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Friday, June 26, 2009 10:36 PM

Now is the time for true health care reform

In a recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, 76 percent of respondents said they felt that there needs to be a choice between a public and private health insurance plan. You would think if the public feels that strongly, and we have a Democrat-controlled Congress and a Democrat president, it shouldn’t be that difficult to get true health care reform passed. We’re not even talking about a single-payer plan here. Instead, it simply means that people can choose to keep the plans they have now, or choose to get coverage through the public plan.  

So what’s the holdup? It seems Republicans, along with some Democrats, have caved in to the pressure from the American Medical Association, the pharmaceutical companies and the big insurance companies that are fighting this tooth and nail. The reason they hate the idea is that they would be forced to make major reforms that would cut into their huge profits. Well, isn’t that really the point, anyway? It’s starting to sound like 1993 all over again.   

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