So, wait... if you're "anti-healthcare-reform", you're automatically lumped in with people who don't want a debate?
I'll happily debate healthcare reform 'til the cows come home but "constructive" does not always mean "come around to your way of thinking". I've engaged in a number of constructive debates about healthcare reform, and still believe that the left is flat-out wrong-headed in their way of trying to attack healthcare.
I did see one idea the other day that I liked... how about a trade-off? You get your public-option but then TRUE competition is enabled by removing all the regulations on the insurance industry.
Let them operate however they like, just like the gov't operation can operate however it feels like. In other words, "a public option can exist only so long as the remainder of the industry is un-regulated".
And let's see which products and services thrive. I'll put money on the private-sector. :-)
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Date: 2009-09-09 01:35 pm (UTC)I'll happily debate healthcare reform 'til the cows come home but "constructive" does not always mean "come around to your way of thinking". I've engaged in a number of constructive debates about healthcare reform, and still believe that the left is flat-out wrong-headed in their way of trying to attack healthcare.
I did see one idea the other day that I liked... how about a trade-off? You get your public-option but then TRUE competition is enabled by removing all the regulations on the insurance industry.
Let them operate however they like, just like the gov't operation can operate however it feels like. In other words, "a public option can exist only so long as the remainder of the industry is un-regulated".
And let's see which products and services thrive. I'll put money on the private-sector. :-)