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I'd like to see the candidates help resolve existing healthcare problems before offering their plans for the future. Blue name, please, for a quick description of one such problem.

And anyone who doesn't know, Mccain plans on raising taxes on middle income americans by at least 3.6 trillion over ten years (which means forever).. all through his shifty health care plan.. which would only help big business and insurance companies... by releasing their need to consider health care for employees..and making individuals have to pursue and pay for bogus insurance at much higher rates individually.

This is more tax increase than all of the Bush era tax cuts for the rich... simply transferring more burden to middle income folks while helping the very rich.

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n their Wall Street Journal piece yesterday, Jason Furman and Austan Goolsbee, economic policy advisors for Obama, highlighted the policy detail McCain prefers to downplay.

.Sen. McCain's plan does include one new proposal that would result in higher taxes on the middle class. As even Sen. McCain's advisers have acknowledged, his health-care plan would impose a $3.6 trillion tax increase over 10 years on workers.
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I think local (NWA) hospitals experience very similar situations durganokid. I'm not sure of the numbers but Wash.Regional Medical Center is NOT a private-for-profit, so they cannot turn patients away after they stabilize them. Springdale and Rogers hospitals are private for profit.
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I think your link to the Florida testimony indicates we must have a national health policy. We're one third of the way there already with Medicare.

I know that Shit for Brains will not do anything to alleviate immigrant problem in hospitals, jails or
on city streets.

An additional problem in NWA is finding bi-lingual medical staff and that not only applies to hospitals but also to Police departments and EMS.

Then there's 2 trillion or more per year spent to satisfy defense contractors. That's 5x more than our closest four competitors combined.
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I got my annual physical this week. Click on Cato

Agree with your every word, eLwood. My biggest concern about national health insurance is that we won't have the number of docs, nurses, lab personnel, and hospital beds needed. The fools in DC don't have a clue, including McInsane and Obama. Scary as hell.

McCain's plan? Plan?
Let's see. You take away -- that's "take away", folks -- the tax break folks now have when they have employer sponsored health insurance. Get thee into the marketplace and find some insurance, that is, if you don't have some pre-existing condition. But if you do, well, so sorry. Better luck next time, if you should live so long. We can't risk any insurance company profits, so there. Just go away and die. It'll be easier on everyone.
You know, for the life of me, I can't fathom how any human being, even a Rethuglican, can call this a plan, how they can, with a straight face, propose that this will expand health care accessibility.
Ahhh . . . I see the problem. I'm thinking of them as human beings.

yes , I've said it for years durango. We must first subsidize supply of pesonnel and facilities before subsidizing demand for medical services.
I have no idea of why that has not happened, at least not happened enough. Medical services must become de-centralized.
The free market has not responded. Too many uninsured people.