Comments on: Join The Healthcare Debate Before It’s Too Late http://chrisberryonthe.net/2009/06/22/join-healthcare-debate-before-its-too-late/ A Curious Compendium Of Politics, Food and Life Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:46:55 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: HE http://chrisberryonthe.net/2009/06/22/join-healthcare-debate-before-its-too-late/#comment-10830 HE Mon, 05 Oct 2009 23:36:28 +0000 http://chrisberryonthe.net/?p=838#comment-10830 Why do people accept the erroneous proposition that employees in the US have, so far, been choosing their own health insurance companies? My experience is that an employer chooses a health insurance plan to which the employees have to subscribe. In this system, I suspect that insurance companies can bribe those who are empowered to select health insurance plans and thus insure that all the employees will be their customers. Why is there so much talk against a public option? Have people lost sight of the meaning of their words? If it is an option, then it is not and cannot be mandatory. People can choose it or choose something else. If it is--as the very words of those who oppose it indicate--, an option--and not a mandate, then how do they dare brand it as a mandate and pretend that it would prevent market competition? It seems to me that if there is a public option, then will employees be really able to choose their own health insurance plans because, then, the employer will no longer be able to, in essence, say to his employee: "This is own group plan, join it or else you won't be insured." Why do people accept the erroneous proposition that employees in the US have, so far, been choosing their own health insurance companies? My experience is that an employer chooses a health insurance plan to which the employees have to subscribe. In this system, I suspect that insurance companies can bribe those who are empowered to select health insurance plans and thus insure that all the employees will be their customers.

Why is there so much talk against a public option? Have people lost sight of the meaning of their words? If it is an option, then it is not and cannot be mandatory. People can choose it or choose something else. If it is–as the very words of those who oppose it indicate–, an option–and not a mandate, then how do they dare brand it as a mandate and pretend that it would prevent market competition?

It seems to me that if there is a public option, then will employees be really able to choose their own health insurance plans because, then, the employer will no longer be able to, in essence, say to his employee: “This is own group plan, join it or else you won’t be insured.”

]]> By: James http://chrisberryonthe.net/2009/06/22/join-healthcare-debate-before-its-too-late/#comment-10749 James Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:42:10 +0000 http://chrisberryonthe.net/?p=838#comment-10749 It IS an option but the system is being set up so you have a choice, but cannot choose "none" without facing fines and possible imprisonment. So while one could potentially be capable of fully "choosing" their options they're being FORCED to part with income no matter what... and THAT is what has me so peeved. It IS an option but the system is being set up so you have a choice, but cannot choose “none” without facing fines and possible imprisonment.

So while one could potentially be capable of fully “choosing” their options they’re being FORCED to part with income no matter what… and THAT is what has me so peeved.

]]> By: Lwanga Semikenke http://chrisberryonthe.net/2009/06/22/join-healthcare-debate-before-its-too-late/#comment-9757 Lwanga Semikenke Mon, 17 Aug 2009 02:00:47 +0000 http://chrisberryonthe.net/?p=838#comment-9757 Why do people accept the erroneous proposition that employees in the US have, so far, been choosing their own health insurance companies? My experience is that an employer chooses a health insurance plan to which the employees have to subscribe. In this system, I suspect that insurance companies can bribe those who are empowered to select health insurance plans and thus insure that all the employees will be their customers. Why is there so much talk against a public option? Have people lost sight of the meaning of their words? If it is an option, then it is not and cannot be mandatory. People can choose it or choose something else. If it is--as the very words of those who oppose it indicate--, an option--and not a mandate, then how do they dare brand it as a mandate and pretend that it would prevent market competition? It seems to me that if there is a public option, then will employees be really able to choose their own health insurance plans because, then, the employer will no longer be able to, in essence, say to his employee: "This is own group plan, join it or else you won't be insured." Why do people accept the erroneous proposition that employees in the US have, so far, been choosing their own health insurance companies? My experience is that an employer chooses a health insurance plan to which the employees have to subscribe. In this system, I suspect that insurance companies can bribe those who are empowered to select health insurance plans and thus insure that all the employees will be their customers.

Why is there so much talk against a public option? Have people lost sight of the meaning of their words? If it is an option, then it is not and cannot be mandatory. People can choose it or choose something else. If it is–as the very words of those who oppose it indicate–, an option–and not a mandate, then how do they dare brand it as a mandate and pretend that it would prevent market competition?

It seems to me that if there is a public option, then will employees be really able to choose their own health insurance plans because, then, the employer will no longer be able to, in essence, say to his employee: “This is own group plan, join it or else you won’t be insured.”

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