous statements, people who keep themselves physically fit, but by an insurance industry driven to maximize profits It's as if insurance executives honestly believe that not only should profits go up each year, they should go up at least in the double digitis each year. Case in point, Columbia HCA, while run by Rick Scott, the founder of Conservatives for Patients Rights, saw its profits increase 450% over a five-year period. Somehow something seems wrong there.This 450%, by the way, was not connected to the 1.7 billion in Medicare Fraud from ColumbiaHCA under Mr. Scott, either.
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And I will bring an extra pint -- B. Bragg
Corporations, which should be the carefully restrained creatures of the law and the servants of the people, are fast becoming the people's masters. -- Grover Cleveland
When the laws are used to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society -- the farmers, mechanics, and laborers -- who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their government -- Andrew Jackson
"Capitalism takes no prisoners and kills competition where it can." -- Vince Cable