The Baucus Plan is a Nightmare

If the Dems cannot govern with huge majorities, they are toast in 2010.

I commented on this on HuffPos, asking that this is what had to wait until after the August recess. He comes back and immediately introduces this catastrophe.This was bought and paid for. From what I’ve read, Baucus raked in cash from the industry even though he pretty much ran unopposed in his last election. So why was so much money contributed? So he would be very clear on who his constituency was.I’m emailing the White House again tonight, and I’ll add one for Mr. Baucus as well:I will pay the fine before I ever give another dollar to the private insurance industry.

I read on firedoglake that Liz Fowler wrote this legislation after working for 2 years at Wellpoint! This info should go viral and Mad Max should be outed for this trash! Hell No!

Sweet, I can face a fine I can’t afford for not having insurance I can’t afford.

Apparently she was a staffer of Baucus’ before she left after burning out for 2 years. She worked at Wellpoint and now, she’s come back and written this garbage that this clown has held up all summer? I saw a couple of weeks ago that the people in Montana have a 55% disapproval rating of the way Baucus has handeled this. I hope they vote his stupid ass out of office in 2012!

They’re writing legislation to force us to buy garbage! I too will take the fines!

We might as well entrust our health to the Mafia. This proposed bill is basically a protection racket only we lose both ways – if you don’t pay, the government will screw us, and if we do pay, the insurers might very well screw us anyway. Bob’s right – this is the absolute worst of both worlds.It’s so bad I would actually rather have no reform at all than this awfulness. Baucus’ plan would just break our healthcare system even more.

So give money to companies that will try their hardest to deny you care, or give money to the federal government and still be broke and without coverage? And will these fees somehow be funneled back to the private insurance companies? Guess it’s back to crossed-fingers and emergency rooms for me!

And yes, I’d take the fines too over paying extortionate premiums and ending up with my coverage being revoked.

“Just as auto coverage is now mandatory, so would a requirement that all Americans get health insurance.”This always pisses me off this Human Being= Widget bullshit ideology.You can choose not to drive a car. And a car is not a doctor that will X-ray that goiter on your chin and give you some treatment so you can stop losing sleep thinking that it could be a series of non-hereditary cancer treatments you can’t afford because you’re “working poor.”But I guess that inconvenient fact of humanity isn’t enough to prevent Max Baucus and the health insurance companies whom he loyally represents, who’ve already shown that they spare no expense in cultivating public opinion, from using a little product-association-mandate-word-fluff-play as a prelude to the date-rape-insertion of strict binding language into federal law. Language that uses government as an authorative mandating vehicle for “introducing” a new private insurance product into thee current pre-existing market in question….and they’re basing their product solution on the non-optional model in their non-life and death sector. Great idea assholes! We knew you’d come up with a self-serving/preserving non-solution.Max Baucus is basically trying to sell the “ketchup popsickle to the woman in white gloves.”What is being proposed by Baucus is a dubious government sanction on the American people while simultaneously an outrageous subsidization of the health insurance racket written by the very same Dons who are currently on public trial for the preservation of their very profitable livelihood–Max Baucus is shamelessly calling it square, and the media’s calling it a Centrist’s “deal.”They’ve got a real twisted and lop-sided sense of centrist, don’t they?Selling sick and financially discriminated Americans more sickness and discrimination would be laughable if greed didn’t already think to use human lives and basic human rights as fucking widgets to exploit on Hell’s free market.People like Roy Blunt(R-MO)who is literally in bed with big tobacco lobbyists even producing big tobacco lobbyist offspring– at the same time using his position as an elected lawmaker to subdue the American peoples’ right to have non-discriminatory access to healthcare by directly obstructing government’s role in effectively navigating, engaging, and solving the healthcare crisis that private health insurance corporations created.Roy Blunt’s Republican Party in America is quite literally involved with the business of killing and neglecting Americans for a profit.Forcing people into a punitive(and financially discriminatory)government-imposed bureaucracy on behalf of a greedy and morally corrupting sector of American “commerce” in the very lucrative business of Mass-Misappropriation Of Healthcare Funds, enriched by a corporate-heavy state sponsored recognition of rights on a life and death market is a self-evident pile are you fucking serious, Max Baucus?

that last line should have read, “a self-evident pile of are you fucking serious…”Damn it.

Exkiodexian, I agree! I’ll wait for the Marshalls or whoever they have enforcing this. I’ll take my case to the Supreme Court if I have to….I will not pay the private insurance mafia and I will not pay the fine. There are some things that just push too far and this mandate without an affordable public option is it. It’s the line in the sand for me. What’s really bugging me is how this so frigging obvious boondoggle for the private insurance companies is being portrayed as being in the best interest of the poor and uinsured and people ARE ACCEPTING IT. The American public have become sheep and that’s probably an insult to sheep.If this law passes, anyone willing to take a stand like me will need to mobilize and unite….be ready for some serious political protesting and civil disobedience. I ain’t kidding….

Count me in as one who would neither buy coersive insurance OR pay the fine. Heck, I’m trying to scrape by enough to pay my quarterly taxes and maybe have enough left over to eat. With the prisons already overcrowded, what kind of time can they threaten about 40 million people with if they can’t pay up?