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kpete (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-06-09 08:47 AM Original message |
Kennedy Plan Guarantees Health Insurance for All |
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jody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-06-09 09:20 AM Response to Original message |
1. Employers would pay but try to pass on most of the cost to customers however customers |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-06-09 10:56 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Better to just go to single-payer right away. Forget the intermediary |
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jody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-06-09 11:04 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Agree "products and services are less competitive in the world". n/t |
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keep_it_real (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-06-09 11:42 AM Response to Reply #2 |
6. I agree single-payer is the way to go |
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kath (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-06-09 11:42 AM Response to Reply #2 |
7. Agree - insurance should NOT be tied to employment. - not in any way. |
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Vinca (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-06-09 11:02 AM Response to Original message |
3. This sounds like the Massachusetts plan which has not been |
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Baby Snooks (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-06-09 11:37 AM Response to Original message |
5. Why not just expand Medicare/Medicaid? |
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kath (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-06-09 11:45 AM Response to Reply #5 |
8. "Congress needs to decide whether its priority is the American people or the health care industry." |
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lefthandedlefty (247 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-06-09 12:12 PM Response to Original message |
9. That is just plain stupid |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-06-09 12:18 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. Yeah, if the Dems mandate insurance, they might as well close up shop |
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wildflower (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-06-09 03:09 PM Response to Original message |
11. There's a poll on Mother Earth News right now on Universal Health Care |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-06-09 03:22 PM Response to Original message |
12. Mandatory insurance doesn't work. It's not working in Massachusetts, |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-06-09 11:34 PM Response to Original message |
13. But I don't WANT insurance--I want CARE! n/t |
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