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shannie -> RE: healthcare reform to increase hardship on middle class (10/4/2009 2:39:47 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Arpig
Nah, the "reform" it looks like you are going to get isn't going to fix a thing,it is only going to make things worse overall.
You're right, because we're all going to be forced by the federal government to be the customers of corporate insurance companies, when those companies couldn't obtain those same customers through competition and innovation. Now that they'll have guaranteed customers, what reason will they have to compete and innovate? None.
And for those middle class people who preferred to pay their routine health care costs out of pocket (and, for instance, just carry catastrophic coverage) -- they won't have that choice any longer. What's been uniformly proposed (by both so-called "parties") is that we will all be required to purchase comprehensive corporate health insurance (subject to enforcement by the federal government). We'll have to pay $7-10K per year in insurance premiums, instead of paying a fraction of that for actual health care.
I'm picturing a seemingly-inevitable scenario where the subsidy runs out (i.e. government help with some part of the premium), but the "forced customer" part stays in effect. What a blow to the middle class.
Does anyone still believe that "some reform is better than no reform?" Every time the federal government (and the corporate henchmen in D.C.) offer to "help us" and "reform something" -- the corporations get billions, and we get poorer.
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