May 29th, 2009
04:20 PM ET
6 years ago














Filed under: Health care
soundoff (186 Responses)
  1. mjm

    Let's use Medicare and Medicaid as our model for single payer healthcare.

    Those fine government programs are doing great, right?

    Let's expand failure....good thinking.

    May 29, 2009 09:06 pm at 9:06 pm |
  2. kevin

    After some more of them face personal financial challenges trying to protect their families' health, the republican base will wake-up from their Rush-induced coma and realize that a not-for-profit health insurance co-op makes a lot of sense. Whether the federal government runs it or just keeps it honest doesn't really matter.

    We're paying insurance premiums so that we can get our prescription drugs, operations, emergency care at a somewhat reasonable cost. We're not intending that a hoard of insurance company execs drive the latest imported German sports coups using those premiums. Health insurance is not like auto, home or even life insurance- let the sellers fleece the unwitting buyers in those markets- no one dies. No, health insurance is a life-and-death transaction, and a small cabal of greedy executives should not be allowed to enrich themselves with no limits in that market. Ask yourself, what is the only purpose of a for-profit company? To MAXIMIZE profits. How does one do that? Maximize sell price and minimize costs. Sorry, kids, grandma can't get that pacemaker, the health insurance CEO needs a new Beemer!

    Registered republican

  3. Peter E

    'Government bueraucrats' you hear so often. As opposed to private bureaucrats who make a profit out of denying me services? Somebody tell me WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE???

    May 29, 2009 09:14 pm at 9:14 pm |
  4. HonestMistake

    So most Americans want lower costs and more care and want someone else to pay for it.

    May 29, 2009 09:17 pm at 9:17 pm |
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