Ok, I will support the public option
20 October 2009 5:31 am by www.democratz.org
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I will support a public option but only if they take the monthly premium out of the plan, and fund the public option completely with federal taxes and this plan must not have any copays, no yearly deductibles, no caps to coverage, no coverage gaps and no means tests and cover everything: Operations, doctors visits, nursing, hospice, abortion, and all generic and patented medication.
This strong public option will serve as a single payer that will deal a death blow to the private insurance company private health care plans and will allow
private insurance companies then switch to selling auto, homeowners, flood and property insurance. These insurance companies will not go out of business. They can reap great profits in areas where people really have a choice. When a person gets ill they have no choice. They did not choose to get ill, it happened to the person.
Ok, Now I will support a public option as long as it functions like HR676 that will compete with the other plans and put them to death in a few years.
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I’m going to make a boycott petition of this soon. I hope people will circulate the petition address after I create it.
Petitions without boycott threats appear virtually useless but petitions with boycott threats will work.
Oh and we will not ask for this special public option, we will demand it.
I have created the petition. Read it and sign it if you support this.
http://bit.ly/public_option
um…. single payer isn’t going to fly even when you try to camaoflage by calling it a public option. Hey, but nice try.
As for petitions, people would be a lot more effective if they launched mail in campaigns to their senators & representatives, as well as wrote op-eds. Share these letters and encourage communities to join in. It can be contagious. Because as you’ve proved, democratz, there are so many petitions and there is a new one every day. It eventually makes people feel overwhelmed that anyone will listen, as the more petitions there are the less they end up meaning, each new one diluting the impact of the last one.
Well, Democratz, now that YOU deign to support (oops, my bad — demand) the public option, I’m pretty sure it will sail through the Senate.
This stuff just gets funnier and funnier.
No it appears a public option. We would not ban private insurance. The public option would function like single payer health care in that taxes would find it and everything gets covered at 100 percent. The public gets a choice.
The Obama team gives a perfect example of a campaign that has the potential of working, via Twitter:
http://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/5019990220
BarackObama Today is the day—can you help #OFA generate 100,000 health reform calls to Congress in a single day? http://bit.ly/ls1PC #hc09 #CallCongress
Obama Twitter update:
http://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/5022456168
They’re half-way there.
Hill Aides: More Senators Would Back Public Plan If Obama Pushed Harder
Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/20/hill-aides-more-senators_n_327189.html