If we could "redo" health insurance reform

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First off let's go with the premise that since the President and Congress receive publicly funded paychecks that they are public employees.
Okay...you can stop laughing now.
Now with that premise wouldn't it have been nice if these public employees would have developed a public health insurance plan for the people that pay them?

Forget the private sector insurance.
Forget trying to coerce "mandated purchasing" and other nonsense that we are now facing in court and is sure to cost us dearly.

The insistence that corporate insurance was to be a part of health insurance reform, in my view, is the fatal flaw.
It is a turning of the back to the public who essentially hired these public employees (President and Congress).
It is a slap in our face that they turned to the private corporate sector.

If we could "redo" this reform I have always thought there was a much simpler way.
A way that would avoid the SCOTUS. A way that would take the steam out of the "astroturf" protests.
A way that would not force anything on anyone.

At the outset of this the President should have kept it simple.
He should of reminded the Congress who they are suppose to be working for.
He should have insisted that they come up with a strictly public health insurance plan. A 100% public "option" if you will.
Surely we could have taken the lessons from other countries and our own Medicare program.
Congress should have come up with a plan, worked on the phase-in details, figured out the financing, and then presented that to the American people they are suppose to be working for.

Offer it to those who want it.
Leave the corporate side alone and to fend for themselves. You know, "free market" :sarcasm:

A lot of the Teabag RW CATO protesting is "government take-over" of health care. Well, offer a well thought out public insurance plan. Let people vote with their choice.

What is so damn difficult about the basic concept of our public employees working for us?
It would have been so much simpler and we would have so much more respect for all of them.


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