Someone needs to guarantee that everyone has healthcare coverage.
Everyone.
That is what our plan to ‘privatize’ misses. Everyone needs healthcare.
Everyone.
Did you get that plan from Hugo Chavez?
The free market is the only solution to lowering prices so that is the case.
You confuse health insurance with health care.
No one is denied health care today.
Write me a check for $10k, jackass.
It’s obvious you either don’t have a clue about how healthcare is delivered in this country, or you are being purposefully obtrusive on the matter. There is not a single person in this country that doesn’t have access to healthcare, whether they can afford it, or not. If that were not the case, I would not have gone without a raise for years on end and the hospital I work at would not have given away an average of $110 million every year in “free” health care. People may not get the care they want. In twelve plus years, I’ve never seen anyone die from “lack of care”.
Like many people you mistake heath insurance with health care. Tell you what, you show me in the Constitution, and the associated papers the founders left detailing how they came about creating it, where the federal government is mandated to concern itself in healthcare, and I will support federal involvement 100%. Until that time, I stand on the principle that the US government has no place involving itself in such matters and the issue should be left to the states. If a state wants its own mini-Obamacare, I could give two spits; the fedgov needs to get out, though.