Line in the Sand: Our Two Health Care Demands

While we have listed 20 reasons we cannot support Obamacare as it presently stands, prior to what it will face in the going-through-the-motions Senate/House conference committee guided by Obama behind the scenes, this is a good a time as any to list the two items the final Obamacare bill will need to contain to get our vote, along with a rationale for those two items.

First, a universal public option, like Medicare, for those without insurance and for those who would want to switch from their private plans, OR no mandatory insurance for those without a plan. We have been told that mandatory insurance is needed to cover the elimination of risk pools, such as preconditions, but it is clear that without a universal public option and with Obamacare protecting health care loopholes and profit level status quos, what is being proposed is that all Americans be forced to further support the vampire greed system of corporate health care. Obama's "reform" was supposed to eliminate this, but does not.

Secondly, a universal medicare plan for all American citizens abroad. This is fair, just, and doable. The simpliest method would be to set up medicare hospitals at all U.S. embassies, and cover transportation and housing costs for those who do not live in the embassay cities. This is what U.S. citizens must presently do to receive quality health car without any U.S. governmental assistance. If this smacks of providing an additional health care benefit to a limited group of American citizens, you should work hard to defeat Obamacare, because the bill is and will be filled with such provisions created by congressmen on both sides of the aisle and tend to benefit much smaller and far more wealthy groups than those abroad.
--Jerry Politex