Universal healthcare: Priv. Enterprise Bureaucracies Can't Fix Our Ailing System

[CrysG]

Yeah to bad I also quoted MSNBC and the flagrantly liberal consumer reports. And I can tell your overwhelming concern for the human life and their nuisance "sob stories".

[FayeforCure]

 Posting sob stories as a basis for uni care is ridiculous!  how about posting a government solution that a) has worked efficiently and b) has actually cost less than original estimates and c) can pay for itself without raising taxes.

First, they are NOT sob stories: they are an EPIDEMIC, with people dying on our soil, under our very eyes, for no other reason than us lacking a "civilized" universal healthcare system.

Frontline's Sick Around the World shows 6 successful universal Healthcare systems.

Of all systems you may want to know that according to the New England Journal of Medicine, the pure single-payer model would save our nation $350 billion off the current $2.1 trillion spent on healthcare in our nation.

Your a, b, and c would be covered under such a system. However pragmatic Democrats and Conservatives simply want to provide a public option, Medicare style, that would function alongside the private insurance you so love.

[Tripoli1711]

You can carry a card that says you are a Republican and support liberal ideas.  They are not mutually exclusive.  I believe I have made up my mind on the issue, but I am also alert to the positions and arguments in favor of the other side.  If nothing else it helps me explore the issue more fully and be better able to argue from my perspective.  An open mind is accepting of other viewpoints, even if it is not looking to be swayed.  You have evidenced no such capacity.  Anyone who disagrees with you is bad.  You have said as much yourself.  Hence my comment.