I Guess This Means We Will Get Real Heath Care Reform... Right?
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President Obama: "That’s why any plan I sign must include an insurance exchange: a one-stop shopping marketplace where you can compare the benefits, cost and track records of a variety of plans-- including a public option to increase competition and keep insurance companies honest-- and choose what’s best for your family. And that’s why we’ll put an end to the worst practices of the insurance industry: no more yearly caps or lifetime caps; no more denying people care because of pre-existing conditions; and no more dropping people from a plan when they get too sick. No longer will you be without health insurance, even if you lose your job or change jobs."
Obama doesn't say what he's going to do about the corrupt senators and House members (DLC and Blue Dogs) who have taken immense sums from the Medical-Industrial Complex and Big Insurance to cooperate with the Republicans in wrecking a robust, workable public option. I guess Obama has some chits he can call in on Lieberman and Specter, maybe even Bayh and Baucus, but he has no leverage against crooked corporate shills in solidly red states like Blanche Lincoln and Ben Nelson. We should help him with Blanche. We have another week of ads running on statewide TV in Arkansas. Should we go for a third week?
Labels: health insurance, public option, reactionary Democrats
posted by DownWithTyranny @ 3:00 AM
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I was pleasantly surprised, upon returning to the corporate world in 1998, to discover that insurance "open enrollment" benefits took effect one month (not three) after my hire date, and that they didn't ask anything about pre-existing conditions. I assumed Bill Clinton had something to do with this. I'm thinking now that his threats of health-care reform prompted the big insurance companies to ease off a bit. I noticed things getting tighter after Bush took office. The waiting period was back to three months, and premiums went up every year, with warnings from the insurance company (and my employer) about people who "overused" their benefits. We were also given these nosy "surveys" about our weight, diets and exercise routines, and also threatened that refusing to take the survey would dump us back to the most basic, high-premium and high-deductible medical insurance. Merely a harbinger of where we are now. I sincerely hope the Obama administration can get some reforms signed into law. Even if it's not a complete package, I think it will still discourage employers from intruding into our lives and making employment conditional on how much we "cost" them.
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