Health Care Reform Revisited

I am getting real tired of politicians claiming that 'the citizens have spoken', 'the American people are angry, uneasy or frustrated', etc.

I am a citizen, an American person, and I disagree with a lot of what they attribute to us. If they want to be truthful they would say some citizens or some American people. I don't know how they can claim to know what the American people want when so many of us want something else.

Most of the people I talk to are in favor of a government run health care plan. I know there are a lot of people that are not. But how can some of our Senators claim 'the American people' don't want it. From where I sit the majority do want it.

Since it is obvious (to me anyway) that the primary problem with our current health care system is the health insurance industry. The first thing to do to reform it is to eliminate the health insurance industry.

Health insurance companies are businesses that have only a single purpose, to make money. Our health care should not be based solely on profit motives. No problem with making money but what ever happened to customer service?

The patches most Republicans want to use to "fix" the health care in this country are just that, "patches". Like a hole in a tire they want to patch it. Sooner or later the tire still needs to be replaced. Our current health care system is broken beyond patching. It's time to replace the tire.

In order to "reform" the health care system we must replace it completely with another system. Otherwise it's not reform, it's just patching up a broken system thereby making it more complex and still in need of reform.

Another thing, why do some of our politicians keep claiming the U.S. has the best health care in the world? If that is true why do so many people go overseas, to places like Singapore, for their surgeries?

Both Senators from my State  have made these claims. I don't know how many other Senators and Representatives have. I do resent them, though, especially when the politicians that claim to represent the people of my State make these untrue statements.

Health Care Reform

What is up with the Republican Senators & Representatives? It seems that most of them don't want health care reform.

Wake up people. Our current health care system is broken. Apparently there is no way to fix it. So get rid of it and replace it with another system. If that one doesn't work then it can be replaced again.

Some people claim that health care is not a right. Neither are streets, roads and highways. But we pay taxes and have the government take care of them because if we each had to pay for only what we used most of us could not afford it and the logistics of figuring out who pays what would be a nightmare. Just like our current health care system, a nightmare.

It doesn't matter if it's a right or not. What matters is that the current system is grossly inefficient, leaves a lot of people without proper health care and it costs too much.

I propose, as others already have, that we do away with the health insurance industry completely and replace it with a government run system based on the Veterans Administration health care system.

The V.A. health care system is very efficient and provides very good health care to a lot of veterans. The problems we hear about the V.A. health care is the approval process. In a national health care system the approval process for U.S. citizens would be very easy. Are you a citizen? Yes, you get health care. Are you not a citizen, but are working in the U.S. legally? Yes, you get health care. Are you here illegally? Yes, you do not get health care. This last one is the only one that would normally cause any problems.

Why is it that our roads are important enough to have the government take care of them but our health is not?