[NavVet]

First of all “nothing” is much much preferable to imposing socialized medicine.

Second of all, everyone I know has coverage and if they are really too poor and don’t have it through work, they are covered by medicade. (Another bloated beuacracy, we don’t need to supplament with another). Mitt and Hillary want to penalize us all based on this made up 47 million uninsured figure.

And third, Fred and many other conservatives advocate market based solutions that will address the underlying problems of overpriced health care. It is the govt. mandated third party payer system that has caused prices to sky rocket. Just look at those procedures that aren’t covered by insurance, the prices for things like laser eye surgery and lypo has actually went down over the last decade.

[The Pack Knight]

Until people are made to take ownership of their own medical care, we'll never be free of the specter of socialized medicine. Individually-owned health savings accounts with individually-owned high-deductible insurance for catastrophic expenses are the only way.

The President had it right when he talked about an "ownership society." If only he'd followed through more vigorously.