Reply #12: We don't have many years

[dflprincess]

people need access to care now and the insurance reform the House passed does not guarantee that access. The only guarantee is that we will be forced to pay a private company for "coverage".

If there had been any real intent to eventually change the system they at least would have left in the amendment that allows the states to pursue their own solutions. Instead, they chose to make most of us captives of the insurance industry and to force us to pay to prop up a system that has been cheating us for years.

Perhaps if single payer had been brought to the table and discussed the votes may have been found or, at least, the "compromise" we're getting wouldn't have been a gift to the insurance companies. Over 70% of the people wanted change and in talking to people who haven't paid quite as much attention to the whole debate, a lot of those who heard a public option was being disucssed thought it meant single payer and were looking forward to it. Instead, they're getting screwed. Come 2012 Obama may find he outfoxed himself.