On Sep 1, 2009, at 4:48 PM, Charles Bennett wrote:
<cutting out a lot of crap>
On the first day of Y1 of the plan, everyone that wants to can keep
their plan..
but.. No NEW enrollees..
Nww folks MUST join a conforming plan. So THEY don't have the option
of anything Obama doesn't approve of, and no one in the future with an
employer plan does.
(excepting congress of course)
The kicker is that if you plan raises it rates for ANY risk group then
it LOSES it grandfathered status.
So they establish standards for what plans can do, and they make it so
that plans will have to migrate to these standards. How is that a
government run healthcare plan.
Seriously, there are gov't standards for many things no one is
claiming "government run gas stations" because there are fuel
standards. No one is crying "government run telephones" or
"government run cable" because of the FCC. Criteria and standards is
not the same thing as being directly government managed.
Can you outline in the proposed house bill what in it is so onerous a
standard that it is unacceptable and what makes it government run?
There is no provision for a single payer system in this bill, there is
a public option. But guess what? It's an option. It will compete
with private insurance but it won't be the only game in town.
--Larry
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