Obama's Message to Senators: Fear Not the Public Option

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The majority of us work, we pay taxes and we pay our insurance companies. We could pool our taxes and reduce the cost of health care by investing in a public option.

Government bureaucrats may not care about you, but insurance bureaucrats are actively against you: giving you care means they lose money.

We are 37th in the world in terms of health care outcomes and pay the most for substandard care. All countries in the top ten have a government plan of some sort.

A public option benefits you the consumer, your health care outcome, and doesn't make obscene profits for insurance companies.

A public plan could offer the same benefits as a private plan at less costs because it would not have the high administrative costs—which include sales, marketing, and underwriting expenses—associated with most private plans. It would not be under constant pressure from Wall Street to reward shareholders by constantly keeping an eye on the medical loss ratio and earnings per share, another key measure of profitability.

THERE IS NO EVIDENCE FREE MARKET HEALTH CARE HAS WORKED FOR THE PATIENT.

The industry knows its image is at an all-time low. So the industry can't be as obvious in attacking a plan as it was in 1994. They will work through front groups and allies to attack it through ads and commercials.

We should be comparing what insurers, drug companies, and organized medicine said during earlier reform efforts, and then report on how well they've delivered on those promises. The evidence shows they haven't delivered. Insurance companies would rather pay a fine than follow the regulations. So why believe any reform has a chance with out a public option?

THERE IS NO EVIDENCE FREE MARKET HEALTH CARE HAS WORKED FOR THE PATIENT.

Please don't give up hope. Elections are coming up in 2010 and I think we will see a lot of changes. Those that voted in these radical people are starting to see the light and will vote them out. Obama too will be gone and we will then climb out of this mess. Have faith in yourself, and saying a prayer never hurts. I do believe Obama...It's time for a change...lets change our Congress!!!

I'm, worried with Obama in office , he will change the terms of the Presidency. He is changing everything else.

Google socialist countries and go to the Wikipedia entry. There is not one European country or Canada or Australia listed. But they all have universal health care and enjoy higher standards of care than we do.

I'll take those government bureaucrats, who ultimately report to elected officials who need to get re-elected, over the self-interested insurance company bureaucrats who currently stand between me and my healthcare and who ultimately report to a CEO whose fiduciary responsibility is to maximize their company's profits by denying as much of my healthcare as possible. That's how capitalism works: the corporations compete to maximize profits, and the winners are rewarded.

What can you expect from those that do not understand the meaning of Socialism, and in many cases can't even pronounce or spell it.

He is an arrogant narcissistic egomaniac who wants what he wants and doesn't give a rats ass what Americans want or need. This is not just his agenda alone and we need to protect ourselves and make it very clear to CONgress we will not put up with this. Our children will be taxed at 60% to pay for this insanity. We are dangerously close to a depression that won't be like the last one and he obviously is moving in that direction, he can't be so stupid to think spending that kind of money and putting us that far in debt would actually help. Neither did CONgress, that's why they pushed it through so fast.

Exactly!
I just passed this quote along to my Congressman! I suggest you do the same thing.

No one is saying this system is the best, it could be so let's fix what we have, otherwise private insurance will be forced out. He will tax your benefits and tax business for giving those benefits so they will drop company insurance to save money and let you go on government insurance.