We are part of an experiment that makes me sick! How is it possible that premiums just 10 years ago were at levels equal to those in European single payer health care systems, but today, they are skyrocketing? The answer: Private insurers abuse their important role as health care providers to earn money. We are part of an experiment of how far they can raise the premiums.

The ONLY way out is completely government-run health care.NO to a two-tier health care system. I used to live in Germany and the two-tier system has created a two-class system. People covered under government-run health care have to wait twice as long than people under private insurance because the private money provides additional money for doctors so that they prefer private insurance over public health care. It can't be possible that a person under public health care has to wait more than another person.

We don't have a fully privatized prison system, we don't have a fully privatized military, we don't have a fully privatized school system, so WHY the hell do we have to suffer under a FULLY privatized health care system? In addition to that private schools, prisons, and paramilitary have failed and largely depend on government assistance.

This has nothing to do with pursuit of happiness.
"When Jefferson spoke of pursuing happiness, he had nothing vague or private in mind. He meant a public happiness which is measurable; which is, indeed, the test and justification of any government."
The Human Development Index (short HDI) shows that the highest ranking nations are indeed social welfare states with a government-run universal health care system.

Pursuit of Happiness:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pursuit_of_happiness

Human Development Index:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index

HDI Ranking:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index#2009_report

Everyone! almost everyone has betrayed health care reform except a view true souls in the House and outside of Congress. One of them is former Vermont governor Howard Dean who refuses to give up and demands reconciliation rather than slavery. Because it is a fact that this bill is going to force people to buy insrance that they could never afford!

According to the media and Senate Democrats, the public option has been dropped in favor of a quasi public option. This option would be based on nonprofit private health insurance companies but "heavily" regulated by the Office of Personnel Management.

What many people forget is the fact that the House bill would also have established Basic Health (the Senate's quasi public option) by requiring private insurance to offer basic health care along with the public option:

"An analysis by the CBO found that, for a basic health plan from an "exchange" created in the bill, premiums for a single person would be $5,300 by 2016, while a family of four would see a $15,000 premium. People making less than 400% of the income threshold for the federal poverty level would receive subsidies from the government to help offset that cost."
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20091102-715403.html

Washington Post defines the subsidies in the House Health care bill:

"The House bill has subsidies up to 400 percent of poverty, which is equal to $43,320 for an individual and $88,200 for a family of four. At the bottom end -- 133 percent if income, as below that, you're eligible for Medicaid -- the subsidies limit your health premiums to 1.5 percent of income. At the top end -- 400 percent -- it's no more than 11 percent of income."
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2009/07/the_house_releases_its_health-.html

Shortly said: "Basic Health" has already been in healthcare reform legislature passed by the House of Representatives. Thus the public option has been replaced by something that has already been in the bill. That means the PUBLIC OPTION IS DEAD.

The Senate has not only dropped the option, Senate Democrats even have the courage to lie to us!

Hi,

Now, that the Senate bill has been introduced to us I realize what began as a HUGE, optimistic plan for Health Care Reform has been cut step by step over the last months.

+Our robust public option that competes with private insurers
-Now it is a weak public option that will have higher premiums

+We had the choice to CHOOSE between public and private insurance
-Now the public option is restricted to 2% of the population

+The Kucinch Amendment should grant states the right to create a single-payer system
-The vote has been postponed

+People 350% above the poverty line should get government-run health insurance
-People 133% above the poverty line can get government-run health insurance

+Limits annual out-of-pocket expenses to $5,000 for an individual and $10,000 for a family.
-Limits annual out-of-pocket expenses to $8,500 for an individual and $23,000 for a family.

+People will be covered until 2013 when the health exchange is running from New Year 2010.
-People will be covered until 2014 when the health exchange is running from somewhere in 2010. This means, millions of patients will lose coverage after the Senate bill has been passed.


The only solution is real government-run health care that will run more efficiently and in favor of the patient, not the insurance CEOs.

Based on:

America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009
and
Senate Health Bill