Here is an email from someone I consider an expert in the health care reform movement:

[HR]3200 [America’s Affordable Health Choices Act] is a real shame, especially since the Democrats have a majority in Congress!!!!

3200 goes so much public, tax-payer money to the for-profit, private insurance companies that you can call 3200 a bailout for the insurance companies.

Here’s why:

1. DHHS has taken on the administrative role of enrolling the uninsured into a private insurance plan, i.e., less bureaucracy means less overhead for the insurance company.
2. Pre-existing conditions is a liability that the government is taking over. A huge give-away of public, tax-payer money so that insurance companies aren’t burdened with the liability.
3. Affordability credits is an oxymoron. The government is going to give people credit in the event that the insurance plan is too expensive to afford. If you need to apply for credit to buy a plan, isn’t the plan too expensive to buy in the first place – so it must not be affordable, then!!! Duhhhhh….

3200 is really a new economic stimulus package in the form of health care reform.

Simply ugly…

You seem to be very happy with the proposed America’s Affordable Health Choices Act that was just released by the House of Representatives. But you provide no substance as to why it is the “Gold Standard”. Are the American people just supposed to have blind faith with regard to this bill?

Do you happen to work for the health insurance industry?

The healthcare reform bill released by the House Of Representatives is an excellent bill as I understand it. It’s a bill with a strong, robust, government-run public option, and an intelligent, reasonable initial funding plan to cover almost all of the American people. It is carefully written, and thoughtfully constructed, informed, prudent and wise. This bill will save trillions of dollars, and millions of your lives.

This is the type of bill that all Americans can feel good about. And this is the type of bill that has the potential to dramatically improve the quality of healthcare for all Americans. Rich, middle class and poor a like. Democrats, Republicans, Independents, and all other party affiliations. This bill has the potential to dramatically improve the quality of life of every American.

The house healthcare bill should be viewed as the minimum GOLD STANDARD by which all other proposed healthcare legislation should be judged. All supporters of true high quality healthcare reform should now place all your support behind this healthcare reform bill released by the United States House Of Representatives, as the minimum Gold standard for healthcare reform in America.

You should all now support this bill with all your might, and all of your unrelenting tenacity. This healthcare bill is a VERY, VERY GOOD! bill for all of the American people. Fight tooth, and nail for every bit of this bill if you have too. Be aggressive, creative, and relentless for this bill.

From this time forward, go BIGGER and DEEPER with the American people every day until passage of healthcare reform with a robust, government-run public option.

FIGHT!! like your life and the lives of your loved ones depends on it. BECAUSE IT DOES!

SPREAD THE WORD

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God Bless You

Jack Smith — Working Class