Name:   Talullahhound - Subject:   Need to look at the polls Date:   6/3/2015 4:46:57 PM

I'm not ideologically blind.   I don't put much stock in polls, because depending on who is conducting the polls and how the questions are worded often decides the results of the poll.  Personally, the year that my health care premiums went up 12% I was quite concerned as were many others.  I'm thinking it was around 2007.  My health at the time prompted several Saturday night trips to the ER. and the ER would be loaded with people that had no insurance and couldn't afford to see a Dr.   I've had a number of friends who say that they are sick, but can't go to the Dr because they can't afford the cost of an office visit.  Some has since signed up for Obamacase and are satisfied and others haven't. 

What all of it boils down to is a social contract. People need a health care plan that they can afford and is made available to them.  If we can spend billions on unwinnable wars, billions to aid to Africa and billions everytime some national disaster happens in a 3rd world country, surely there can be an affordable health care system.  And I'm sorry, I don't have much sympathy for business here.  They have denied that they have a social responsibility to provide a retirement system for employees, they now treat their employees like contract workers, and have figured out that they don't have to raise the pay or hire more workers, because they can just make the ones that they have work more hours and take on 2-3 additional jobs or outsource to a lower wage economy.  I'm not against business, but I do believe in the social contract that existed for decades and seemed to work quite well. 

Now you can call me a left wingnut or anything else you can think of because I don't agree with you.  And no, I'm not in favor of socialized medicine or anything even close to resembling it.  If a Republican is elected in 2016 (which is looking more and more doubtful in the declared field of candidates), then we will see what they do.  But I can guarentee you that a vouncher system is not the answer.