July 1, 2009: John Garamendi's Question to President Obama on Health Care

[doctorheather]

John, that isn't a bad idea, but it has some problems, as you probably know. Medicare has so many problems of its own, that Obama might do better to start all over with another system anyway.

[teleutube]

When government's Medicare program IS PROHIBITED BY LAW to negotiate collectively for better drug deals, That demonstrated how powerful the health care industrial complex is.

Four hundred millions lobbying dollars spent a year is no small change!

[GaiaTaurus]

It's a whole lot cheaper because participating physicians aren't getting paid what they need just to continue practicing and it's just as expensive as private insurance for most people. Step one should be regulating costs. If we want a National-for-everyone type plan, we're going to have to pay for it. The difference between Obama's plan and the current state of affairs in this industry is that you'll get what you pay for without precondition.

[wuzhig]

Why can't we have Medicare for all? Because it's going broke in less than 10 years!

[ScarlettKnights]

Medicare requires that you give up everything that you own.