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Response to health risks varies bill

Local response to passage of a health reform bill Saturday in Congress from disappointment to vehement opposition varied.

Those who say a state option or even a national, single-payer plan, the House bill does not go far enough and still millions of Americans be uninsured.

Those who are opposed to new government health plans say the measure will undermine Medicare, Medicaid, low load applications, the al-ready are struggling to improve a little while to medical care for most of the Am-erican.

Anne Courtright, pueblo organizer and speaker on health care for all Colorado (a national organization, a national, single-payer health care benefits) said the bill "has some good insurance reforms in it, and if they stay (if the bill goes to conference, which is in the Senate) and are approved really be helpful, people buy insurance. "

Courtright said she was "very disappointed that the public option is not stronger, and that neither the public nor the Option Exchange Insurance Become effective until 2013, which she said is unacceptable. "I'm sure the insurance companies do not want that to happen, period. So, the longer they do not happened to hold, the happier they will be. You will have more time to get their foot in the door, and by the time the plans go into force, there are fewer people to sign to those plans. "

She said the law also contains too many restrictions on the eligibility for the public option.

"If you have insurance, you can not use the public option. You can only be successful if You are not insured. It must pay for themselves, and start from scratch with very little support, so how can it work. "

And the working poor, can not afford the insurance, but do little more

than the guidelines for subsidies, remain uninsured Courtright said.

She had also hoped that a change indicated that the states can not develop their own single-payer plan would see so interested with no fear Violation of the national plan.

"The national plan is to leave, still millions of people uninsured. He says you just have to get if you can afford, and that is the problem. You can not afford it, "Courtright said.

A spokeswoman for a group of emergency physicians who actively oppose the interference of the government advertised in health care have said all doctors were "very dissatisfied" with the House bill, which eked out to Saturday's vote and is at the Committee are to be merged with the Senate's plan, if one has agreed.

None of the doctors was available for comment on Monday.

"I know she would love to comment on this, but they can not just today," said the nurse.

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