Re: President Obama - Your Turn: Join the National Online Discussion on Health Care Reform

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[grouphomebikes]

Your mic is low

Lets do what Canada does

[doctoraaron]

Right on. Sorry about the mic. My first webcam video.......

[rjruss]

Here! Here! How can we frame this question to be answered? Why must it be that employers can't choose the public option as their insurance company of choice? Is it because someone is pandering to the insurance industry?

[doctoraaron]

See my video response to my own video. It is an attempt at reframing.

[Fyshhed]

I happen to agree that a single payer system would be most cost-effective and efficient in the long run. Unfortunately, in the short term there are still strong political obstructions that do not permit a "radical" change of this kind to happen all at once. It would certainly seem less radical down the road to go from federal public option to single payer. Baby steps I suppose.

[doctoraaron]

Sadly, most of the public option proposals so far are empty. The supposedly progressive proposal offered by the House Tri-committee, for example, does not let employers choose the public option as the insurance coverage for their employees.

[PLBrayfield]

Would this be on the model of Medicare? Whatever its shortcomings, people like medicare and are comfortable with the idea by now. Some people are fearful about a 'public option' or a 'single-payer plan' because they don't really understand the government's place in either of these. They don't associate them with the Medicare model.

[BostonRocker51]

if we could just kill all the lobbyists I think a single payer plan would sail thru Congress...

[swivelingchairguy]

The worker based health care program shifts the incentive structure in a way that prevents abuse.

[Rianoth23]

I agree! But I also think it would be political suicide right now as the country is still so divided. I think first there needs to be a lot of education so we can move in this direction. Then we can get this done, Rome wasn't built in a day.

[BusyBee4U]

you should repost with better volume!! i can´t hear it!!

[Magicocctopus]

Great!! your mike is low though.....

[Magicocctopus]

I think that doctoraaron (my dad) is talking about a "medicare for all" program, which would be based pm the medicare model.