Reply #62: I make less than $20 thousand a year (sorry for all the typos, I think I fixed most)

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Our government spends more taxpayer dollars on health care than any other nation. We have a bastardized hybrid system: regulations and red tape stifle competition and discourage newcomers to the industry, requirements for insurance to cover various treatments drastically increases costs for everyone (another anti-competitive measure), and the consumers' expectation for insurance to pay for everything naturally causes prices to skyrocket (ever check how much your prescription medication would be without insurance?), because they don't have to shop around.

Markets work for other industries to drive down prices and increase quality, and this should be no different. Monopolies are bad and inefficient! In fact, other nations are starting to cut back on their health care systems. There are talks about refusing care for certain individuals who engage in particular activities (smoking, overeating, etc.). How is that fair? They are forced at gunpoint to pay into those systems but can't use them? In a market system, they could choose an insurer that is willing to cover them despite the risks. Some nations go so far as to ban private coverage altogether. That's tyranny! It's not your right to tell them what they can and can't buy.

This is really all about control and vote-buying, but Republicans are no better (they're worse). They don't want to change the system because their campaign contributors benefit from it. With so little competition due to government meddling and intervention, the remaining business reap giant profits, and Republicans want to maintain that. They then pretend that ridiculous (and harmful) solutions, like capping malpractice suits, will somehow cause costs to go significantly down!

Of all the frontrunning candidates from both parties, Obama is my clear favorite. Everyone knows that Democratic nominees have to play lip-service to the base during the primaries; if candidates don't propose a leftist health care plan, they won't be nominated. None of these plans will be implemented, of course (along with most primary-promises, they'll be forgotten), but it's all about securing the nomination.

Obama's rhetoric proposes the least government intervention among the Democrats, and he's the only candiate not making it front-and-center for his campaign. Front-and-center for him is his "transcending and uniting" appearance. Due to this, he seems to be the least likely to want to sign any significant left-wing programs. I can't see him signing any of the disastrous proposed Republican "fixes", either.

Strange as it sounds (this is what attracts many other laissez-faire supporters to his campaign, and there are lots of us), he is the most likely to actually sign moderate market proposals (which if marketed correctly, could easily appeal to both parties, unlike each parties' current proposals).

I'm getting off point. Basically, if you want to have a national health care plan, then instead of spending money to buy votes, spend money to market your own. Just don't force the rest of us to go along with it, please. :)

Edited for typos.