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-- having "no effective cost containment mechanisms;"
-- a public option available only to about six million people or 2% of the population, and in 2013 will cost more than private programs for sicker people because insurers are unrestricted on what they can charge;
-- health care will be more, not less expensive; and
-- will still leave millions uninsured and millions more underinsured.
"In sum, this (monster won't) fix the major problems of cost and affordable access. (It) will add new layers of bureaucracy and complexity, is not fiscally responsible, and is not sustainable."
Debate now shifts to the Senate where the best outcome will be killing Obamacare because "no bill is better than a bad" one.
The California Nurses Association (NSA) said the following:
"This Bill Fails to Control Costs." While providing "limited assistance for some, the inconvenient truth is (it falls) far short in effective controls on skyrocketing insurance, pharmaceutical and hospital costs, (does) little to stop insurance companies from denying needed medical care recommended by doctors, and (provides) little relief for Americans with employer-sponsored insurance worried about health security for themselves and their families." And the Senate legislation is even worse.
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