Future Of Health Care Reform

CBS News Medical Correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook spoke with President Obama about his continuing efforts on health care reform and what the future holds.

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[diabloben68]

Keep talking King Obama!

[hellotommy]

Put the kool-aid down, sir, Step away from the kool-aid...

[rasaxSF]

We don't have the greatest health care system - that's a myth. Insurances profit from denying health care and access, and here's the sad reality that doesn't prevent people from still waving around their foam #1 finger: Here they are: tinyurl - dot - com/2su3p . Our ranking is poor and our life expectancy rating is at #50. That's hardly worth bragging about.

[hellotommy]

The study is primarily based on cost. The U.S. extra cost is development of medical advancements that thousands of people from all countries come for when they need life saving treatments involving Comprehensive Care & State-of-the-Art Technologies; Proton Therapy, BrainSUITE, Da Vinci Robotic Surgical Systems and the best Doctors on earth. The rating is also based on access, which is where we need improvement. Not socialized medicine.

[hellotommy]

We already have the greatest health care system in the world, we need to keep the intrusive government out of it. To fix HC we need to create access for low income Americans by reducing tort litigation against Doctors and letting the insurance companies compete state-to-state. Health insurance is in need of a tune-up but it is NOT broke. The US Government spending is what's broken. Our nit-wit actor on training wheels is not "fixing" anything.

[rasaxSF]

Private insurance is not 3 times more cost effective - that's just a bald-faced lie, courtesy of Blue Cross, et al. People in the U.S. model pay far more than people in every other industrialized nation, and get less for it with 45+ million uninsured. Insurance companies have 20-50 percent of their money going to overhead, single-payer systems do not.

[hellotommy]

Private Health Insurance is 3 times more cost effective than Government Health Insurance. Government covers 27% of people, it spends as a percentage more than Canada & UK. (this model will cost massive $) It is far more cost effective to go with free market solutions through private insurance. Tort reform & letting insurance co. compete state-to-state, you will see incredible affordability for all Americans to get HC if we go in this direct approach, Obamas takeover style is reckless & wrong.

[rasaxSF]

The right to profit from denying people's health care isn't a freedom but a travesty. We pay more for less than other countries, and the system is broken with 45+ million uninsured Americans and medical bills now accounting for more people filing bankruptcies.

Single-payer now!

[hellotommy]

Obama is breaking Americans with reckless Government growth, spending and takovers of all our precious freedoms. Healthcare needs a tune-up but it's not broke.

[essayant2]

Interesting the government health care works pretty well in Western Europe. They have higher life expectancy (US #42) and lower infant mortality and pay half of what we do (16% vs 8% GDP).

But if it troubles all of you so greatly to have a higher standard of living, I guess you deserve the system you've got. Enjoy your decreased lifespans, social-darwinists.