Schumer: Public Option Compromise with 'Opt Out' for States Being 'Very Seriously Considered'

[MrFreeLibertarian]

What a moron! This loser represents other loser who won't pay their own way because they are worthless and weak! Tough new yorkers my ass! We need strong people in this country who can pull their own weight. Not little children pretending to be adults while begging the government to steal from the rich to pay for their healthcare so they don't have to get off their lazy asses and provide for themselves! Give up the booze and cigs and maybe you little shits could afford better healthcare!

[bloggerfl5486]

Senator Schumer, PLEASE ADD THE PUBLIC OPTION and Shelve the 'Opt Out' clause for States. The Health Industry Lobbyest stated yesterday that the bill in its current form will raise premiums 25% on all insurance policies when their profits were in the Billions of Dollars last year. The Public Option will level the playing field and bring health care insurance prices down to reality!

[MadisonRvrGurl1]

I want to down her pie on camera so all of YouTube can see

[asphyxiafeeling]

digging the idea of opt-out. let the red states opt-out of the public option if they want. then in 5 years the blue states can laugh at them when they say "we change our mind, it works so well for the other states we want it too!"

[WKaliberr]

I hate it when my sister blows my friends

[maxx1000]

This IS Bull Sh!t !!!

Single Payer covers more for less.

To allow States to 'opt-out" of covering Americans is CRAZY!!!

Then what good does this "opt-out" provide Americans that happen to live IN States that "opt out"?

CURRENT HEALTH CARE REFORM IS ABOUT MAXIMIZING PROFITS.

Congress can "opt IN" for $503 a year and get Gold Star Treatment. Specialists are even FREE!!!

[maxx1000]

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AMERICANS WANT

CONGRESS CARE

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[maxx1000]

Of course it's thinking about Americans when Senator Chuck Schumer "OPTS OUT" on covering ALL Americans, YES?

Think about it People!

Profits or People.

Which does this protect?

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[macks3123]

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[WKaliberr]

more like The Aleph

[Melpheos1er]

baaaaad idea

[whoo689]

My plan would also include requiring states that take the public option to remove restricitons that limit residents' ability to buy insurance across state lines. No ONE should be restricted from buying something OUTSIDE THE STATE unless the federal gov't bans it directly. The state has no right acting like my father and telling me "You can't buy cheaper insurance in another state."

[whoo689]

If there weren't constitutional issues, I'd enact a law that says the public option is only available for states that reduce many of the ridiculous insurance mandates that raise costs for consumers, esp. premiums. Let individuals craft their own plans and NEGOTIATE (a great part of free enterprise) w/ the insurers for the plan that's right for them. Just b/c a bunch of special interests want this or that coverage doesn't mean everyone has to take it in their minimum plan.

[BayAreaLen]

This insurance lobby is too strong. This entire puppet show is for nothing. You will all get screwed out of healthcare, and even the far right and the conspiracy theorists will get screwed too, seeing as how whatever does end passing will likely be worse and more government control than we have now, with the possibility of mandates. Everyone gets screwed from every angle in this bogus healthcare debate!

[cokmobot]

I don't understand all this internet dickery. This compromise is a great idea both in terms of policy and politics. It gets the public option out there for the big percentage of us that want it, and it will force the grandstanding conservative politicians to take ownership of the fact that their policy is about withholding aid from people who need it.

[Sakurakura]

If some states vote for and some states vote against...we will see a mass shift...a large migration of people. All of the people who cannot afford health care will move the the states where they will be able to get it without insurance and then everyone else will move to places where they can live with others who are insured.

[junkforkaryn]

nobody can afford to move, otherwise who the hell would continue to live in dirt poor arkansas, w. virginia, and louisiana. the poor states will stay poor and the better off states like california (cough) will just keep going down the drain.

[Mysticomega]

RETARD

[1234uz]

Thats is Sell us out again Democrats sell out Sons a bitch Bitches all of ya

[Richardgwm]

This is a fantastic idea. Get all the redneck states to opt out and just watch them bitch when their healthcare goes to shit.

[maskedphrogg]

hahahaha

Then watch the gov kids come dawdling up to the borders looking for Privately financed health care that they can't find or don't "qualify" for in the new Red States (the communist ones where gov takes all and provides all)

[almamatters2471]

Dems have absolutely no backbone. Bunch of cowards!

[jasonsadventure]

yeah baby, dems got game.

[poop121]

the healthcare debate is a joke. even the supposed "left" party, the democrats, is looking out for the insurance companies over the average person.

[PersonalJesus348]

revolution

[jasonsadventure]

racism

[snarkwaupaca]

retards!

[Ed76638]

Ah shit. Don't do it. I know the faggotty legislature in my state will do and make it popular.

[polidocproductions]

States rights have often preceded Federal mandates. We saw this in the case of slavery. I wonder if the same regional lines will be drawn if this becomes the path to a public option.

[Munkiefan]

duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuumb

[anonymolol]

accessible medical insurance for ALL AMERICANS*

*except those who live in states governed by idiots.

[KhalidSchaichRohamid]

good hahhahhahahha i cant wait to watch the red states freak the fuck out when their labor forces move to blue states

[LeGioNoFZioN]

if thats all it took then we up here in Canada would have all your labour jobs already. its never just that simple

[HerbertHKohl]

I don't want any rednecks coming to my state.

[drugante]

thats a smart move...alot of people will move to other states to get coverage...and the work force will move to...or people will vote out their sitting Governor and state senate..thats how u play chess..wooooow