UHC Public Option is Dead

[BoberFett]

Originally posted by: Fern

Originally posted by: Phokus
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The uninsured are ALREADY priced into healthcare costs. When an uninsured person goes to the emergency room and can't pay, that gets passed onto everyone else. All UHC does is take the cost associated with an uninsured patient and spread that to everyone. Perhaps you could adopt the same tag!

Hehe.

So, without UHC those costs are spread onto everyone else, whereas with UHC we'll fixed that by spreading those costs onto everyone else?

Sad thing is, that's the best explanation of UHC I've ever seen here. I mean it's accurate, cuz you just can't get something for nothing. Somebody's got to pay, it's either 'us', or it's 'us'. Those are the only two options available.

Fern

LMAO!

 

[Deliximus]

60 votes for cloture (hopefully get that seat filled in Mass.), the 50+Biden to pass via reconcilliation.

Or they can pass a bill in the Senate w/ a weak PO (trigger, etc), then sneak in a robust PO when the combine the House (very likely to have a PO) and Senate bills.

Democrats screw themselves all the time with this internal bickering. They will pass something, knowing that if they don't, they are signing a mass suicide warrant for themselves in 2010. Then again, they are a big tent party where the ideology range is great.

 

[blackangst1]

Originally posted by: miketheidiot

Originally posted by: Fern


So, without UHC those costs are spread onto everyone else, whereas with UHC we'll fixed that by spreading those costs onto everyone else?

Sad thing is, that's the best explanation of UHC I've ever seen here. I mean it's accurate, cuz you just can't get something for nothing. Somebody's got to pay, it's either 'us', or it's 'us'. Those are the only two options available.

Fern

there are ways of paying that are smarter than others

You are correct, but nothing in HB3200 addresses it. So Fern is correct: with UHC we'll fixed that by spreading those costs onto everyone else