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Originally Posted by DirtFarmer
If the health care price-setting-czar denies me coverage under a "public" option, I will have little recourse.
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If you're denied coverage by a for-profit insurance corporation, you won't have any recourse, either. You can take your business elsewhere but it'll be after the fact, at which point you will have lost the money you paid in premiums and still be stuck with the bill.
Not that any of that's relevant now, for two reasons:
A) Nobody's ever suggested that for-profit insurance corporations won't be allowed to continue doing business as usual.
B) The whole national health care reform initiative is dead anyway. Were there any intent on Capitol Hill to get it done, it'd be done by now. Consider how fast the Patriot Act, FISA, TARP and off-budget supplemental appropriations for operations in Iraq & Afghanistan sailed through. At this point, it's just bad kabuki.
Most likely, and about the best we can hope for at this point, is that this session of Congress will run out the clock without enacting anything. It's also possible they'll enact some terrible rehash of HillaryCare or a federalized version of Massachusetts Mandatory, but I'm betting on (and hoping for) a recess without a bill.
(from
Healthcare Reform)
