Reply #120: Mandate, no public option, health savings accounts, perfect for all corporate overlords

[newportdadde]

Why am I worried about it? Because if we get a plan it will benefit corporations PERIOD.

One huge force out there is companies wanting to drop their healthcare expense even if it means 'socialized medicine'. Then you have the big insurance companies who obviously hate this idea. Then you have Wall Street who always needs more money. Single payer would only make one of those entities happy. We need a plan that makes all of them happy/rich.

So watch, we will get a mandate, no public option and probably health savings accounts. This is PERFECT for all the big players.

A mandate means employers can dump you.. ow they will give you some type of crappy salary increase to help you 'buy your own' that will not keep up with inflation and will be paid back to them by not giving you a raise for a few years.

Insurance companies will LOVE THIS, its a mandate baby you have to get it and now that your a lone soul out there in the free market all of your lovely preconditions/age etc will make it a nice fat premium.

Health Savings accounts (NOT Flex accounts) are great for Wall Street, you will get sold a bill of goods on the HSAs and how you can earn on your money while you save in them for your catastrophic deductible costs. All kinds of new schemes will come out to process this money.. then we will crash again and all the healthcare money will be stolen.