Reply #37: No. Legislation empowering the corporate leeches is NOT a good thing

[debbierlus]

Look, we have mandated private insurance in MA. My sister's husband lost his job and their health insurance coverage.

They went to the group pool provided by the state to purchase supposedly affordable health insurance (you know, pool your resources and be able to buy in at 'affordable rates'.

The cost for a young family of three....

1,400 dollars a month for a family making 70,000 a year and that does not include significant co-pays and deductibles.

They can't afford it, but to avoid tax penalites they can buy the worthless crap ass catastrophic coverage that provides only minimal reimbursemen for crisis situations.

You seem to be under the impression that this insurance will be affordable. It won't. And, the cost of the program is not sustainable. Massachusett's program will be financially insolvent in a year.

If you think health care is tough to solve now, wait to see what happens when this mega-beast gets even more money and power from the government. Millions of new customers. A bailout for the leeches who created the broken system and a mandated purchase of their crappy product.

No legislation beats bad legislation. The health care crisis will only worsen, and perhaps, the reality will have hit enough people square in the jaw for a true grassroots movement for single payer, the only long term solution.