There should be some type of plan available to me that I can purchase or be provided to me, until I'm able to get employment again.
In a nutshell, that's the "public option". It's a government-run health care plan that competes with private insurers. Its advantages are scale and accessibility.
The current bill isn't nearly good enough, but it's a lot better than the status quo. In particular, there are two things it does that need doing immediately: (1) it prevents insurers from refusing coverage on the basis of prior conditions and (2) it precludes recission, or the practice of dropping someone who develops a health problem, from coverage.
Boehner, like every single Republican who talks about health care reform, is lying with almost every word he says on the subject. Urge Congress to pass the bill now, especially with momentum growing to pass decent reforms on the Senate side through reconciliation (which means that a 51-vote majority, not a supermajority of 60 votes, will do).
I recommend http://www.balloon-juice.com and http://digbysblog.blogspot.com as good starting points for reading about this. While I agree in principle with the folks over at Firedoglake that the bill is inadequate, if it doesn't get passed, a better one won't, so I disagree with them about opposing this one.
The answer to "will my taxes go up?" is "probably not." Any public option will be self-supporting (people will buy in). It's just Republican FUD, as usual.
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In a nutshell, that's the "public option". It's a government-run health care plan that competes with private insurers. Its advantages are scale and accessibility.
The current bill isn't nearly good enough, but it's a lot better than the status quo. In particular, there are two things it does that need doing immediately: (1) it prevents insurers from refusing coverage on the basis of prior conditions and (2) it precludes recission, or the practice of dropping someone who develops a health problem, from coverage.
Boehner, like every single Republican who talks about health care reform, is lying with almost every word he says on the subject. Urge Congress to pass the bill now, especially with momentum growing to pass decent reforms on the Senate side through reconciliation (which means that a 51-vote majority, not a supermajority of 60 votes, will do).
I recommend http://www.balloon-juice.com and http://digbysblog.blogspot.com as good starting points for reading about this. While I agree in principle with the folks over at Firedoglake that the bill is inadequate, if it doesn't get passed, a better one won't, so I disagree with them about opposing this one.
The answer to "will my taxes go up?" is "probably not." Any public option will be self-supporting (people will buy in). It's just Republican FUD, as usual.