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[jlc20thmaine]

It didn't take long to run into an "uh-oh" moment when reading the House's "health care for all Americans" bill. Right there on Page 16 is a provision making individual private medical insurance illegal.

When we first saw the paragraph Tuesday, just after the 1,018-page document was released, we thought we surely must be misreading it. So we sought

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[chessdev]

That doesn't mean you can't change your coverage -- NOR is it "outlawed" as you misleadingly call it.

All the statement you outlined says is that it doesn't auto-enroll people in the program if they ALREADY have coverage. They have to opt-IN to the plan is what that says...

Sheesh...

[dwer]

and my private program does that already -- every year, I have to specifically tell them that I DO want to stay with my program.

[jlc20thmaine]

but if you opt out you can no longer opt back in, or change to another private health plan, under the health care bill currently before congress.

[dwer]

Since you generally lack reading comprehension, I'm going to significantly doubt this. Besides, if I opt out of, for example, my dental program, I cannot opt back in for a year.

[xforge]

Again, citing things that have been deliberately castrated and deliberately mismanaged by jackasses who want to be able to point to the mismanagement and say "See? It doesn't work, so let's trash it all!!" And then collect their fat paychecks from the lobbyists, does not reinforce your case about the "failure" of publicly-funded care. At all.

[jlc20thmaine]

Are you saying that government has deliberately mismanaged it's own health care systems?

[dwer]

you do recognize that the people who have been in charge for the eight years prior to this administration were interested in showing how poorly government worked, and they set out to prove it, right?

[jlc20thmaine]

You do recognize that the the government health programs have worked poorly for decades, not just the past 8 years.

[xforge]

p.s. nice copypasta from conservablog

[xforge]

Further
provision making individual private medical insurance illegal

PHHHHHHHHHHWWWWAAAHHHHH HA HA like Congress would ever do that in a million billion years

[telemann]

No shit! Hell would freeze over 20 million times before they'd do that.

And we would have gotten away with it, too....

[weswilson]

Re: And we would have gotten away with it, too....

[gunslnger]

Well, KISS was sort of on "A Scooby-Doo Halloween", but I don't recall if they actually interacted with them at all.