Public Option Please presents: Medical Students for affordable medicine

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In this segment from Organic Living TV we meet up with a group of concerned medical students who are voicing their issues with Congresswoman Eshoo's non-affordable pharmaceutical legislation

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[neraknerak1]

I am a physician and I support the public option!

[hippygourmet]

Bravo!

[calciumblue]

Just like public education right?

[nirvgardengod]

lol,,love it. very thought provoking.

[sf2fs]

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[freakawill2000]

You understood it exactly how I wanted it to sound.

It is the public option turned private. It is designed to be a direct substitution that fits both of our wants. You want non-profit and I want no legalized theft. This is what you would call "a free market solution". I can't think of anyone who wouldn't like this idea besides people banking on abusing the government's public option.

[hippygourmet]

Like the idea of the national non-profit co-op and regulating the health insurance industry so they can no longer deny or revoke coverage. But the national co-op really is a public option, because it's intent would be to allow everyone to find safe and secure medical care when they need it (without going broke).

[freakawill2000]

I think there is an alternative solution to this problem which satisfies both of our desires.

What if we repealed the ban on insurance companies across state lines and then created a national non-profit co-op? This would directly replace the public option and yet still allow millions more to have health insurance. Tell me your thoughts?

[hippygourmet]

Totally respect your opinion and stance on wishing to prevent Orwillian controls over life and limb, but perhaps we can agree to disagree on the metaphor of 'taking' things from others where nothing exists, and rather switching the logic to 'giving' as part of our social contract.

[freakawill2000]

They are a part of a social obligation, but not a right. You might have an obligation, but you don't have to fulfill it.

To quote Ron Paul on this, "The government can't give you the right to health care, because the government has nothing. Thus the government must take it from someone else." I have no problem with insurance companies. I have no problem with non-profit co-ops. I do have a problem with the government telling me you have to purchase something you don't need or else.

[hippygourmet]

It is true that rights are inalienable, although we rely on government to uphold these rights and provide basic services to enable our pursuit of liberty, justice and happiness. Thus police and fire departments exist not as a privilege that can be granted or taken away, but as an underlying thread of social obligations that we are entitled to from our tax dollars. You don't demand a fire brigade when the house is burning, they come to you and lay their lives on the line for you.

[hippygourmet]

Yes the bill is long but a worthwhile read and there is nothing in there that changes the federal government stance on paying for abortion. If you are provided gourmet health care by your employer that's great, you won't have to change a thing. However like most Americans who are paying continually higher prices for lesser services, & can be tossed out of coverage in a time of need - we rather support universal health care.