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Health Care Reform
It appears that today might be the end of a very long road to health care reform. There's been a lot of debate on the subject really leading back before the election. The mainstream sounds like an echo chamber, so I'm hoping you guys have better insight. Will this bill do what the administration claims to do, or is it as bad for the future of America as Fox says?
Keep government out of the doctor's office.
The doctor/patient privilege is one of the few sacrosanct sociopolitical relationships (along with husband/wife and clergy/parishioner).
As for who pays for it, that's between the patient, doctor, and any insurance company the two VOLUNTARILY choose.
You have a touching anecdote? come up with legislation which helps that situation, without interfering with the >250,000,000 cases where there isn't a problem.
Any "democracy" which passes legislation without voting on it isn't.
And no, this isn't a suitable topic for /.
Can we get a "-1 Wrong" moderation option?
Once Canadians/Europeans/Australians/New Zealanders stop coming to the US so they can get care they couldn't get in their respective countries wonderful single payer systems (I am being sarcastic), then maybe we will consider it. No US citizens leave the US for care they need, but cannot get in the US. With single payer systems in other countries that's not the case, they come to the US in droves.
That being said I agree there needs to be reform of insurance, pay structures for care and how US citizens get care.
The reason our insurance is tied to an employer is because of past government caps on what employees could get paid. Offering insurance as a benefit added value without breaking government caps on pay. So our entire system is born out of government involvement, that is why people don't trust government to fix it.
"In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash"
Why should I be put ahead in a waiting line simply because I can afford. The person who can't afford it is no worse than I am, nor is the person who has insurance who skips the line better than I.
Congratulations, you've just posted some of the hippiest, most internally inconsistent bullshit I've read in this whole thread full of hippie, inconsistent bullshit.
I tell you what - if you feel that way there are people starving in Africa right now because you choose to own a computer, because you live in something nicer than a tent resting on dirt, etc... I strongly suggest you move to bare minimum existence right now and give all your money to the needy because you are living a ridiculously better life than about 1 billion people just because you "can afford" it.
Seriously, that's some weak, sniveling bullshit.