Comments about ‘Lois M. Collins: Health care reform efforts won't end with Supreme Court decision’

Failing to cover those with pre-existing conditions is tantamount to murder. You are effectively giving sick people a death sentence. It is a moral imperative for a society to take care of its sick people.

And for the Christians who walk among us, I think Jesus Christ would agree with what I have said.

Well that's just not true. If the court strikes down this law completely, and Mitt wins in November, we'll not see an attempt to fix the absoulte disaster that is health care for years. Republicans want no part of fixing health care. They've proven that by sitting by and doing nothing on the subject for 30 years. While doing everything in their power to stop any efforts put forth by Democrats.

If anyone is naive enough to believe that Mitt would really do anything other than repeal, they haven't been paying attention. If the man would repeal HIS OWN IDEA, thinking that he would replace it is just a blatant lie.

Democrats love to say our health care system is broken but that is simply not true. It has gotten more expensive because it has improved dramatically. A few hundred years ago you could have your barber bleed you and it was cheap. Imagine someone invented a cure for cancer that was 100% effective but it costs 200% more than chemotherapy! Would you pay for the sure thing even though “health care” costs in this incidence increased by 200% or would you accept the less effective healthcare? That is why healthcare is more expensive and it is certainly not broken! It is the best in the world and Democrats want to change all that by trying to make it “free”.

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Yes, as long as you have a big bank account, you can get terrific health care in America. You can get to specialized clinics, doctors, hospitals.

Unfortuantely for the 95% of Americans not under that umbrella, it's a well known fact that health care in America is well behind many of the industrialized countries around the world. To pretend otherwise is naive, and factually incorrect.

Well, Willary, you could go back to medieval medicine, its cheap. If you want the best healthcare, those who provide it cannot do so for free! Medicines, medical technology, MRI instruments, CAT scan equipment and all the rest costs a lot of money to invent, maintain and produce. Then there are all those ambulance chasing lawyers who want to get their hands in the pockets! If you get your wish, then we all would be stuck with medieval medicine.

@mounta(i)nman
then why do so many other countries (including Scandinavian countries with stronger economies) around the world have healthcare for everyone without the massive cost we just accept as part of the game. Look at the numbers. it is not the hospitals, the doctors, the lawyers, or even the people that event many of the technologies that are reaping the benefits in this country it is the big insurance companies reaping massive profits at everyone else's expense.

@ Tolstoy. Many other countries like Spain, Greece, Portugal and France? Scandinavian countries like Sweden and Finland have a fraction of the population that the US does, no illegal immigration problem sucking the treasury dry. They have almost no military to support because they know the US will defend them and they have very high taxes. Also, even Sweden had to recently cut back on entitlement spending but the other previously mentioned countries didn’t! In other words, across the world, countries that live within their means have stronger economies. Those who don’t have weak economies, high unemployment, massive debt and are facing insolvency, like the U. S. for example!

Per the World Health Organization:

#1 in health care spending - United States

#37 in quality of health care provided - Unites States

Republicans are always so keen on the Unites State being extraordinary, and leading the world. Well, our health care system is a complete failure for the amount of money that Americans pay for health care. That is just a stone-cold fact.

I guess your argument about health care costs just increasing normally would be better found if during the George W. Bush presidency, the average median income for middle class families didn't actually drop, while health care costs skyrocketed!