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Bonobo

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5. I respectfully disagree.

Tue May 5, 2015, 01:12 AM

May 2015

We should not have settled with insurance company and given up a public option. Even if it would have taken years.

There is no shortage of models to look at in other countries for how to do it, but the entire premise of the system is fucked... namely that health care should be a profit creating business. That is beyond fucked and we should NEVER have ceded that issue because now we have nothing.

What is right is right and now our measly private insurance company alliance has been relegated to a position on the left when it is not even that.

Subsequently, the actual left, as a position, is not even on the board anymore.

That is a political reality that affects us far longer than the results of any particular election.

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Perhaps the reason we could not (and will not) get a Public Option is... [View all] Bonobo May 2015 OP

I posted on this very board more than ten years ago that until Cleita May 2015 #1

Govt. run health care done properly would crush the for-profit insurance companies. Bonobo May 2015 #2

The way it could have become unprofitable was insuring people over 50. The individual mandate for merrily May 2015 #7

It's unsustainable, economically NJCher May 2015 #3

I believe they are only ones who could assume risk and build networks, etc. Congress wasn't going Hoyt May 2015 #4

I respectfully disagree. Bonobo May 2015 #5

Wasn't going to happen, I applaud Obama for getting what he could. Hoyt May 2015 #6