It was requested that I run this diary again...so.Hopefully it's worth repeating.
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.
">Another trigger happy fool Olympia Snowe says it best:
"I don't think we can entirely depend on the private insurance market to deliver. They haven't delivered thus far, and that's why we're in the predicament we're in today," she said.
Lakehillsliberal and hoplite9 had a great idea for an ad: A six shooter with the heading
Six People a day die due to crappy insurance. What more of a "trigger" do we need to get decent health-care in this country?
Now, imagine a smoking gun and six victims' specters haunting the background as calendar days flip and and the names and pictures of each obstructionist democrat pops up standing over the corpse.
Suicide Quote From The Health Insurance Companies
UnitedHealth, which processes 60 billion health care transactions a year, argued in June that better use of technology would save $332 billion annually, with some going to physicians.
- Imagine what dumping Unitedhealth and their buddies would save the economy.
- Imagine how much more could go to adding REAL healthcare providers.
http://www.democracyforamerica.com, http://moveon.org, and
http://boldprogressives.org/...
What I'd like to do to the Insurance Companies and their capitol hill allies- (warning scene contains violence)