The Majority of Americans WANT Medicare for All. NOW!

So many members of Congress have expressed support for a public option - it's the only way to introduce genuine competition in American healthcare.

The "personal mandate" does exactly the opposite: forcing citizens to buy expensive, unregulated health insurance on their own dime from companies bent on charging high premiums yet finding so many reasons not to pay out.

Many economists specializing in healthcare say that provider monopolies (which tend to be regional, and very strong) cause at least as much cost increase as insurance companies -- likely more. Even the Public Option doesn't fix this (indeed, only dilutes the clout of insurance co's in a given region). How does the current healthcare bill address this full half of the cost equation?

My mother needs the Medicare D loophole closed, will this also take four years before anyone can access it?

Drop agreement with drug companies

We could drop the age limit by say 3 years every year (next year the age to get Medcare would be 62, the year after 59 etc. This would allow time to triple the number of Doctor's and health care workers graduated every year. After all Health care coverage without Doctors, Pharmacists and nurses etc won't be worth much...

Fix it later? Other than adding the disabled to the senior eligible for Medicare, I don't see any real improvements to the coverages. (Part D is not a real improvement; it is a time bomb.) Do you consider the explosive growth (3667%) in Part B premiums an improvement? I do not! Other than fiddling with the reimbursement rates, Congress has done almost nothing to improve Medicare. Why would we believe you will miraculously change course to improve this? This is your opportunity. Do not quit now!

People are loosing their insurance today, necause the company's are raising their prices. How can we stop it now? Or how and when will we stop it?

Why do the democrats not fight for a “public option?” It is most likely because the democrats really do not represent their constituency? Are they not just going to make it much harder to have a “public option” by allowing the insurance companies, in the long run, to do what they want anyway? This whole thing sounds sinister. The health professions should not be profit-money-hording enterprises living off the misery of people-- pay the doctors well and get the business person out of the equation! I’m thinking of leaving the Democratic Party because you guys are fucken useless.

http://www.labornotes.org/2010/01/anger-over-health-care-bill-creates-uncertain-future
“I’ve never seen this much anger at the Democrats from union people,” said Jeff Crosby, president of a General Electric factory local near Boston, as he prepared a last-minute leaflet to hand out in the plant. “It’s worse than NAFTA.”

Top union leaders had bargained a compromise slowing down the health care benefits tax President Obama insisted on, but it was not enough to placate union members—and others—infuriated that Obama had broken his campaign promise not to tax benefits.