"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?"
Is that what HRC wants? If you are happy with your
current insurance -- if you have any -- you can't stay
with it? You prob. know more about this than me, but
doesn't Australia and/or Canada have a system where
there is guaranteed health care, but folks can stay
with private insurers if they so choose? That seems
more feasible for the US, to me. You're saying HRC
would rip folks off from insurers they already had,
or...?
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me: The context for my statement was my inference that Henwood was bemoaning the lack of endorsement of single-payer among candidates. Single payer means you lose your employer insurance. I support single payer, but many with their own insurance aren't there yet. HRC does not get rid of employer paid insurance.
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Also, if Obama says that people must be REQUIRED to have insurance, does that mean that, like driving without auto insurance, you'd be breaking the law if you didn't have it? What the fuck? You said, "Wait for the details!" Well, I will very much be waiting for the details on that one. It seems ludicrous. You could say, "Well, he'd probably make subsidies available to auto enroll people." but like you said - "Wait for the details!" Okay, sure, but the TX primary is soon. Hope those details come out pretty freakin' soon. -B.
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Hillary is the one with the mandate plus subsidies on individuals. She has supplied no details on enforcement.
In either case, details would not be very meaningful. Congress is going to write the law.