Why We Need a Public Health-Care Plan

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Pastry Masturbators Paradise?

[My Name Is Nobody 3]

PMP

They started to call you names which means you won. Time to move on to another thread.

[Down With PMP 0]

PMP

They started to call you names which means you won. Time to move on to another thread.

I've got nothing in common with you, you right-wing viper.

[My Name Is Nobody 3]

PMP

They started to call you names which means you won. Time to move on to another thread.

I've got nothing in common with you, you right-wing viper.

Im proud of it. I can sleep in peace at night

[Peikko 1,575]

Who's calling who names? I am just trying to decipher an acronym myself...

[Down With PMP 0]

I can sleep in peace at night

Once we give the uninsureds and uninsurables the health care they deserve, and make you pay for it... we'll see how well you sleep, viper.

[Peikko 1,575]

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[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Pneumatic Machine #######?

[Empress of Groovy 373]

Pastry Masturbators Paradise?

I was going to say that!

[Peikko 1,575]

Pubescent Male Party?

Pastry Masturbators Paradise?

I was going to say that!

I bet you say that to all the boys

[My Name Is Nobody 3]

I can sleep in peace at night

Once we give the uninsureds and uninsurables the health care they deserve, and make you pay for it... we'll see how well you sleep, viper.

Nay, I control my life. Take care of myself. Blank the unisured. I can count the sheep.

[TracyTN 237]

They can spout whatever stats they want - I will never want a govt run health plan. There has to be another way to fix the system.

[scandal 951]

PMI = Project Management Institute http://www.pmi.org

PMP is the certification program administered by the PMI to allow Project Managers to have an impressive looking acronym to put on their resumes. I opted out. I'm a PM without the certificate. I figure an MSc in actual real sh*t is worth more.

BTW -- based on the last exchange between PMI and cyclops, I figure PMI for AJ. It's Randomizer gone rogue.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

3) If a public option for uninsured and uninsurable persons is introduced, why should a technically insurable not be able to choose that public option?

Limiting a public plan (I don't call it insurance) to the uninsured and uninsurable would likely pass the Senate as it would pose no threat to insurance industry profits. Safeguards in the form of punitive financial measures can be built in to the system to prevent employers from dropping out of plans.

Why should I not have the option to choose a public plan if it is better for me than what I can obtain in the private marketplace? Why should we afford the private industry a monopoly on the profitable coverage of the healthy population while burdening the public with the costly coverage of the others? The private industry should have to compete for a market share on the healthy population and be required to cover those currently rejected by it. Otherwise, there's no level playing field. If the private marketplace is better capable of managing expenses while providing service - as it claims - why do they fear the incompetent government so much?

I tell you why: Because public health care systems in other developed countries or health care systems in such countries with a public option parallel to private insurance demonstrate consistently that they are doing a better job managing cost and providing efficient service than our system does.

I, for one, don't give a rats ####### about the profits of private health insurance firms.

[Empress of Groovy 373]

PMP

They started to call you names which means you won. Time to move on to another thread.

I've got nothing in common with you, you right-wing viper.

I like it!