Oh you big crybabies. I want: First: Medicaid revamped to ensure routine chronic and wellness and preventive care properly delivered to the poor, and especially their children. - Ain't gonna get it. Second: Dismantling of the employer tax breaks and the entire employment-linked system of funding private health plans - Ain't gonna get it. Third: A public option to back stop the employment based insurance victims, with government pursuing the benefits claims against the insurers. Ain't gonna get it. Fourth: Mandatory participation in catastrophic coverage. Might get it. Fifth: Statewide community rated private insurance on a level playing field. Ain't gonna get it. Sixth: Subsidized mandatory participation in private insurance on a sloped playing field. Might get it. Seventh: Complete portability from job to job without cancellations or non-renewals for serious or chronic illnesses. Will probably get that. And eighth while I am at it: If the employers are going to get huge tax breaks on overpriced plans, make THEM pay the damned COBRA. I see in Alice's link the "Baucus plan" will let you lose coverage if you get really sick and out of work and can't make your premiums. . . Obama will tell us what we're getting on Wednesday. (Don't be manipulated. Fear not the cuckoos.)
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