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Tony_FLADEM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-24-09 08:53 AM Original message |
Would you support setting up the public option on a trial basis |
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RDANGELO (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-24-09 08:55 AM Response to Original message |
1. Might be a good idea. n/t |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-24-09 08:58 AM Response to Original message |
2. Insurance companies would do their best to sabotage |
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Tony_FLADEM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-24-09 09:27 AM Response to Reply #2 |
8. The health insurance companies don't penalize hospitals and doctors that accept |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-24-09 09:50 AM Response to Reply #8 |
14. They know the stakes are far higher for a pilot public program |
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Uben (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-24-09 08:59 AM Response to Original message |
3. No, here's why......... |
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Tony_FLADEM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-24-09 09:22 AM Response to Reply #3 |
7. The health care reform will ban health insruance companies from excluding people with pre-existing |
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Uben (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-24-09 10:19 AM Response to Reply #7 |
17. I'll believe it when I see it |
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billyoc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-24-09 09:01 AM Response to Original message |
4. Too easily sabotaged by price fixing. |
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DrDan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-24-09 09:02 AM Response to Original message |
5. the R's would NEVER go for it |
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joeycola (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-24-09 09:21 AM Response to Original message |
6. Hell NO. The Dems have compromised Enough!! |
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drm604 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-24-09 09:33 AM Response to Original message |
9. Would it really be a fair test? |
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Tony_FLADEM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-24-09 09:48 AM Response to Reply #9 |
13. The District Of Columbia has a population of over 600,000 people |
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drm604 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-24-09 10:07 AM Response to Reply #13 |
15. I'm not convinced. |
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Tony_FLADEM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-24-09 10:52 AM Response to Reply #15 |
18. The people without health insurance are receiving subsidies to buy health insurance. |
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closeupready (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-24-09 09:34 AM Response to Original message |
10. I'd support single payer on a trial basis. |
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liberal N proud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-24-09 09:39 AM Response to Original message |
11. That is how Canada got their system |
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KansDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-24-09 09:44 AM Response to Original message |
12. Yeah, just like we set up the Iraq war and TARP on a trial basis... |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-24-09 10:10 AM Response to Original message |
16. No, the PO is already the compromised position from Single Payer |
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Tony_FLADEM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-24-09 10:53 AM Response to Reply #16 |
19. We are not dropping the public option idea. |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-24-09 10:55 AM Response to Reply #19 |
20. "See how it works" = see how badly it hurts corporate profits |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-24-09 10:58 AM Response to Original message |
21. Yes and I think Bernie Sanders has suggested this in the past although |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-24-09 10:59 AM Response to Original message |
22. If you force people to buy mandatory, for-profit insurance only in those same states, sure. nt |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-24-09 11:40 AM Response to Original message |
23. Hell no. We have the push now. It's now or never. If we water down the implementation, the |
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