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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe cut Obama should offer regarding Obamacare.
I'd like to see a BIG cut...lop off all insurance companies and go directly to single-payer.
iemitsu
(3,888 posts)PDJane
(10,103 posts)peacebird
(14,195 posts)RichGirl
(4,119 posts)...how it would help the economy. All they could do is admitt that they are more beholding to the insurance lobby than the American people.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)Offer Medicare for all as an option (ramp up the infrastructure) create a federal exchange open to everyone (for the transition) and move up the date for state waivers (benefit to states like Vermont).
This would be the fastest route.
patrice
(47,992 posts)forestpath
(3,102 posts)BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)Liberalynn
(7,549 posts)Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)libtodeath
(2,888 posts)drop like a rock but that is one reason repukes wont hear of it.
They want people suffering and at the whim of employers.
dobleremolque
(493 posts)at the state level might be the stepping stone. At least it's an opportunity for the feds to shine and move closer to single payer, maybe even in those very states.
antigop
(12,778 posts)The Obama administration will soon take on a new role as the sponsor of at least two nationwide health insurance plans to be operated under contract with the federal government and offered to consumers in every state.
These multistate plans were included in President Obamas health care law as a substitute for a pure government-run health insurance program the public option sought by many liberal Democrats and reviled by Republicans. Supporters of the national plans say they will increase competition in state health insurance markets, many of which are dominated by a handful of companies.
W.J. McCabe
(74 posts)Makes sense to me, but Washington, D.C. likes to be the reverse Robin Hood and funnel money to the rich. It loves reverse socialism.
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)ca3799
(71 posts)I'm hoping that the several/many Republican Governors who are refusing to implement the exchanges, thus leaving the Feds to do so for them, don't realize they are helping to get there sooner.
Certainly, they are not that stupid?
Or maybe they really recognize the benefits of universal, single payer, and this is how they get the country there while still maintaining their public opposition.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)and cut the cost of health care out of products and services.
patrice
(47,992 posts)therapies that have been empirically established as efficacious TO THE PATIENT.
Cut out the wall between conventional coverage and parity for Mental Health and also Dental coverage.