http://westonpolicy.wordpress.com/2008/12/03/single-payer-health-care-would-help-save-auto-industry/ Discussion of national and state policy issues Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:28:52 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://westonpolicy.wordpress.com/2008/12/03/single-payer-health-care-would-help-save-auto-industry/#comment-160 Bur Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:01:01 +0000 http://westonpolicy.wordpress.com/?p=245#comment-160 I received an email comment from Harvey: FYI: Yesterday at Town Hall I had a discussion with Republican State Senators McKinney and Boucher about health care reform legislation in CT. McKinney was instrumental in killing last year's reform legislation. Boucher was surprisingly open to much my argument because of people she knows in Wilton who are being murdered by insurance companies. Both showed a lack of knowledge about details of how policies are structured to hurt citizens (e.g., what happens if you have a fractured toe or foot). I am not advocating single payer insurance -- we will never be able to kill insurance companies with that head shot at this time because of their political might. Instead, I am advocating knee-capping the insurance companies by returning to a system previously practiced in he USA -- competing, non profit insurance companies. This system is quite successful in delivering high quality care at affordable prices in several capitalist European countries. I received an email comment from Harvey:
FYI: Yesterday at Town Hall I had a discussion with Republican State Senators McKinney and Boucher about health care reform legislation in CT. McKinney was instrumental in killing last year’s reform legislation. Boucher was surprisingly open to much my argument because of people she knows in Wilton who are being murdered by insurance companies. Both showed a lack of knowledge about details of how policies are structured to hurt citizens (e.g., what happens if you have a fractured toe or foot). I am not advocating single payer insurance — we will never be able to kill insurance companies with that head shot at this time because of their political might. Instead, I am advocating knee-capping the insurance companies by returning to a system previously practiced in he USA — competing, non profit insurance companies. This system is quite successful in delivering high quality care at affordable prices in several capitalist European countries.

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