Okay, I think that the current system is working alright but needs some tweaking.

For example, the same lawmakers trying to institute a total change of the current system also hampered the ability to purchase health insurance plans with more features or lower costs by passing a law limiting the purchase of said health insurance to being in the state you live in at the time.

I think that the currently held meme bantered about by politicians and those in favor of a government run healthcare system, in which they keep stating that up to 54% of the population currently does not have health insurance coverage is a flat out distortion. In my internet searching, I find that number to be MUCH lower, somewhere around the 15% mark.

I think that I do not want a healthcare system that is run by the government because the government has proven itself to be able to screw up every other thing it manages to gain control of to date. The Post Office is running around all those fossil fuel vehicles every day while the majority of business utilize private delivery services such as Fedex or UPS because the prices are lower and the service is better. The Social Security system is very near bankrupt, I doubt if I'll be able to collect anything from it after all these years of putting money into it. Congress was never supposed to touch that Social Security money. Hah! They took it and don't intend to put it back into the fund. Income Tax was supposed to be a "temporary measure" in order to get the nation through World War I. Is the Kaiser dead yet? Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, government run housing, brought us the current economic crisis by handing out mortgages to people who had no means in which to pay them back. Banks are folding by the tens now. The government FORCED them to issue those housing loans.

Healthcare crisis?

There is no crisis.

There *are* some problems with the current system. They can be fixed. Those fixes do not necessitate a total restructuring of what has worked for a long time, and after last November, I am living proof of that. I had no health insurance, got a deadly infection, yet was admitted immediately to the hospital via the emergency room, had several operations to remove the infection, was in hospital for almost a month -- and had no health insurance after years of paying for same, but was between employers and coverage when the disease struck. My wife told them we were nearly indigent, that did not in any way change nor disallow the treatment I received, I got the very finest anyway.

We must learn to stop letting the few declare a crisis every few months so that they can gain power by expoiting the nonexisting crisis of their own creation.

That's some of what I think about the subject.


--Mac