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Here’s a great perspective on the health care debate from Dr. David Hill,

A disingenuous letter at best.

First, the Senate version of the bill would actually decrease federal health care expenditures according to the Congressional Budget Office.

This is due to the fact that the bill brings in revenue for 10 years but will only provide service for the last 2. Further, in order to “make the numbers” the Democrats had to add Student Loan reform, double count $500 million for medicare reform and include a Doc Fix that may or may not be passed.

their employers are dropping health insurance altogether

Then fix that. You don’t receive compensation from your boss in food or in a house either. Can you imagine being paid in “housing”. Silly, right? Then why do you insist on being paid in “insurance”?

Our system for providing health care in this country has led us to some of the worst measures of health (and children’s health) in the developed world

I mentioned at best this is disingenuous. Here is where the data is simply flat out wrong. Quite the contrary to the gentle doctor’s claim, America does not have the worst medical care in the world, we have the best.

while costing our citizens twice as much as the next most expensive country’s.

Do you think that Celine Dion who has had FOUR in vitro fertilization attempts, going on her FIFTH contributes to that number? Could it be that spending more on medical care is a feature [celine certainly thinks so] and not a bug?

Come on doc, you made it through medical school; we know ya got the brains to work this out…..

explain to the parents I see every day exactly why it is their children cannot get the health care they need.

Because nothing in this bill fixes costs.

McIntyre says it’s too much too soon. I’m sure the parents would understand that it’s too soon to provide health care to their children.

What part of a $1,000,000,000,000.00 do we not understand? This is not the solution. Yeah, some of the “reforms” would be desireable but this is not reform; this is another giagantic entitlement program. What is next ? Everyone is entitlled to eat. Does that mean that we should also open a federal commissary? What has happened to this country? What has happened to concepts of personal responsibility and self reliiance? These reforms are not insurance, they are a public dole, plain and simple.

You do not by insurance to pay for your morning coffee or gasoline. You buy insurance to protect against the unpredictable. Health Insurance should be reserved for the non predictable financially damaging events of life and not for health maintenance. Most health care is no different than putting food on the table. Perhaps a solution is to REQUIRE people to provide for themselves by mandating personal health savings accounts that each would own and be reponsible to allocate for day to day health care. These could be coupled with a major medical high deductible for major health issues. For those truly unfortunate there is always room for a safety net of a combination of private and public help.

In any event maybe a case can be made to address issues of preexisting or catastrophic health events but how is it governments responsibility to provide health care to the obese, indolent, addictive, boozing irresponsible parasites posing as human beings?

The United States Health Care System ranks 37th according to the WHO. Find the data here: http://www.photius.com/rankings/healthranks.html

I wish those who spout lies against Health Care Reform would read the entire bill and do their homework first. If they can’t understand it then talk to someone smarter that can. The Health Reform bill does address and lower costs. It does expand access to care for 32 million Americans. It does not allow funding for abortions. It does not allow coverage for Illegal Aliens. The Student Loan Reform portion is to incentivize students to become doctors, specifically to encourage them to go into Primary Care, and it is to assist with the huge debts that are incurred to obtain a medical degree.

I wish people would take the political views out of the discussion and realize that it is critically important for our present and our future to correct the many problems with our current health care system and to increase access to care. It isn’t about politics, it is about human lives.

While system A is better for the poor, WHO rates system A as more fair, the difference is only 3 while in system B the difference is 4.

Typo:

System B is better for the poor, in that system they receive the same care that the richest in system A receive.

But the WHO doesn’t see it that way. While B is clearly better for everybody, WHO rates System A as “more fair”.