I really do not know if they are just good actors or that they were just blindly following the orders of the health-care lobbyists that are funding their campaigns, but the shock on their faces really disgusts me. How can they claim not to know that when you add demand and take away competition, you are going to raise the cost?

The Senate discussion is still going on while this article is being produced, but it is official; they really lack brains. We have mentioned this weeks ago, that the health care bill would increase cost without the public option or alternatives. How could they not have realized it?

Of course it would. Some are quoted to say that this bill is “a blow-job to the health insurance companies.” I agree. It is not that the intention of the clauses in the bill are to increase the demand, but they do increase the demand. Let me give you two examples.

There is a clause that forces individuals that has the capability to buy insurance but choose not to do so, to purchase insurance or pay a tax. It is a good clause. Why should I pay via my taxes, the hospital bills for someone who could have insurance but refused to buy it? Can they pay for my car insurance because I chose not to pay for it? However, it does increase the number of people that want or need to buy health insurance. In other words, it increases the demand.

If you force insurance companies to accept everyone, they are going to claim that the risk has gone up and that they would have to pass the cost increase to their customers. Also, there is again more customers fighting for the same number of insurance companies. This again increases the demand, without care for supply. There are other parts of the bills too that has the same consequences.

And the entire Congress put together, Republican, Democrat and Independents, they have only come up with one idea that increases the supply (competition). That was the public option. The very fact that there was only one idea that increased demand, it demonstrates the utter incompetence of Congress. Our site had more ideas!

So what did they do to the only clause that increased competition? Of course, they listened to their “paymasters” and removed it. Was it what the citizens wanted? No! 60% of Americans support the public option. So what do you think when you increase the demand and do nothing about the supply; what do you think would happen? Prices to come down because you want it to do so?

My goodness! And they are shocked that the premiums would increase? What school did these people go to? Did they become stupid just before they enter public office? Or is it, and in my opinion, that we are facing the downside of our democracy where corporations donations are more important than our votes?

I keep my stance. As long as there is no measure that increases competition, I think that it is our civic duty to kill the bill! It is going to wreck our country faster than our currently terrible health care system. Spread the word. Kill the bill till it brings the public option back!

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