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[QUOTE="ShadowSD:1022931"]Good Stuff In The Senate Bill: 1. Right now the average family pays 18% of their yearly income for premiums, and UNLIMITED out of pocket expenses on top of it (causing bankrupcy when someone is sick enough). Under this bill, the cap for premiums and out of pocket expenses COMBINED is 18% of yearly income. Big difference. 2. There will be an exchange where everyone can buy into the same plan that federal employees like members of Congress get. 3. Health care is enshrined as a right in law. Bad Stuff In the Senate Bill 1, 2, 3, and 4. No Public Option at All. Fucking blows. That's a really minimal cliffnotes summary of the Senate bill, given how long these bills are. Does the good outweigh the bad? In the long run, hopefully - but the jury is really still out there on whether the US can ever be as dependably regulated as the Swiss health care system that achieves universal and affordable care without a public option, or whether we're just too institutionally fucked up as a country to consistently maintain that level of reliable regulation between corporate ownership of politicians and bucktoothed "anti-govmint" sentiment; ultimately I think we need a public option, just like we needed Social Security and Medicare as full-fledged programs, because mandates without a public option is... well, Massachussetts. Here's the thing though - this is just the Senate bill. The House bill DOES have a public option, and the two bills still have to be reconciled in conference, which will happen throughout January. Not over yet.[/QUOTE]
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