Reply #27: OK, let's look at this carefully. [View All]

Have you ever heard, "be careful what you wish for, you may get it?"

What if we go immediately to a national healthcare plan? Well, first of all, every corporation and every person paying health insurance premiums immediately stops paying them. Fine, that just puts the evul corprats out of business, right?

What about the people who work there? I'm not talking about the CEO, I'm talking about the raters, the mailroom clerks, the filing clerks, the executive secretaries. They're on the street, huh? So, now who's gonna pay for that? Should THEY pay? Now they have GREAT healthcare- is that gonna help them starve healthier?

OK, so what about all the MIDDLE CLASS people who own stock in them, or who own mutual funds that are based on them? What about the retirement accounts that they are going to lose? Do THEY get to starve healthier too?

That's why it's a "mess."

We had the opportunity as a nation after WWII to fix this. We squandered that opportunity, because we were all comfy and shit, so we could afford to be conservatives again. And when Bill Clinton tried, the Democratic Congress at the time nixed it. Great move, Democrats. Neato.

I REALLY hope that something was learned after the debacle in 1994. Please excuse me if I wait and see.

Please stop pretending there's a simple solution. If it was easy, it woulda been done a long time ago. Please stop demonizing anyone who opposes you, and anyone who works in a management position in the healthcare industry. You were more than oversensitive, you were combative. I thought it was inappropriate.