[lbo-talk] I'll be voting in TX Dem primary - who should I vote for?

[Max B. Sawicky]

>On Feb 14, 2008, at 8:20 AM, Max B. Sawicky wrote:
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>> What's so bad about health insurance priced at community rating
>> levels (otherwise not available) and available to all?  Why not
>> wait until you see the prices before you bitch about whether it's
>> affordable?
>
>For most people without health insurance, there's no such thing as an affordable kind. In Massachusetts, a 60-year-old single man would pay $4,600 a year for the state plan. How many people of modest means have $400 a month to spare?

Like I said, you haven't seen the prices (and subsidies) yet, so WTF?  Once there is something in place we can apply salami tactics to tilt the subsidies in a positive direction.


>> Meanwhile, as you know a lot of people have health insurance.  How viable do you think it is to tell them to forget about their plans, they will be put into a new, standardized (single payer) government plan?
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>We're doomed.

Well that goes without saying.  But with a public option, there is a potential transmission belt to single-payer.