Merkley Discusses Need for Public Health Insurance Option with KGW
Senator Merkley talks with KGW about the need for a public health insurance option in health care reform and how it will provide consumers with more choices, help cover millions of uninsured Americans and keep the insurance companies honest.
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Wish he was a senator in Georgia. All my so-called reps think about is lining their pockets with lobbyists’ largesse. If Congress would expand THEIR insurance to cover ALL Americans, it would be the right and moral thing to do.
If we don’t focus on health-care, we won’t have to worry about Social Security, because everyone will be dead by retirement age.
Public Health care will simply guarantee that eveyone, including those on social security, will have health care! Private insurance is good if you can afford it or have an employer who will pay for it or you don’t have preexisting conditions!!! I am on Social Security and I cannot afford medicare because I still have to pay a huge copay because I have preexisting conditions- I ask you: who doesn’t have preexisting conditions by age 62 if you have had to work hard all your life??
The public plan option will put health insurance companies in check. The Congressmen that vote AGAINST the public plan option should go out in the individual insurance market and fence for themselves against the wolves.
The Senator seems convinced the government plan will work and not destroy competition and ultimately free choice and quality health care. If so, then I think that all members of the Senate and Congress should be put into the public plan.
Wow, Senator Merkley is really going to helpr the people of Oregon when he supports public health care!
As a former small businessman who fully insured his employees for 28 years, paying that cost that rose at 3 times the general inflation rate was killing my business and helped bring it to an end.
It’s great the Senator Merkley is working to help; now maybe Senator Wyden can also jump on board to help the typical Oregonian instead of the insurance oligarchs with his Healthy Americans Act!
Thank you Senator, proud you represent me!