Reader comments
Bennett touts his health-care bill

The band wagon just keeps getting fuller. But what aren't they telling the people about funding and guaranteeing health care benefits? The funding cost to pay insurance company's will of course be paid by your retirement funds collected by Social Security in individual names. This money does not belong to the government, it's your own personal retirement funds. The american people are being duped and robbed at the same time. The only beneficiaries of federally funded insurance companies are the insurance companies and the lawyers they hire to fight paying benefits of medical care. The insurance company's win, the legislators win votes on a useless proposition with false pretense and lies, and the people still lose in health care and their retirement funds. Bob Bennet is a man under the influence and control of business and has no regard for the people. He also favors illegal aliens and supporting their illegal lifestyles in the US, which is favoring cheap and illegal labor for businesses. Our legislators need to reevaluate who they represent and peoples needs. And businesses should be made to provide health care insurance for its employees, it gives them some incentive to keep a workplace safe.

Yes, America's healcare system is "broken". Conservative estimates are that there are some 46 million uninsured and under-insured people. Spiraling costs, pharmaceutical dependence, disagreement on necessary repair process, and the abysmal healthcare literacy of patients and loved ones are the leading causes. The truth is that overworked and overscheduled physicians are overwhelmed by the demands on thier time and resources, and they lack the necessary expertise for treating emergency aftermath needs. There is excessive and unnecessary pain and suffering by our nation of surviors and walking wounded. There are politics and big-business interests gripping the status quo. Doctors have become engineers in the system. Sorry doesn't heal, insult has been added to injury, unrealistic expectations empty pocketbooks and econmoic budgets, and healthcare fraud alone costs up to $100 billion each year. Untold numbers of emergency survivors feel betrayed and swallowed up by a national aftermath. The rampant "one call, that's all" siren-song and Pied Piper illusions only foster more resentment and retaliation. Pain explodes in mass murder and other tragedies. What can be done and when will the suffering end? There is aviable solution. Emergency services must step up and honor the Federal EMTALA statute. NIP/PTSD has a solution.

In Senator Bennett's Healthcare reform proposal he states that he wants to take the employer out of the Healthcare business, but then he outlines several things that the employer still must do, thus leaving them involved. Medical benefits are not the only Employee benefit that employers offer to their employees. There are considerations that employers make for Dental, Group Term Life, supplemental Group Term Life, Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, Long Term Care, Pension Plans and profit sharing plans. We can not forget about all of the considerations that an employer makes in the free market system to attract the type of employee that the employer needs and wants.Our Healthcare system is not broken, we as americans are just spoiled. However, our healthcare system can be improved. We as individuals need more and better cost transparency information and cost measures outcome data so that we can spend our dollars more wisely. We need competition among providers and hospitals. We need "eposodic pricing" of healthcare services so we can choose how to manage our benefit dollars. Insurance premiums are simply a relflection of the cost of providing a health care service and the number of times consumers use those services.

I agree with Luke. We are spoiled as americans. I think many of costs of health care can be related to the legal system. Doctors are sued a lot and have to run so many tests to, sometimes, cover their butts from lawsuits. If we can somehow reform the system to help doctors treat the patients instead of looking over their shoulders for the next lawsuit, then I think the system will get better. Supply and demand is still in effect in the health care industry. If people want it then someone will get it for them.