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HCAN Pans Baucus Care: "Gift to The Insurance Industry"

By Big Tent Democrat, Section Other Politics
Posted on Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 02:16:01 PM EST
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Brian Beutler quotes HCAN's pan of BaucusCare:

"The Baucus bill is a gift to the insurance industry that fails to meet the most basic promise of health care reform: a guarantee that Americans will have good health care that they can afford," says HCAN's campaign director Richard Kirsch.

The Baucus bill would give a government-subsidized monopoly to the private insurance industry to sell their most profitable plans - high-deductible insurance - without having to face competition from a public health insurer. [. . .] We urge Senators on the Finance Committee to replace the Baucus plan with legislation that will do what the Senate HELP Committee and three House committees have done: guarantee that Americans have good health insurance that they can afford with the choice of a strong national public health insurance option.

Consider HCAN the anti-Ezra.

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    HCAN Pans Baucus Care: "Gift to The Insurance Industry" | 19 comments (19 topical)

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    We are at at danger point and an opportunity point (5.00 / 1) (#1)
    by andgarden on Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 02:25:19 PM EST
    It is clear that BaucusCare is DOA. So, do Democrats figure out how to get the best bill possible with only their votes, or do we just ask President Snowe to please write the bill herself, and take her time?

    AFL-CIO endorses single payer. Unanimously. (5.00 / 3) (#2)
    by lambert on Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 02:42:11 PM EST
    Good!

    Is world peace also in their platform? (5.00 / 3) (#4)
    by andgarden on Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 02:44:12 PM EST


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    Not last I checked (5.00 / 2) (#10)
    by lambert on Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 05:12:42 PM EST
    Why?

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    Not to put too fine a point on it, (5.00 / 1) (#18)
    by andgarden on Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 10:47:58 PM EST
    but it's about as likely.

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    Me too (5.00 / 1) (#6)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 02:49:55 PM EST
    I endorse it.

    They also support the public option, and HR 3200.

    What say you?

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    That is really good news (5.00 / 1) (#17)
    by MO Blue on Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 06:06:50 PM EST
    Means that the union will continue to pressure the Dems or face real push back from their members.

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    Wendell Potter (5.00 / 1) (#5)
    by Capt Howdy on Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 02:45:46 PM EST
    said the same thing

    Former Cigna exec: Baucus plan "absolute gift" to industry

    Now that the Baucus bill has defined the RIGHT... (5.00 / 1) (#13)
    by lambert on Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 05:17:43 PM EST
    ... and the pissant "public option" (or "plan") has defined the LEFT, let's compromise in the middle, craft legislation that's somewhere between an outright giveaway and and bill that's barely plausible as an attempt at reform, collect from Big Pharma and Big Insurance, pay off the lobbyists, declare victory,  and get ready for the midterms! Everything's jake with the angels!

    This is disturbing: (none / 0) (#3)
    by oculus on Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 02:43:24 PM EST
    Under the Baucus bill, employers would have no responsibility to help pay for their workers' coverage and would be given incentives to have workers pay more for barebones insurance. Americans who don't get health benefits through work would still not be able to get good, affordable coverage.
     (Emphasis added.)
    Don't worry too much about it (none / 0) (#8)
    by gyrfalcon on Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 04:05:55 PM EST
    The rest of the "Gang of six" isn't signing onto it, never mind the whole Finance Committee, never mind the entire Senate, and never mind the House.  Everybody's been waiting for Godot, and now he's delivered it, Godot just turns out to be that annoying guy down the block.  This byzantine, steaming pile 'o crap isn't going anywhere and can't even be used as a framework from which to start reconstructing a health care bill.

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    I'm shocked! (5.00 / 1) (#11)
    by lambert on Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 05:13:21 PM EST
    Oh, wait.

    I thought you were talking about HR3200. Sorry.

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    A new ending to Waiting for Godot. (none / 0) (#15)
    by oculus on Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 05:45:27 PM EST
    Baucus shows up.

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    Hah! (none / 0) (#19)
    by gyrfalcon on Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 11:38:09 PM EST
    Very good!  So who's Lucky?  Olympia seems to be Pozzo...

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    To me Grassley speaks the most (5.00 / 1) (#20)
    by oculus on Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 11:44:43 PM EST
    nonsensically.  

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    Dem Senators Maintian Highest Standards (none / 0) (#7)
    by clio on Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 03:44:25 PM EST

    It has been given by a famous lobbyist as the definition of an honest official that he is "the rascal who will stay bought." Even this is a standard of integrity not always obtainable.

    -San Francisco (CA) Bulletin,  June 1885

    But it is obvious that Senators Baucus and Conrad are maintaining the highest, absolutely the highest, standards of honesty and integrity no matter the cost to their constituents.

    Good to see heartless robber baron - erm - old-fashioned social - values maintained in this graceless age.

    Idiot! (none / 0) (#12)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 05:13:50 PM EST
    Just kidding.

    Hard to tell, though, eh? (5.00 / 1) (#14)
    by lambert on Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 05:18:29 PM EST
    Slippery slope, and all.

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    Not hard when I say it expressly (none / 0) (#16)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 05:45:57 PM EST


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