Caroline Ehrenthal wrote this piece the other day. EC Health Insurance supports a single payer system to its own demise. I can’t take calls anymore from health insurance clients who are literally dying because they can’t get coverage, and I’m no stinking commie but as this country slides into the toilet bowl of financial ruin at least lets keep our citizens fed and healthy so that when we get the courage to kick Wall Street in the butt we are strong and healthy enough to do it. Lets get some regualtion people, what else is government for anyways?
People are waiting with bated breath while our nation’s leaders struggle to resolve this country’s current health insurance crisis and formulate a plan that would offer coverage to the millions of people without health insurance. When the fact is, the notion of a universal health care system being implemented into this country’s system does not seem feasible nor does it seem monetarily plausible.
The New York Times published an article on June 2, 2009 regarding the meeting President Obama held with senators in which he evidently relayed an overall feeling of urgency that a comprehensive health care bill be created. In addition, he asserted his support for a government sponsored health insurance plan. President Obama believes that making a government run plan option available to individuals would promote competition within the market, in that, the insurance industry as a whole would have no choice but to become more honest and establish some level of transparency which would subsequently reduce health care costs. Here is an excerpt from that article, although you can access the entire article by clicking on the link below.
Obama Urges Quick Action on Insurance
June 2, 2009 The New York Times
In response to a question from Senator Jeff Bingaman, Democrat of New Mexico, Mr. Obama said that it was important to include a public plan option and that such a plan could help control health costs.
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, one of two dozen Democratic senators who met with Mr. Obama, said the president “spoke very enthusiastically about a public plan” that would compete directly with private insurers.
But in a report on Tuesday, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal-leaning research and advocacy group, said, “Congress is unlikely to be able to finance health reform legislation that includes universal coverage unless it limits the exclusion of employers’ health insurance payments from workers’ income and payroll taxes.”
