Reply #4: I've always maintained that we don't have a healthcare crisis [View All]

[RaleighNCDUer]

in this country -- we have an insurance crisis.

The only way we will ever get national healthcare is if the insurance companies are made the administrators of it. Otherwise, the insurance industry and the pharmaceuticals industry stand to lose billions of dollars. In effect, we'd see them setting the prices with the government guaranteeing payment. Kind of like the Medicaid (or was it Medicare) perscription deal that went through last year. In the long run it will only exacerbate the problem.

No politician that tries to stand up the big pharma and the insurance companies will ever last more than a single term in congress.