Why do republicans despise a fair and necessary Public Option for health care?

[LaPera]

We hear all the lies from the republicans, their outrageous fear tactics they've used every time for the past 100 years whenever Universal Health Care is proposed, what are the republicans real reasons for such disdain for government health care?

Public Option will be a start, it will be a great plan for workers, veterans, small business, the poor and it will help the economy.

Public Option if given a chance will hopefully evolve into Medicaid for ALL - It's why the
republicans and insurance corporations are fighting it tooth & nail, worried about their profits, certainly not the sick or poor...plus it will mean more union workers and the republicans despise that thought.

Like Social Security, Medicaid, Unemployment insurance & Veterans programs....Republicans are & were against all of these programs too. Fighting and voting against them, spreading doom & fear before the strong in the Democratic party passed them, because it was the right thing to do!

As it is now, it's the insurance companies that "stand between you and your doctor".....One must go through ones insurance company to get ANYTHING OKed for cost before a doctor will preform the necessary procedures.

[harun]

1. They hate anything that even smells like it might promote equality

among people.

[GreenTea]

2. I agree completely!

[WI_DEM]

3. Why are some democrats fighting it?

[Quantess]

7. They are doing the bidding for their masters, the Insurance execs.

Some Democrats can be bought, too.

[LaPera]

4. Well, here's (R) Rep. Michelle Bachmann answer to my question....

"Approximately 114 million Americans are expected to leave private health insurance. Why? Their employers will drop the insurance because the taxpayer-subsidized plan will be 30 to 40 percent cheaper. This action will collapse the private health insurance market, and then the Federal Government will own the health provider game."

So Bachmann says, fuck the American people and the cost, it's the insurance companies profit she and the republicans are worried about - If the insurance companies weren't so greedy, had fair rates & pricing for all, this public outrage demanding a need for public option would never have occurred, but eight under Bush with little or no regulations the corporations charged & grouched as they liked never caring about the public's concerns...

Now fuck the insurance corporations we want and need a public option for health care!

[frebrd]

5. Simple - they're concerned about one or both of the following:

1. Their large investments in the health-care industry

2. Their large contributions from the insurance/health-care industries

[GreenTea]

6. Great"Other"!

[Sebastian Doyle]

8. Because Mush Limpdick, Glenn BecKKK, RimJob, and Randall Terryrist tell them so?

:shrug: