Healthcare question : I hate to ask [View All]

[tinkerbell41]

My brother's gf claims to be a Dem, but she parrots RW talking points. She works in billing in a doctor's office. She claims Medicaid pays out 110.00 on a 2000.00 procedure, and if we had a public option "everyone would lose their jobs" and the pay for said jobs would go down. My brother agrees with her, he is against it also. I have alot of shit going on at the moment and under a ton of stress. I didn't have the energy to fight back, I wasn't on top of it so to speak. I haven't watched ANY news program in months, so I have no idea what is being said or where they are getting this info from. I can take a guess, but I don't want to be talking out of my ass, I just felt unprepared. Anyone have an answer?
As a side note, I had to listen to these two tell me over and over, how Obama couldn't and wouldn't win, how they didn't see a Dem ever being in office again. Needless to say, I received about 5 congratulatory phone calls the next day, I was the only one, besides my ex that was on board
since the primaries.