Join the Discussion: Health Care

We invited you to join the discussion on health care, and thousands of you did. Now, the Health Policy Team's Tom Daschle and Lauren Aronson respond. For more information, visit http://change.gov/healthcare

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[bigfish20009]

Please make sure to pass Universal Health Care!! Obama should remember to keep his campaign promises and especially health care for all. If there is one thing that will ensure Obama's re-election and a long-term democratic majority rule, the passage of universal health care would be the surest way of doing it.

[Yogurt721]

As a number of others have already stated, what we need is a universal single payer health care system. Anything else that continues to prop up the private health insurance companies, will be nothing more than the equivalent of putting a band aid over a festering wound. Most of those against it either don't truly understand what it is, or have the attitude "me me me, my my my, get your own". They don't understand that they are already paying for uninsured people in terms of higher health costs.

[mtoffle]

Basic health care (preventive, child,recovery, and emergency) for American citizens should be nonprofit and paid by taxes. Elective care could remain in the domain of the insurance companies. The problem will be in defining the difference.

[Jocke1776]

UHC is not compatible with individual rights and thus anti-American and immoral.

[fuzzymike2]

Until we all get the used to the idea that there is little or no health care in modern medicine nothing will change much. Modern medicine has focused on aetiology of illness, disease, pathology and there has been hardly any resources devoted to the aetiology of health. The nearest it gets to this is preventative medicine which is early diagnosis of pathologies and not promotion of health. One remarkable Pathologist did recognize this problem 50 yrs ago, Dr Scott Williamson, Peckham Experiment

[HYDROGENCARS]

We spent a trillion dollars to help forgieners in the middle east, that kind of money begs the question why didn't we spend it on health care and our infostructure.

[Socinus]

I would like to see major steps taken towards Universal Healthcare. 65+ other countries have successfully implemented it and we can easily afford it now with what we currently spend per person per year on healthcare. Im tired of having to consider if I REALLY want to go to the hospital for an injury because I know we cant pay the massive bill that's going to come after it so personal health becomes a budget issue.

[davidnhvtme]

We need absolutely to have universal health care with no exclusions on pre existing conditions and some real cost containment. Health Insurance should NOT be contingent on having a job! Our privately run health insurance is a mess. So many different plans..how do you know what each covers? There is no way a government run plan could be any worse than what we have now. Lets roll right over those damn conservatives and do something for regular Americans for a change!

David

[writecomment]

make paying for healthcare easier and less complicated. people who don't want to deal with the sysetem and the costs let go their wealth to be on medicaid. what about it?

[writecomment]

Learn from other countries healthcare system, promotion and treatment. What about teaching doctors about different ethics in school?