Originally Posted by
FindersKeepers
I agree. If this wasn't intended -- it was among the dumbest mistakes made by the authors of a bill.
It's all heading toward a public option.
The thing is -- this could have been settled from the start by implementing an OPTIONAL public option for those who wanted to buy into a bare bones plan at a low cost. It would not have affected big insurers, save to prompt them to come into competition a bit. There should never have been a coercion penalty that punished those who could not afford to buy healthcare. That was, and is, as anti-American as it gets.
All they had to do was implement a single public option for those who wanted to participate that operated like Medicare (not Medicaid).
Now, we'll see something similar -- but it will be overextended and draconian in nature.
Not that I will cry at the demise of big insurers and Big Pharma.
I welcome their demise.