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

To: skinowski who wrote (13660)	2/28/2010 7:24:22 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

It's a question of choices and costs, especially political costs. Do we really want to start crying Uncle (Sam) before we try other means? The only other means we could try is a true free market system... which would mean everyone giving up their employer paid health care. What are the odds of that? Zero. I was reading somewhere the other day that abortions are the real test of a free market.... they are rarely covered by insurance, are complex and dangerous, but are very cheap. Because they are free market. If you can figure a way to get from here to there, great. I don't see it. No politician would propose doing away with employer paid insurance... they would be toast. I've always said our best solution, right now is single payer. But I realize that's politically impossible. You want a free market, certainly you have to realize that's politically impossible. So.... from where we are right now, where do we go? The road we're on leads to ruin.