Kennedy Announces Plan to Submit Bill For Universal Care

[strandinthewind]

Does TK's plan jive with Obama's expanded plan, which is sort of like an HMO for people who choose to opt in to it and/or poor, unemployed people? If so, I am for it.

Note - the number of uninsured people I reckon will triple with the current job losses. Remember, for each head of household that looses their job, there likely are three or four other people (wives, kids, etc.) that simultaneously lose the health insurance as well. Then, if there is a break in coverage, when they can afford to get insurance, they all may be subject to waiting periods and exclusions for pre existing care.

It's a mess that is only going to get messier

To add to that, the health care sytems likely will have their hands out for 50 billion or so in the next year.

Again, instead of all this BS coporate welfare, I say it would have been cheaper to give every single American $100,000 and force that money to go to paying off mortgages and then other debt per household. That would have at once rid us of the bad mortgage debt, put money in the hands of the consumers, and likely been cheaper than the ultimate cost of placing capital in the hands of the corps. that obviously are doing business as usual with out money. But, there is no chance for the execs to steal money under my plan.