Reply #80: Aragorn, you are RIGHT ON!

[chadmak09]

This bill is a total scam.
They are throwing crumbs at us while handing the insuance comapies a full meal.

and many DU'ers are eating the crumbs up and saying "these crumbs taste good, maybe this is just the start and we will get to eat one day".
Meanwhile, Big insurance is helping themselves to seconds and even get dessert.

The insurance mandate tilts the scale too far in the negative.
The negative outweighs the positive.

So I hope this bill fails unfortunatly.

WIthout a STRONG public option that all americans can join and afford, then a mandate is just a scam.

Either remove the mandate or offer real competition.

Because as this bill stands, the public option will not be self-sufficient.

If only dirt-poor and un-insurable people can join the public option, then it will just eat up tax dollars.
Regular healthy americans must be able to join or the risk will not be spread equally and the money will not even out.

Then the money must be pulled from other programs or taxes will be raised on americans (who 90% of cant join the option they are having to now pay for).

The public option will fail, many people will stop voting democratic because of the lie of "change" that was not fullfilled.
Republicans will get re-elected and have a failed public option to point out and claim universal healthcare cant work because the public "option" didn't work.