The health care debate: picture it here

Big Pharma, and Health Insurance, may both be coercive but they are not the same thing. The insurance industry is fighting hard against a single payor public option, they do not want the competition. They are also fighting for mandatory coverage, again , just not government competition in the form of a national plan, or even public option.

I think everyone is getting their this's and that's confused. It is our job to encourage our legislators to get the health insurance industry regulated  and out of the free market - for ethics reasons. That a life or death industry is part of the free market is unethical, and that our government has allowed, over the last 25 year, for it to become such a huge part of our GDP, is also unethical. it will take a long time but without a national healthcare plan, which in my opinion we should have, that is the only way to preserve a chance for middle income American to be covered. Right now the insurance industry is making the decision on treatment, and the decision is based on stockholder profits, the government would not have  their person stockholders to answer to as the people are the stockholders.

The corporate involvement in public and national policy has grown, again especially over the last 15  years to the point that the corporation run this government not our legislators, that is something that must be changed.

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Thank you for letting everybody know.  The incestuous relationship between Big Pharma et al and our government is why I don't want the single-payer system to be the only alternative.  Big companies know that if the single-payer system went through that it would stifle competition. It would be that much harder for a small drug manufacturer to present an alternative drug because they would have no avenue to compete.  There are so many on these posts of blogher that think single-payer would fix so many things and love the fact that health care will be "free" because then they don't have to worry about how much medical care costs when it actually reduces your alternatives.  Where are you going to go for altenate solutions if the government is the only provider of health care to the public and the only buyer for health services and drugs.

Once Big Government takes over the health care system, you and your doctor will have fewer decisions regarding your care, it will be government that will make all decisions because it is only government that buys and distributes medical care.

People are reading the small print on that health reform bill and figuring out what it means for them.  Especially when times are tight and the government doesn't collect as much tax as before because the economy is so bad. People had better wake up.

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The incestuous connections of all those “stakeholders” make it very difficult to really re-craft our system, even though it is desperately in need of an overhaul.  Additionally, these connections clarify, for me, how easy it is to get inaccurate and overblown information – and how difficult it is to find the truth.  What I want, for my country, is the ability to have honest, intelligent dialog on the state of health care, to work through facts without misinformation, to truly talk and listen, and to find a way to define a solution for every man, woman, and child that is a citizen of the United States of America.  What I realize we have, instead, is quite a mess.

Thanks for doing this.

Virginia DeBolt
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