re: #648 jaunte
Hey juante! As I said earlier today yesterday, that has been the single biggest problem of health care reform.
We can’t even get an accurate handle on how many American Citizens are without heath insurance because they can’t afford it! And yet, we are ready - or at least Obama and most of the Dems - are ready to weild a saber to “fix it” where a scalple may do the job better and more efficiently.
Samuelson is also right with respect to medicare patients - somewhere out here (probably not this thread) Killian Bundy said there were 44 MILLION American Citizens receiving Medicare and gave a link for that number. So Samuelson is correct that there will be great consternation among at least 44 Million Voters on the sort of approach he’s suggesting (“capitation”).
We really do need a calm discussion - and I do mean a calm, transparent discussion - of Health Care in America and Health Care Insurance in America. Who has it, who doesn’t, who can afford health care insurance and who can’t and what does the Federal Government have to do about any of it.
And, in point of fact, what CAN the Federal Government do about it.
In many ways - indeed, perhaps in the most significant ways - that transparent discussion needs to be held, as soon as possible.