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You're being done wrong other guy. Your's is a perfect example of some things that could be changed by common sense efforts to overhaul the system. Government left it's hands off the medical system for our nation's entire history, until liberals siezed an opportunity for government to gain more control of our lives by pointing out and vowing to eliminate flaws in the system. Republicans have said, hey, if the people want government to get involved there are common sense ways to do it that don't require the governmental take over of the entire medical system. That idea however, is not good enough for the liberals who have long dreamed of government provided universal health care. The only problem is that the liberal's la-la land imaginations of government provided health care, will be a joke compared to the world's leading health care community which, is presently embodied here in the US.

BTW, every time Obama gets up and starts talking about how we are the apple of the world's eye when it comes to energy, the medical field, industry, economy (or the memory of it in our case), our military might or any other glowing attributes of our great land. All those things are the vision and provision of conservative American ideals. And, certainly had nary a thing to do with the notions of social justice.

Republicans are correct that some things can be done with out government intervention but health care is not one of them. We all agree that the health care cost was/is a major concern going forward especially with the baby boomers retiring within the next 12 years, people are living longer, and people pay more in medical cost ( 3 times as much) and receive the less quality of care per dollar than places like Canada. There is the problem folks in a nut shell!

Ready, Set, Solve!!!

Now if the Republicans were correct and the private sector went totally unregulated: medical cost would be higher because everyone likes a profit, lets understand that first. If it was not the case, what would be the point of the business.

So the Republicans would say let the comsumer decide, no problem, somewhere along the line their would be a medical wal-mart, come in and take away all choices, prices would then be dictated by a certain group (monopoly) and their goes the consumer.

So lets look at what Democrats wanted to do:

Everyone pays into a health care system. People without medical insurance would be under the public option, at which rate, causes at least competition which our republican collegues would agress lowers the prices in the long run. The reason why it lowers the price because, the public option says, I am not going to pay but this much for the operation. All insurance companies see this, and so they offer the same match price. The difference is a (monopoly) could never underbid the government and put it out of business...

I like plan B better:

Is their a better plan, I would love to hear one: Wait a minute, republicans can only say the word "no", ask Mitch McConnell. They can not come up with a better idea.