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Old 07-22-2010, 07:42 PM   #11
Happy Monkey
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And none of that controls costs which is why it will fail in the end.
We'll see what happens on the exchanges. But if they don't work, then "the end" could be the impetus to go public option or single payer. It would be nice if we didn't have to take the long way round, but we are giving them the rope to hang themselves. Hopefully we're willing to be hangmen when the time comes.
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And none of that requires that everyone contributes, only that those who have insurance and money pay for those who don't.
The only alternative to that is to let poor people die in the streets. Our current method is emergency rooms. At least under the new system, the poor will be able to get preventive care that way, rather than just catastrophic care.
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And none of that will fix the problems in healthcare,
That's... unspecific. There will probably be plenty of problems it doesn't fix. It's only 3000 pages, after all. but it does fix the biggest problem - preexisting conditions. And that fix has the further effect of curbing the second biggest problem - recisions. If you can't cut someone for a preexisting condition, you can't cut them for not reporting it.
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So far the government programs of Medicaid are expensive, bloated, and inefficient,
But less so than private insurance, so I agree that a public option would have been great.

But, as I said, things the bill doesn't do are things to do in the future. They aren't arguments against what the bill does.
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