[originalbuckeye]

What the country NEEDS is Health Insurance Reform. Not a National Health Service. I have worked in a large hospital in Britain. Americans have NO IDEA how much health care they are not going to get. And when the Government runs it, they have no incentive to do a good job. A blatant medical mistake? Too bad. No one takes responsibility. And why would any doctor sign on with the Government if the Government isn't going to shield doctors from frivolous malpractice suits, which this Gov has said that doctors will be on their own if sued?

[RFEngineer]

“What the country NEEDS is Health Insurance Reform.”

Maybe so - but we are too spoiled here by not having the direct connection between “need” and “want” with regards to healthcare.

I actually think we do need some sort of public hospital system that will treat those who do not pay for their own health care - and yes, it will be abysmal care, I realize - but if you don’t pay, you take what you can get for free.

What we really need is a health care system in which people who actually are willing to pay can receive the care that they pay for, without having to add the cost for everyone else that does not pay.

In this way, and in this way only