Kucinich: Health reform legislation ‘a bailout for insurance companies’

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Kucinich: Health reform legislation ‘a bailout for insurance companies’

http://rawstory.com/2009/10/kucinich-health-reform-legislation-a-bailout-insurance-companies/

By Stephen C. Webster
Saturday, October 31st, 2009 -- 4:01 pm

According to Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), the Democrats' health reform legislation is basically a sham.

Appearing on MSNBC's The Ed Show on Friday night, the House's most unabashed progressive condemned Democratic leadership for removing his amendment that would allow states to create their own single-payer systems. Then he called the entire legislative package "a bailout for insurance companies."

Under a single-payer system, like those in Canada and the United Kingdom, the government pools taxpayer funds to pay for citizens' health care and fees are not collected by health care providers. The Kucinich amendment would allow individual states an opt-in to such a system.

The amendment is missing from health reform legislation unveiled Thursday by Democratic leadership.

[Cleita]

1. Thank God for the Kooch speaking the truth again.

If he loses his seat in the future, he will be sadly missed.

[Faryn Balyncd]

2. K&R

[avaistheone1]

3. Recommend x1000 times over

:kick:

[Individualist]

4. One of the few who supports government of, by and for the people

instead of government of, by and for corporations.

[rollingrock]

5. k & r

[Skittles]

6. a REAL DEMOCRAT speaks

:thumbsup:

[Kurovski]

7. Amen

and amen.

[Greyhound]

8. Thank you Cleveland!

Between Kucinich and Kaptur(?), you sustain some small measure of hope for the rest of us.
:thumbsup:

[kenny blankenship]

9. It's a REVOLVING bailout

Bailout usually implies a ONE TIME transfer from public funds to save a private industry. It goes on for a year or a defined period but then stops-and maybe the funds get paid back too, like the Chrysler deal in the early 1980s. This is rather worse than that: perpetual predation.

[Kurovski]

10. Kick. (nt)

[emilyg]

11. k/r

[Laelth]

12. k&r for the Honorable Dennis Kucinich.

He's right, once again.

:patriot:

:dem:

-Laelth

[Ardent15]

13. "no no, he's a left-wing extremist"

Kidding.

K and R for Dennis.

[ProleNoMore]

14. One Man, Alone Against The Rest, Has The Courage To Stand And Speak The Truth

eom

[voteearlyvoteoften]

15. rec

[lonestarnot]

16. K & R