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  3. If you can't afford that now because of pre-existing conditions ... you could get a refundable tax credit
  4. Goldberg: Coventry health insurance offers a plan for $290 a month...
  5. N.C.: I can't afford health insurance now so how am I going to be able to afford the government's insurance?
  6. Goldberg: The health plans have agreed to insure everyone. The key is work with people to improve their health.
  7. Conn.: Why haven't we heard about a plan where private insurers are forced to use a community based rating and insure everybody?
  8. ....The assertion that we spend 2x as much on health for worse outcomes is errant nonsense.
  9. Goldberg: I wish health care debates were driven by facts explained by events and circumstances, not factoids.
  10. NJ: In the US we have worse rationing by wealth and by for-profit insurers who, as we have recently heard, will lie and cheat for profits.
  11. Goldberg: ..per the CBO, public plan proponents claim such a system has a better handle on costs, but they came in over budget.
  12. Ky.: How will we pay for this? How much will it cost? If the CBO cannot give an amount how can anyone?
  13. Goldberg: Good question Brooklyn!! We can't.
  14. N.Y.: How can we be assured that a public health plan will not contain all the problems of the current Medicaid plan?
  15. ...we could insure millions of Americans for far less money than the trillions now....
  16. GB: All proposals contain that form of coverage, in fact, if we just required or paid for that form of coverage plus a wellness package...
  17. ...for those whose health care bills bankrupt the family even w/ some health care coverage?
  18. GA: Will the health plan have a provision for catastrophic coverage...
  19. ...both are running huge deficits and as a result raising taxes, reducing benefits, trying to restrict what doctors and patients do.
  20. The French and German systems are quite different from ours and each other...