Town Hall Columbus, OH, August 11, 2009 with Senator Sherrod Brown: A solution!

This lady goes beyond opposing ObamaCare, she has a solution that would not only solve the health care problems but would also improve the relationship between employees and employers,

Announced in the cover of darkness August 10th to everyone except members of progress Ohio and organizing for America, and held at 10AM on a work day virtually ensured that most average Americans would be unable to make on such a short notice.

Green Peace and Planned Parent hood made it in good numbers though, complete with glossy pre-fab signs...

I chose to interview the objectors to the public option, because they are the ones constantly vilified, both by the media and by congressional leaders up to the president himself.

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[shlampman]

Wow, some solution. Her proposal for reform is actually the one thing that both sides can agree is a disgrace: the market for individual coverage. The vast majority of consumers who try to "find their own health insurance policy", as she advocates, wind up with no insurance at all, due to outrageous premiums, deductibles, and pre-existing clauses. I'm one of the "lucky" few who can shell out obscene monthly premiums with a $5,000 deductible and 30% copay, just in case of catastrophic illness.

[americana83]

An excellent debate tactic, start off with an assumption that draws people into your condemnation without substantiating it. Many I've talked to support free market reform...

The problem with healthcare is not the free market, but the tangle of regulations that prevent people from porting their insurance across state lines, allowing localized monopolies. Watch what would happen if that tangle was removed, and the companies ACTUALLY had to compete.

[shlampman]

Not sure what my unsubstantiated assumption was- did she not tout her husband's business practice as a model for the nation at large? Did she not say his employees find their own individual insurance? And unregulated free markets lead to consolidation after a brief period of competition. Look at the HHI for most sectors of the US economy over the past few decades and you'll see. Regulation isn't the reason over 50 of the world's 100 biggest centralized economies are internal to corporations.