Posted on 07/12/2016 10:44:25 AM PDT by PROCON
President Obama joined the chorus of Democrats calling for the creation of a government run health insurance program as Obamacare is facing growing problems.
In an article published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the president called for Congress to revisit the "public option" for Obamacare in areas where few insurers offer coverage.
"Some parts of the country have struggled with limited insurance market competition for many years, which is one reason that, in the original debate over health reform, Congress considered and I supported including a Medicare-like public plan," Obama wrote in the piece.
A public option would mean a government run health insurance plan.
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I lived in Canada for 3 years...for colds, flu, broken bones their system works...just don’t get cancer or have a heart attack...
OR HIT YOUR HEAD Skiing AND NEED A MRI
You do know tons of canadians came down here to get healthcare in a timely manner they could not get in canada because allotments of whatever were used up for the year. Healthcare rationing and quotas.
Lots of people die in the uk and canada waiting for things we do not. Of course in these systems this is part of the goal of the systems.
Medicare is similar...doctors are opting out if Medicare which you are eventually forced on...and you can’t pay them outside the Medicare system if you have the $$$
If Obamacare is such a success as Hussein keeps saying why would we need a public option?
Public option? More like public compulsion.
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Aww shucks Bobo you pissed away your Democrat Congress with the original plan - both houses. And most of your statehouses too. What was your plan again?>
So now I guess they will take the money right from your paycheck just like Social Security and medicare taxes.
This tyrannical DICKTATOR and his jack-booted Congress.
That’s a great gig you got there, Bath House.
Screw up in medical insurance market and then ride to the rescue on your .gov white horse to save the day. The US voters are too stupid to figure this out.
But then again, why don’t you just decree it done, like everything else you do?
Insurance is NOT healthcare. That is provide by... uh... providers - doctors.
Is the government going to start a med school for its own employees?
Well, that’s certainly a risk should PRyno and Juan not get reelected.
When I have been asked that in the past, my response has been that it must be nice to be able to afford sub-par public healthcare because your neighbor to the south pays for your defense and all of the r&d on prescription drugs. Even so, their tax rate is unacceptable.
I am not trying to flame you, because I think it was an honest question and I think these boards feel too much like an echo chamber lately, but that said, I for one don’t care much what the rest of the countries in the world are doing. As far as I can see, most are failing socially, politically, and economically.
Just my thoughts.
A Public Option is a great idea. No experience necessary, no education required and you too can apply to be a heart surgeon.
Fewer Doctors, more government agents. Full employment is coming.
Instead I will apply to be a government Dentist. I have experience working with pliers. Woo Hoo!
They’ll subsidize the hell out of the Public Option and make the premiums SO much cheaper than the other insurers they’ll all be out of business in two, three years tops.
Yes, it was. Socialized medicine for all!
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