Insurance companies can hang around, sell their own policies if they want (and can find anyone to buy them), sell supplemental policies, end-of-life policies, etc.
Why we, as a country, should continue to have one of the worse health care systems of first world countries justified by continuing to throw cash at private corporations and their lobbyists is absurd.
I think they've determined that if the entire nation was on Medicare, the savings would be astronomical (negotiated costs) and the taxes, spread across all those healthy people, would be very low.
"People don't like change" - no, they don't. But they are also uneducated as to the issues and
taught to be scared and fearful. That's why our country is on the verge of disaster. Look what happened during the health care debate, the sheer volume of lies and nonsensical accusations. We are not debating policy, we are debating crazy lies and weirdness.
Americans better suck it up, and start getting educated about this country of theirs, and who, exactly, they are electing to the government, rather than staying ignorant and lazy - this democracy is already a plutocracy, and if they don't turn it around, there is zero future for most.
I read yesterday that 55% of people between the ages of 18 and 29 are unemployed. Holy eff.
And what has our House passed for us, to help us, since January? Seven anti-abortion, abortion-rights restriction bills.
You get what you vote for. And we're in deep shiat.
Occupy Wall Street, Occupy The Voting Booth ... your first chance is in a couple weeks
