I Support The Health Care Reform Bill But I Am Still Underwhelmed By Its Force

[DemocratSinceBirth]

It's not as if we all got a card in the mail and can show up at our physician's office or hospital to receive treatment.

I didn't have health insurance yesterday. I don't have it today. I won't have it tomorrow. And I see no prospect of getting it in the near future...


As an interesting aside I am helping a retired internist and friend who has kept has his license active. He can longer practice because he has severe rheumatoid arthritis. I asked him about the bill and he said it's a step in the right direction. He said that Medicare was great for doctors because they got a lot more patients. We also agreed that the emergency room is a horrible method of delivering medicine to the uninsured.

As an aside at least I have an access to have a doctor.


P.S. I guess this bill is the best we can get out of this system. It's damn hard to navigate through all the competing interests. I would have preferred a system more like Canada, the UK, or France but I don't think we are there yet. There just aren't the votes for single payer.

[Lagomorph]

1. All those executive salaries....

and we get weaksauce, well, in a few years, maybe.

[Captain Hilts]

2. We gave Republicans too much in exchange for...nothing. nt

[DemocratSinceBirth]

3. But We Had To Beat Them Because They Refused To Support It

I supported single payer or public option.

[RKP5637]

4. Well we have to support huge executive salaries, after all, they are the

only ones brilliant enough to do the job.

The insurance companies are a bunch of middleman paper pushers for profit, and this is ridiculous. Needless profiteers on peoples pain, suffering and deaths.

I too would have preferred greatly a system more like Canada, the UK, or France. We are still a backward country in many ways IMO, but the Health Care Reform Bill is a step forward. It's probably the best one can do in USA, Inc. until the insane corporate stronghold and congressional bribery is stopped. Of course, we can't look the the Supreme Court for any help.

We could do it with the citizens, but we have not a small portion of this county that is easily duped, deluded, ignorant, lead around by the nose and easily manipulated for greed's sake. Basically they are dimwitted suckers IMO.