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Greg @ Oct 10th 2007 4:41PM
It's time for a National Health Care Plan.
compy386 @ Oct 10th 2007 4:45PM
Dear god no. I work in Michigan and the Canadians who work here complain endlessly about how their health care system sucks. It takes so friggin long to see a doctor up in Canada. Friend of mine did a report on this and it takes 40 some odd weeks to see a cardiologist.
sk @ Oct 10th 2007 4:58PM
A national health insurance is probably a bad idea. But make it mandatory to have a privat health insurance. This way at least the 40+ million with no insurance pay into the insurance pool as well. This would help to bring down the monthly dues we pay. Other countries like Switzerland have had the same issue with none stop increases in insurance payments. Since everyone there has coverage know the rates are stagnant for the last few years.
Louis Duran @ Oct 10th 2007 10:51PM
It is time that we as a country examine our current system to see if it is worth keeping. A privatized health care system ostensibly is supposed to create more competition which would in theory cause rates to go down and health care quality to go up. However, in practice, the opposite has happened and has left 45million uninsured.
If you want to see an excellent analysis of why the American health care system is so bad look here:
http://tinyurl.com/2uule5
This isn't a report on how to fix American health care but rather shows where and why the system fails so badly.
Joe K. @ Oct 11th 2007 9:59AM
How many of those 45 million don't want insurance? How many of them merely took new jobs and are waiting for their benefits to restart? Thats not the number of people who need the insurance, but can't afford it. That number is much lower.
I have friends that are young, healthy and self-employed so they don't have health insurance, but what they did instead was set up and emergency fund that they contribute a portion of their monthly to. Kinda like their own insurance, but according to your numbers they are part of the 45 million bleeding saps that desperately need the government to tax them...