The Report by the insurance companies that says insurance would end up costing more is still under review, and it seems a little sketchy at this point.

Insurance companies and their stock holders aren't hurting for money, being unable to reject consumers who really need the coverage or finding loopholes to drop clients so they don't have to pay isn't going to make them broke. They just want to pass the bill to you rather than lower their own oversized paycheck.That's an issue with the insurance company, not that they have rules to play by now.

Now, I will agree allowing companies to cross over to different states sounds like a good idea, but does not fix everything.
I will also agree that...

The Report by the insurance companies that says insurance would end up costing more is still under review, and it seems a little sketchy at this point.

Insurance companies and their stock holders aren't hurting for money, being unable to reject consumers who really need the coverage or finding loopholes to drop clients so they don't have to pay isn't going to make them broke. They just want to pass the bill to you rather than lower their own oversized paycheck.That's an issue with the insurance company, not that they have rules to play by now.

Now, I will agree allowing companies to cross over to different states sounds like a good idea, but does not fix everything.
I will also agree that frivolous lawsuits are an abuse to the system, but there are very legitimate lawsuits as well. How many times in Florida, for example, has someone had the wrong limb or organ removed?

People and their health and the health of their families are not commodities to be bought and sold

So you don't think doctors are worthy of being paid? You don't think insurance companies should make a profit? You don't think those who do research and development on new drugs should be able to recoup those charges? Do you feel the same way about food? Water? Housing? Transportation? Employment?

hey also did not count any savings brought on by the public option so I'm a bit suspicious

There is no public option in the Baccus version. This is the big problem, there is nothing tangible to debate, yet congress continues to vote on the intangible. And in the end th...

People and their health and the health of their families are not commodities to be bought and sold

So you don't think doctors are worthy of being paid? You don't think insurance companies should make a profit? You don't think those who do research and development on new drugs should be able to recoup those charges? Do you feel the same way about food? Water? Housing? Transportation? Employment?

hey also did not count any savings brought on by the public option so I'm a bit suspicious

There is no public option in the Baccus version. This is the big problem, there is nothing tangible to debate, yet congress continues to vote on the intangible. And in the end they will likely vote on a huge bill which will be written behind closed doors and no one will have time to read before the vote.

The Hippocratic Oath is an oath traditionally taken by doctors swearing to ethically practice medicine:

I swear by Apollo the Physician and Asclepius and Hygieia and Panaceia and all the gods, and goddesses, making them my witnesses, that I will fulfil according to my ability and judgment this oath and this covenant:

To hold him who has taught me this art as equal to my parents and to live my life in partnership with him, and if he is in need of money to give him a share of mine, and to regard his offspring as equal to my brothers in male lineage and to teach them this art–if they desire to learn it–without fee and covenant; to give a share of precepts and oral instruc...

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The Hippocratic Oath is an oath traditionally taken by doctors swearing to ethically practice medicine:

I swear by Apollo the Physician and Asclepius and Hygieia and Panaceia and all the gods, and goddesses, making them my witnesses, that I will fulfil according to my ability and judgment this oath and this covenant:

To hold him who has taught me this art as equal to my parents and to live my life in partnership with him, and if he is in need of money to give him a share of mine, and to regard his offspring as equal to my brothers in male lineage and to teach them this art–if they desire to learn it–without fee and covenant; to give a share of precepts and oral instruction and all the other learning to my sons and to the sons of him who has instructed me and to pupils who have signed the covenant and have taken the oath according to medical law, but to no one else.

I will apply dietic measures for the benefit of the sick according to my ability and judgment; I will keep them from harm and injustice.

I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody if asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect. In purity and holiness I will guard my life and my art.

I will not use the knife, not even on sufferers from stone, but will withdraw in favor of such men as are engaged in this work.

Whatever houses I may visit, I will come for the benefit of the sick, remaining free of all intentional injustice, of all mischief and in particular of sexual relations with both female and male persons, be they free or slaves.

What I may see or hear in the course of treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.

If I fulfill this oath and do not violate it, may it be granted to me to enjoy life and art, being honored with fame among all