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Broad-based health reform is called unlikely

care for everyone!!! Socialism is not an evil word!!

I was interested in seeing Blue Cross/Blue Shield referred to in the article. While these programs were founded upon laudatory principles, the Blue Shield program had the effect of introducing "price fixing" into the medical field. Anyone as old as I will recall that Blue Shield reimbursements for service were based upon "reasonable and customary" charges for various procedures. In any other profession or industry, that practice would be considered anticompetitive and illegal. The perpetrators would find themselves behind bars.

Care for everyone! At everyone else's expense! Premiums will skyrocket, private insurance will be forced out of business! Government-run hellthcare!!

“If you’re a family that’s making $250,000 a year or less, you will see no increase in your taxes. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your personal gains tax, not any of your taxes.” But now President Obama is finding that keeping the promises made by candidate Obama is next to impossible. You just can’t borrow a trillion dollars for an economic stimulus, enact a new trillion dollar health care entitlement, and increase discretionary spending by 12% through 2019 (including doubling federal education spending) and then expect to pay for it all by taxing the most productive Americans. Eventually the moment comes when reality catches up to campaigning . That moment is fast approaching.

TRUE STORY - Niki Tsongas(D) MA
CONSTITUENT: My question to you, Congresswoman Tsongas, is that if this is such a great plan, why did you opt out of it when you took the vote [loud applause, standing ovation]?
TSONGAS: People often say why don’t the American people have what those of us in Congress have. [Audience erupts] Let me explain what I have. Let me explain what I have. What I have is a tremendous array — you know, last year when I went to a discussion — what I have is a tremendous array of choices. And I made a choice based on what I was willing to pay for and what made sense in terms of coverage for me and my family. [Audience shouts out: "We want choice! We want choice!]

If Congress can CHOOSE to get on obamacare(which they AREN'T for good reason), why can't we?