IT'S TIME FOR UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE

Interesting, but I don't think it could pass. Too many people already bear great costs in sending their children to private schools just to escape a public school system that is thoroughly politicized; too dominated by self-serving teacher's unions; and generally an unwholsome environment. I doubt they would find your arguments persuasive.

The stunning lack of anything in either your outline of the Administration's plan to increase the supply of medical practicioners makes it pretty clear that not much serious thought has gone into these proposals apart from the forced redistribution of benefits and services under the usually incompetent management of government bureaucracies.

I barely graduated from high school, and it took me six years to earn my BS degree with a major in Accounting.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Power-driven wheelchairs are costing Medicare and its beneficiaries nearly four times what suppliers pay for them, and competitive bidding could have reduced those costs, according to an inspector general's report released Wednesday.


A standard power wheelchair costs the federal health insurance program for seniors an average of $4,018 to lease, compared with $1,048 for suppliers to buy, the Department of Health and Human Services' internal watchdog reported.

In a letter to The Daily Telegraph, a group of experts who care for the terminally ill claim that some patients are being wrongly judged as close to death.

Under NHS guidance introduced across England to help doctors and medical staff deal with dying patients, they can then have fluid and drugs withdrawn and many are put on continuous sedation until they pass away.

As a result the scheme is causing a “national crisis” in patient care, the letter states. It has been signed palliative care experts including Professor Peter Millard, Emeritus Professor of Geriatrics, University of London, Dr Peter Hargreaves, a consultant in Palliative Medicine at St Luke’s cancer centre in Guildford, and four others.

regardless of how it's paid for, maybe it's time folks took a more pragmatic look at how much better it might be to let granny go as opposed to let her go

Administration officials want to require competitive bids for items such as wheelchairs. But the American Association for Homecare, which represents many in the durable equipment industry, said the bidding program would reduce patient choice, limit access to home medical care and drive up Medicare costs by requiring more hospital stays.

And this is what people want US healthcare to be like?

There ARE "death panels" under one govts healthcare system.
And its a system that some people say we should use as a model for our own healthcare system.

And still people hold Medicare up as an example of how well govt can run things.

Many Americans who thought that the health care debate was important must have wondered where their congressmen were in early August during the first two weeks of the House of Representatives recess. It turns out they were not hosting town hall meetings or listening to constituents because many of them were in Israel together with their spouses on a trip paid for by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Fully 13% of the entire US House of Representatives, 56 members, traveled to Israel in the largest AIPAC-sponsored fact-finding visit by American politicians ever conducted. And the leaders of the two congressional groups, 25 Republicans for a week starting on August 2nd followed by 31 Democrats beginning on August 13th, were drawn from the top ranks of their respective parties. House Minority whip Eric Cantor headed the Republican group and House Majority leader Steny Hoyer led the Democrats.