Obamacare

I recently read that your starting to find private companies springing up to fill the need in Canada- things will inevitably come around to what is right i just hope i live to see it.

Two big points to remember: (1) The congresscritters gave themselves an exemption. (2) CER will be "political"; it's not about "effectiveness". It's about payoffs!

You say health care is getting more expensive. I think if you could get today the health care available in, say, the 1950's, you would find it much cheaper today than it was in the 1950's. However, we have better health care today that costs more. So what?

It's like saying 70" HD tv's cost more than the 19" black and white sets of 30 years ago. TV costs are going through the roof! What can be done to stop it?

Healthcare is already selective. Get a rare disease and find out how little research is committed to illnesses that have no market value. Yet, there is an abundance of treatments for ED. I'm aware of no one dying prematurely from impotence. The open market does not work for major medical issues. When faced with such, who goes shopping? There is no incentive to be "competitive." Having affordable healthcare attached to employment is outdated, as millions are discovering in this recession. Why should I, as an individual, pay more for coverage than my employer? Has the risk changed?

I want health care with at least a 'public option'. I am tired of insurance claims specialist getting between me and my doctor.

A lack of innovation in health care is the least danger of a government-managed system. The great danger is a federal bureaucracy dictating our lifestyles by force of law, which is to say, at gunpoint.

@mike - if you find ins claims specialists frustrating imagine what the response to your compliants will be when you are dealing with a gov't provider of service who doesn't answer to anybody.

Obama's grand design is to provide the same level of care for everyone. Eventually, that is what he wants to see happen. ONce his plan is in action, there is no mechanism to stop companys from dropping their coverage, reducing their cost, and sending people over to the government plans. We will end up with an inflated number of people in the plan. Those who can afford better care, will have the cadillac plans available to them. Those on the government plans will have substandard care, which yes, will cost less. What I ask is this: "if you, your mother, child, or husband needs an expensive procedure or medicine and the government says it is too expensive - then tell me how happy you will be with this plan". It is nothing more than a government HMO, so get ready for third world care.

Tired of insurance claims specialists getting between you and your doctor? Pay your doctor cash.

Save the insurance for catastrophic problems.

it seems that the writer of the article deliberately turns off his hearing when the president states that if individuals who are happy and satisfied with their present health care providers can keep them. There is no push to make every one take on government health care. I don't see the problem. If you like it, keep it.

I'm a three year breast cancer survivor who was diagnosed at age 38. There has to be a public option, no question about it. If I lose my job purchasing my own insurance would cost at least $1,400 dollars a month, that's with a $5,000 deductible and 50 percent co-pays. Something's gotta give folks.
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"Give me a break," John Stossel. A "for profit" health insurance system will always favor the shareholders and not the patients. Why not offer a public option as a little competition (in the least)? I pay out-of-pocket for family insurance and premiums and co-pays have DOUBLED in the last six years - while coverage has shriveled. Cover everybody - and everybody is covered. The "bureaucratic red-tape" everybody warns of is already here. CEO bonuses, shareholder profits, higher premiums for lesser care... already here folks.

If the Government is going to force their health care on us. I say cancel their current plans and make them use the system they think will work and see how they will like it when we tell them NO for a new type of cure for an illness and say sorry your old or your quality of life wont be that good even if we pay for the treatment. They are not going to make it a right to have good health care they will make it a right for Government choose who lives or dies.They want to keep proposing more taxes while the FAT liars in Washington keeps voting for their own pay raises.

How can you consider the rise in medical costs without looking at profits? The medical sector is one of the highest money makers in American industry. Clearly, the impetus is to generate profit, not high quality health care. And, this is really what needs to be changed.

John Stossel is 100 % accurate! Those of us who live near the Canadian border are fully aware of the incredible expense & folly of socialized medicine with the painful example of our northern neighbors.Their medical care is not free and the quality of it has no innovative motivations.Canada pays for their expensive health care with other fees...errrr taxes. Canadians with money stream across to NY for elective surgeries & health care.
Another example in this NY region , of the folly of governments to overreach & interfer is the quagmire called Amtrak. It is an expensive dinosaur!! And it reminds us painfully of the itch to put everything into the hands of big government and the end result is a huge and expensive bureaucracy...and the net result is inferior transportation.
Don't let our health care system became a bloated bureaucracy!!

I'm all for investigating a government option. But as a prerequisite, let's have the government provide a full accounting of how it will be funded AND (lol) how the government program won't be bankrupt. Given we won't get either, let's stick with what we've got - despite the problems. I hesitate to ask if there are hoards of people moving to Canada and Europe for their government provided health care?

Louise G- the problem is quite simple.

Businesses have to make money. Otherwise they go out of business.

The government can just print new money.
They can never go under.

If you owned a business- lets sell selling hamburgers- imagine a shop opening across the street that also sold hamburgers- for less then you can make them for. You would go out of business.

The same would happen here. Sure- it would start off great- but then all the other companies would start going out of business until all our options were gone.

I don't understand how anyone could say people with private insurance won't be affected.Please don't be short sighted. It's total collapse won't occur in a year. Then Dems will laud it as a success if it makes it past the five year mark, but Social Security lasted a while, Medicaid and Medicare lasted more than a few years. But they are all going bankrupt. So please quit with the Ponzi schemes

The writer of the article is CORRECT to not listen to Obama. He said no taxes for those making more than 250,00.00. Better not bend over to pick up the soap cause they are really going to stick it to ya and we will soon be owned by China

The writer of the article is CORRECT to not listen to Obama. He said no taxes for those making more than 250,00.00. Better not bend over to pick up the soap cause they are really going to stick it to ya and we will soon be owned by China