tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26975600.post4699100416174212663..comments2023-06-05T09:04:17.215-07:00Comments on Susan M. Lynn: Tennessee Center for Policy Research on Claims Database...http://www.blogger.com/profile/02992405281123081451noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26975600.post-73888463920309015952009-05-26T20:08:16.731-07:002009-05-26T20:08:16.731-07:00Perfect. Obama's future OPTIONAL government plan ...Perfect. Obama's future OPTIONAL government plan will then attract people who are afraid of the same bureaucratic control ("costs likely to be passed along") that insurance companies ALREADY have done to their clients such as: routinely denying clients their choice of doctor and often refusing to pay for care as well as denying people basic coverage based on the dreadful "precondition." A public option cannot be worse than what the current Private US Health Care System has done for the US now, that is given the US a WHO Heath Care Delivery System ranking of #37 in the world.<br /><br />Insurance Companies (such as Blue Cross Blue Shield) are already in the market for driving costs up like charging in their premiums for the possibility of needless services such as maternity care for males. What's so funny is that Republicans would rather live with this current system of delivery and tell people that the government can't do any better. Really? Why not give it a chance? Why not give the people a choice? Private or Public health care? Then I'd like to see the Insurance Companies pass along their so called "costs" to what will be left of their clients knowing there's a competitor out there. <br /><br />For most part between 1995 and 2007, the Republicans controlled both Houses. Add W. to the mix in 2001 and tell me why not one Republican told the Health Insurance Companies to shape up or else...they didn't.<br /><br />Democrats will. Led by Obama as he <A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/22/opinion/22krugman.html?ref=opinion" REL="nofollow"><br />promised</A> but more importantly probably designed by<A HREF="http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/wyden-is-winning-over-the-gop-on-healthcare-2009-05-18.html" REL="nofollow"><br />Wyden</A>, who knows there's common ground to be found, I have faith that Congressional Democrats will force the Insurance Companies to play a different hand than the one they've played since at least 1995.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com