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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (1840)	8/13/2007 1:09:15 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

I saw a clip on Reliable Sources of one of the citizen questions for the candidates. I wasn't paying close enough attention to gather any more details. But the clip caught my attention and won't let loose. It was a middle age to elderly man saying that his wife was very sick and he couldn't afford her care. He went on to say something along the lines of "what's wrong with this country?" followed by "what would you, as president, do about it?" I suppose that the answer he was looking for was universal health care. And I suppose that the candidates answered in that context. But you'd really need more information to answer that question. Why can't he afford the health care? Did he lose his job to globalization, develop a gambling problem, live too far from a clinic, have too much money to qualify for Medicaid, lose his health insurance over past fraud or abuse or the failure of his insurance company, expect more than reasonable and customary treatment? I suppose that universal health care would work despite any of those situations, but it isn't the only or necessarily the best way to deal with what are really a variety of different problems. And I though we had gotten past the "I see a problem and the government needs to fix it" model. Just letting off steam...