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

To: Lane3 who wrote (8655)	8/24/2009 8:20:07 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Those who are currently employed by a company that doesn't pay for insurance aren't going to get a raise and probably don't earn enough to buy insurance given that those companies are small businesses or cheap. We might have to help those folks out with a subsidy. First of all, you already have a lowered policy cost from the competition across states and otherwise. Maybe. Maybe it gets worse; more concentrated in fewer hands. It's not a given, at any rate. Second, it depends on whether you're talking about policy cost to the consumer or total US spending. <Sigh>. The point is to drive cost reduction upstream. If the policy has to be cheaper, that will force more efficiency into health care delivery. Listen, it seem like you guys want everything. You want all the tests, you want everyone in health care to make the same or more money, you want every service to be the same or better; but you want everything cheaper. It doesn't work that way. It's not working. Nothing you've proposed has been passed into law by the people you support. We're heading towards a fiscal disaster. You've had generations to make it work, and it hasn't. Lets try something new. Fear of "new" is always a stop for progress. We've got a system that is going to break us... when you are driving the bus towards a cliff you either turn the wheel of you don't... the cliff is real, the options left and right are unknown.