Why not Universal Healthcare?

[markw]

While I haven't seen any details of the public option, the concept works for me. From what I have gleaned from the concept (nobody has really fleshed out details) the government would fund a startup plan which offered benefits like what is already offered to government employees which include house and senate members. If it is good enough for them, it is good enough for the average American. That part is clear. What is not clear is how they are going to pay for it without adding to the budget deficit

Then let's see what happens when the crystal ball clears up. As far as I know, this isn't going to be quite the same plan as the ones our representatives get, or at least at a reasonable cost. I also understand they all voted to "opt out" of it anyway.

The problem is that the boat may just get rocked whether you like it or not. The way things are going, insurance may become too costly for your employer to afford, and they may have to cut benefits so they don't go broke offering it to you.

Then I don't want it. They ar edoing the right thing opposing it then. I gotta do what's best for me and mine. I've got a health issue myself and would love a real,tangible, working, reasonable alternative but as it stands now, I'm on the same merry-go-round as you. We pay incrementally more for a little less each year, but It sure beats nothing.

I still want to see the alternative...

Since 2000, Disney has changed the plans they have offered to us because the current plan had become to expensive. Each time I have had to pay more to get less, and have had to pay even more to get what I had previously. At this rate they are going to bankrupt me on something I so desperately need to keep. I have lupus, and while I have been largely healthy and have had no real illnesses, no insurance company is going to sell me insurance if I had to purchase it outside my company. This has to change.

I feel for ya, but you don't think it's going to cost you more in the long run anyway?

Nobody has been asked to vote on it, that is misinformation. They have not even been able to get to the point of providing details on it, they have just been saying they don't want it as it would bankrupt the private insurance companies, a point that has already been refuted by the Congressional Budget Office. So everyone is basically opposing the concept and not the details themselves. This is part of the problem.

That's the point, Nobody knows the details. Come up with a plan, run it up the flagpole, and then we'll see who salutes it.

I've been around too long to trust a politician who says "Trust me. I've got your best interests at heart".