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robdverity 09/19/2009 02:20 PM Report
Constitutional challenge? What's that? Plutocracies don't acknowledge let alone deign to consider such a hindrance. The system is the best that can be bought. Ask your congresspersons. If we allow duping the poor into an unaffordable mtgs, then evict them into the streets LEGALLY, the constitution has been made irrelevant. If living under a bridge is unhealthy they obviously are getting what they damn well deserve. Damn whiners. Who are they to diminish the size of the plutocrats yachts just so their snot-nosed kids can survive. Next thing you know they'll be demanding statemen for their representatives. It's dangerous.
A public health service is an intriguing thought. We entrust our public killing to our services, why not a public healing service? A la Blackwater and Halliburton we could contract out to the elite to acquire our usual imbalance.
REMant 09/18/2009 11:53 AM Report
In plain language, a public option, in the context of required participation, is not competition, but an attempt to force all insurance cos to offer the same plan to the same pool of people at the same price. If you are going to do that, why not simply adopt a single-payer system, and save on paperwork? I think such interference in business would certainly be open to constitutional challenge, besides. Then it is assumed that this revamped insurance industry will somehow pressure healthcare providers to be more efficient, but will they really, unless there is a public health service, too? The whole train of thought is just not credible.