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So... You think that legalized highway robbery by the insurance companies is the right answer to health care, but it just needs to go farther? Remember, Clinton's plan was "pass a law requiring that everyone pay for insurance". That's like saying we can eliminate homelessness and starvation by passing a law requiring that everyone pay for a home and food. The right answer to that proposal isn't to extend it, it's to encase it in concrete and dump it into the Mariana Trench. Obama's plan isn't the best it could be (that would be the dread "socialized medicine"), but it's sure as hell better than Clinton's.
by Egarwaen on Fri May 16th, 2008 at 12:38:46 PM EST
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I thought CLinton's plan also gave people the option to choose the same federal insurance plan government workers get, and at a reasonable rate, too.

Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant
by redstar on Fri May 16th, 2008 at 12:43:11 PM EST
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You're confusing the Edwards and Clinton plans. Understandable because the media has argued they're the same. But that's actually the Edwards plan which was designed to destroy the insurance companies and introduce single payer by the back door. Clinton's federal option is that of a bare bones plan.
by MarekNYC on Fri May 16th, 2008 at 01:33:29 PM EST
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Stand corrected. That's right, Clinton's basic plan is, if I'm not mistaken, a simple "catastrophic" plan, ie doesn't cover much of anything until your out of pocket is like $10K/year. Forgot that.

Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant
by redstar on Fri May 16th, 2008 at 01:44:30 PM EST
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So here it is Ok to compromise and not to run for socialised health care, despite it is proveable better than the current US system?

Der Amerikaner ist die Orchidee unter den Menschen
Volker Pispers
by Martin (weiser.mensch(at)googlemail.com) on Fri May 16th, 2008 at 12:56:54 PM EST
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