Health Care Debate - Philadelphia, PA

Phillygirl wrote:

This bill is far from perfect, but the health ins. cos. and hospitals need to be put in their place, and NO ONE should be without health coverage.
And the dems OFFERED tort reform, a repub issue, and the repubs VOTED AGAINST IT just so Obama wouldn't get credit for it! They also voted against several other initially repub. provisions for the same reason.

mediator wrote:

<quoted text>What people resent is paying for someone else's anything period and the socialist democrat party is famous for that. If it gets bad enough the workers (those providing for everyone) will eventualy stop working and wait to be provided for. Without workers there are no profits for the companies, there are no taxes to pay for government,Or the handouts they give to the lazy. As for the disabled they are normaly provided for by social security if they or their parents have ever worked. The health care issue is not even being addressed only insurance. Fix the root problem of price fixing and gouging by the providers via insurance companies. you don't use you're auto insurance to pay for tune-ups or oil changes do you? Health insurance is the same way. When people can afford to pay the doctor bills as they used to insurance companies will have to become competative again as insurance will be a major problem only policy. Just like an accident with you're car, Lawyers and insurance companies in concert with the doctors have made this system as corrupt as it is. and the government wants to reward them by giving them more money from the taxpayers. a 15 min visit to you're doctor and they charge 250 dollars that would be 1,000 an hour that would be 2 million dollars a year. Do the math look at you're doctor bill. Most of that is used to payoff the insurance companies and keep the lawyers at bay. Now look at drugs why does a pill cost $10 in America and the same pill from the same batch costs 50 cents in Canada? Why does the hospital charge $30 for an aspirin? use you're brain I know not all Americans are stupid enough to just follow politics like a bunch of lemmings.

Dimaati wrote:

While other countries have high taxes to allow for government run health care, the US doesn't.

Sla4ndez wrote:

Are you serious..........

Julie wrote:

If you were to lose your job today or tomorrow, who would pay your healthcare bills? That is why we need reform because the economy is now on shaky ground and jobs are going under left and right. So, if you did lose your job, one could still receive healthcare. What is wrong with that?

Diogenes wrote:

Personal Bankruptcies caused by Medical Bills constitute over half of ALL the bankruptcies in the U.S..