Reply #14: This is not a good health care plan

[thethinker]

It is a band aid approach. Edward's plan includes insurance companies. The only plan that will work is free medicare for all. Band aid approaches waste money that could be used to really fix the problem.

Also, they should out law the insurance plans that congress has for its members. If they had to deal with medicare like other people, you better believe it would get some improvements. Even if they had to get a regular insurance policy as individuals, without going broke in the process, like the rest of us - they would fix this problem. My tax dollars pay for their worry-free health care. Or, if they had to deal with VA hospitals like our soldiers, and wait for months for an appointment, they would understand this is a crisis.

Edward's plan is a gutless, "don't rock the boat" approach. Kucinish has the only plan that I have seen that will work.

Every republican I talk to wants universal health care. The corporations want government paid universal health care. Most doctors want single payer universal health care. The only people that don't want it is the insurance companies.

How would we pay for it? I suggest we get our priorities straight. Our tax dollars should go to take care of the American people first, not be spent on foreign wars.