Public debate over 'public option' for healthcare

[Sigma]

Rising Health-Care Costs: Who’s the Villain?

http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/rising-health-care-costs-whos-the-villain/

[Sigma]

Stephen, I gotta go - but I am with you on part your complaint about insurance companies, and I can see your point. 

My point is that goverment laws and regulations has created this environment that these companies operate in.  It just takes smarter thinking and common sense, not MORE governernment intrusion.  But that very well may be a pipe dream.

Have a good weekend.

[jtwestside]

Sorry stephen but what is destroying this country is the ever expanding perversion of what a "Right" is.
The right to food, a house, a phone, a car (it's coming). None are truly "rights". You have the right to pursue those things.

The government shouldn't be in the way, other than that they should be getting out of they way. You can cry about the big bad businesses hurting the little man all you want, but none are as corrupt (or as powerful) as the government that you're wanting to hand over more and more the power to.

[CrysG]

jtwestside

I'm sorry did you imply that as a human being you don't have the right to food or housing? My God what century are we in?

[mtraininjax]

I'm sorry did you imply that as a human being you don't have the right to food or housing? My God what century are we in?

Without inserting my words for westside's words, I think what was meant is that food and housing, car, phone, etc., are not guarantees in a capitalistic society. You reap what you sow should be the capitalistic motto, but with Obama, we have a bailout of every industrial faculty that he and his Wall Street buddies deems as being a backbone to the US. Capitalism says otherwise, and failure of businesses is par for the course.

Let the businesses fail, it is healthy and part of capitalism. Bailing them out is the socialistic approach that we have seen never works out in the long run. We Americans can fail and fail and fail and we always find a footing to stand on. Our system works, if we just let it work on its own.