I don't disagree with either one of you and I don't think you would disagree with my logic here either. What I definitely could NOT support was the possibility of this outcome (it could still happen, but now less likely):
1. The public option is passed, forcing 30-40,000,000 people to BUY insurance of some "minimal" kind. The policies would likely NOT pay for ADR and many other medical procedures,
and
2. Insurance companies (particularly the Blue Cross companies) would continue with the same policies that we've been lamenting about since 2004 when we started this community.
These are really different problems we are discussing here. I am sorry to say that I don't trust Uncle Sam to solve them both; at least not in the near future.
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