I would disagree that the right wants to take it out of the hands of insurance companies. I haven't seen anything that would indicate that. Remember their hemming and hawing about how the public option would create unfair competition for the insurance companies. Sounds like they were more interested in making sure the insurance companies were able to make a buck.
-----Original Message----- From: Gruss Gott [mailto:grussg...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 17:52 To: cf-community Subject: Re: Oops! Wis Gov Thinks Caller is Koch Eric Roberts <ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: > > "I got to thinking: What if the Republicans in Washington had fled the > country when the Democrats were ramming their health care bill through > Congress? Seems like a brilliant tactic now." > > Single Payer healthcare? > The Blue Dogs and the centrists would've had to have left too. It's an interesting debate, though, that seems to come down to this: What both sides agree on: (1.) The current system is broken (2.) Get healthcare out of the hands of employers (3.) The cost curve is rising so fast that soon nothing will be able to pay for it (see #1). Where the core disagreement is: * The right would like to take healthcare out of the hands of employers and insurance companies and put it into the individual's control. * The left would like to take healthcare out of the hands of employers and insurance companies and put it into the government's control (i.e., single payer). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:334710 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
