Saving Healthcare

If any 1 really wants to trust a govt. in debt that has come up with 1000+ pages of questionable legislation because they know we the people don't have time to read it, then I say let them implement it and see the results a year from now. True refrm shouldn't tke yrs to implement, but something tells me govt. nowadays cherry picks what they want to do and what they want to enforce. I've my doubts about today's system of govt. given that expanded govt. has caused more problems then it has solved.

and if anyone is truly wondering, yes I don't trust the govt. as they have had since the time I was born to correct wrongs and do the right thing in the U.S. I say look at the makeup of your representatives and look how Ted Kennedy was still allowed to serve. Had ethics been implemented back in the late sixties, then Ted Kennedy's career would've been over. I think there is still a lack ethics given some the fact that there are some that might not be to fit to serve the American public.

WS, if insurance companies have really gone out of scope, then I'd probably say eliminate them altogether and go to a single payor system rather than let insurance companies keep getting paid. Personally I think all the govt. had to do was expand medicare/medicaid for all and then the problem would've been solved. I honestly don't know how much of a role we really want to give to insurance companies but that is just one realistic view if one truly thinks govt. is the way out.

Who controls whether or not you have auto insurance? What's the difference?

WF, what really makes this kind of funny is that you think it is my fault for not having health coverage. If your health ins. is that overpriced, then fight back and/or shop around for a better policy. Don't bitch to the uninsured or the individual as you're a fighting the wrong crowd. That is your problem for choosing to pay for an expensive policy. It is not my problem or his/her problem. You chose to pay that premium and nobody was forcing you. Do you see where I'm coming from now?

the answer is not insuring everyone WF. That is just one big cop out from the govt. Has the govt. addressed what has cost health care costs to skyrocket or the fact that if health care costs were to come down, then insurance would come down with it. The argument for mandatory health insurance is a very one sided argument and people like me are starting to see bad govt. at the Federal level. Won't fly with me WF and there will be constitutional challenges to that mandate if it is included.

And even if the a health insurance is offered through the govt. or another company at under $100, if I'm getting hosed on what is being offered and if cash is tight with me, I don't throw my money away because I know I'm getting a bad deal. And if the IRS is used to enforce penalties for failure to have health insurance, then I think I'll finally start standing up for myself that much more as the govt. will have overstepped its bounds. One thing to bring health costs down, another to force ins.