Patters

I like it when you don't have a substantive response. 2 points for me.

godef

Yeah, that was the lamest cop-out I've seen in awhile.

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tanked_as_usual

not really.........but even I can piece together a better response.......

simple fact is that the resources simply don't exist to do what they want to do.......the kinds of taxes that need to be levied to make this kind of thing solvent are 5x what people are willing to stomach

you say there 50 million uninsured people in the country......that means there are 250 million who are........and that means 250 million people that I can pretty much bet as a group would be almost unanimously against the taxes it would take to do this and have lesser benefits in the end

great concept......number simply don't work........another way will need to be found

Patters

Data shows that we spend at least 1/3rd per capita more on health insurance than the other developed countries. Data also shows that in many countries with national health care, consumer satisfaction is considerably higher than it is here. (That doesn't mean we do everything wrong, but it means we do some things wrong.)

http://dll.umaine.edu/ble/U.S.%20HCweb.pdf (See figure 1 and table 1.)

Now using the 50 million figure (and frankly, conservatives seem to use different numbers depending on what's being discussed), it seems to me we should be able to provide these people with low cost health insurance, maintain a high level of care, and still save money.