"A non-soundbite summary of the danger to health care reform as of June 20th, 2009"
Interesting F6. Just a couple of comments. This unemployed, uninsured guy with a daughter should easily qualify for medicaid. The actual uninsured, I believe are self employed small... very small such as those with few employees or no employees at all. The problem this group has is that they have to pay for 100 percent of their insurance with no help from a company that other employed.. such as your comment that many can't leave a job because they lose their health care and can't pay for the whole policy by themselves. These people have a home, a car and a bank account so they can't afford a private policy and have just enough money that they don't qualify for medicaid.
I have previously been a health care agent and I can tell you that most of these small business people have pre existing conditions that the private companies refuse to accept anyway such as diabetes, high blood pressure (if they take these people the ins companies exclude the cardio vascular system so what good is the coverage?)
Yet I can agree money flowing to politians ... republican and democrat skews their deliberations and I believe it will be near impossible to get a really good health care plan that actually is not loaded with goodies that favor one group or the other. Huge, huge problem and it will be interesting to see how it comes out and who, the politicians support what.
Still, if I were you and had a private plan, I wouldn't be in a hurry to join the public plan until you see what it entails. Course I'm aware no one has to tell you that. Biggest problem of the administration and I'm not certain there's not too many road blocks to prevent actual health care reform. Lots and lots of dollars involved and this supports tons of greed. .. mo .. nic
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