HR676 - The Single Payer Solution, Part 1 of 4

We are also the only nation who does not tax our citizens 50-60 percent of their income. With all these other country's and their amazing medical entity's why do people from around the world continue to flock to the United States for medical care?? If we would truly allow the market to dictate costs and get the gov't the hell out of the way prices would fall. Let me ask you this... What are the UNINSURED doing to provide insurance for THEMSELVES? Why do I have to get an extra job when they wont?

This is why we have laws, and constitution.  If police did not do their jobs, there will be lawsuits, and police force termination, because the violation of the constitution, and laws. Same applyies to politicans.

Government is only supposed to be our national security, not control bussiness system.

Only if you want to return to the ways of the 19th century. Try looking up the Gilded Age, that is the direction that the "free trade fanatics"* with their corporate lobbyists have been leading us. We could be a 2nd world country (i.e. first world infrastructure in many places but 3rd world living standards for more and more of the working people) in no time if we continue down the path the neo-cons have been pied piping us down the last 30 years. *This is a term the PM of Japan used recently.

That is why tea party demonstrators exsist. Corporate rules both right, and left.
Right loves to be into coporate interists, because of political campaign contributions from coporates, and left loves corporate interest as well cause, corporate interest can actually inforce government control upon people. Both parties are corrupted.american are angry because people want compitition on all playing level.

Actually, the 1st world referred to industrialized, democratic or nominally so, 2nd world was communist organized government with solid industry, 3rd world was underdeveloped, non-industrial countries. Look at how much of our manufacturing and industrialized base has been moved out of America and tell us we're still an industrial nation.

20+ years ago that was the correct definition, but times have changed and through my own extensive global travels, I (and even those who 'define' such things) have changed these definitions. A 2nd world nation is now generally considered an up and coming nation such as Brazil or Thailand, and on the other hand I define a 4th world nation as one that has had no or negitive growth (and lacking the most basic infrastructure such as paved roads) in recent years such as Zaire or Haiti.

Meanwhile we are still the largest export nation in the world but if we continue our inane Reaganomic policies we are in alot of trouble. As it stands since China garnered 1st nation trading status with us (a crime against all US workers perpetrated by Clinton and a Rep Congress) we have lost 50,000 manufacturing jobs a DAY!

That is not a free market system I desire, justice for all who can afford it...or healthcare=life for only those who can afford it... at the prices the hospitals are charging most of us would be dead pretty quick!

Well the numbers seem to say that most of the US pop. wants a public option, and giving younger, healthier people the option to buy/pay into the Medicare/caid system (a system that the vast majority of us end up on at the end -and at the most costly part- of our lives) would only be benificial to all of us....or we could just give it to the big insurance companies for their profiteering CEOs and investors. Meanwhile you are right, the corporate lobbying must be stopped or@least equallycountered.