Who will fix America's broken healthcare system?

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Dr. Don McCanne: All candidates flaw is they support private health insurance, an obsolete model

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[medhue]

Im no expert, but the major problem is that both insurance companies & hopitals/clinics are both for profit instutitions. These models create an environment that is not good for doctors or patients. Now add in drug producers and all the lobbyist involved = disaster. All the private corporations raping the average american citizens. Allowing any1 to profit off of sick people is just wrong, and Im not talking small profits either. Scare tactics has kept this system running for decades now.

[hypnofan35]

i'm pretty sure the plan might be to have a new kind of unnatural selection, where the rich are more likely to procreate than the poor. As well it is a way to drain all the money away from people who have life savings. This way there will be great disparity enforced by private armies where the feeble rich will hold absolute sway over the firtile poor. The rich gotta have some people to push around and crush under their Nazoid boots.

[pongman]

sorry for the double entendre but it is true.  The insurance companies would kill the patient to save a buck.

[oldhacks]

"making a KILLING" is exactly right!

[lastnymleft]

You are such a fool, oldhacks. You patrol youtube, looking for any opportunity to disparage one of the greatest representatives the country has ever had, as if scoring some minor point is a great victory for your cause. Well, I've got news for you: Mike Gravel is a Dr Paul supporter, and he would not approve of your actions. When are you going to wake up, and realize it's not Gravel vs Paul, it's THEM (NWO/CFR-members, etc) vs *US* (We The People, represented by Paul, Gravel, Kucinich, Nader)?

[oldhacks]

Ron Paul aint shit compared to Gravel.

[pongman]

I agree. Here the doctors are pissed because Medicare sets the rates by which they get paid. Every year Medicare cuts their fees by ten percent. Then the insurance companies follow Medicare's lead and cut their fees to the doctors. Then Medicare cuts again because they look at how the HMO's are cutting again. The doctors fees keep spiraling down. The insurance companies in the meanwhile are making a killing because they own Congress. Increasing their premiums and deductables.

[lastnymleft]

Spend 5-10 minutes actually researching what he has to say on it. You'll probably be pleasantly surprised:

ronpaul2008. com/issues/health-care/

There's a video there, so all you have to do is press "play" on his image top right of your screen.

[lastnymleft]

You should actually listen to what Dr Paul says about the health system. He hates the Nixon-instituted system, too, and has solutions based upon:

(1) his absolute honesty, and independence from industry lobbyists (whom don't even bother knocking on his door),

(2) his experience of ~30 years as a medical doctor (most recently, in 1996)

(3) his experience of 20 years as a US Congressman

(4) his vast economic studies

(5) His intellect

That's the perfect combination you need to solve the problem

[lastnymleft]

Easy: He started a r3V0Lution that will save the country and its hundreds of millions of citizens from tyranny.

And for that, he will probably get a Greatest Man in History award, when all cards are played out, in a couple of decades.

It has taken his _20_ years in Congress, in which he never once sold out from his core principles, standing ALONE as a beacon of purity and of all that we have lost, to show just how far we have fallen, for us to find the spark within ourselves to follow his lead

[oldhacks]

all we have to do is allow competition. Seniors started getting their drugs from Canada because its more affordable and then Bush made it illegal. People always tout "America is where all the specialists are" you know why that is? because this is the only country where you can get rich off the backs of sick people.

[oldhacks]

name one thing Ron Paul has gotten accomplished in his 30 year stint in congress? one thing.