re: #384 Spare O’Lake

You mean by government “regulating” the private insurance companies out of existence by forcing them to insure unacceptble risks at unprofitable premiums?
Uh…never mind.

Food for thought: proponents of government run health care claim that there are between 30 and 40 million uninsured people in the country. You can take issue with this figure - it is almost certainly inflated - but let’s accept it for the moment. With a population of around 350 million, then, we currently have a system run by the private sector that provides health care coverage to roughly 90% of the populace. With no government involvement at all.

How much tinkering is necessary to extend that system to the remaining 10%? Does it require a wholesale takeover of the system by the government to accomplish such a small incremental improvement?

Or is the proposal to overhaul the system from top to bottom only a power grab, aimed at placing an enormous portion of the nation’s economy along with the very health of it’s citizens into government hands?

That’s a hell of a lot of commotion over what even it’s proponents claim is a very small problem.