Lowering the age for medicare eligibility to 55 years or younger makes a lot of sense to me.
Preserving the system we have now makes no sense to me.
I don't know who to trust about proposals for healthcare reform that lack either a public option or a medicare buy-in.
I do know that if the following information from Democracy for America is true, then the healthcare reform that the administration is now pushing appears questionable.
Here's what DFA is saying:
Senate leaders are all over Washington claiming they finally have a healthcare reform bill they can pass, as long as they remove the public option. After all, they say that even without a public option, the bill still "covers" 30 million more Americans.Democrats are as bad as Republicans in regard to obscuring the effects of legislation. It's getting harder and harder to tell who is on the side of truth and transparency.
What they are actually talking about is something called the "individual mandate." That's a section of the law that requires every single American buy health insurance or break the law and face penalties and fines. So, the bill doesn't actually "cover" 30 million more Americans - instead it makes them criminals if they don't buy insurance from the same companies that got us into this mess.
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Individual mandate programs don't work. What they do is force everyone to get health insurance and then underwrite the most of the people who otherwise couldn't afford it. They don't work because not everyone obeys the mandate and the whole program is structured around 100% compliance. This is what the healthcare reform Mitt Romney passed in Massachusetts was and why it didn't work.
I think it has been abundantly clear for quite a while that neither party is on the side of truth and transparency.
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