ProgressiveDem: America Needs Single Payer Health Care Like H.R. 676 Not The Baucus Plan
America Needs Single Payer Health Care Like H.R. 676 Not The Baucus Plan
The US is the only wealthy industrialized nation that does not provide single payer, universal healthcare for all. It relies on employer based healthcare, which is lost if you change jobs. It relies on unaffordable private, powerful super rich insurance companies who deny health care coverage for pre-existing conditions (unless you pay an arm and a leg) and impose other arbitrary rules to increase profit and even those who are "covered" can never be certain of coverage. Fighting with private health care insurers is a frustrating, stress producing battle for many who are insured. Health care coverage in the US is an expensive, broken system.
While the Obama administration says it will try to make things better, it will be an ice cream on cow pies process that will not bring the US on par with other industrialized countries where health care is a right guaranteed by single payer, government administered (note administered not provided) universal coverage for all.
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Ian Welch at Firedoglake weighs in about the Senator Max Baucus health care plan, which requires Americans to further enrich the private insurance companies, instead of copying the successful single payer, universal coverage in other countries.
"Enough, enough, enough. Seriously, I'm reading the Baucus plan (more on that later) and I read this line, and about puked:
While there must be a uniquely American answer to the question of containing health care costs, other countries demonstrate the possibility of success.
The Baucus plan is the government forcing people to pay private companies for insurance. It is, in other words, health insurance on the car insurance model. Are you happy with your car insurance?
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