Reply #21: Another lie

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Medicare was open from day one to all of the elderly 65 and above exactly the population it was designed for. It wasn't limited to a small percentage of those 65 and over too broke to buy private ins. It did not subsidize private insurance in direct competition with it nor did it require the program to be self sustaining with no government subsidies.

Today we have a public option which is supposed to be designed to be a government option to private insurance for anyone. What we get is enrollment limited to approx 10 million after 10 years, no subsidies and direct cutthroat competition form private insurers.

And now they have the balls to lie and call it medicare part e to somehow fool the dlc to vote for it. People believe this crap? It's to fool us, americans, people who believe this whole clusterfuck is actually about health care reform, people who bought the hope meme hook line and sinker, people who believe obama is on "their" side.

The truth is a real robust public option looks nothing like what is any of the current bills. If it did the stock market and our representative's health industry investments would reflect the massive hit it would be taking as a result of the government putting collective citizen health above profit.