Sunday, June 7, 2009

Tell Chris Dodd to support single-payer!

 
UPDATE: After commentary from 484 people, Sen. Dodd has stopped accepting opinions at the YouTube SenateHub site. You can still contact him through more traditional means.
 


Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT), a senior member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, invites you to submit your ideas and vote up or down those of others here.

I wonder whether anyone will actually pay attention to this, or whether it's just a political ploy.

Dodd asserts: "Many people like what they have. They don't want to change. They don't want us fooling around with it. And certainly our intention is if you like what you've got, then you keep what you've got."

Yet I've read every one of the 153 ideas that are there as I write, and by far the vast majority are calling for change, and most of those want single-payer.

Anyone who's had any serious illness and had to deal with the denials, the paperwork, the expense and lack of coverage entailed in the private-insurance system doesn't want to keep what they have. Those of us who don't have coverage don't want to keep what we have.

The only people who want to keep what they have are healthy people who haven't had any real interaction with their insurance companies. And, of course, people who work for insurance companies.

1 comment:

  1. "The only people who want to keep what they have are healthy people who haven't had any real interaction with their insurance companies."

    That is so true. Over the past year, many employers have switched their plans over to high deductible plans. To soften the blow, they have also contributed to HSAs to pay those deductibles. BUT, that company contribution is a ONE TIME thing. Many people have no idea what is in store for them if and when they need to use their health benefit. 2010 will be very telling for heath insurance when many more of these so called happy with their coverage employees find out what their real coverage is. With that, I need to ask President Obama why the rush to get mediocre health care reform. In a year or so people will probably be out in the streets for real reform. Oh, I guess that's why.

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