The only bill that has any chance of passing Congress is one that gives universal basic healthcare to everyone, free of charge. This is what the voters demand, it’s what they want, and the reason they don’t have it yet is because some Members of Congress are too sensible and the rest are too reliant on bribes from the insurance and drug industries.
The fight over a “free market” in basic health services has been over for fifty years.
What we need to fight over (but won’t, because nobody gets how socialized the system was BEFORE anybody ever heard of Obama), are two things: First, what “basic” healthcare excludes, and two, what a liberated insurance industry will be allowed to write policies for.
That there will be a “public option” is a certainty. Either the GOP House delivers it, or their majority will be gone and will never return.What’s controversial on the other side is whether there will be a “private option”, and what the “private option” will be allowed to cover.
Hillarycare (the final bill) specified 5 years in prison and a $50 000 fine for any doctor who took a payment to deliver a service outside of her system. That’s where the Democrats want to go.
A private option to allow you to choose (and to pay for) what you want, and also to allow you to self-insure against the cost can be preserved for the future, but only if the Republicans wake the f*** up and act quickly.
1. There will be a VAT to pay for it. That hamburger, now, that 8 years ago was $5.99 and is now $12.99 (for nothing) will cost $21.99--apply that to everything--sneakers, jeans, underwear, etc.
2. The system will be known to SUCK and no self respecting person of any means will use it. In fact it will be akin to driving a 1977 Pinto as far as status and prestige go.
What a nightmare.