Edited on Sat Jan-01-11 11:46 AM by cal04
Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) argued that Republican federal court efforts to repeal the healthcare law could actually open the door for a single-payer system favored by progresives.
Appearing on Fox News on Friday, Kucinich denied charges that caps on how insurance companies spend their premium dollars would put jobs at risk on the brokerage side of the industry. Kucinich said:
The bottom line is: they're going to make whatever pleas they can to try to cut the limitations that are coming in place in this new bill, But the fact of the matter is, beyond all of this is that we really have to move someday towards a not-for-profit system where the insurance companies aren't dictating the kind of health care we're going to have in America.
If you demolish the new bill and we go back to square one, you still have 50 million who don't have any coverage, then what's the option if you can't have the government, say, by private insurance, which -- believe me, as someone would has fought that system I understand that -- then the only other option is to say what other industrialized democracies say, healthcare is a basic right, we've got to provide for everyone, we'll have a single-payer system."
The existing system is very hard for doctors who often have to file documentation with 50 or more insurance companies and deal with confusing customized insurance policies.
Many doctors have double their support staff to deal with the insurance workload. Other doctors simply refuse to take health insrauce or only allow insurance from Medicare, Tricare or the bigger companies.
The conservative court win is only significant if the Obama administration appeals it to the Supreme Court. The judge who ruled against "ObamaCare" was the owner of a PR firm that lobbied against the Affordable Health Care Act which is a conflict of interest. The administration has prevailed in several other court cases.
The GOP would be wise to leave a "sleeping dog" lie.
Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/135569...
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Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) argued that Republican federal court efforts to repeal the healthcare law could actually open the door for a single-payer system favored by progresives.
Appearing on Fox News on Friday, Kucinich denied charges that caps on how insurance companies spend their premium dollars would put jobs at risk on the brokerage side of the industry. Kucinich said:
The bottom line is: they're going to make whatever pleas they can to try to cut the limitations that are coming in place in this new bill, But the fact of the matter is, beyond all of this is that we really have to move someday towards a not-for-profit system where the insurance companies aren't dictating the kind of health care we're going to have in America.
If you demolish the new bill and we go back to square one, you still have 50 million who don't have any coverage, then what's the option if you can't have the government, say, by private insurance, which -- believe me, as someone would has fought that system I understand that -- then the only other option is to say what other industrialized democracies say, healthcare is a basic right, we've got to provide for everyone, we'll have a single-payer system."
The existing system is very hard for doctors who often have to file documentation with 50 or more insurance companies and deal with confusing customized insurance policies.
Many doctors have double their support staff to deal with the insurance workload. Other doctors simply refuse to take health insrauce or only allow insurance from Medicare, Tricare or the bigger companies.
The conservative court win is only significant if the Obama administration appeals it to the Supreme Court. The judge who ruled against "ObamaCare" was the owner of a PR firm that lobbied against the Affordable Health Care Act which is a conflict of interest. The administration has prevailed in several other court cases.
The GOP would be wise to leave a "sleeping dog" lie.
Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/135569...
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