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New What do you think the next steps are?
I'm wondering if the next major step might be to permit employees to choose their healthcare cover, even though their employer still pays for it.

Australia went through a similar thing with superannuation in the last few decades. For a long time, you paid into a super account that your employer chose. Most didn't allow you to pick your own. Over the years, employers were encouraged to allow this, and many retail products sprang up, many for the self-employed and small employers. Then it was made mandatory that people could pay into whichever one they liked.

Wade.

Q:Is it proper to eat cheeseburgers with your fingers?
A:No, the fingers should be eaten separately.
New "Are" or "should be"?
The next steps are for everyone to argue about claims that aren't true, but they're the only things that the Republicans will want to talk about. They can't discuss what's actually in the bill because A) None of their constituents actually know what's in the bill, so it's hard to score points talking about it, and B) When people are asked about specific provisions they overwhelmingly support them. It's just the bill "as a whole" that they oppose.

The next steps should be to rigorously enforce the provisions that people can't be denied coverage for pre-existing conditions, and can't be dropped if they develop something expensive. Once that actually takes hold, insurance companies will, for the first time, actually have a stake in keeping people healthy.

Then line up the insurance companies with the healthcare providers for the first time -- until now they've been antagonists -- and have them start talking about farm policy and how the current subsidies lead to massive prevalence of obesity and diabetes.

Capitalism runs on money. People won't be healthy until someone with influence stands to make more money from people being healthy. It won't happen just because it's good for people, and the right thing to do. Someone has to be making money on it.
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Drew
     Wall Street appears to love this reform - (beepster) - (11)
         How did prohibition end? - (drook) - (9)
             But it doesn't square with the chatter, is all... - (beepster) - (6)
                 but it wouldnt give people like rand ook time - (boxley) - (1)
                     Oh, sorry - (beepster)
                 The only people happy with their medical coverage ... - (drook)
                 "because everyone would agree" - (mhuber) - (2)
                     doesn't matter - (beepster) - (1)
                         Still doesn't matter - (mhuber)
             What do you think the next steps are? - (static) - (1)
                 "Are" or "should be"? - (drook)
         Of course they do - (jake123)

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