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Leave health reform to states, lawmakers say

Clap clap clap! | 8:16 p.m. Sept. 16, 2009

I applaud the efforts. Keep workin' on it, and for goodness sake keep those privatized giants honest.

Rob | 1:21 a.m. Sept. 17, 2009

Our current healthcare system is bankrupting the nation.

MJH79 | 6:31 a.m. Sept. 17, 2009

"Our current healthcare system is bankrupting the nation." What a bunch of nonsense! Medicare and Medicaid are nearing insolvency because of poor government management and massive fraud, and people are calling for more government run healthcare? Please tell me exactly how our current healthcare system is bankrupting the nation.

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No social programs | 6:43 a.m. Sept. 17, 2009

The health care can be reformed but not by socializing health care with a useless insurance program that is nothing but another tax burden on all americans.

Regulating service fees and insurance company responsibility is a tax free reform and it doesn't socialize the medical care system. Any other plan will make health care a dysfunctional medical system like all the other countries have.

Workers should be demanding higher incomes to co-pay for insurance with employers, like it was when we had organized labor who would stand up for their rights as employees.

Grassrange | 10:02 p.m. Sept. 17, 2009

Rep Clark says "We have been boldly and aggressively going down this path and developing resolutions to problems unique to Utah". I would like to know what the problems are that are unique to Utah?

Steve | 6:59 a.m. Sept. 20, 2009

I would hate for our state legislature to "run" healthcare. I remember a couple years back when they had the chance to fund and receive federal funds for the poor to have dental work done instead they decided they needed and wanted a parking lot for themselves. Since there is really no way to regulate lobbist money they receive I'm convinced that any type of healthcare would be extremely poor and it would only enrich themselves and their friends.

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