Health Care Debate - Kalamazoo, MI

Public option must. Must. It's
what we, the people need. Politically,
once in the GOP when they rise again
-- and they will -- will have to oppose
and try to amend it publicly; and that
will be muy difficulto for them to do.

For the 3rd time, we the people Dems and
Gop included must have public option to
even begin to correct the health system.
Public option, Obama, yes, yes, yes.
Once the law, public option even in
times of GOP administrations will be muy
difficulti- obama to have the political
support to change it. Public option only,
not just more insurance regulation. There-
fore, Obama, yes.

for the last time, Yes, Obama,
yes. And we must have the public
option.

I trust the government to administer NOTHING.

although i live in the netherland mine hart is still allways in Kalamazoo .I pay about ,€ 1150 a year health insurance (compulsory )I think it,s a good deal !

It is simply not viable. It's not viable because it will overburden the taxpayer base; it's not viable because it will encourage laziness; it's not viable because it will kill the private industry; it's not viable because public takeover of the private sector are historically and demonstrably inefficient and bankrupt (e.g., postal service, social security, etc); it's not viable because public takeover of corporations and entire industries IS socialism, which has failed the world over for the last 100 years; it's not viable because the whole push does NOT have sufficient public support for such a massive attempt to undo established protocol, even if it had 60% public support, which by far it lacks (in fact support is in the minority); and it is not ethically imperative because we already have social and bureacratic safety nets in place for the poor, the elderly, and veterans: The great mass of people are covered already either privately or socially; if there are holes in the net, sew them up, shore them up, but it's complete foolishness to throw out a system that works 99% of the time in favor of an untested (to be kind) system, one that all of history demonstrates will completely fail; fix the flat tire--don't throw out the whole car! It's obvious that this whole push for the "public option" is ideologically driven, not logically driven.

Socialism and income transfers to the unproductive sectors of society have not, and never will work.