Reply #21: Welcome to DU.

[Cleita]

Australia might be a good choice for you while you are young enough to make the transition. Even if they extended Medicare to cover everyone in the future, it would be an improvement, although not perfect. I think we will see universal health care down the road, but not anytime soon.

Do you know that about 60% of our health care comes from the government anyway in the various medical programs, like Medicare, Medicaid, Champus, Chips and others that escape me right now? The other 40% in the private sector is a nightmare of private corporate health plans and insurance that cherry pick the healthy at the expense of people who need health care for profits.

If we went to National Health care we could deliver health care to 100% of everyone in America, keep the health care providers happy with decent rreimbursements, and do it for half of what health care costs in this country today with 40% of our citizens going without health coverage.