Reply #30: Nonsense! Where does Obama's plan non-profit health care markets or a comparable feature? Where does [View All]

Obama's plan set for-profit private insurance companies in direct financial competition against a non-for-profit government-run health care option?

How does Obama's plan simultaneously achieve the dual goal of precluding private insurers from excluding an applicant based on prior medical conditions while also precluding people from freeloading on the system by not paying premiums for health coverage while they are well and waiting until they get sick and only then jumping onto a health care plan?

Other than merely saying it hopes it will do so, what specific provisions or planned steps are there in Obama's plan to make any transition from his health insurance plan to a single-payer universal health care system?

These are the four key features of Edwards' plan. Find me where Obama's plan accomplishes any of these key goals. It doesn't.

P.S. - Don't lose sight of the fact that I'm a dedicated Obama supporter. He's right on most other issues, but his health care plan sucks. Hillary's sucks less. Edwards' is even less suckier than Hillary's. Kucinich's was so good (it didn't suck at all) that we tried and couldn't pass it through a Democratically controlled congress (or even one of the two Democratically controlled senate or house), and that really sucks.