The place where we don't agree is on whether there should be some restraint on insurance companies and whether they should be allowed to run wild. We believe there should be some restraint; some on the other side don't think so.
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As premiums continue to skyrocket, we must ensure that health insurers are not engaging in anticompetitive behavior and unfairly driving up health care costs.
I think if progressives stay at this, continue at the grassroots level to make the case that all Americans should have choice, all Americans ought to be able to hold insurance companies accountable, I think we will have 60 votes in the United States Senate for a strong bill.
I reject the insurance model. I think we should have a free-market approach to healthcare.
But we are not going to stand by and go back to allowing people with preexisting conditions to be discriminated against, go back to the situation where people can be thrown off their insurance simply because they become seriously ill or you can't get on your parents' insurance after the age of 20.
You know we're going to control the insurance companies.
Instead of forcing everyone to buy health insurance, Congress should pass a law protecting the uninsured from being charged more than the insurance companies are for a given service.
People don't want to be told what type of insurance they have to have.
Let's hold insurance companies accountable the right way by making them put their whole customer base on the line.
Of course, plenty of people don't think that guaranteeing affordable health insurance is a core responsibility of government.
This marketplace where people can buy insurance who don't have it today - a competitive marketplace: That's an idea that both sides embrace.