Comments about ‘Letters: Too much coverage?’

That's a strange concept, isn't it? Calling for more citizens to be without medical care.

And yeah, I know Republicans don't like the methodology of the health care bill, but they have no one to blame but themselves. For years after Clinton they held the White House and majority of Congress, yet did nothing to address either the skyrocketing costs of health care or the holes in health care coverage. Instead we got wars. Obama finally addresses health care coverage and gets pilloried. It's truly disgusting and disingenuous of them.

If they have any integrity, they will work to make the health care bill a bit more palatable to its opponents and then do something real to bring the costs of health care down. Wouldn't that be cool? A Democratic policy that provides universal coverage and a Republican policy that brings costs down so we don't spend so much of our GDP on it. Instead we'll get gridlock. Perfect.

Well, it makes about as much sense as anything else Mitt is saying.

We need to do all we can to be sure he's not in the White House next year.

Guys, the right is also claiming that we need to lower taxes on the rich. Even though the middle-class has been disappearing and the upper-class has been fattening their wallets.

We've had trickle-down economics and record low tax levels for 12 years now. Please, no more. It doesn't work.

No candidate is making such a claim, so I guess you can keep waiting for such an odd event.

Insurance and health care are two very different problems with different solutions. The core problem in American health care is cost -- not the "price" to comsumers, but the real total costs. Health care is too expensive. There are too many middlemen, too high hospital overhead, etc. If health care were cheap, few would need health insurance. If we address costs, access to care would become easier and more wide-spread.

"If health care were cheap, few would need health insurance."
And if we could all grow wings, we wouldn't need airplanes.

Thank you thinking man

"Health care is too expensive. There are too many middlemen"

I completely agree.

Which is why we need desperately to join the rest of the industrialized world, which has far better health care system than we currently have, and go to a single payer system. Cut out the middle man! Those involved in insurance and the selling thereof can either find other jobs or go back to school.

But it's painfully obvious that the "free market" private sector driven health care system we have has failed.

I mean, at what point will repubs finally admit this?

When 100 million instead of 30 million are uninsured and cannot afford health care? When we spend 10x more than the next country in HC? When health care costs are double our GDP?

We already spend far more than any other country while far more people leave our country to receive health care than come.

So when can this lil repub experiment end? Our system has failed. Adopt a single payer system like today!