Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL)
March 9, 2010
Read text of the bill here:
http://grayson.house.gov/UploadedFiles/Public_Option_Act.pdf
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Alan Grayson
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GRAYSON INTRODUCES PUBLIC OPTION ACT
Bill Opens Up Medicare To Anyone Who Can Pay For It
Washington, Mar 9 -
Congressman Alan Grayson, D-Fla., today introduced a bill (H.R. 4789) which would give the option to buy into Medicare to every citizen of the United States. The Public Option Act, also known as the Medicare You Can Buy Into Act, would open up the Medicare network to anyone who can pay for it.
Congressman Grayson said, Obviously, America wants and needs more competition in health coverage, and a public option offers that. But its just as important that we offer people not just another choice, but another kind of choice. A lot of people dont want to be at the mercy of greedy insurance companies that will make money by denying them the care that they need to stay healthy, or to stay alive. We deserve to have a real alternative.
The bill would require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish enrollment periods, coverage guidelines, and premiums for the program. Because premiums would be equal to cost, the program would pay for itself.
The government spent billions of dollars creating a Medicare network of providers that is only open to one-eighth of the population. Thats like saying, Only people 65 and over can use federal highways. It is a waste of a very valuable resource and it is not fair. This idea is simple, it makes sense, and it deserves an up-or-down vote, Congressman Grayson said.
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April 6th, 2010 at 2:37 pm
Wonderful Medicare …
Wonderful Medicare for all!
April 6th, 2010 at 2:37 pm
Sounds like a great …
Sounds like a great choice to me!
April 6th, 2010 at 2:37 pm
Don’t forget Dennis …
Don’t forget Dennis Kucinich and Bernie Sanders.
April 6th, 2010 at 2:37 pm
is it sad i almost …
is it sad i almost mistook this for a vid from the ONION network? this is getting silly..
April 6th, 2010 at 2:37 pm
Why is it that …
Why is it that Grayson and Kucinich have a spine, but the others are only too happy to back down or be bought off, like Baucus, Joe “go for the dough” Lieberman, Mike Ross, and others?
I worked for WellPoint, Kaiser and Blue Cross; they actually feel that they are entitled to your premiums without covering you. They resent paying out any fees, and look for any excuse to drop you from coverage. This is what the GOP say people are “happy” with?
April 6th, 2010 at 2:37 pm
You mean less …
You mean less competitive. If you want to add 15% to the cost of Medicare for all, it would be less competitive with private insurance.
And it’s not about “more support across party lines”. It’s about K Street lobbyists paying legalized bribes across party lines to kill any kind of Medicare for all or single payer.
Plus the government is not in this for “more profit”. Their job is to provide for the general welfare of all. However, cutting out private insurers will provide savings for people!
April 6th, 2010 at 2:37 pm
Bobbiethejean (5 …
Bobbiethejean (5 days ago) said:
‘Liberal democrats’ distinct and undeniable lack of anything even remotely resembling balls and a spine are what have allowed the insaneos on the right to take over. Face it, our party is the party of cowardly, simpering, spineless, politically incompetent, twats. And unfortunately, we can now add goosestepping and dittohead to that.
The only hope we have… Grayson, Weiner, and possibly Barney Frank. People who are strong and resolute in their convictions.’
April 6th, 2010 at 2:37 pm
If you think that …
If you think that the 51 votes won’t slip away AGAIN!!!
I’M WITH YOU!!!
SINGLE PAYER etc.
All of it is exactly what I want! It’s what we deserve and is the only thing that will really do justice to the populace. It makes my stomach turn to think that the HMO Cartel has been able to water down Any Health Care proposal still on the table!
If I go that route and suddenly 2 more Senators that NOBODY EVER WOULD’VE THOUGHT, turn for the HMO’s and we have nothing I get to slap you…OK!
April 6th, 2010 at 2:37 pm
That’s very nice. …
That’s very nice. Apparently you dont know what a pre-existing condition is because you continue to insist that any bill should still ban them. What would be the point in reform then? The whole purpose of all this reform is to stop all the nonsense that capitalist firms do and ensure everyone has health insurance at a good cost.
You continue to not provide any evidence that people, on average, would wait until they get sick to buy insurance.
for the record, I am not a liberal. I hate liberals.
April 6th, 2010 at 2:37 pm
Senior citizens …
Senior citizens don’t have the choice. They’re automatically covered because they’ve been paying for it (involuntarily) their entire working lives.
I’ve already explained the problem with preexisting conditions. At start up, you could allow them for six months or something but if you make it open ended, there’s no incentive for people to sign up unless they get sick.
April 6th, 2010 at 2:37 pm
You sound like a …
You sound like a fearful sound bite for big pharma.
Why settle for what they want, when the vast majority of voters still want single payer?
Why should we allow our representatives in Congress to commit mutiny against us, again?
The time to take a stand is now. If we don’t the next bill will also be more of the same.
