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By Chris from Plymouth, NH - May 18th, 2009 at 1:07 pm EDT

No matter how you slice it, dice it, or price it health care reform will look like one of these two options.

A) The Federal Government uses dollars from all taxpayers to subsidize for-profit insurance company with rates few can afford. (this also includes additional taxpayer contributions to finance public health care coverage private insurers will not provide)

For example:

"STATES ALLOW SMALL-BUSINESS EMPLOYEES TO GET COBRA BENEFITS

"So far, 40 states have passed "mini-COBRA" legislation, which allows people who have been laid off by businesses with less than 20 employees to hold on to their employer-sponsored coverage and benefit from the federal government's offer to pay 65 percent of their COBRA premium costs for nine months, and Pennsylvania may be next, reports the Philadelphia Inquirer."

http://www.philly.com/philly/business/personal_finance/44347382.html

B) The Federal Government uses dollars from all taxpayers to finance health care all can afford.

For example:

H.R. 676"

"The United States National Health Insurance Act, is a bill to create a single-payer, publicly-financed, privately-delivered universal health care program that would cover all Americans without charging co-pays or deductibles. It guarantees access to the highest quality and most affordable health care services regardless of employment, ability to pay or pre-existing health conditions."

http://www.johnconyers.com/hr676faq

It's a matter of holding lawmakers accountable for how your tax dollars are used. Many politicians don't understand life on Main Street; all understand political pressure in the back street.

Now, we must set aside process differences in order to bring enough people together to exert the pressure needed to get the reform we want. That reform is the hard part and may prove much more difficult.

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