Reply #9: All I have to say to Nelson about his concerns is that

[sabrina 1]

they could all be addressed by a Single Payer system. Now, someone should ask him about the one third cost of a system that retains the very costly Private Insurance Industry to distrubute the funds available for Health Care.

If we eliminated the middle men, Private Ins., we would instantly save one third of the cost which is going to profit. And we don't need them. There is already a system in place which could merely be extended to cover all Americans. A small tax, such as we have for SS and Medicare, and which IS contstitutional, unlike mandates to buy from private business, would be far less of a burden on those who will not be able to afford the punitive mandates and fines now in the bill.

Maybe someone should ask Nelson why he left out the huge cost of Private Ins. whose overhead is ten times that of Medicare? And after informing him of this, if he is really sincere about cost concerns, is he now ready for a Single Payer system?

They are all hypocrites, each fighting in their own way to ensure that one industry doesn't suffer any losses and it's not the American people they are worried about.