Are these always with some private sector firm, or are they also sometimes loans with loan guarantees to governments?
Lester Johnson
The Public Record
I do want to talk about the other totally broken promise. Fraud, and it is massive fraud.
Listen. We are talking about the promise made that if you like your health care plan you can keep it.
I think a small business exchange is a good idea. It is a sharing of the risk pool.
While that has to do really with the fact that we are a community rating, we are limiting the insurance premium rate on older, sicker individuals and we are increasing the premiums, making the younger, healthier people pick up that burden…
To paraphrase Senator Booker, this is not about politics. It should not be. It is really about solutions.
I would certainly encourage Madam Chair to take a look at my bill which actually is all inclusive.
But anyway getting back to my question. Did you believe that if people like their health care plan they would be able to keep it, across-the-board that nobody would lose their health care plan if they wanted it?
We did not need a federal solution. We did not need to take over one sixth of our economy to start doing these things.





