Most of the White house aides to President Obama is downplaying the public option and their leader is no longer demanding a government run health care system. With all the opposition form the Senate from both the Republican and the Democrats, it seems that Obama has mellowed down and will not like to see a government run health care system. These war of words from the within the democratic party has echoed through the halls of power!
The differences amongst the democrats is not good in the eyes of many Americans as it just has created more confusion and getting more unfavorable response even the ardent follower of Obama. So where does the public health insurance option go from here!?
Obama still thinks that the best health system will include the public option health insurance but because of the many senators opposing it, he has mellowed down to something that will in effect diminish his power – this is just my opinion.
To read more on this pronouncements from the online news, read more here…
I would really appreciate any comments on this matter and hopefully, together we can make a difference…
Thanks
Julie
According to former DNC chairman and governor Howard Dean, the public health insurance option is worth fighting for. He was a quest blogger at Thinkporgress.org post and written some interesting post about how and why the public health insurance option is indeed worth fighting for.
But if you think about it, this is Howard Dean after all so it must be pro DNC type of article or view and opinion of the debate about Obama’s Health care reform plan. While he put forward to best of what is yet to come or possibly what is going to happen if we have a public health insurance option , it remains to be seen if this particular proposed bill will go through congress.
For more on Howard Deans Blog Post- Why The Public Health Insurance Option Is Worth Fighting For
Thanks,
Senator’s Charles Schumer D-NY and Jay Rockefeller D-W.Va huffed and puffed but could not blow the private health insurance market down.
Though I am thankful that a Public Health Option still does not seem to be realistic possibility, this AP article only further displays the complete lack of understanding that US lawmakers have of the root cause for the HealthCare “Crisis”, COST!!!!
I’m not trying to pretend Health Insurers have done anything to help mitigate premium costs. What I am saying is that Health Insurers are not the ONLY bad guys and girls.
I recently went to a broker conference for a regional not-for-profit health insurance carrier. At that conference this carrier broke out exactly where every penny of every premium dollar is spent. Did you know that for every dollar you and/or your employer spend on health insurance premiums over 61 cents of that dollar goes to hospitals and doctors? Did you know that 26 cents of that same dollar goes to home health care and pharmacy?
That means 87 cents of every health premium dollar you and your employer spend goes directly to health care!!!
So 13 cents of every dollar goes to the Health Carrier. Now to be fair, 11 cents was going towards Administration costs and 2 cents towards surplus, so its not like the carrier was just banking all that cash.
What I want you to take away from this article is that COST is the infection creating the American Health Care Crisis. A Public Health option does nothing to cure our cost problem. With a Public Option, Health Insurance Premiums go down, Taxes go up…
I would love to hear your thoughts on this issue!
Thank you,
Ryan H.
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