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Thread #122665   Message #2693155
Posted By: CarolC
03-Aug-09 - 07:49 PM
Thread Name: BS: Good News for Unemployed Americans
Subject: RE: BS: Good News for Unemployed Americans
What health care insurance? I don't have access to any health care insurance.

However, I know that if Obama's plan doesn't succeed, everyone who currently has private health care insurance that they like will be forced to accept insurance that they don't like, and that if it does succeed, those who currently like the coverage they have will not be negatively impacted, and for anyone who thinks otherwise, I've got this swamp in Florida I'd like to sell them.

Even the Lewin group, which is the think tank all of the anti-health care reform people like to cite as evidence that private health insurance will go away, says that only about one third of people with private insurance will switch to the public option, so that leaves two thirds of the people with private insurance who will keep it. Anyone who thinks that the insurance companies will just dry up and blow away when they still have two thirds of their customer base just isn't living in reality.