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

To: Road Walker who wrote (8138)	8/11/2009 12:14:01 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

if we lose the public option I may not support this bill. If you are a supporter of single government payer, why would the public option be so important to you? And in the end it may become so watered down you may support it. I would not support watered down legislation. This is how we get tons of garbage regulations on the books. The basic problem here is one of differing objectives. I would embrace legislation that really addressed the problem that Obama started with -- health care that costs too much. But no legislation which doesn't address tort reform and the massive costs of malpractice/defensive medicine will even meet the laugh test. It would be interesting if we switched sides. That would be strange, indeed.