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August 23, 2009 06:56 PM UTC
21 Comments
And what did you do with Dean Singleton?
if the Post starts making sense again.
but The Post stopped offering home delivery where I live.
It’s a clear argument for why the choice of a public health insurance option is essential to health insurance reform:
The status quo will also damage individual families who won’t be able to afford their sky rocketing premiums, as the Commonwealth Fund found the following:
And the best way to control health care costs are as the Post so astutely concluded is to insert real competition into the insurance monopoly:
In Colorado, health insurance reform with the choice of a public health insurance option is supported by Representatives DeGette, Perlmutter, Polis and Salazar (not quite sure about Markey yet) as well as both Senators Udall and Bennet.
Let’s get this done for the good of America.
I know for a fact that my premium is already equal to about 20% of my gross salary when you add both my portion and my employer’s portion. Small businesses employ an ever-increasing percentage of the working population, and that always spikes during an economic recovery, so it’s just going to be compounded. Given that our premium goes up by about 15-25% per year (and our salaries sure don’t), it will be 25% way sooner than 2020. Probably more like 2012.
And that’s just for one person. Our employees with families get more of the employer benefit, so they’re all likely at 25% already.
Re: Markey, I could be wrong, but I believe she’s leaving the door open as long as it’s deficit neutral and doesn’t compound the already strained rural healthcare system. Not far off from Salazar’s stated position, IIRC.
What Salazar, Markey, and others who focus on cost need to get is that the public option is designed to reduce costs in the long term, and it’s far from the most expensive part of the reform proposals. Subsidies and tax exemptions are a much bigger portion of the cost, and even the Republicans support subsidies and tax exemptions (or so they say anyway). They just want it to be a big giveaway to insurance companies just as Medicare Part D is to drug companies–i.e. no competition. Presumably so they can come back at a future election and point to how out of control it all is while ignoring it was their idea and counting on the press to do the same–just as they have done with Medicare Part D.
If it keeps going like this even high tech companies are going to have to cut back on what they cover.
And what happens when we hit 50% of people’s income? At present the system is designed to funnel all profits from other companies into the insurance companies.
need for a public option and, finally, some coverage of the fact that we already have bureaucrats rationing and making our health care decisions in the private insurance sector.
Do people really think private health insurers are covering anything for anyone right now? Of course not. Rationing of some kind is a fact of life in any plan and the one we have now rations so severely you can’t even get coverage with many conditions.
Nice to finally see some of that in print. But I didn’t expect anything like a strong Post endorsement of a public option as a necessary part of the solution. Even though that’s obviously the case. Wonder what other regions’ papers are saying. Are we turning some kind of corner?
that the Public Option is one part of the bill she supports since it is deficit neutral (through the payment of premiums). She is worried about the taxes and fees associated with other parts of the bill.
He is apparently a strong supporter of a public option. Oh wait–he was talking about worker’s compensation insurance.
I think it’s good that the Denver Post is making sense. Perhaps they are realizing like most are realizing that if we don’t fix the middleclass there will be no recovery. Nah! It’s just a fluke.
They see health insurance bankrupting them.
They and many companies want to layoff their healthcare costs like Bennet laid off varios DPS costs to PERA.
Again, I’d like to see this public option b/c I’d jump right in. Sure it might not be as good, but I wouldn’t have to pay that damn monthly fee anymore. That would be a couple of hundred bucks extra for me … all on your backs!
People who choose the public option get to pay premiums too. You’re so dense you can’t even look up basic bits of information to come up with your moronic rants.
You resemble a lot of these knuckleheads doing heil Hitler salutes at town halls. They have no idea who Hitler was, let alone how moronic they look.
But why spend any effort at all learning anything when being an idiot is just so much easier?
The Denver Post hates America.
but someone should hold Senator Max Baucus accountable to this recent statement supporting the choice of a public health insurance option:
Well Senator, pass your bill out of committee with the choice of a public health insurance option included. Several other committees have already accomplished that much without validating an old coots conspiracy theories.
The status quo cannot be sustained.
Who knew?