Can you tell me why you enjoy paying for the 50 million uninsured Americans and are against health care reform?

Contrary to what many people think here, it is possible to have universal healthcare, freedom for patients and doctors and a good system that works. Of course, it costs money, but have people forgotten what taxes are for? A collective vision, in which everybody participates in a common project.

I think everybody should read this enlighting article about the French healthcare system, and realize that it's not only good, but not that expensive:

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion...

I especially recommend the following sentence:

"At $3,500 per capita it is one of the most costly in Europe, yet that is still far less than the $6,100 per person in the United States".

I don't see where anyone is against what you are saying. I ran out of money paying so much for health care but I made too much for help. So I dropped coveage & it was $1200 when I was going to buy it again (diabetes) Then I needed meds cause I felt I was dying. So I found a place that was what you would call socialized medicine & they were so nice they helped me get back to functioning again. I got a job with health care & it was horrible care & I started getting sick between that & they exhaustion from my job. I worked in a hospital that wouldn't let me take a snack breat & I almost feel on the floor from low blood sugar. So I quit & if you really understood the details of what it cost to not insure people you would understand we will not pay more. I pay zero right now & if I had been paying a few hundred affordable dollars it would have been contributing but since I can't afford $1200 a month I contribute zero. I think you don't understand the whole picture which is the difference between a dem & a rep. Dems actually do everything that saves money so while they are often called liberal they are actually saving the most. Reps. complain about abortion then complain about people having kids they can't afford. The complain about the lazy people on welfare but they are the ones that wanted this people to grow up in homes that couldn't provide for them well so when they got older & had no transportation to a job so they didn't work & just went into the cycle of poverty the reps. complain.

I would be for reform if it is better than what we have now . The current bill that was the complete bill, but is now just a rough draft is worst than the current system. If you think the politicians won't put their needs before the average person then you are crazy.Just look at the car dealers that they closed almost 90% were republican. Most of them were making money .Also i want people to know that when you take the profit out health care you will be taking the reason health care exist . They do it for profit even the non profit have to pay their employees .They have to do research they have to buy new Technology they have to up grade their Equipment expand their facilities. Now if you call a midwife over and she put a towel in your mouth to drown out your screams she pulled your baby out cuts the cord cleaned you up cleaned up the baby she still wants to get paid even if you did not enjoy the experience of child birth. We could all do with out some creature comforts but would cheaper mean better.Like all things BETTER is just a question of how much you want to pay.And i am a firm believer in you get what you pay for. What i think is this is a way for President Obama to cover the cost for Medicaid & medicare and have that system go on for ever it will be his ever lasting legacies.

I do think a health care reform is in need indefinitely! However, we will never have socialism bc we as Americans are too spoiled to except a set salary. However, I do believe that there should be a program that pays for medical school and when you get out you have to work for the government with a set salary and help those who are uninsured for several years to make up for not having to pay for medical school. This way people would be taken care of and we would also have more doctors. Private practices will never be taken over by the government due to a socialist reform, but something needs be changed very soon!

I am scared that the premiums will go sky high and the medicine i get now come to over $4"000 dollars and with Obama plan it will go up to 5'000 so all the uninsured can get their meds also.I went to the hospital last week for stitches and i swear there were 2 families from Somalia and they were in the back also' and when the doc asked what they were there for she said she sneezed and coughed a few times;No fever just sneeze' and there is 5 thousand we tax payers will have to foot the bill for also.I told that lady that she should go to a clinic as the hospital is for real sick people' and then she acted like she did not understand me' but she understood the doc just fine.

I understand we need to fix some issues to bring the cost down... and the utopia that over 300 million people being taken care of for all hospitalization is just that... We do pick up the tab on emergency health related issues and I am okay with that... picking up the tab because someone has a stomach ache is completely different...

If there are long wait lines in every other socialized country what kind of lines do you think there will be here in America? Canadians have to wait months to get treatment... I don't want that...

If you want to turn hospitals into the DMV I am not on your side... you want to reform insurance policies and reduce the amount of lawsuits and the amounts I am all for that... I would even support a state ran health care system which is more plausible in my mind than having a very inept government have more control of our lives...

A government that gives you everything is a government that can take everything away. - wise person

I'm not against health care reform, I'm against socialized medicine.

Our system is broken. Why? By the same forces that now claim to be coming to 'save' us.

Government regulation is RESPONSIBLE for the high costs of healthcare. If the shackles were taken off, if TRUE competition were allowed, we would have the system back that we had until the 1980's.. affordable for nearly everyone.

Why does a band-aid in the ER cost the consumer $10 when it costs an insurance co. $0.59?

Why is it required for an MD to perform procedures that can be done perfectly competently, often better, by an RN or a PA?

Why does a bypass operation in Panama cost about $5000 when the same one here costs over $100K? There is a very good chance you will have an American born & trained surgeon there, as well.

Capitalism is working overseas.. we seem to have forgotten it here.

It's the same old story from the Federal Government.. build a monster at the people's expense.. so that you can come out like a hero.. to slay the monster at the people's expense.

I can't because I agree with you, your rebuttals cover all the salient points. Campaign contributions or the loss of them are the only thing keeping us from doing the correct and best thing for all Americans......single payer, not for profit, universal health care.

Republicans want you to believe the bovine looking man at the DMV will become your doctor under a national health care plan. Like always they have no real argument, just the politics of fear and smear.

You are wrong because if all the sick people got cured then all the doctors would be unemployed and they would have to become dentists and then America would have to invade the U.K. in order to conquer new dental markets and then the British would have perfect teeth and not be so repulsed by each other and there would be a population explosion and the education system would be unable to cope and nobody would learn about punctuation and sentences would just run out of control leading to the deterioration of language and a consequent regression in the mental abilities of the human race resulting in evolutionary degeneration until the whole human race became Welsh.

I KNOW you are wrong and it's easy to PROVE why.

Government intervention ALWAYS makes things more expensive. There has never been an exception at any time or place.

Under the "Universal Health plan" it will be just like school. If you want to pay for a "private" alternative you can, but you'll STILL pay just as much for "your share" of the public system.

Unlike school, your "private insurer" will be barred as a matter of law from offering you ANYTHING you can't get from the public system. So, who's going to keep paying for it?

There will be LESS competition - leading to increased restrictions until there is literally NO choice.

Americans will get health care ONLY to the degree it suits the interests of bureaucrats as they will literally be BODILY government property.