Best fix for health care system

[yurbud]

Poll question: Best fix for health care system

[Cleita]

1. None of the above.

A single payer universal system is the best answer and there is already a blueprint for one if we can get rid of the traded on Wall Street for profit health industry corporations that are starving our system at the expense of those who actually need health care, the sick and the elderly.

[Lindacooks]

2. Yep - single payer is the only way.

[Cleita]

3. This website has the best answers.

Physicians For a National Health Plan

http://www.pnhp.org/

[yurbud]

9. my bad--left single payer off even though it's my favorite too

[Nite Owl]

4. None of these

single payor is the only way. Insurance companies should be out of the health care business and there should be no connection between a job and health care. Most people who face a serious illness lose their jobs and then their health care too. Think of how much more entrprenurial we could really be if people didn't have to take low paying retail jobs just to get in on a meager health care plan? It's right not an entitlement or something that should be negotiated.

[leftofthedial]

5. single payer

full coverage provided to every man, woman and child in the US.

[necso]

6. Every American should to be able

to get the healthcare that he or she needs (although total costs do have to be considered -- and this can get ugly), without undue difficulty, and without becoming destitute and/or bankrupt (if this is even going to be an option in the future).

Removing the burden (of any healthcare costs -- except the direct costs of having a sick employee) from employers would also enhance their competitiveness and make it much easier for new and/or small businesses to prosper (these are, theoretically at least, the foundation of our future prosperity -- but the corporate "dinosaurs" can probably be expected to try to prevent this by protecting their "turf" -- and keeping the "mammals" down).

Having as large of a percentage of total medical-care costs (as we do) "burned-up" by profits, advertising, insurance middlemen, other useless mouthes, etc, etc, adds greatly to the price. It would have many benefits to remove all these unnecessary costs.

There are many possible solutions to the problem, but when the problem is this large and complicated and has resisted previous solutions (although it is something of a stretch to call what we are doing a "solution"), Alexander's solution to the Gordian knot comes to mind -- "cut it with the sword".

In the case of American health care, this might mean un-reimbursed nationalization.

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You gotta do what you gotta do.

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And yeah, this could be called socialist (or worse). But what? Corporations get to own the government, but the government can't own corporations? -- This doesn't sound very reasonable to me.

[dorktv]

7. No single payer option?

That is best for this country.

[area51]

8. Single payer / Universal healthcare. (n/t)