ObamaCare is NOT DEAD. Do NOT think we’ve won anything and let your guard down, because we haven’t won.
Public option vs. utilizing the private insurance system to control every aspect of how we get health care and to make health choices for us is the difference between being a little pregnant and a lot pregnant.
The government will still control you through the health system because it will be standardizing policies that can be offered on the exchange, taxing your payroll like it does for SSI and paying the premium on your behalf, and telling the insurance companies how to administer the plans. Everyone will get the same thing and the same treatment as if there were a public option. If it isn’t covered you don’t get it, and if you have a serious health problem you will be treated according to statisics.
If you manage to have a policy that is authorized by the state and not the Fed, which I believe would be the exception rather than the rule, you will still get a payroll deduction as if you had a federal government sanctioned plan in addition to having to pay the premium for whatever you choose to have on the side. It’s like being taxed for the public school system and paying again to send your kids to private school. And there will still be a real temptation for employers to dump any true private insurace offering to avoid double cost.
Look up HR1321 on Thomas and read it for yourself before popping the corks on the victory champaign. You will see that there’s a victory there for the insurance companies, but Average Joe will still be hosed just the same.
That is the point of this Article - Obama is working with the RINO’s to pass ObamaCare Lite - or RINOcare.