No we are not.
The physicians and the insurance agencies are working at grassroots level to stop this, or so I heard on Michael Medved today.
The Senior Lobby will not go quietly into the night. Giving people tax credits to buy their own insurance is one strategy; there are others that have been looked at.
There are options to solve the health care cost problem if competitiveness is made a goal.
I don’t think you are correct about this. There is a reason this bill will not be filibustered. It has the support of many Americans...as for tax credits. This does not deal with the unemployed or people with pre-existing conditions. As for insurance companies, maybe they would have had more luck if they had acted honorably instead of rationing health care themselves and denying people with treatable conditions such as diabetes and high blood pressure policies. How many people do you know like their HMO...how many have already been turned down for various treatments. There is a family in my town raising money for treatment of one of their kid’s cancer-a fairly common treatment these days, but it has been denied by the insurance company. My point is all the fear of government insurance is gone after the way many insurers have behaved...some people believe it could not be worse...now I don’t think national health is a good idea and believe we should have encouraged our employee based insurance with tax credits and such; We should have kept the jobs here which would eliminate the need for government insurance.