I say go for the single payer system and include malpractice as part of the plan. Let doctors take care of their patients. Make wellness the preferred goal. Too much is spent on stage IV cases of cancer where at early onset is simple and cheap with high level of survivability.

The simpler the solution the better the result. Government should be able to do this for its population. Health care, not profit retention. Think about it. Medical records all in one place. Hospitals only worry about taking care of people and providing records back to the payer. It has to be an economy of scale that will work. Right now everyone is trying to be everything and they are all failing and the people driving the boat are concerned more with $$$ than saving lives. I don’t blame them, it is how a business is supposed to run. I just don’t think our health care is best provided by private for profit insurance companies.

Obama’s swap over to health insurance “reform” will boil away to nothing. Follow the money. Keep it simple. What are we trying to achieve here? Healthy Americans. Keep that the goal and keep shooting for the target. I do believe that Obama is a driving force that can get us where we really want to go. I just don’t trust that there are enough intelligent people here to actually keep our eyes on the goal and not make a grab for the gobs of money between now and then.

Prove me wrong America. I am insured, can afford insurance and know what I really get when I spend the $$$ on something that has so many loopholes and outs that it insures nothing.

Any comments in light of the new CBO conclusions released today? Didn’t think so. Hint: The square peg doesn’t fit into the round hole.

“Are you still glad that you voted for Obama?”

Could not be gladder. Even if the health care reform isn’t exactly as I’d like it to be.

Remind me again what Bush and the republicans did to fix our health care system.

“Jharp: Here is a question for you- Why do you assume conservatives can not think for themselves?”

Because they do nothing but spew the same lies as Limbaugh, Hannity, Fox, Boortz, Beck, Savage, Ingraham, Liddy, OReilly, Doocy, Kilmead, Hume, Kristol, Will, Buchanon, Bozell, Goldberg, Goldfarb, Hewitt, Malkin, Coulter, Scarborough, Tapper, Kudlow, Derbyshire, McCarthy, Sowell, Lowry, etc.

I’m perfectly willing to listen to new conservative ideas. It’s only there aren’t any.

And health care reform is a textbook example. Nothing from conservatives.

Absolutely nothing for 14 years. Other than shooting down Clinton’s plan to actually help the middle class with health care.

Did your accounting curricula not require any econ? My finance degree did and this healthcare bill will become more and more expensive until one day we have to pull the rug out from under 300 million Americans (see California’s brutal spending cuts that are about to take place). That won’t be good for your party, I promise. Does it concern you that Canadians are now trying to privatize their healthcare system because of the boondoggle it has become? The Swedes are also enjoying the decreased tax burden of privatising health care. This is a global economy now which is why Obama’s protectionism will fail us as well. And as I pointed out earlier, these countries also have an advantage due to the large amount of military support we give them for free just by our existence. I promise you many Europeans are praying that we don’t dive into socialized healthcare.

“By the way, check your history, civil rights were pushed through by conservatives.”

Flat out false. It was liberalism. Though I’ll openly admit it was republican liberals who had much to do with it.

“It was the Dems who attempted to filibuster.”

Yes, true. The southern conservative dixiecrats. Todays conservative republican base.