Comments on: Obama, McCain Shift The Health Care Debate

National Review Online: Both Candidates Recognize That Key Question Is Not Coverage, But Cost

[brianbwb-2009]

"The idea is that once people start to buy their own insurance, they%u2019ll be in a position to insist on lower prices and higher quality - just as they do with every other product they buy."

This idiot must never have tried to buy groceries. Try to bargain the price, or try to bargain with Wal Mart, or even McDonalds, no luck, Chuck, and you haven''t seen such since the 1950s.

Insurers nationwide will simply collude to hold the prices high, as they do now. This writer is apparently unaware of how today''s market works, either that or the writer thinks that readers will accept this Pollyanna-ish delusion of fair and honest business.

[arlt1627]

randon_radar wrote:
No one has the right to make someone else pay for their health care, food and shelter, or anything else. Work or die.


You''re the type of person that is ruining America. Selfish, arrogant and ignorant....."I should ONLY pay for what I use...screw everyone else..." That attitude will doom us in the future. Imagine if FDR took on that attitude during the Depression. I can hear it now..."it''s all your fault you didn''t know that banks were going to fail, you didn''t have good enough jobs, and so on." The only way to fix our country is to work together and quite being so selfish. Everyone needs police, fire, roads, bridges, insurance opportunities, plows, etc.

[random_radar]

Why do people think the government will provide better health care at lower cost? The government never does anything better at a lower cost. It just forces you to pay for the lousy job it does.

[myshiba]

It''s both coverage AND cost! Please get a clue!

[eskieville1]

Capitalism and health care is a bad combination. Neither Mccain or Obama will get us the reform we need. I prefer a single payer universal system. I would accept Medicare for all and forcing the insurance companies ( regulated by the gov.) to compete to sell us the supplemental policies.

[magnetrack]

Obama''s opinions matter less by the minute...

[forthepeopl1]

McCAIN SELLING OUT AMERICAN JOBS JUST LIKE HIS BOSS BUSH..............................

AP) Top current advisers to Sen. John McCain''s presidential campaign last year lobbied for a European plane maker that beat Boeing to a $35 billion Air Force tanker contract, taking sides in a bidding fight that McCain has tried to referee for more than five years.

Two of the advisers gave up their lobbying work when they joined McCain''s campaign. A third, former Texas Rep. Tom Loeffler, lobbied for the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co. while serving as McCain''s national finance chairman.

EADS is the parent company of Airbus, which teamed up with U.S.-based Northrop Grumman Corp. to win the lucrative aerial refueling contract on Feb. 29. Boeing Co. Chairman and CEO Jim McNerney said in a statement Monday that the Chicago-based aerospace company %u201Cfound serious flaws in the process that we believe warrant appeal.%u201D

McCain, the Republican presidential nominee in waiting, has been a key figure in the Pentagon''s yearslong attempt to complete a deal on the tanker. McCain helped block an earlier tanker contract with Boeing and prodded the Pentagon in 2006 to develop bidding procedures that did not exclude Airbus.

[mcvet]

The government caused the entire problem with health care in America by over socializing (with unfunded mandates) medicine to the extent it is not completive. The government allows a monopolistic pharmaceutical environment, and the FDA a federal agency failing American citizens and needs be eliminated or completely re-organized; it%u2019s corrupt, and is causing a major impact on the cost of healthcare in America, and we want to exacerbate the problem? http://www.InteliOrg.com/


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Posted by drcoles at 06:06 PM : Mar 12, 2008
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ROFLMAO Now ALL the Health Care Systems in the world that are AHEAD of us, better than we are, ALL of them have far more mandates and oversite than our system does. Sorry no Magic Swastika for that try!! Sieg Heil Bush

[mcvet]

All proposals by Clinton, Obama and McCain are seriously flawed. Way too much to explain here. Go to my web site and allow a lot of time to read it. The numbers are there. CBS should publish it.
http://universalhealthcareinfousa.c
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Posted by jsaarikko at 08:38 PM : Mar 12, 2008
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You maybe right but the FACT is that NO Republican is going to fix or even slow down the fall of our health care system. THAT''s something we ALREADY know. Sieg Heil Bush

[mcvet]

Eliminate medicare and you will save a whole bunch of money--both on health care and social security benefits that no longer have to be paid to deceased non-productive people.

No one has the right to make someone else pay for their health care, food and shelter, or anything else. Work or die.


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Posted by random_radar at 05:15 PM : Mar 12, 2008
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It''s disgusting that the results of the Greatest Generation is people like this. You sound like a member of the Third Reich! Work them to death and when they can''t work anymore, put them in mass graves huh? I certainly hope YOU get sick sparky, very sick. I certainly hope that one of these PROFIT motivated Insurance Company''s just drops you on your behind without any coverage. Then see how YOU feel about your attitude! God I hate Nazi''s!! Sieg Heil Bush