Rep. John Kline (R-MN) talked to Tom Crann of Minnesota Public Radio. Crann asked Kline about health care and the public option. Kline is worried that the public option would do too well. He fears that too many people would use it and admits that it will be cheaper than private insurance.
Kline: There are some things in this legislation that I find particularly troublesome.
Crann: Such as...
Kline: Well, the public option. The so-called public option. The proponents of the option say you need a public option to foster competition. But the way it's being set up the playing field will be increasingly tilted toward the public option. We've seen studies already that say up to 23 million Americans would very rapidly be moved from the insurance that they have to the public option. There are ...
Crann: Isn't the public option primarily for the currently uninsured now?
Kline: Well uh heh that's the, that's the claim in many cases of the proponents, but our fear is that if you actually get in there looking at the legislation that it's set up in a way that uh employers would uh increasingly uh opt to letting their employees move over to the public, to the public option. And because it is cheaper, it's designed to save money, the government-run program has some very clear advantages.
Isn't it amazing how the truth occasionally slips past.
A public option would be cheaper because it wouldn't have to pay multi-million dollar contracts to greedy CEOs. Plus Medicare and Medicaid have dramatically smaller administrative costs than for profit insurance companies.
Plus, bureaucrats in a public option would not be trying to increase profits by denying care. Kline will never admit how important this particular aspect is, but denying people the care they need is what makes the private health insurance companies so evil. The reason so many people go bankrupt when they struggle to pay for expensive and necessary medical care. |
