I guess I can go with a robust public option with a trigger

[ashling]

as long as it is the trigger that the insurance industry already pulled when they shot themselves in the foot with their unethical, intemperate and inhuman response to the suffering of their own policyholders.

:shrug:

[Cleita]

1. LOL!

K&R

[Smarmie Doofus]

2. Seriously, what's to stop a future , more conservative congress from....

... rewriting the law and dropping the trigger in two or three or five years.... before said trigger takes effect?

[DrDan]

3. the trigger will never take effect

it is a pacifier

[Maru Kitteh]

4. I will end up removing a squamous papilloma from my daughters tongue at home in a couple of weeks

because of a lack of access to medical care.

It should be done in a clinical setting by someone with much more experience and training than myself. It should be biopsied and sent to a lab on the extremely unlikely, very outside possibility of malignancy. Squamous papilloma do not spread, are not contagious and do not develop to cancer. She is a 20 yo female with no history of tobacco use and no cancer in her family history. It's not life threatening but it can be seen when she talks, making her self-conscious. Also, she's found herself biting down on it increasingly, which is of course very painful and opens her to infection.

She doesn't have insurance and I don't have the money to give her for a specialist's visit plus surgery, and the obligatory CYA laboratory tests that no doctor in their right mind would do the procedure without. Hell. I wouldn't, if I were them either.

It's a very vascular area so it's going to bleed like a son of a bitch but thankfully it's not very large (appx 1cm) so we are going to take care of it here.

She's my precious baby girl. I have to help her.

So yeah. THIS IS WHY WE NEED SOME KIND OF REFORM NOW. I want single payer but I understand that's not going to happen. I still want a government option available to both myself and my daughters NOW, and I will continue to fight for it.

But - most importantly, my daughters need real access to the healthcare system NOW. If that unfortunately means funneling tax dollars to insurance companies with federal subsidies for their premiums - if that gets them in them through the front door - FINE. It's not what I want, but I'm not willing to gamble with my kids lives to satisfy the arbiters of liberal perfection.

If my daughter's growth had been cancerous, she'd be screwed - NO access, NO treatment - NO hope at all. She can't wait for reform.

[alfredo]

5. Make the trigger very draconian. Don't comply and the public option

will be single payer, not some piddling 5% of the public. Play fair or go home.

[ashling]

6. What I am saying is that the only trigger that is acceptable

is one that has already been pulled=no trigger=public option in effect immedialtely.

[alfredo]

7. that's what I want too.