Obama On Obamacare: We Are Going To Get This Done This Year! This Is Gonna Happen!

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[kechallis]

Fair enough. I have to tell you that you are much nicer than some of the people who are concerned about the reforms that are being proposed. I just hope that the country can come together at some point, and stop all this hysteria. Nobody wants government to take control of something as personal as health care, but I just think there needs to be a non-profit option for basic health and prevention of disease. If we talk to each other we might even find some middle ground.

[Cedtoron]

Well I wish you luck wherever you choose and I wish you luck in your war against the health insurance companies and big pharma. All I ask is that you don't create a system that leads to the removal or destruction of my choice of private insurance.

[kechallis]

My honest answer is that if I lived in France there would be much less chance that I needed any fancy surgery, or expensive drugs. So, I choose France, but I would rather live in the U.S.

[Cedtoron]

I know. We're all getting bilked and we're ranked 37th...even behind Cuba. Those are good arguments to make if you're in favor of a massive overhaul. But before we do that, would you answer an honest question? If you are in need of healthcare, insured or not, what country would you rather be in?

[kechallis]

Paying less means less money for insurance companies, and big pharma, and hospitals that a bilking the public. Doctors are struggling now, and we must do something. If we want the best we will have to find another way, because as it is the World Health Organization ranks the U.S. 37th

[Cedtoron]

So we have to do something about the lack of doctors AND figure out how we can pay less as a country for healthcare? That's not much of an incentive for good doctors.

Could it be that we pay so much for healthcare because we want the best?

[kechallis]

The wait times are getting long all over the country, and it has more to do with the lack of Doctors, than with how they are paid. The U.S. used to be a leader? When? In the 70's? Long wait times is just another scary story for the gullible. The people in the U.K. love their health care, and it is single payer. They can also get additional health coverage if they desire, and have the resources. We are talking the general health of our citizens, and how do we pay less for it as a country.

[Cedtoron]

The 'norm' wait time to see a doctor in Massachusettes is 50 days, the longest in the country. Mass. implemented a plan similar to what's being discussed now. They too decided to follow the example of the UK. And that's what they got. The US used to be a leader!

[kechallis]

We have so many examples of industrialized nations with public health care systems, and yet, we don't see the kind of horror stories that people like to recite being the norm. Do you people think we are not capable of running our health care system as well as the British do in the U.K.?

[Cedtoron]

I see. And what happens when private companies drop their private insurance for employees and force their employees on the public option? Then we just get incompetence?

The fact that some private insurance company is making less money won't be too comforting when we're waiting 40 days to see the doctor, then told to take a pill when we need surgery!