Reply #9: Futures contracts on the American middle class...........?

[Faryn Balyncd]

43% of Americans will be ineligible for subsidies....

Those forced into non-group plans, the CBO estimates will experience an ACCELERATED rate of premium inflation.

Even those still in group plans, the CBO optimistically forecasts will experience "only" the same astronomical inflation in premiums as would have been expected if no bill had been passed.....This despite the fact that the perennial excuse for price gouging ("We have to gouge the insured to pay for all the uncompensated care for the millions of uninsured") should no longer apply.....Only in a system of no-public-option mandated purchase, with neither effective price controls or competition, would corporate interests be able to continue the predatory pricing upon which these inflated premiums rests.

Grayson's Medicare Buy In would have provided the competition that HCR now so conspicuously lacks.....But it was doomed by the deal the for=profit hospital industry made with the WH.

Grayson's bill still would do that, but our leaders seem to consists of hollow rhetoric.

But without providing the middle class with an option to buy in to a fairly priced system......