OPTIONS

OPTIONS ... a world-class system....womb to tomb....regarding health care reform: Nobody has taken anything off any table....the reform remains to be written and passed by Congress and the President with the input OF WE THE PEOPLE who elected them. Tort & other reforms may well be included...what may be included will depend on how open-minded, civil, and focused we all remain. There's no room for hot-button rhetoric

From fb friend:
All options need to be on the table. If you go to work for a big company, you should be able to get off of Obama Care. If you are illegal. You are not to be on it. If u r on COBRA, case by case basis.

The problem is is if we give free care to everyone, all the corporations will drop their health care as a cost-savings, and u will never get their insurance programs back. What about the insurance companies? Once they go out of business one by one, we lose all the jobs associated with it. We also lose those jobs forever. We also lose all the tax base from those companies. It cannot be replaced. And some of the money used for health care from those ins. co's will now not exist because a lot of the money came from the insurance industry. Then we'll have even more unemployed people who now require "free" insurance which no doubt the insurance companies provided their employees with insurance. Wow. Talk about compounding a problem. There's consequences to everything.

My response:
If you go to work for a big company, you use their options. If you are illegal, you do not qualify to be on any plan, but doctors are still required to see you in the ER. Nothing in the plan disrupts COBRA. The health care being offered is NOT FREE> Everyone is required to have some health care insurance. Or you go on Medicaid. I can think of umpteen ways that insurance companies can offer additional products and services, and I'll bet they can too. So, no insurance companies will be going out of business, unless they are run by noncreative morons unwilling to adapt and change. The tax base will continue to be there. Estimates are that fewer than 5% of Americans will dump their current care to OPT for care through an insurance exchange. Right now those unemployed and uninsured people go to the ER and WE ALL PAY FOR THEIR CARE! The consequences of NOT acting on health care reform are dire...1)Americans who go to third world and/or neighboring countries for health care and meds they require, or 2) go without, or 3) go broke trying to pay for health care when they are dropped by their insurance companies or 4) reach the lifetime cap that's currently in place due to catastrophic illness....