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	Name:	Yankee06
	Subject:	Who pays
	Date:	10/17/2009 12:13:21 PM

-well, of course the tax payer is going to pay in the end. ...but that is part of being a citizen. The trick is to pay the least amount of taxes possible to get the gonvernment services needed.
-I consider myself politically as an independent. But as an independent I believe we need healthcare reform. I believe that the America of today is (or maybe was) the richest coountry in the world, ..in many, many ways. I believe that America can ensure that every citizen in this county in this day and age can have medical coverage. having said that, I also believe ...
-that illegal immigrants should not be covered because they should not be here.
-that Insurance companies should be reined in on thier rates to insure thier profits are just and not usurious. This should be done through open competition and government and non-government watchdog groups..
-that Insurance should provide catastophic ceilings, tranportability, pre-existing coverage, etc. No lower-, middle-class family who has insurance should have to go bankrupt inorder to get medcaid.
-that a system should be developed so everyone actually knows and is somehow personally culpable (by % of bill or payback for unspent) for what they are paying, or the government is paying, for medical service. We know what we pay for everything else, and when we write the checks we care about what we spend. Not so with heathcare, --it's always, "hey, my insurance will take care of it (of course most times it's our company , or government who pays so we have no first-hand personal relationship to the money spent)
-That Waste and fraud is dealt with, not just accepted as a way of doing business.
-That medical schools open up more slots so that there can be more doctors and nurses. I don't understand why medical schools will not increase enrollment because they don't want to dilute quality, ...yet, we're then forced to take doctors that were schooled in Nairobi, Russia, or some other low=quality education system, ---makes no sense.
-Let's face it. It's going to cost money, that means taxes. But if congress would get off thier collective asses, stop all teh graft and coruption, and then use some of that money for healthcare the taxes wouldn't be that high. I believe that many Americans would be willing to use some of thier discretinary money (that we now use for boats, seadoos, lake house, vacations, jewelry, etc0 to improve heathcre if we just believed the fools in DC would use it wisely, --but we don't, cuz they won't!
-Speaking of taxes, I believe every American should pay taxes no matter how poor, even if it is only 1% of their gross. paying taxes means you are taking part in your government, you are then part of building and manitaining America. The government should want to develop that mentality in every citizen. We just don't want to give it to a bunch of fools in DC who then in turn make us look like fools.