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HCAN Pans Baucus Care: "Gift to The Insurance Industry"

By Big Tent Democrat

Brian Beutler quotes HCAN's pan of BaucusCare:

"The Baucus bill is a gift to the insurance industry that fails to meet the most basic promise of health care reform: a guarantee that Americans will have good health care that they can afford," says HCAN's campaign director Richard Kirsch.

The Baucus bill would give a government-subsidized monopoly to the private insurance industry to sell their most profitable plans - high-deductible insurance - without having to face competition from a public health insurer. [. . .] We urge Senators on the Finance Committee to replace the Baucus plan with legislation that will do what the Senate HELP Committee and three House committees have done: guarantee that Americans have good health insurance that they can afford with the choice of a strong national public health insurance option.

Consider HCAN the anti-Ezra.

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Full post as published by TalkLeft on September 16, 2009 (boomark / email).