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Senate Democrats Scrap Health Insurance Reform & Declare Victory, Health Insurance


To get the 60 votes needed to pass their bill, Democrats eradicated the idea of health insurance reform and replaced it with a proposal for guaranteed private insurance company profits. along the way, they caved in to the high demands by the sinister Nebraska senator Ben Nelson, who exerted 100% Medicaid reimbursement for his state, killed any public option or expansion of Medicare and curtailed women’s right to choose a safe, legal abortion. The expensive, complicated compromise was thrown away by virtually everyone except the politicians who declared it a victory in spite of its global failure to achieve the goals of covering all Americans, reducing costs or improving the quality of care. Obama’s top domestic priority will be a shame if this legislation ends up with his signature on it. The senate republican leader said the bill was a monstrosity full of special sweetheart deals for a few states. Mc Connell wants to kill tens of thousands of Americans every year, but he was on target in his assessment of this devilish deal. The bill proposes a variety of new fees and taxes including penalties on uninsured people that would total $15 billion over 10 year plus $28 billion in penalties on employers who do not offer health benefits to employees. The clear and well-known answer to health insurance reform is opening up Medicare for all Americans. Allowing anyone to buy into this government run health insurance system would reduce expenses, assure integrity and universal coverage, plus it would improve the quality of care.