Co-Ops - Senator Conrad's plan to obliterate health care reform gets obliterated...
"If we had 25 years, and we weren’t staring down the barrel of a shotgun on health costs, it’s a pretty neat concept," said Keckley, whose Washington, D.C. center is an arm of the accounting and consulting company Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, in an interview. "It’s a politically interesting solution. I just don’t think it’s a real practical one."
If Keckley is right, Obama, 47, would reach his 70s by the time cooperatives like Group Health take root and can compete with the private sector.
Rahmee, Rahmee, Rahmee - still trigger happy...
Mr. Emanuel said one of several ways to meet President Barack Obama's goals is a mechanism under which a public plan is introduced only if the marketplace fails to provide sufficient competition on its own. He noted that congressional Republicans crafted a similar trigger mechanism when they created a prescription-drug benefit for Medicare in 2003. In that case, private competition has been judged sufficient and the public option has never gone into effect.
Fuck you, Rahm. How can Zero competition be judged as "sufficient"? Why don't you tell that to the VA and the22.5 Million
Seniors enrolled in Medicare Part D plans (who)pay 58 percent more for the most commonly prescribed drugs than Americans who buy their medications through health plans administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs, according to a report released Tuesday
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Under the 2003 Medicare prescription-drug law, the government is barred from harnessing the buying power of 22.5 million Americans — the number of people now receiving some kind of drug benefits under Medicare — to get a better deal on prescription medications.
How is the competition sufficient when one side isn't allowed to compete for better prices? What do you care though, huh? It isn't your family you're bankrupting?
I tell you what Rahmee, let's do the public option and if it doesn't work, we can end it. Let's try a different input first, even if it isn't into your family's wallet.