The Finance Committee is discussing options for changing healthcare.
We need to tell them to vote for single payer, the only solution known to work in country after country.
Internationally, studies have repeatedly shown that adverse selection will kill public option like halfway measures by raising premiums.
Therefore, any hybrid Public Option IS AN EXPERMENTAL PROCEDURE AND IT SHOULD NOT BE "COVERED" BY THE TAXPAYERS.
WE SHOULD ONLY PAY FOR TREATMENTS WE KNOW ARE PROVEN TO WORK, LIKE SINGLE PAYER, NOT WASTE DECADES AND TRILLIONS ON UNPROVEN EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURES.
The Senate Finance Committee will be meeting next Tuesday, the 12th, to discuss options for financing "Health Care reforms". The last meeting was ominous in that the indications seem to be that whatever solution emerges may easily not be one that helps most of us, or even the chronically ill who cannot get insurance who have any assets or income, many people here.
(the core group who will probably get help of some kind eventually are those below the Federal poverty line who also have children,)
