Hey! Just try to MAKE ME buy mandatory insurance

[eridani]

--for $125/month, as HR 676 currently requires. No deductibles, smaller co-pays. I'd do it in a New York minute! I'd do it in the Netherlands for 100 euros a month too.

Useless overpriced crap ($450/month AFTER subsidy) that leaves me on the hook for 30% of expenses? Fuck that shit straight to hell.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

1. The entirety of the insurance business industry needs to be left out in the cold

Unfortunately, that's unlikely. Politicians have to beg the mega-rich insurance companies for $ to run for office or they won't be able to run.

If only we didn't have an election system based upon being forced to beg the rich for money, we wouldn't have problems like these.

[still_one]

2. Are you insured now? /nt

[thunder rising]

3. I'm not ... what do you have to say? Better be sweet.

[still_one]

5. I was just asking a question. If you have the ability to watch CSPAN I think it would be

in all are our interest to watch the Senate presentation of the HCR bill that will be voted on in a couple of hours

Of course my response was directed at the OP, so I am curious why you responded?

[eridani]

6. Yes, I have a shitty overpriced age-rated plan

However now, if it ever comes to a conflict between paying for ongoing medical expenses and paying for shitty "coverage" that doesn't handle these expenses, I can choose care without getting the IRS on my case.

[still_one]

7. Then I suggest you watch CSPAN if you have the ability to see the Senate presentation of the HCR act

They will vote on it in two hours

[eridani]

11. You mean they aren't going to make 50-64 year olds into disposable human garbage

--by forcing us to pay three times as much for mandatory underinsurance? Wake me when it's over. With no TV, I never watch in real time--only online later.

[Land Shark]

4. We need health INSURANCE reform in the form of banning private insurance corpse. nt

[valerief]

8. Why do you hate Insurance Company Executives?

:sarcasm:

[eridani]

10. Because they commit mass murder by spreadsheet? n/t

[Lydia Leftcoast]

9. Sounds fantastic

I'd drop my far more expensive plan that has a $5,000 deductible so fast the insurance company would feel the sonic boom.

[Goldstein1984]

12. It's getting too complicated for me

And it isn't under my control anymore.

I'm just going to wait and see.

If what finally comes out of the House/Senate Committee is good for the people, find.

If what comes out is bad for the people...

[eridani]

13. HR 676 isn't complicated at all n/t

[Goldstein1984]

14. I mean the whole process

The House Bill.

The Senate Bill.

Conflicting claims about what each bill does.

What will come out of in the House/Senate Committee.

I'm in wait-and-see mode.