From: "Drumm, Dan L." <DRUMM@uwec.edu> Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:46:20 -0500 Subject: Kucinich Prediction Message-ID: <EEA4CA65D05DC54E874A89D9F518681954E1A96ABF@CHERRYCOKE.uwec.edu>
Spot on.
(Kucinich is probably right... Again)
-- Dan
The Kucinich Prediction: Here's what's going to happen ...
1. House will make a big deal about keeping/putting a public option in HR
3200 because it competes with insurance companies and will keep insurance r
ates low.
2. The White House will refer to the President's speech last week where h
e spoke favorably of the public option.
3. The Senate will kill the competitive public option in favor of non-com
petitive "co-ops". Senate leaders like Kent Conrad have said the votes to p
ass a public option were never there in the Senate.
4. The bill will come to a House-Senate Conference Committee without the
public option.
5. House Democrats will be told to support the conference report on the l
egislation to support the President.
6. The bill will pass, not with a "public option" but with a private mand
ate requiring 30 million uninsured to buy private health insurance (if one
doesn't already have it). If you are broke, you may get a subsidy. If you a
re not broke, you will get a fine if you do not purchase insurance.
This legislative sausage will be celebrated as a new breakthrough and will
be packaged as health insurance reform. However, the bill may require a Sur
geon General's warning label: Your Money or Your Life!
The bill that Congress passes may pale in comparison to the bill that milli
ons of Americans will get every month/year for having or not having private
health insurance.