Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Sioux Nation -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (102603)	3/21/2007 4:05:26 AM
From: geode00	Respond to of 361214

If Iraq didn't loom so large, health care would be our number one issue I think. Of course if the housing market continues to tumble that will take the eye off health care for awhile. At any rate, health care is an issue that unites everyone from big corporations (who don't want to be responsible) to small business people and seniors. GM pays more for health care than for steel, Starbucks pays more for health care than for coffee and Howard Schultz says that they are on a collision course with health care costs. The US health care system is unsustainable but I have seen ZERO political courage in addressing it. It's like Iraq all over again. People just hide their eyes and walk right on by. The American public has to become good and furious or frightened and bankrupt before anything serious will happen. I can't stand anyone right now who says that the solution is simply to insure the uninsured. IMO that's a politician who has no idea what they are talking about....and that would be all of them right now.

To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (102603)	3/22/2007 1:13:28 AM
From: worksinjammies	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 361214

doctors routinely kill patients due to medical error Don't be too hard on the doctors...they are victims of the same system as the patients. The HMO's that you describe are run by administrators, not doctors, and the HMO structure has effectively ruined medicine as the loss of unions ruined the manufacturing sector. I left pre-med in college as I got closer to graduation...didn't want to be a slave to the insurance structure. I sincerely believe most doctors enter their profession with the intention to help patients, not get bogged down by the patient assembly line just to pay the bills..... Regards, WIJ