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[Adventurer]

Published on Monday, January 4, 2010 by FireDogLake
Federal Enforcement To Be Used Against You, But Not To Protect You From The Insurance Companies
by Jon Walker

There is no better proof that the Senate bill is a massive giveaway to the health care industry than the radically different enforcement mechanism for the individual mandate and the new insurance regulations. This Senate bill will force you to buy insurance from only private insurance companies. It will use the power of the federal government in the form of the IRS to make sure you buy private health insurance.

While the Senate bill will technically put some new regulations on the books, it will not use the power of the federal government to make sure the health insurance companies are following them. Enforcement of new regulations is left completely up to the states, which, for the most part, have an extremely poor track record at this function.

This Senate bill will use the power of the federal government to force you to buy a very expensive product, but it refuses to use the power of the federal government to ensure this product meets even minimum standards of quality. It uses the sledge hammer of federal power to force middle class families to hand their money over to private insurance corporations, but handles the extremely powerful insurance companies with the soft kid gloves by leaving regulation enforcement up to the states. The imbalance of power between middle class consumers and insurance companies produced by this bill is shocking.

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[Reggie]

Buy health insurance with what money? I don't think government employees realize that many Americans are struggling to simply keep a roof over their heads. It's not like these people without health insurance don't want to be insured. It almost makes me want to boycott health insurance companies and do without a policy.

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[Adventurer]

I don't like private insurance or dealing with private insurance companies. I prefer the public option as what exists in Canada. These insurance companies don't make me feel comfortable. There have been way too many stories where people had cancer and weren't getting coverage. The insurance companies are in the business to make money. They don't care about our health. I don't like this bill.