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Originally Posted by flstf
I saw a Republican Senator (Bob Corker) on MSNBC today debating this bill with Chris Matthews. He said something like " you know if the Republicans were in the majority and we proposed this bill most liberals would probably be against it." By forcing people to contribute individually via premiums and collectively via taxes to private insurance companies, I wonder if there isn't some truth to this. Even moreso when they strip out the tiny public option language.
In my opinion the only way a forced insurance requirement will be good for most of us is if there is a wide scale government subsidized public option available to everyone. Once we go this far we might as well have single payer government furnished health care and do away with insurance since most health care insurance companies will not be able to compete.
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It may surprise you to know that there's a flourishing private healthcare insurance industry in Canada.
Supplemental insurance. The existing companies might have to alter their business models under a universal program, but there's no reason they couldn't survive.
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