I'm not a sultan. I don't spend a million dollars.
I can choose my own health care. The current plan is not a fix.
I think a lot of people who are in favor of government run health care forget how complicated anything is todo within our government. Could you imagine how the President's story grandmother would have gone if she had to submit claims under the government plan? If the insurance company tried to deny her claim, what do you think a broke country will do?
If you can't go to any government run organization and see how well that's run.
Scratch the current plan and start over. I believe that's what the Republicans are asking for. Both sides made good points today, but from what I saw it looked like the Republicans were the winners.
At one point the president looked like he was going to turn into The ROCK Obama. I had to chuckle a little.
There a few things that just aren't true in your assumptions, Master Fu. First off, it's not a plan for government run healthcare since there's currently no public option (which I favor) in the bill. Second, there's a huge number of folks using Medicare and actually loving it, so that would be an argument in favor of government run health insurance -- which the GOP uses as a cudgel to try to scare seniors but which they did, in fact, oppose at its formation and have tried to cut over the years. And third, yes, the government runs a number of things extraordinarily well, whether federal or state, which is not to say its perfect across the board. As the President pointed out, food would be cheaper without meat inspection...but Americans can't rely on private industry to keep them safe at certain times when profits are at stake.
I also disagree with the whole win/lose aspect of the cable tv summit coverage. I think America won, because there was finally a reasonable substantive, open discussion. I take points off John Boehner and Nancy Pelosi both for partisan pointmaking, but give Paul Ryan credit for smarts, even if I disagree with much of his POV and some of his facts, I give Tom Coburn credit for several good ideas, and I give the President credit for mastery of policy details on both sides, for chairing fairly, for batting down falsities and talking points, and for doing something his predecessor never did -- and, I would argue, was incapable of doing.
I'm sure Medicare patients like using it. Just like I assume a majority of Americans would like free / cheap health insurance.
But can Medicare scale to support the whole country? Also if Doctor's had to accept Medicare for all their patients could they afford to keep their practices open?
"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic. --Ben Franklin
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I'm not a sultan. I don't spend a million dollars.
I can choose my own health care. The current plan is not a fix.
I think a lot of people who are in favor of government run health care forget how complicated anything is todo within our government. Could you imagine how the President's story grandmother would have gone if she had to submit claims under the government plan? If the insurance company tried to deny her claim, what do you think a broke country will do?
If you can't go to any government run organization and see how well that's run.
Scratch the current plan and start over. I believe that's what the Republicans are asking for. Both sides made good points today, but from what I saw it looked like the Republicans were the winners.
At one point the president looked like he was going to turn into The ROCK Obama. I had to chuckle a little.
There a few things that just aren't true in your assumptions, Master Fu. First off, it's not a plan for government run healthcare since there's currently no public option (which I favor) in the bill. Second, there's a huge number of folks using Medicare and actually loving it, so that would be an argument in favor of government run health insurance -- which the GOP uses as a cudgel to try to scare seniors but which they did, in fact, oppose at its formation and have tried to cut over the years. And third, yes, the government runs a number of things extraordinarily well, whether federal or state, which is not to say its perfect across the board. As the President pointed out, food would be cheaper without meat inspection...but Americans can't rely on private industry to keep them safe at certain times when profits are at stake.
I also disagree with the whole win/lose aspect of the cable tv summit coverage. I think America won, because there was finally a reasonable substantive, open discussion. I take points off John Boehner and Nancy Pelosi both for partisan pointmaking, but give Paul Ryan credit for smarts, even if I disagree with much of his POV and some of his facts, I give Tom Coburn credit for several good ideas, and I give the President credit for mastery of policy details on both sides, for chairing fairly, for batting down falsities and talking points, and for doing something his predecessor never did -- and, I would argue, was incapable of doing.
I'm sure Medicare patients like using it. Just like I assume a majority of Americans would like free / cheap health insurance.
But can Medicare scale to support the whole country? Also if Doctor's had to accept Medicare for all their patients could they afford to keep their practices open?
"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic. --Ben Franklin
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