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bvar22

(39,909 posts)
19. A minor clause in the ACA has allowed the individual States...
Mon Jul 2, 2012, 01:16 PM
Jul 2012

...to go forward with plans the might lead to an individual State Run Public Option.... someday.

This may or may not work.
We will see.
I pray for their efforts.

Individual States already have Community Health Centers,
a non-profit health agency care that receives government assistance.
Why not simply increase funding to this already existing Non-Profit system?
That would have the same results, if not better, than trying to build a brand new system from scratch.

At the current time, I don't see HOW the individual states can produce a successful local Public Option.
Even the national Public Option predicted a very small number of "customers",
less than 10 Million NATIONWIDE.
Divide that by 50, and that is a very small risk pool.
Add in the certainty that the For Profits, nationwide will spend every dollar they have to make SURE that no state is successful with a Local Public Option.
It will be just like a Mom & Pop grocery taking on WalMart.

The MANDATE is signed, sealed, and delivered.
It is LAW.
It is also now LAW that the IRS will serve as the Enforcement Arm of the For Profit Insurance Cartel.
The local Public Option is Wishful Thinking at this point.
It doesn't exist NOW, and (AFIC) probably won't exist in the future.

Are you willing to weigh these two,
and then tell me "We got a good deal"?
That is like saying, "Jack sold the family cow for a handful of beans,
BUT they might be MAGIC!"



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