I have never been a fan of HR 3200. I loathe the Republican lies even more. However, it has come to a stage where the bill is as bad as the Republicans lies. It is time that America kill this bill, or our health care system would bankrupt us faster than the current situation does.

Moments ago, the Senate Finance Committee has voted 15-8 against the public option. In other words, the public option is dead with the remotest chance of revival. Blue Dog Democrats are worried about the costs while some like Senator Baucus worry about it not making it past the Republican filibuster. To me these are nothing but a bunch of excuses.

While I have mentioned that there could be better alternatives, I was not so worried about this bill because it had some good things in it. E.g. I supported taxing people that had the ability to get insurance but choose not to. I supported the end of life counsellings before it was taken out. I supported ending coverage without pre-existing condition.

But all this had to come with a measure that would bring the cost down. The only way to do so it is through competition. I suggested things like starting a trade war between insurance companies (think Pepsi vs Coke), allowing foreign insurers to flood the market and looking into ways of helping the creation of new insurance companies by rookies as other alternatives. Not a single person from any party gave anything along these lines. The only manner suggested to provide competition is the public option.

Price is all about supply and demand. Right now demand for health insurance is huge, supply is limited, hence the price is high and is increasing. The public option was the only thing that increased supply via competition which would have brought cost down. On top of the rejection of the public option, when we force insurance companies not to deny pre-existing conditions and force every American to have health-care, we are also increasing the demand of health insurance. In effect, this bill would increase the demand and not increase the supply, hence increase the cost health-care and premiums.

With the current system, health-care would bankrupt America with the high cost and ever increasing premiums. With this bill, it bring America down faster and harder. Hence the urgent need to kill it.

What saddens me the most is the killing of the indexing part of the public option. “Indexing” (we name it, not official term) is the listing of all insurance into one index, showing its price and its coverage. This is the part that I feel everyone would have endorsed it whole heartedly. Even Bill O’Reilly agrees with this. Why in the world was it tied with the public option? What can go wrong with a list? Isn’t this what we see in the stock markets? Why can’t we choose from all insurances from a one stop location? This was easily the best part of the bill and was removed.

I also question the intentions of the Democrats. In the end of the day, politicians only answer to two entities in America, voters and lobbyists. When polls show that the public option is supported by more than 60% of Americans, and I guarantee more would agree with “indexing”; we can eliminate voters as the reason for not wanting the public option.

I have no proof, but I am confident that the Democrats are being bought over by the corporations. I think that they are answering to the corporations and their lobbyists and not the American people. That shows that we need to break this stranglehold of the lobbyists on our politics. A reform that needs to come soon too…

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