My goodness, was my wiki link to the Canadian supreme court finding that bad really? I did read it and it was pretty accurate as far a general info goes, did you see something from that wiki link that was not accurate Emkay?
My point was not so much the details but snaff asking about a link to show it happened so I grabbed the fastest link, I already know all about the finding so I was just helping someone else.
Emkay, you saying from your limited exposure everything is fine with your program is the same as me saying mine is okay, we both know about what we are exposed to but we do not even see 1% of the total. I know America has problems mostly with the gap between poor who get free medical care and the middle class who can afford their own medical care.
I have never lived in the middle long enough to actually experience a medical need during either of my two rebuildings so just based on my experience all I can say is there is no problems in that range but my research tells me that there is a problem so when talking on a general scale, I must admit there is a few cracks in our system.
The same is true for your Canadian system Emkay, while you personally have never experienced any negative things at all from your system, your exposure is very limited so again we must look at the bigger picture with studies and even your supreme court findings to see that bigger picture.
Depending on how the public plan is designed in Congress, millions of Americans would lose their existing coverage. By opening the public plan to all employees and using Medicare rates, the Lewin Group, a nationally prominent econometrics firm, has said that the public plan could result in 119.1 million Americans being transitioned out of private coverage, including employer based coverage, into a public plan. With employers making the key decision, millions of Americans could lose their private coverage, regardless of their personal preferences in this matter.
IWS,
Don't you know that Bender knows more about these things than groups like the Lewin Group?
Funny stuff.
It is reasonable to assume that if a less costly insurance option is available to all people, it will hurt private insurance companies, and even Bender admitted that earlier with comments like this:
As for driving insurance companies out of business... GOOD. Fukk them too. A majority of the population is in favor of a public plan contrary to what the insurance company lobbyist have convinced you Republicans of. So go ahead and ***** on behalf of the insurance industry who's been ******** us for years anyway, myself, I'll side with what the people want.
Anyone with a brain knows there is no way for the private insurance companies to compete against a system designed to lose money and be happy they lost money because it is "what the people want".
