Reply #1: Insurance = Serfdom...

[KharmaTrain]

I'm sure most of us know people who hate their job but the only reason they stay is for the insurance. This isn't some fluke, but a trap that allows employers to have a large amount of control over the lives of their employees...making many stay at jobs where they are overworked and underpaid simply cause they need the insurance.

There won't be any true reform until people are allowed to self-insure...be it privately or in a govermnet program. Insurance shouldn't be a condition of employment but a true benefit...and allow a person to shop for a better policy (which the employers contribution can be applied to) if they so choose.

Of course the rushpublicans hate this concept cause their buddies at the Chamber of Commerce wouldn't stand for it. They "talk" reform, but as has been pointed out too many times, if they were serious, why didn't they do anything (other than give big pharma a big wet kiss with the "prescription drug benefit" scam) when they were in power.

But the corporate media already has framed the failure of health care as being Democrats not "compromising" with the GOOP.