Health Care Debate - Chico, CA

It is more government forcing us to pay more, calling it choise.

Thank goodness you have removed Mimi’s editorial from Topix as soon as possible. It is nice to see Topix being responsible when someone tells their side of the story while leaving out half the story. Her editorial was very deceptive and misleading as she did not state that only the wealthy dorm freshmen students (1,900) receive drug prevention while the off campus freshmen (2,000) do not. Mimi does not provide substance abuse to the entire freshmen class as her editorial would lead you to believe good job ER for removing it from Topix

How would those who have insurance feel if they suddenly didn't have it? I am a nurse and see the suffering out there.

Insurance companies are just like the oil companies!...Who Us? NO! We're not making ANY money! ka-ching! ka-ching! ka-ching!

We could believe that if they stopped posting record profits.

I just think we should make a really big insurance pool--the sized of the country. That'd fix them.

National health care is about the consumer having choices. By paying having the option to pay into a big national size plan we could use our combined clout for service.

My guess is insurance companies could compete to process claims to/from this national insurance. It does not need to be an everything plan. But it should cover basics. Use private insurance for perks ... 2 person or one person room. Newer drugs and procedures. Rather like the various Medi-gap plans that seniors or their retirement benefits currently provide.

It also needs to have some basic dental care of check-ups, cleanings, fillings and tooth removals. Set an annual cost limit and some set prices for the basic costs. Do not cover any crowns, root canals, or dentures etc under this plan - also filling materials etc that are above the basic - but let those be extra options to buy from private industry.

This would help in places like Chico and rural communities that cannot get serviced by many of the lower costing plans available in metro areas. Location in medical coverage is critical service availability.

Medicare for all.

Insurance for people that dont work for a large company.
Maybe big companies should not bet allowed to offer insurance then lets see how many support it.

support-too bad my vote won't register-kind of like voting for Gore in Flordia.

This is America..The richest country in the world. Why shouldn't EVERYONE have health coverage. F*** the insurance companies.

There is too much bs going up there in washington deciding on whats going to be good for us, as we sit wondering when what and how much they just keep us dangling, meanwhile they the gov fat cats have the best of the best and guess who paying for it "WE ARE"

I support a Public Option, and I totally support Universal Health Care, you know, like all the other civilized nations have today. I DO NOT know what this new plan is, with some 1900 pages of c r a p and pork barrel sillyness. Neither the Democrats or Republicans really want Health care reform or a public option what they seem to want is to ignore the people and just continue to support the BIG MONEY health care industry.

I have no idea what they are, they change every five minutes. I do support his public option, but Obama changes his mind every few minutes

every person in this country should be provided health care at a reasonable cost.health care should not be a for profit business,it should be totally non-profit.

As a health care provider I see too many without insurance

This is long overdue!

It will destroy the best health care and research system in the world