Montana Maven explains what the Democratic central committees in her state did. As a result Max Baucus was forced to admit in public that co-ops and trusting insurance companies to regulate themselves won't get the job done.
Calling themselves the Coalition of the United Montana Democratic Central
Committees, the group's statement announces it has "established a position in support
of a strong public option as an essential element in health care reform." In specifying the
necessary components needed for such a public option, they list:
• National Coverage
• Availability to all Americans
• Portability, which includes maintaining coverage even if one loses his or her job
• No exclusions for preexisting conditions, denial of coverage if one gets ill, or
develops catastrophic costs
• Publicly run and administered with full transparency and accountability to
congress
• No triggers
My personal favorite plan is simpler still: Medicare for Everybody, Now.
IF I get admitted, in a couple of hours, to my Congressmember's Town Hall on Health Care, what should I ask? Should I mention HR 676? (He's a Republican, a former realtor, and a recipient of a *lot* of insurance-industry loot.)
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Of course mention "Medicare for All" (HR676)
Demand that it not only be CBO-scored, but that a full analytical study be perfomed that compares all the options.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
Yes. Ask what he would think of a one payer system for basic
health coverage if the CBO scored it as reducing health care costs(particularly per household costs), and providing better care.
Medicare for All is Civil Rights
He said he wasn't familiar with HR 676 but he'd look at it
and another question about CBO scoring was asked right before mine as well but he didn't address that aspect of either question.
He did have the woman he introduced as his legislative chief chase me down with a business card after the meeting.
Yes, I stayed late to thank him for coming out to listen to his constituents.
We can admit that we’re killers … but we’re not going to kill today. That’s all it takes! ~ Captain James T. Kirk, Stardate 3193.0
1 John 4:18