toranoga: I always find it interesting that you hear all these stories about people working 2 or 3 jobs and 16 hours a day that can't afford health insurance and yet few have ever been turned away from an emergency room, or refused necessary medical care. It is a right to have access to health care, but it sure as hell is not a fundamental right to have government operated health care. Quote me where in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, or subsequent ammendments that is stated!
If the health insurance and pharma companies control everything, how did that happen when the federal government regulates all of them through the interstate commerce clause and why has congress not passed legislation that would allow those same companies to sell across state lines therby increasing competition amongst and between those companies? Any excess profits or control those companies may have are a direct result of bills passed by congress. That being said, do you really believe that the Federal government can efficiently and effectively operate a system their legislation screwd up in the first place? Go back to 1964, the year before congress passed Johnson's "Great Society" programs and you will see that health care costs ran less than 7% of GDP as compared to todays 17% of GDP. The vast majority of that increase is due directly to government intervention at al levels.
Hmmmm..... Somehow all of Congress gets platimun health care ... why not everyone else ?
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