Posted by garnet71 on June 7, 2009, at 20:23:57
So what's been going on with health care? Is it true insurance companies and lobbyists trump the Obama admin. making progress just as with the Clinton Admin?
It just seems so simple, and I am not uneduated about public policy. I realize the heatlh care system and reform is a huge process, but it seems so clear that insuring the uninsured will save $$ in the long run (medical bankruptcies, education, hospitals, etc.). Statistics show this...I know statistics lie...but you gotta pull information from somewhere.
I mean why not use existing systems (Medicaid; federal employees health insurance) to provide health care to the uninsured till the long-term problems are fixed? I don't understnd it; these systems are already in place; the naysayers against uinversal health care need not worry. At least by allowing the unisured the option of buying or sliding scale-buying of the federal employees or medicaid system will save money NOW. I don't understand the resistance. What is going on? What is with Sebelus (sp?)?
Haven't read the news, unfortuantely, have not been following. Can anyone sum this up? it's very disheartening. Again.
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