Public Option has been dropped from bill — breaking
December 10, 2009
Nancy Pelosi has backed off the public option for the health care bill. Meaning that it now has zero chance of making it to the population.
What did make it in the bill was a Medicare buy-in for people aged 55-64, an expansion of Medicaid, a “poor person” public option for those under 300 percent of the poverty line and a collection of national private plans managed by the Office of Personnel Management.
In other words, you have to meet criteria X and criteria Y in order to buy a public health insurance plan. It’s not universal.
Republicans have been dead set against this (as well as most proposals that have been floating in Washington) and have been chomping at the bit to see the universal health care bill go down the toilet.
The problem is that we have millions of Americans now uninsured and with no option to get health insurance (try buying a plan on your own if you have a pre-existing condition).
And the problem is about to be magnified. The double digit unemployment rate (just see how many people got laid off in our advertising agency industry alone) is showing that the jobless rate is directly contributing to the uninsured population. Meaning that people fired months ago are now seeing their COBRA ending and have no option in sight to obtain health insurance.
And the problem is expected to get worse as the subsidies for COBRA are about to be expired.
This means that you are going to see a large population of Americans without any health insurance and no option to obtain any. This will have long lasting problems for millions.
If you need to go to the doctor and are in that situation, you are left with borrowing in order to pay the medical bills… and those bills are staggering. Most likely putting a typical ad agency media buyer sitting on the unemployment line with no option other than bankruptcy.
This is a bad day… I’m not saying that the public option was the solution, I am saying it was a solution.. so if the Republicans have a better solution I want to hear it… because “no” worked this time.. but it sure as hell didn’t help millions of voters.
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