If you’re not with WE THE PEOPLE, you’re with the lobbyists, big business and the upper 1% plutocracy
We now have 51 votes in the Senate, all we need is Pelosi in the House.
April 6th, 2010 at 2:37 pm
It’s not a problem …
It’s not a problem for senior citizens. Please explain how it will be a problem if everyone above poverty income has a choice to buy private insurance or Medicare and no one can be turned away for preexisting conditions?
Everyone is covered from day one.
April 6th, 2010 at 2:37 pm
Do you even know …
Do you even know what a pre-existing condition is? That’s one of the biggest complaints about private insurance is that they drop you when you have one or dont allow you to buy it if you have one. Of course the bill is going to allow people with those to buy in.
You still have not addressed the point that people sign up for insurance right now whether they are sick or not. Nor have you provided any evidence that people would just wait to buy in. “Common sense” is not a valid argument.
April 6th, 2010 at 2:37 pm
Unlike you, I’ve …
Unlike you, I’ve been paying for health insurance for me and my family of size for over 30 years. I don’t get it through work, I pay for it myself. I know what a pre-existing condition is. I also know why insurance companies do it. If they didn’t, people would wait until they get sick and NEED insurance before they would buy it. If they didn’t restrict pre-existing conditions, they’d go broke.
Your thinking is really messed up. You’ll make a good solid liberal.
April 6th, 2010 at 2:37 pm
Perhaps if they let …
Perhaps if they let people buy in at cost plus a percentage . . . something like say 15%, so that it would be more competitive with private insurance, they could get more support across party lines AND use the ‘profit’ to help fund Medicaid, or provide premium assistance to those that want to buy in but it is still too expensive for them.,
April 6th, 2010 at 2:37 pm
Yeah stop Obama …
Yeah stop Obama anyway you can. It doesn’t matter that 45,000 Americans are dying every year for lack of coverage…
April 6th, 2010 at 2:37 pm
You are twisting …
You are twisting MrE’s words. Please stop being so dishonest.
If you can’t argue intelligently and logically, perhaps that means you cannot post a credible counter argument in your defense.
And if you can’t post a credible argument, one can reasonably surmise that you are wrong and MrE is right!
April 6th, 2010 at 2:37 pm
I don’t even know …
I don’t even know what the you are talking about!? I haven’t text HERE in a bit less than a week!
April 6th, 2010 at 2:37 pm
I have found the …
I have found the thread and I remember what we were talking about now (turns out less than three days ago).
Sorry, don’t even come close to agreeing with you. If your claiming there’s an equivocation on the term “Elitist” than by all means give me an explaination for what “MrEhamburglar” meant, cuz you apparently can channel.
April 6th, 2010 at 2:37 pm
Can you see Russia …
Can you see Russia from your Mommies window?
April 6th, 2010 at 2:37 pm
You have posted a …
You have posted a straw man argument and are wrong!
MrE meant “elitists” are not us, but are the upper 1% who control enough of both Blue Dog Fascist Democrats and Neocon-Fascist Republicans to always get their way, no matter which party is in control of the government
In other words, the Democratic Party, controlled by the Blue Dog Fascists ,and the Republican Party, controlled by the Neocon-Fascists have merged (unofficially of course) into the Unitary Fascist Party
Keep living the lie bro.
April 6th, 2010 at 2:37 pm
When you buy …
When you buy private medical insurance, you have to provide them with your medical history. Anything that you’ve already been diagnosed with they will not pay for. It’s called a pre-existing condition. So if you get sick the treatment is going to be $100,000, private insurance will not cover it. That’s why you buy the insurance BEFORE you get sick. So you’ll be covered in case you do.
Some people try it. They lie about their medical history just so they’ll be covered. It’s a big problem.
April 6th, 2010 at 2:37 pm
This bill allows …
This bill allows people with pre-existing conditions to get coverage. If it didn’t, it would say so. You read the bill, you can see that there’s no clause against it.
You want to allow it at first because you want people who are sick and don’t have coverage to get it. What you don’t want is people who are healthy now to wait until they get sick to buy in. You need healthy people to cover the sick ones.
This is all very obvious. I don’t know why you’re arguing against it.
April 6th, 2010 at 2:37 pm
its funny…so many …
its funny…so many are complaining about the options being offered to those of us who are afraid of our insurance companies screwing us when its really none of their business. meanwhile, when their insurance companies cut them off…we all end up footing the bill. we need single payer!!!
April 6th, 2010 at 2:37 pm
otherwise, our only …
otherwise, our only option is to just let them die. unfortunately, many will end up broke and owing money as they will deplete all of their assets fighting to save their lives or that of their loved ones. so maybe, we can have an open pit policy in neighborhoods where there is a high incidence of toxic materials, sickness and working class people so we can burn the dead bodies of the diseased. voila! get rid of the sick and this way we can keep paying for our wars!
problem solved.