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

To: Road Walker who wrote (7857)	7/29/2009 1:21:08 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Listen I know you are invested in the status quo Nothing could be further from the truth. I just don't think you can have a serious proposal without certain features (e.g., tort reform) or with certain features (e.g., a "government" option). It is relatively simple to list out ten or so modifications to our current system that would improve it and/or reduce costs, none of which involve a government option. There will be a health care reform bill passed this year... the question is what it contains. I don't doubt it. When you install an extremist liberal president, accompanied by overwhelming majorities in both houses of congress, you're going to get some very destructive legislation. Hopefully, the pressure from independents and Rs will save the country from this liberal extremism, but it looks to me like it could go either way at this point.