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To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (241835)	3/22/2010 10:43:02 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

RE:"Frankly, I expect we'll end up with a system like that in Australia, where all legal residents are covered by Medicare, with the opportunity for the public to purchase supplemental private insurance which provide care in more posh surroundings and additional services." I think we are way too late for that considering the Malpractice Lawyers, Insurance companies and the amts Doctors here are used to being paid. And their lobbies are paying Congress. Makes a coming from a clean slate impossible.

To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (241835)	3/22/2010 11:47:49 PM
From: NOW	Respond to of 306849

<In the coming years I assume the overwhelming majority of the public will become very dissatisfied with mandatory free-market insurance firms as their only choice.> on that we can all agree. I suspect we are nearly there

To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (241835)	3/23/2010 9:58:44 AM
From: Think4Yourself	Respond to of 306849

I am willing to participate in a health care system, even though I don't need it. The problem is the current system, a bureaucratic nightmare that consumes over half of all the costs with paperwork. I want no part of that and am offended that the idiots in Washington are going to force everyone to pay for/perpetuate the current crappy system. Congress has, as usual, made things even worse. I support repealing the current law, and criminal investigations into the finances of all the congressmen who voted for it. I suspect many congressmen would end up in prison if the investigations were conducted according to US law. Congress specifically exempted themselves from the law.