Comments on: Reid, Wyden, Baucus Reach Agreement On Version Of Free Choice Amendment

By: Elliott

Elliott — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:48:25 +0000

Divorcing health care from employment should have been the foundation of HCR.

By: nandssmith

nandssmith — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:13:30 +0000

Ron Wyden has spent his entire career working on improvements in health care/pharma for seniors, as well as improving health care for all Americans.

Also, by beginning to divorce health insurance from jobs, it is a good systemic start for single payer.

By: chipher

chipher — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:26:10 +0000

The potential for insurer bait-and-switch in the exchanges is grotesque.
The healthcare business doesn’t provide “50/20/10″ comparable coverage!
It’s a total crap-shoot what kind of association and coverage you get.
You would be totally gambling that saving $20 going with a new exchange,
would provide comparable coverage when you found out you have leukemia.
Then they’d send you to an association of only out of town med centers:
“Oh, I’m sorry, our policy is not to cover experimental cancer cures.”
Now you’ve got a pre-existing condition when you try to change coverage!
Your forked! It’s like playing Indian poker, when you’re the only Indian!

By: ImprobableJoe

ImprobableJoe — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:46:07 +0000

I don’t trust this a bit. When people give a percentage that acts as a “trigger,” I always assume that the next step is to jigger the numbers so that the shift in policy can never be triggered… if triggers were a bad idea for the whole public option, they are a bad idea for this component.

By: mrbill143

mrbill143 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:10:23 +0000

How to kill Health Care.

It’s our money. Trips to D.C. won’t do it, beating on the office doors won’t either.

Making a trip to our bank first thing in the morning will !

Withdraw all {day 2 day} bank accounts down to their minimum.

Take the funds in a Cashiers Check only (DO NOT CASH THEM)

Tell the banker “you might re-deposit” once Congress starts listening to the 85% of the people that don’t want this crap !

Otherwise, you might just have to work out of a shoe box for the next couple of years.
The bank isn’t paying me anything to use my money…..what less than 1%.

The bankers will be screaming their heads off and Congress will hear them, long before they even give you the time of day !

Get this out to your friends A.S.A.P. we need to get everyone to participate.

LET’S ROLL PATRIOTS DRAW THOSE ACCOUNTS TO THE MINIMUM FIRST THING IN THE MORNING “BEFORE THEY VOTE ON THIS BILL”

By: Larue

Larue — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:55:49 +0000

Thanks to David and others and all for keeping us up to speed on all the machinations on this HCR.

I’m with JOanne, I’m suspicious as hell.

Blub says it, and Kelly, yep, a million is more than we had yesterday, without a LOT of others to be included into the PO, it will be designed to fail.

Not to mention the start date needs to be 2010, no Stupak, no Eshoo, repeal of MacFerron whatever, has to have NO exclusions for pre existing, needs to cap premiums pricing on private side ASAP, enable import of foreign drugs to lower PhARMA costs, eliminate ‘D’ Donut Hole, and on and on.

You know, reform, not a fucking giveaway to corporate feudalist overlords.

I’m hittin the Merlot early, I MIGHT just have an attitude tonite about HCR, and oligarchy.

*G*

By: Kelly Canfield

Kelly Canfield — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:06:07 +0000

Another million. Good. Need more, but good.

I’ve been wondering where Howard Dean is lately; I’m of a mind that if he’s not visible, he’s very busy.

By: Blub

Blub — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:53:37 +0000

we need to figure out how to open up the PO to more people.. only way its going to work as a cost cutting measure. This amendment is a start, but I want more. We should begin with everyone who works for small business, maybe include students and recent grads, people between 55 and 60, etc., etc. I don’t care how access to it gets expanded, but without a broader scope, it will fail.

By: joanneleon

joanneleon — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:53:28 +0000

I wonder what exactly the version of the Wyden amendment is.

It seems like this got into the bill too easily.

I should be very happy about this, I think, but instead I’m suspicious.

By: Teddy Partridge

Teddy Partridge — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:30:26 +0000

Slippery slope.

Works for me.