WA state Dem. Sen. Karen Keiser proposes comprehensive new health plan.

Could WA and Wisconsin pave the way for the rest of the country?

http://www.creators.com/opinion/david-sirota/digging-in-the-right-place.html

SNIP

In a move making health care lobbyists quiver, Washington state Sen. Karen Keiser (D), chairwoman of her legislature's powerful health committee, this week introduced the nation's most far-reaching universal health care proposal. Her legislation is the American West's version of a parallel Wisconsin initiative, and the replication suggests this model may begin building the universal health care system our country wants.

The plan is simple: Employers and employees pay a modest payroll tax in exchange for full medical benefits, with no premiums. Patients never lose coverage and pick the doctors they prefer. And for the spendthrifts, here's the best part: According to an analysis of the Wisconsin proposal by the nonpartisan Lewin Group, the plan would save middle-class families an annual average of $750 on their existing health care bills. In all, the state would save almost $14 billion over the next decade.

Seem too good to be true? That's because you're used to being bilked by an insurance industry that drives up premiums, drives down benefits and gives executives like former UnitedHealth CEO William McGuire $1.6 billion worth of stock options in one year.

Eliminating that greed is precisely how the Washington state and Wisconsin proposals simultaneously save money and cover everyone.

Unlike the much-touted Massachusetts law forcing citizens to buy insurance from the private profiteers, the Washington and Wisconsin models pool all existing health care expenditures and then replace the middlemen with one publicly controlled, not-for-profit system. That structure attacks problems beyond the immorality of allowing 18,000 Americans to die each year because they lack health coverage.

SNIP

I'm gonna be pushing this plan to everyone I know, that's for sure.

The plan Ahnold and the states' totally corrupt party hacks (Dems, I am talking about, BTW) looks exactly like the plan in Massachusetts
If there is a Goddess in Valhalla, or even if there isn't, please let this idea catch on.

Beginning with posting this in the WA state forum, too.

I don't have insurance through my job, so my husband put me on his, which costs $378 a month.

This plan sounds great, and I'll do what I can to make it a reality here.

And she rules!

I'm not suggesting the BHP is preferable, but the state has been just so-so on even that, cutting back the funding at times which eliminates "slots".

any plan to work.

But this plan -- which would cover all state residents, not just some of them -- might work, especially IF it also had support from Boeing and other industry.